Chalk Lettering for Coffee Bars & Restaurants
Cristina Pagnoncelli, Visual artist, letterer & designer
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Lessons in This Class
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1. Chalk Lettering for Coffee Bars & Restaurants
2:10
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2. Where to start
1:05
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3. Looking for inspiration
1:23
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4. First studies on paper
2:31
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5. Choose the best layout
2:11
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6. Resizing it to the chalkboard
2:38
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7. Adding body to your letters
2:21
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8. Adding charm to your art
4:04
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9. Final touches
1:02
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10. EXTRA - Little Chalkboard Timelapse
2:05
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11. EXTRA - Medium Chalkboard Timelapse
4:30
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12. EXTRA - Wall Menu in Chalk Timelapse
9:57
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About This Class
Are you ready to create your first chalk art?Â
In this class you will learn how to plan your art and lettering for small and big surfaces. You will get some tips on how to communicate well in a simple and attractive way, decorating and playing with different colours, forms and shades. You will also see the process on how to project your design from paper to any size of chalkboard and walls.Â
- This class is for beginners:Â No prerequisite knowledge or techniques required. If you already knows how to draw or letter, it gets easier, but anyone can learn from this video.
CLASS OUTINEÂ
1. Intro . Meet Cristina Pagnoncelli, a designer and visual artist from South Brazil. She has been working with chalk for the last 5 years, specially for coffee bars and restaurants. Check out some of her works and get inspired to do your own - as a hobby or even for a real job.Â
2. Where to start . Once you have all the information you need to communicate, the idea is to visualize it by writing it down and listing some ideas you could work with.Â
3. Looking for inspiration . The creativity doesn't come from nowhere. Look at some inspiring designs, check into books and websites. Don't hesitate on going through someone else's work to get some ideas.Â
4. First studies on paper . The best way to plan your art is to start small. Draw some ideas on the proportion of the final surface. This way you can visualize the whole project before going big.Â
5. Choose the best layout . After some studies, it will give you more confidence to decide where to go from there. Draw it a little bit bigger and plan what else could help your art to be more harmonic and attractive.Â
6. Resizing it to the chalkboard . You won’t need a projector. The tip on this class is to teach you how to visualize any size of a surface as a puzzle where you can fit all the information you need. Start training your eyes to resize and see visual spaces.Â
7. Adding body to your letters . Here you’ll check some tips on how to work on your letters. Using some inner gradients and shadows to give more life to it and to highlight what is most important. Notice that each information has different weight on the whole art in order to communicate what is most relevant to see first. Â
8. Adding charm to your art . Learn how to explore the chalk in different textures. Using colours mixed with white chalk and contrasting with the blackboard is a good way to call more attention to some information or to play with some three-dimentional letters and illustrated elements, bringing more style to your whole art.Â
9. Final touches . Don’t forget to clean some extra sketches that were left behind. Check some tips on how to erase the chalk and finalize your art.
10. EXTRA - Small Chalkboard. Watch the entire timelapse video of the process.Â
11. EXTRA - Medium Chalkboard. Watch the entire timelapse video of the process.Â
12. EXTRA - Wall Menu in Chalk. Watch the entire timelapse video of the process.Â
Meet Your Teacher
I'm a visual artist, letterer and designer from Brazil, currently based in Curitiba.
I work as a freelancer from anywhere I find myself at the time. I'm always looking for new challenges and experiences from which I can be learning and evolving as a designer and person. I'm used to travel very often, always looking for new ideas and inspirations from around the world and different cultures to put in my work.
For the last 5 years I've been working mainly with lettering & illustration and it became even more intense after I started to teach an independent workshop at my studio. I love to teach and specially to see my students happy and living from their art and passion.
Recently I've recorded online classes in Portuguese and English. An... See full profile
Hands-on Class Project
Create a chalk lettered art for your business (or, why not, just for fun?!)Â
ASSIGNMENT
Create your first chalk piece. It doesn’t matter if you really have a job to be done, or if you just wanna have some fun. Chalk art may seem difficult in the beginning but you’ll see it get’s easier with practice. Here goes some tips to follow:
1. Get yourself a chalkboard surface to letter;
2. Start choosing what to letter or illustrate, will it be a word only, a phrase, how many letters do you have to draw? Do you have enough space for it? Is there space to letter and insert some illustrated element too? Think about the possibilities;
3. Don’t hurry! Start sketching in a piece of paper, think about the size of your final surface and draw it in the same proportion. Think about which information you have to highlight, which kind of movement you could get to the content, will you use colours or will it be just black and white?
4. If you have more then one idea, choose the one you think will work best to pass along the message.Â
5. Now that you already decided almost everything on paper, I bet you feel more comfortable to start your chalk piece. Start making the margins and dividing the first spaces, thinking about where to put the information and the size of it. Will it be read by far?
6. First trace all the sketch in chalk. Then you can start to think about other details like the weight and style of the letters and colours for the illustrations and other decor details.Â
7. Last touches! Don’t forget to clean any sketch that was left behind and out of context.
8. Upload your art and share your experience and results with us!
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DELIVERABLE
Upload a photo of your final chalk art. Let us see your process too, share your steps:Â
- The final sketch on paper;
- A photo of your sketch in chalk;
- And finally, your chalk piece done.Â
RESOURCES
Check out some references I have collected on my pinterest to get you inspired.
Also, there are some people I really admire and I’m always observing and learning from their work. Check out: Jessica Hische, Martina Flor, Cyla Costa, Gemma O’Brien, Lauren Hom, Erik Marinovich, Stefan Kunz, Louise Fili, Ken Barber, Lucca Barcelona.Â
Follow me at instagram: @oficinadegiz & @crispagnoncelliÂ
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