Jeder kann Buchstaben zeichnen - Hand Lettering ist nur Zeichnen

1. Intro: Forget everything you know. Maybe not everything, it might be impractical, but everything about hand lettering. Because think, how do you write? You hold a pen, you put it against the paper, you drag it across the paper. Doesn't it sound familiar? Doesn't it sound like drawing? I'm here to tell you all the fancy lettering you see out there is just drawing. Since everyone can draw, I already proved that, you can check out my third class, you can also do hand lettering. Hi, my name is Fatih. It's a Turkish name and it means conquer. Do as you wish with this useless information. What else? I'm a watercolor artist, drawer, sketch journaler, a former copyrighter , and an online teacher. I try to teach everyone that they can in fact do anything. Hence the name of this class, Everyone can Draw Letters. With this class you will be able to polish your sketch journals with beautiful and attention grabbing titles, turn your paintings into captivating posters, and totally kill with your side of text doodle. I decided to make this class because there wasn't one. I looked. All the lettering classes I came across seem so serious and structured. You need to follow the lines and practice. But I would argue, just like you can draw this mug by looking, you can do the same with lettering, and I've got examples for you to look at. This class is for anyone who wants to do lettering, but always found the subject intimidating and time-consuming. I designed this class, so when you finish it, you will be totally equipped to tackle any lettering project. You know my approach, minimum effort, maximum impact. In this class, I will show you what is the difference between hand lettering, calligraphy, and typography, three parameters you can play with to make your own fonts, 25 different fonts you can choose from, and at the end we will totally demystify the world of lettering. There is even a fun game called letter yahtzee to help you come up with new fonts whenever you feel stuck. At the end, I will apply everything we learned and turn a painting of mine into a poster, and also we will add a title to my sketch journal, so you can see these skills in action. The skills you will learn in this class are totally transferable to any other class or project you want to take on. You can learn and master how to make your own fonts or pick two or three from the list we will create together and be on your way. I made this class to show that lettering is not hard. It doesn't need years of practice and anyone can do it with simple, easy to follow instruction. You will need paper, pen, pencil, eraser, and watercolor or any other medium if you want to color your creations. Your class project is to pick a quote and turn it into typography with the techniques you will learn in this class. We will talk about that in the next video. I can't wait to start showing you how easy this is, so is Jack. Jack is my assistant. He's not here right now, he went to get me coffee. Otherwise, I would have invited him in front of the camera. What a shame. Well, maybe next time. 2. Class Project: Let's see. Do you remember this mug? Class number three or four? No, class number three, everyone can draw blind contour. So many people drew this mug already, and I'm not 30 anymore. That is a topic for another day. Let's not depress me. Let's say I will need a new mug soon. Where were we? Class project. Whatever you come up with it is fine. Do you want me to be more specific? Your class project is easy. It was our base. I didn't even have to think that much. What do you think our class project is? That's the one. All I want you to do is to pick a saying either from the list you can download from the resources section or your own and present the same with the fonts you will learn from this class. That's it. I will show you how to come up with your own fonts too. Technically what you come up with might not be in this class and be entirely unique and that's okay. Is it okay, Jack? It's okay. I would love to see anything you make during or after the class, so please feel free to share any work in progress shots, sketches, mistakes, anything. If you want my feedback or get featured on my Instagram account, keep them coming. So this is your class project. The next lesson is not really a lesson. It's more about Jack and me. It's something new I'm trying. Let's see if you like it. See you there. Let's have a sip from my coffee. Perfectly cold. 3. Jack and Fab: Hi. I just started this recording. Before we start, I want to try something new. You guys love Jack so much, which I totally don't get. You mention him in your reviews, your class projects, your messages, so I want to give you more of him. But I too if I wrote about it myself it would be too one-sided so I got some help. I'm sure you all heard about the latest developments about AI, artificial intelligence. Jack is also artificial but without the intelligence. He's just A. These days you can swing your hand without hitting a new AI. Well, I just did, but you get me. I asked ChatGPT to write Jack's story. This is what the AI came up with. You can skip this part and move on to the class by the way. This part is for Jack fans only. I totally don't get it by the way, if you want to skip, press Skip Jack button now. I'm kidding, I can't make a button tonight but just press the next lesson. If you are still here, let's go. I will just read. Jack was a production assistant to the famous watercolor artist Fab. Despite his background in finance, Jack wanted to explore his creative side and loved the magic of watercolor. Working with Fab as a production assistant seemed like the perfect way to immerse himself in the art world. Good idea. But Jack quickly realized that Fab was not the kind and gentle artist he had imagined. Fab was rude, mean, and often made Jack do menial tasks that were beneath his abilities. I didn't write this, AI wrote this. Fab would shout at Jack, belittle him, and even throw things at him when he didn't meet his expectations. It turns out I'm a horrible person. One of the tasks that Jack was assigned was to make coffee for Fab every morning. That's true. Jack tried his best to make the coffee just the way Fab liked it. But no matter how hard he tried, the coffee was always cold by the time Fab got to it. That's also true. Fab would scold Jack for his incompetence and would often pour the cold coffee over Jack's head. Jesus, I'm so sorry Jack. Another quirk of Jack's was his obsession with ketchup packets. He would collect them from restaurants and carry them with him at all times. He had a secret stash of them in his backpack and would sneak them out whenever he had the chance. That's weird. However, Fab's love for animals often get in the way of Jack's obsession. Fab would bring his pet parrot, cat, and dog to the studio, and they would often get into Jack's backpack, tearing apart the ketchup packets and scattering them all over the studio. Oh my God. This AI is crazy. This would drive Jack crazy, and he would often have to spend hours cleaning up the mess. Poor Jack, maybe you shouldn't have brought those ketchup packets, mate. During one of the video shoots, Fab's love for animals, once again, got in the way of Jack's work. Always my fault. The shoot was taking place in a park and Fab had brought his pets along. My pets again, I don't own pets by the way. Jack was trying his best to record the video, but the parrot kept squawking, the cat kept knocking over the paint, and the dog kept barking. Of course, in the first place, why are we shooting in the park? Jack was feeling frustrated and angry, but he kept his cool. He knew that he had to keep working no matter how difficult Fab was to work with. Jack finished the shoot, and Fab was impressed with his work for once. Wow, I was impressed. As Jack left the studio that day, he knew that he had had enough. He was tired of working for a mean boss who made his life miserable. He decided to start his own watercolor business and began recording his own videos. I knew it. He became known for his kind and gentle demeanor, always patient with his assistants, and making sure to treat everyone with respect. We will see. He never forgot the lessons he learned from Fab, but he made sure that he would never treat anyone the way Fab had treated him. This is the story of Jack and me. I recommend you try ChatGPT. It's quite a fun experience talking with an AI, with a computer. It's really able to understand and answer you back in a meaningful way. This is written by ChatGPT project. There'll be more of these later. It turns out I'm a horrible person in this AI's opinion. Who knew? I guess Jack knew. There'll be more of Jack later. In the next lesson, we will talk about how to take this class and in case you are short in time, you can take the lite versions. See you there. Jack this coffee is cold again. 4. How to Take This Class: I'm procrastinating. Hi, welcome back. Before we start I want to talk about how to take this class. As you know, I'm big on saving time, being productive, making a big impact with minimum effort, and little time. I wanted this class to be a total representation of how I see an approach to lettering and typography, and that's why it's long. But I believe depending on what your goals are, you can take shortcuts with this class. For example, if you just want to learn how to make your own fonts by hand and that's enough for you, you can take how does it work section, learn about the parameters and how to change them. This section consists of changing the parameters, dimensions, style, feeling, and final touches and you're done. If all you want is to pick up three for new fonts for you to use and you don't really need anything else. You can take the lesson called the list and pick your favorite fonts and start creating. Because it's that simple. When you look throughout my sketch you'll know there are few favorite fonts I like, and I just keep using them and that's enough. If you say, there are plenty of fonts out there. I just want to know how to take them on my sketch journal page. You can take, copy any font lesson and move on with your project. These are the light versions of this class. You see such a good teacher I am. I am even doing the Time Management for you. Having said that, if you want to understand the lettering fully, please take the full class. This way you can come up with your own fonts and be competent with any lettering obstacles you might come across. Lettering obstacles? Is that the thing? Lettering obstacle, I like it. Also if you want to support me as a teacher, please watch the whole class, then watch it again and again. Leave a review. Share your creations. That really helps me out and I really really appreciate it. So as Jack. Don't you Jack? He appreciates too much. Without this job, he would be on the street. This was a little note for you to bear in mind, now, back to the class. Also all the jack parts are skippable. Is that a word Jack? Those sections don't give you any valuable information like Jack, but I always think a little laughing break is good for the brain and the learning process. If you just keep pumping information to your brain, it clogs up quickly, but I don't mind if you skip them. Jack will be devastated, but I don't mind. That's what really matters. What? You want to be in front of the camera? No way, Jose. 5. What Is What?: Jack? First thing first, lettering, calligraphy and typography. Let's talk about these three terms which sometimes are being used interchangeably, but they all actually mean totally different things. Not totally, but they mean different things. Lettering is the art of drawing letters. Calligraphy is the art of writing letters and typography is the art of using letters. A calligrapher might not necessarily be good at lettering and a graphic designer who does typography might not be able to do calligraphy and vice-versa. Lettering is an umbrella term that covers the art of drawing letters instead of simply writing them. Calligraphy, the art of producing beautiful writing, often created with a special pen or brush. Typography. The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. Look, I'll be honest with you, I didn't know any of this aid. I found out while researching for this class, but did that stop me from lettering before? No. That's what I want to teach you. You don't need to be an expert. You don't need hours of practice. It's just drawing. I mean, we have the desire to be a typeface designers. Do you want to create new forms? No, so all you need is to copy. The fonts are all out there. Just pick one and recreate letters on your papers in the order you want. That's it. Also, let me say this, font making people stop. We have enough font. If you were to use three different fonts every day, from the day we're born until the day we die, we wouldn't even reach half of the fonts that are. It's enough fonts, you can stop. I don't even know why we are using fonts from the day they are born, and don't ask me how I calculate that. Jack calculate that. He knows things. Also, there's a bit of confusion out there. You see videos out there saying for calligraphy where you would make a script, letters using a pen, that is lettering. Drawing the letters to look like they were written with a brush or any other type or brush lettering. No, let's calligraphy. Lettering is done with a pen. You can plan and sketch when you do lettering, just like in drawing. With calligraphy, there is no sketching. You take the brush and write. That's why it's difficult and it takes time, practice and patience. You can reach to the same result by calligraphy or lettering. It doesn't mean they are the same. The way we create those results makes a difference. Here, let me show you an example. Guys, let's get this out of the way. I know you are all here for this. There's my pen. You're going to need a brush pen for this and a pencil. I know you are all waiting for this. That's to fake calligraphy by lettering. Let's have a look. What's lettering, what's not lettering? I will try to show you what I know about faking brush calligraphy. First, because this is lettering, I'm going to use a pencil and sketch it out. I'm going to write lettering. Now, what I'm doing is lettering because I used a pencil. I sketched out. I'm happy with the spacing and how it's looking and what I do. I use my pen and go over it and lettering. This is not lettering because I basically just wrote, this is writing. It becomes lettering when I'm using my pen and make it look like something else, like brush calligraphy. How do I do that? The trick is, let's have a look at the brush for that part. Brushes a point end, but when you press it down that you can make it thin line. But when you press it down, you can make it thick line. That's why these brush calligraphy looks good because, when you're writing with a brush, when you go up, you don't press and the line is thin. Then you go down, you press, the line is thick. This cool looking curves , calligraphy, scripts writing. It comes from this that when it's going up, it's thin. When it's going down it's thick. That upstrokes are thin and downstrokes are thick. How can I fake this here with a pen? All I do is to follow upstrokes and downstrokes. Upstrokes thin, I leave it as it is, and downstroke I add another line like this to make it thick. Let's continue upstroke and then down, I made it thick. Upstroke and downstroke thick. Upstroke thin, downstroke thin. Thin, thick. here also a downstroke thick up thin, down thick, up thin. Sorry, upstroke thin but downstroke thick and then again up. There's one final thick downstroke here, and that's how we fake it. I like lettering and that's what I do and that's what I'm trying to teach you because this gives you the option to fill it inside with colors or you can fill it with textures. Look, I'm going to do it quickly. It will be more visible, but it's not fully filled with black. It looks really cool. Almost there. This is lettering. Now let's do the same thing with the brush. What did I do? I reach the same result by using two different techniques. One in here, I use the pen. In here I use the brush. Using a brush is much harder. You need to have lots of practice to be able to do this and I'm not great at it. That's why I choose to do this because I'm much more in control of my pen and what I do with my pen than my brush. When you look closely, it's a bit shaky. But you can reach the same result, but it doesn't mean they are the same thing. This is lettering and this is because we use the brush and we did it in one go. This is calligraphy, so this is lettering. This is not lettering. Lettering, not lettering. Lettering, calligraphy. Fake calligraphy, calligraphy. This is what I wanted to show you. Other than that, since we are in this space, I want to go how I do bold. Bold is actually not nothing different than normal writing. You just make all the lines thicker and you end up with bold. There are few things to consider. Let's try it here. I'm in the frame. You can think about this like this. Every line, you make it thicker like this and then you trace the outside. But keep in mind, these parts should be connected like this and trace the outside. You end up with bold letters. Or you can also think again, rather than thinking two lines because it gets complicated with complicate letter like B. But imagine that you have a highlighter and a highlighter can make thick lines like this. Imagine instead of writing with a pencil and a thin line that you are writing with a thick highlighted pen. Sorry, it's difficult to make it all with this. Then all you need to do is to outline the outer line and inner line. You have a bold letter. Look, it will be easier to do L I guess with this technique. That one thick line here, another thick line here. I'm not telling you to use a highlighter to do this, I'm just showing you so you can imagine in your head how to make bold letters like this. You end up with a bold letter. Or you make every line thicker. This one thick and this one also thick inside and outside and then the corners, you make them meet. Hello? Hey darling, I'm recording. Sorry. My wife came home. You trace the outline. You outline the outer line and the inner line and you end up with both. There are few tricky letters I would like you to be aware of. One of them is S. S is the pain in my *** so to say. Because let's say normally when I write in my daily handwriting my S is very quick and flat. But when I'm doing lettering I try to write it a bit more curvy. The problem with S is when you want to make bold and when you start from one end and make the line thicker, you end up with this weird looking thing that the top is a tiny head and a huge S. Sorry, but it's true. You want your S to be even and that's not to have these gaps. To do that, let's say we write an S like this and we want to make this thick. Using a pencil this helps you sketch it out. But you start here on the inside and then you finish, you bring two lines together. Then here you start on the inside and go and then connect it on the outside. Both sides are in the same line that normally I make lots of mistakes when I'm making my S. But since we are sketching, let's imagine that this is more proper S I want to do. These curved side is looking down and this side is looking up, taller maybe to curve it here. Something like this and then we go with the pen. There is actually one S shape with starting small and getting big and then there is another S shape on top of it starting big but finishing small. On top of each other they create an S. Then let's give it a bit of a texture. That's on the bed S. What do you think? Another tricky letter is K. K is like when I'm writing K, I try writing quickly and like this. But when I'm doing lettering, the mistake is when you put the line in the middle and then again, coming out from the same spot. It doesn't look as good when you make a bold hardly fit. The better way to do I usually do that don't bring this first line to the middle but a bit below, like this. Then the second line actually comes out from there. When you make this one bold, it looks much better. Let's give it a bit of a filling. This is how I do it. I think that was it all I want to say. We know now the difference between lettering and calligraphy. Lettering is lettering, calligraphy is not lettering. That faking a calligraphy is lettering because we're faking it using a pen and sketching it out and because, why is it lettering? Let's put it down here. It's just drawing. Because we have a pen, we know how to use a pen and we grab our pen and make the end result look like something else, something we want and that's brush calligraphy. Because we are able to draw anything we can also draw letters. We just look at them and copy them on our paper and that's called drawing because we all can draw letters. It's just drawing. So see you on the other side. Where does the typographic fit in all that? Let's say either through calligraphy or lettering you created some fonts, deciding which font would go well with which is where typographic comes in. Typography is about making a composition with the existing fonts and typefaces. Through that composition you can try to convey a certain message, make your word bigger, bolder or hide others. You can tilt some words, misshape them or put them upside down to make them fit within the message you are trying to give. I also mentioned font and typeface, what that does. A typeface is a family of fonts. Bold, regular, italic versions of the same font altogether is called the typeface. A font is a certain variation of the typeface, like Ariel, Ariel, bold, etc. What is script? Script is a style, this writing where you connect old letters and you write it without lifting your pen, that's the script style, also known as the cursive. Why am I telling you all this? I think it's good to know what is what and Jack thought it was a good idea to clear there. But I'm mainly telling you this to fudge all that good ideas. I'm making this class about hand lettering because that's all you need. It's easy, you don't need to master a new tool. You need to use a pencil and a pen. You've been using them since you were a toddler. You can sketch and plan beforehand, that takes pressure off and you can make whatever you want. It's diverse. You can look up any font and copy it on your page which we will get to it later. Don't worry about anything else, just focus on lettering. In the next lesson we will discuss what lettering consists of. We will break it apart. We will demystify it if you will and we will create parameters of dimension, style, and filling. When you change those parameters, you change the filling. See you in the next lesson. Jack, you are like a Picasso in the making. But like one of those upset ones that no one really understand. 6. But How?: The parameters I made for you guys. Welcome back. I call this lesson "But how?" because I imagine myself saying bunch of things too, like in the previous lesson, and you're looking at me all confused, and saying, but how? This is the part, we will break apart the fonts and put them back together. We will see what makes them tick. We will go in depth in every parameter later. Here, I will try to explain the idea of parameters and what it means to change them. When I look at the font, I see three parts. There is the dimension, the style and the filling. All these attributes can work together, like the layers of a cake on top of each other to create a font. Let's see that in action. Now, guys, I prepared something fun for you. I thought a lot about this, how to visualize these parameters thing, because this is the backbone of this class, that once you get this, you will understand what makes the fonts tick and you can change and tweak ticks and find your own fonts and change them in infinite ways. I created this page for you here, that in here, you see dimensions, style and filling. These are our parameters. There are other things as well, but these are the main three I picked, and with some examples, there could be more things in these parameters. They are dimensions parameter. There could be more styles in this that I didn't even include the Gothic, this old English style fonts. Those styles that I'm trying to focus on, very simple and basic fonts with good results. If you learn this, you are covered. If you're making a poster with your paintings, making a birthday card or you want to put a title in your sketch and make it a bit more fancy, this is it. This will cover your needs of all your font related needs, and this will help you understand what makes the fonts tick. These are the parameters, and I thought, how can I visualize this? Should I make an animation, but I like playing with paper and pen, as you understood by now, so I made these for you guys. I drew them, paint them, and cut them fully with knives. I'm going to tape this so it won't move. How are they called? Old-school radio that you would play with the equalization. I think the best teas, all those sounds that you will push it up, push it down. This is like that. This is how it works. Look, we put it here, and we can push and change the parameters by playing with the knobs. For now, I'm leaving them at zero. What does this mean? At the moment there is no parameter to talk about, so I say, this is my base handwriting. Without thinking much, just writing capitals. Again, I'm focusing on capitals here, and only exception here is the cursive, because you can't really do cursive with capitals. This is just to go through all these dimension style, filling everything in separate lessons. This is just for you to focus on. I understand, when I say change the parameters, what do I mean? At the moment, there is nothing. Here it's 0, 0, 0, and this is my base handwriting, this is my starting point. Let's say I changed the dimension parameters, and bring it up to this skinny and tall font. Yes. Then I end up with this. From this to this, just by changing this parameter, I ended up here. This is a font I was using for so long with my drawings. When I started sharing on Instagram, most of the time this was the font I use. Let's bring the other parameters. Let's change the style, for example, bring it to this bolt. What happens then? Then this one becomes this. From here, we reached here just by changing one parameter. Do you see like we already have three different looking fonts? Now, let's play with the filling parameters. Let's push it to this fancy looking pattern filling. In here, all the fonts are same. I'm focusing here, this is to show inside the filling. I kept all the fonts. I picked this blocky font. This is just to show different types of fillings. Again, there could be many more ways to do fillings. We will talk about that later. Let's say we pick this pattern. What happens then? Then this font we created becomes this, from here to there. But do you see that I'm changing one parameter, everything is changing. Suddenly, I have four different fonts here. This way, you can just keep creating different fonts. This is how it works by dimension stifling. Let's bring the dimension parameter to this. It starts short and then it gets taller and taller. What happens then? Then it becomes this. We have this font, from here to there. Let's change this bolt font, the style. Let's bring serif, what happens then? [LAUGHTER] Let's see. From here, we end up with this writing that everything else is the same. Like I said, that in here, I didn't change the boltness. Pay attention here, I brought the serif font, but it's still in this similar bolt style. Like I was telling you, these also layer on top of each other as well. From here, we end up here, we have a bolt but serif font with increasing in size. Also it has this fancy pattern filling inside. Let's now change the filling. Let's push it up a bit and bring it to here. What happens then? Then we end up with this font. You see only the filling changed. We have now totally different filling to the fonts. That's how you make a difference when you are adding titles to your sketch journals. What is the filling there? That is the summer holiday, is the tough day at work. Is it someone's birthday? What's going on? You can use the filling for that, and this here is one color filling that it could be multicolored, it could be fully black. Again, we will get into this later. Just focus on changing one thing changes the result. This is what I'm trying to show. Let's play a few more times. Let's change the dimension parameter from this increasing one to one below. If you pay attention, this is similar to this tall one, but the middle line is up. That's why it looks nice and modern. I really like this look. Then this font, this writing becomes this. The middle line is up here. I could have actually done the same increasing style with the middle line up here. As you can see, that middle line is here for this font. I could have pushed it up here as well. That could be a possibility or I chose not to. We still have the serif from the previous time, because our style is still on serif, and our filling is on yellow. Now, let's say we push it a bit further, and let's change the style again and bring the style all the way down to this what I call super blocky. We end up with this one. If you look between this and this, there is only one difference, is the style that change from this bolt and self to super blocky. The middle line is still up, as the dimension parameters suggests. As you can see, the A has very long legs, same for Y and G. The yellow filling is still from the filling parameter, only style change and we end up from this to this, huge difference, just by changing one thing. Let's push it a bit further, and change, what could it be? Let's change the filling this time. I'm pulling down the knob on the filling parameter to this one, this texture filling. Then we end up with this, isn't there a huge difference from this to this? That inside we filled with a black pen. Then again, we will get to this, by the way. Don't focus on that. We changed the filling from this to this. This is so much yellow and bright and sunshine, and this one looks a bit more dark, more gloomy. Huge change between the two, and everything else is the same. Let's do it one more time. I need some space. From this font, let's just change the style again, because we haven't done any cursive. Let's see what happens then. I changed the style and this font becomes this one. The filling is the same. As you can see, this black at the bottom and then there are dots towards the top. The same style, same filling. But the style change and huge difference from this to this. This is how the parameters work. In this class, I will say a lot. Change the parameters, this is what I'm talking about. There are three. Later I will add one more column. I didn't include it here because it goes with everything. Final touches to make your fonts a little bit even better. But those are something extra. Let's focus on these three, dimension style and filling. You change this, you change the font, and you change your title. This is what I wanted to explain. I hope now it's more clear in your mind. You can use the same for your titles and keep coming up with your own. This is how the parameters work. When I say change the parameters, this is what I want you to think in your head. You can also find this document in the resource section if you more like working with physical objects. In the next four lessons, we will look into every parameter in depth. Jeff, coffee is warm this time. No, I'm joking. 7. Jack's Background: But before that, I want to read you Jack's background story written by ChatGPT. Once again, you can skip this part. It's totally fine. Jack will be very upset that you skipped but don't worry, he just gets a notification every time someone skips his parts with their name and address and everything. I don't even know how. Anyway, if you are still here, let's go. Jack's background story. Jack was born in a small village in the middle of nowhere with no electricity or running water. His parents were hippies [LAUGHTER] who believed in living off the land and they had chosen to raise Jack in this remote location to shield him from the corrupting influence of modern society have novel often. As a child, Jack was obsessed with the stars, so was I, and I still am. He would spend hours gazing up at the sky, dreaming of exploring the cosmos, I have wondered if there is something else out there. He also had a strange quirk, he loved to collect empty ketchup packets again because apparently, this ketchup packets obsession started back then. He had no idea why he was drawn to them, but he couldn't resist picking them up whenever he saw them, since they were quite far away from the society, I don't know how he got too obsessed over them, maybe it's because he didn't have anything else. He saw ketchup packets once. What do you think Jack? He was amazed. One night when Jack was seven years old, he saw a shooting star streak across the sky. He closes his eyes and made a wish to be able to travel to the stars and explore the universe. The next morning Jack woke up feeling different, [NOISE] plot twist. He had a strange energy coursing through his veins and he felt stronger and faster than ever before. He went outside to explore his newfound abilities and discovered that he could jump higher, run faster, and even levitate Jack. He also discovered that he could create powerful blasts of energy from his fingertips, which he could use to blast objects into oblivion. It turned into a Marvel movie. He was amazed by his new powers and began to experiment with them, trying to understand their full extent. I'm a bit afraid to ask for coffee now Jack. It was during one of these experiments that Jack accidentally discovered the true source of his powers with ketchup packets, of course. If you can blast energy from your fingertips, can you warm up my coffee? He had begun holding one in his hand, focusing his energy on it when it suddenly exploded in a burst of red light, of course, read ketchup. He realized that the ketchup packets were somehow imbued with cosmic energy, which they are. [LAUGHTER] By absorbing them, he could tap into that power. I don't think robots will take over us anytime soon by the way, after reading this. Over the years, Jack horned his abilities, perfecting his control over the energy and learning to use it for good. He became known as the Ketchup Kid, [LAUGHTER] of course he did. Can I call the Ketchup Kid? A superhero who used his powers to fight crime and defend the innocent, while you had a full life before we met. But even with all of his incredible powers, Jack never forgot his humble origins, which means the hippie parents in the middle of nowhere. He remained a kind and gentle soul, always striving to help those in need and never forgetting the lessons he had learned from his hippie parents. [LAUGHTER] He keeps saying hippie parents, I don't know if that's awk to say, to call someone hippie. Jackie, if you love helping people so much, why don't you make some some? Though he would always be known as the Ketchup Kid, to him, the true source of his power would always be the stars. I thought it was the ketchup, I wish he'd say ketchup packets at the end. I will change it like that. As the Ketchup Kid, to him, the true source of his power would always be ketchup packets. This is the Jack you didn't know about, neither did I. Jack who can destroy me with his superpowers, but he won, he's a nice person. Did you Jack? By the way, I told the AI to make this story like a superhero background story as a style. I didn't mean to give him superpowers, but boy, do I like the results. That's it for now. See you on the next one. Jack, you know that thing you do with the ketchup packets? [inaudible] 8. Dimensions: Hello. Let's take this off. For these parts, I decide to make it a bit different so you can also see my recording with two cameras, one from above here and one from over there so I can actually talk to you in the meantime. You normally don't see me while I'm recording from the top, but I wear glasses and I look a bit more like a geek. But it is unfortunately necessarily at my age. Where were we? We talked about the dimensions. We haven't talked about this yet, but in the order of the lessons, if you happened to have talked about it in the future, somehow, we will talk about dimensions in this lesson. I think I'm a bit excited. I've been telling you that as you understood from the name of the class, everyone can draw letters. This is nothing different than drawing, it's just you have your pen and you draw. In this case, the shapes we draw also translate into letters and words, for example, which word should we use for this? Let's do mango. Maybe for this one not use 0.1, but something more easily visible. Clearly I wasn't prepared for this. 0.3 this, mango. Let's write mango. It's the word mango. When we play with dimensions, we can make this taller, wider. Imagine that every letter has just three lines going. One is on the top, one is on the bottom, and one is in the middle. We can also play with these ones and also playing with dimensions. Let's say this distance is x. Let's bring it to 2x. This may be three, I don't know. Here is the top and the bottom, and I'm going to keep the width of the word same, but only make it taller. How we can do, we can end up with these elongated letters. This is something I actually very intuitively did when I first started doing my drawings and I was adding writings next to them. There are even some examples here on my wall. It was so easy, but it looks so different and distinctive. It became my font even, these elongated letters. This is just making it a bit taller than it is, nothing else changed here really. Also if this distance is, let's say y, and let's make this two times wider than it is and still keeping the height x. We would end up with something like this that we just made it much wider than it was before, but same length. If you do double x and double y, we're going to end up with the same, just bigger because it will be both twice wider and twice taller. But I also mentioned that there is a middle line going here. What if we change the middle line? Let's say in this distance, this is the top line, and let's play with 2x height again. But this middle line, let's put it here because as you can see, the dash on the A goes on the middle line, while M has a break in the middle line, G is near the middle line. If you move the middle line here, this time we end up with very different looking. This will be very visible on G, and it won't matter for O. I think I made this longer than this. Let's call this 3x maybe. You end up with different shape of the letter, the feeling of the letter changes. You can the same way put the middle line here or wherever you want basically. This also is playing with the dimensions. What if we played with the dimensions with the top and the bottom line. For example, if we make it start from here, and the bottom line is the same, but the top line is diagonal. What would happen then? This time I'm going to do the sides of the M straight. I think it looks better and then A goes a bit higher, and then N goes even higher, and then G goes even higher, and same for all. Then we end up with totally different feeling that it's like coming towards us. This is useful in many different situations. We will come to this later when you can use these tricks and how it's helpful. What if you kept the top line the same, but bottom line is declining. Then we would end up with M, A, and in here, you can also imagine there is also a middle line you can play with. But at the moment, I'm imagining it's in the middle. You can also bring it from here or here, it's up to you. This is playing with knob I was telling you about. In here M is more elongated, but they're always more like normal O. This is also very useful. If we did it, let's say the top one is diagonal, but the bottom one is straight. Let's start the middle line from two-third from the top and two-third from the top, somewhere here. Let's see what this gives us. For N, it doesn't make a difference with this type of an N, but there's also a different way of writing letter N, for example, like this, then the middle line would make a difference and for G and O. Because this line is put here, this last one we did looks much better than this because it's mortal true, I didn't exactly play here. Later, I draw this line if you remember that the G is nothing, but in here the line in the middle of A and G and M there are all matching and it looks better. This is how we can play with your dimensions. You can make them even taller, you can make them wider, you can make them inclining, so it's getting taller and taller, you can make them declining. You can play with the middle line to make different letters as well. This time, this is the top line. I want to make a tall one. The middle line, I will put up here very extreme, and I will make the N like this as well with this N. Let's see what we'll end up with. M looks very alien-ish with long legs. A, the same. N only comes this far. N. G, should we? Yeah, I think I will start from here and bring the G all the way up very weird looking wherever we are looking G. Yeah, I did an extreme one so you can actually see what you are changing when you play with the dimension parameter. Later we will learn that when we go into the styles and filling, this is just one part of it. We will get something extra. Do you see how quickly it transformed letters? In here the dimensions also make a very big difference. It makes that look much more interesting. Then we add a bit of a different style. It totally transform the letters. Look at the mango here and look at the mango here, there is not a huge change. We changed the dimensions and we added tiny styling. It's extra line next to it. If you think in terms of drawing, that in here we had M, let's say 1,2,3,4 lines, yes. We just added three more lines next to it, a little scribble and we end up with something else. This is all I'm trying to show you here, that it doesn't have to be complicated. It's easy. It can be made easy. Just fake it till you make it basically. In my opinion, this is faking it. There are real artists out there. They are doing amazing things with the brush pens and fountain pens and the way they write and design the letters and do calligraphy. It's amazing, but it takes time. It takes effort. I don't always, necessarily have the time, but I still want to practice my art and my sketch journals I want as beautiful titles and writing snakes next to my paintings and this is the way to do it. There is another way of playing with the top and the bottom lines. What if they're not straight? That maybe they don't have to be straight and we can make them wavy or we can make them first inclining then declining. Then what would we end up with? Let's have a look. I don't know. Maybe let's imagine the middle line somewhere here as well. We can keep it close to the bottom, but we can go up and down as it is. A, let's say you went on a trip by the sea and you want to show the waves and you want to write something about it. Maybe you went on surfing and you can reflect that on your titles. This is one way to do it. Mango. At the moment we are just talking about dimensions. That's why I don't go into the style like bold. But if this was bold, you would pick up this line much more than this. Of course, when you are writing this, I'm using pen directly, you're going to use a pencil to sketch these lines, and later, you're going to put the inking and delete the lines and only the letters will be left. Yes. Then later you will add your colors if you want to. But this is another way to play with dimensions. Let's try this example. That's recording? Everyone's recording. Good. Great. M-A-N-G-O. If it was longer word than this, maybe for this kind of shape, six letters word or eight letters word would be better that there will be four on one side, four on one side. So focus is going to the middle. Basically, you can just imagine any kind of shape. You can put the middle line wherever you want and you can make them as apart from each other as you want and you end up with different results. This is what I call playing with the parameters, that changing the parameters. Now, let's for a moment, imagine if this was bold. What would we end up with? You will understand better what I mean that you will see the lines partition because when you make something bold, you have these lines following the bottom and top. I'm doing it roughly here just to give it filling. But this is also a way. Later you will see in the filling that to give different textures you can also use these kind of broken lines to fill in your letters. But we will talk about that later. We will bring all these things we are learning about different parameters. As you can see now, that how much it shows the lines you created for your word, then it will be much more visible. Imagine doing it like this and filling it with nice turquoise and blue. Perfect title for summer holiday. Here is the same. Let's do a bit of styling. You mentioned this had serifs. We'll come to the serifs later. You end up with a very interesting looking lettering here. I'm breaking down here for you so you can actually see that I'm not doing anything special here. I'm not using any other tool than this pen. This is the same as drawing. Is just few lines, that whatever lines you use for drawing your coffee cup. You can also use those lines to construct your letters. That's basically what it is. Then we leave a little gap in our filling like this. It looks like shiny. We'll come to all of that in the filling. That's one of the three parameters. Dimensions, we looked at it and the style like bold, serif, sans serif. Then filling, how we actually can make a difference with our fillings to those styles. That's another parameter we can change. Anything else? I know which word we could have written, Jack. I'm sorry, Jack it didn't come to my mind earlier. Maybe next one we can do Jack. What do you think, Jack? That's it for this lesson, dimensions. I will see you on the next one. Jack, what's our next lesson? Styling. Is everything ready? Is my coffee ready? Brilliant, you are the best. See you on the next one. How do you like my whole? 9. Style Part 1: Now we are back with the right hoody. Actually, I have to tell you guys that I am so glad you picked this hoody because I was a bit afraid that, if you pick the other one, I was going to mess this up. Either I would have to bench it until the next class, or I would use it and then spill coffee on it or it would just get, you know how the white t-shirts get and the white garment. It was not going to be so white. This way, we can shoot the class and I can do a photo shooting then, and it will white forever. Now, cold coffee, my favorite. That was me being sarcastic there. Where were we? The glasses are on, everything is recording. We talked about dimensions in the previous lesson. But Jack called something. He said that I might have made a mistake. Let me show you here. Here I talked about how we can change the dimensions of our word, unsymmetrically. I call this one declining, and I taught, logic means something. This one would be inclining, increasing in size. This is decreasing in size, and this is increasing in height. Declining, inclining. But this morning Jack told me, are you sure that's what it means? Maybe we should have a look and I had it checked and he's right. Inclining means being inclined to do something like accepting an invitation or something and it's not what it means. What I meant was this is decreasing in size and this is increasing in size. Decreasing, increasing that's what I wanted to say. I just wanted to fix that. Other than that, one more thing I want to mention is, I did everything in here in capitals. The reason for that was we are focusing on the size here in the dimensions, SEC dimensions lesson. Of course, lowercase letters are smaller than the capitals by design. I didn't want you to get focused on that because, for example, here I wrote mango, this is capital letters, this is small. I'm not talking about the size between this one and this one. Everything we did here could be applied to lowercase as well, lowercase letters. But I'm not really talking about from big capital letters to small lowercase letters, it's more about the general size of the word. We can change them, play with it. I always say these parameters, you can just play with the knob and increase it, decrease it, etc. Everything we learned here could be applied to small ones as well. Looking here, there's an example that, we can make with lowercase, increasing, wording or decreasing, or any others. Just in general, we are talking about the dimensions and size and making bigger, smaller, wider, narrower, etc. That's that. Now we can go into our lesson about style. In here we will talk about different styles of writings. This is the second parameter I was talking to you about, that we can play with the dimensions parameter, and we can play with this style parameter and change the style from one to intended, then we will end up with different results, as I always say. Sometimes I speak here because here there is my microphone. Let's start with the most basic one, [NOISE] Sans serif. Now I'm not sure if it's with double f, but if it's not, you will let me know. Sans serif and of course, one can't be without the other serif. Serif is basically a typeface where you would see little dashes like this at the end of the letters. This is serif and sans means without. When you don't have those like this one it's sans serif. Without serif, without those dashes. The reason for that is that the letters used to be actual tangible things that you could hold in your hands that you would arrange them and make a print. In those days they designed the letters, sweet little dashes like that. I don't know if there was a practical reason for that, but maybe it was breaking too easily when they were making the molten stuff. Maybe, I don't know. That's why these fonts with serifs, they look more old school because it was being used in old times. When graphic designers, typeface designers were making more modern fonts, they started making without them and hence the name sans serif, without the serifs. Let's pick a word for this lesson. What could it be? I brainstormed few words we can use. Let's go with 'happy.' This one. That there is boxy H and there is a vowel, A, P is a curved one. It's always good to practice those, and Y is a bit problematic form because I write Y like this, but you can also do with straight going down like that. It's up to you. HAPPY. If you wrote the same one in serif. Let's do this one straight. When you add these dashes, my pen finishing. There you go. This is serif. You can see immediately. [NOISE] What took the camera off? Unto recording, what's happening? Immediately you can see, even though we didn't do much, we just added little dashes at the end of the letters. This font has already very old school and different looking than this one. You can immediately just use that for your title. Just write in serif and it will be different. Your normal handwriting, serif's, it looks different and this is one way to get it done. Another way would be, let's call it cursive. With cursive, they didn't normally practice with capital letters, but there's no writing in cursive, all capitals that's not designed like that. It's when you're going to write lowercase words. You can use cursive, or the first letter could be in capital. Let's do like that. Here I wrote happy. The thing is, I'm not going to teach you how to write cursive here. This is more like if you know, I learned in primary school when I was little. It's not really complicated. This is how I normally write just without lifting your hand. There are few rules that you need to follow. For example, when you write p, it doesn't actually connect to the second letter because the p finishes above and about the lowercase, and then you don't go down. That has little recited but doesn't matter. I don't really go by any rules and you can do this, you can't do this, you can do whatever you want. I'm showing you this in case if you know cursive, you can use that to your advantage. It's always good to combine with big boxy fonts and you write something and you write corresponding it, it balances out and it looks nice and interesting. I always use it. Later also, we will have a look how people write with calligraphy pens or brush pens. We will be able to fake that with just a pen. In there we will also use cursive. There is another style we can write in cursive. Another one would be bold. For this, you can just pick a brush pen with the thick ending like this. Normally, when I do my titles, I always write with pencil first and then I go into the ink. But in here we can just go with the flow. I'm writing bold, sorry, I already started with B, so I'll go with it. I was supposed write happy. Let me get a pencil. I'm still going to write because I want to see all the styles in one word, happy. If I was going to write the word happy in bold, what I would do, I would first write the word happy in pencil, and I wrote a bit more spacious than these ones because it's going to be bold. It needs more space. Then what we do is basically make every line thicker. This one goes like that, and p. Let's add another line here. This is the outer line and it's in a line. This is the outer line. When I write p, if you notice that, let's say there's a tiny little word d inside. I'm trying to keep it in line with this one so it looks better. Add y. Yes. Then I take my pen, go over it. That's how I make any word bold, basically. When we're doing this later, we will talk about that. I always tell you that everyone can paint class as well, that all the sides I use, you can just take one and put another one on top of it and ends up with different things. Same goes here. You are making bold. But if you add the serif to it, you'd end up with a different font, you would make the endings little bit fatter like that. This will give a totally different feeling than the normal bold. You can combine everything I'm showing you here. You can try to put different things together in whatever I'm showing you in this class. Other is style. After bold, we'll go into Italic. If you ever used Microsoft Word or something you must have seen there is a button, you just press and everything becomes Italic means that your letters are a little tilted to the right. I think that came from writing with the right hand, that is easier to do that. But back in the day, I think most of the handwritings, especially cursive was a little bit more Italic. I don't use it often to be honest. It can be used to convey a message that's emphasized on a word then you can write it in Italic. Between all the others standing upright letters, it will be more visible. It will stand out. You can use it that way. Let's write happy in Italic. You can do this a little or like 20, 30 degrees or even up to 45 degrees, it's up to you. We wrote happy in Italic. Again, you can combine these two. You can do bold, but in Italic, you can do serif with Italic. Many other combinations with it. 10. Style Part 2: The next one would be a bit similar to bold, the next one we're going to do. I call it blocky. This one one they are little boxes. How can we show this the best? Let's see. Let's say I'm going to write happy here, yes. Imagine them as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 boxes standing next to each other. We can curve our letters out of these boxes. You see there's a little h there. A normally has a shape like a triangle. But in this, when you are making blocky, taking it bold to be a bit more extreme. There's a little a and p. We're going to cut out this part p, another p. For y, I will cut out a little triangle here and another triangle and another diagonal not triangle. [NOISE] This is another style. I use these usually bold and blocky when I have a word that I want to really emphasize. Let's now go over it with an ink so you will see it better. There is the h, you can make them touching to each other, so altogether the whole word will be a one big block. Let's do it like that. When I do like that, instead of starting the a from the top of the h, I go a little bit down from it so that they're like, I don't know, it shows that where one letter starts and the other one ends. Here as well. You don't have to make them so straight. I usually make them a little bit curved, a little bit not parallel but going towards each other. To me, it looks more interesting this way. There's the ha, and for p, you can also cut this corner a bit and the other one. This one, [NOISE] not necessary but it goes more into styling and creating typefaces. I guess that's also something a little bit too. I play with letters every now and then. Let's do the other one like a box here, so you will see the difference that you could totally do like this one or cut the corner. It's more like resembles the p curve but still stay blocky. Here's y. [NOISE] There's your blocky happy. That's another way. Later after we go through all the, how they call them? Parameters that we are playing with the knocks, I will also talk about final touches. How can you make a change? A few more things. These are not as heavy as the parameters because they changed the total look of the word. But little things like adding 3D and overlapping the letters so it gives a different feeling and also it can be useful for using this space you have. I will show you some examples from my sketch journal, so you will understand better. After blocky, round or rounded maybe. It's a similar idea to this one but making it not so angular and blocky, more rounded shapes. The easiest way to do this, I think normally I just go and start drawing from my head. But you write the word. Again, I'm writing them with a bit of space because these type of fonts require more space because they are bold. I go around every line like this. I don't make sharp corners that it looks more bubbly, like little balloons and y. Later in those final touches I told you about, that with this letters specifically that resembles balloons, you can leave some white spaces like this. They will look like they're shiny. You can draw them and leave them empty or when you're painting you can just leave it empty and it will look like they have shiny surfaces like a balloon. Later we will do some examples with the pens as well, don't worry. Another style we can talk about, this will be the last one. Bouncy. This one, we're going to write happy. Writing the letters, we mentioned the bottom line and the top line of the letters and we could play with the dimensions of that. Imagine we have a separate line for every letter. Every letter is sitting on a different plane like this. Let me mark it with pencil here. That instead of having one line for the top and one line for the bottom for the entire word, let's say for h is going to be here, and for the bottom of the a is going to be here and p, p, and y. For me, this lettering is also useful when you do cursive and this faux calligraphy. Calligraphers usually make bouncy worse and it looks very interesting. I usually use this when there's some excitement in the message you're trying to give. Let's give a bit of styling to this quick one. This is my favorite style by the way. [NOISE] Not the bouncy but adding these thick lines next to any letter that with any kind of writing, it can be your handwriting as well. Everything's recording, yes. When you add this very quick bold line next to it, it just transforms the title immediately, and I use it all the time like I did here with the Italic. You don't even have to do some. Let's say you just write happy with your handwriting like you usually do. You don't even have to draw boxes, just scribble next to it like that. It immediately stands out from the rest. I used it all the time. It's the easiest thing you can do, and it will elevate your titling skills immediately. Definitely use this. I want to say that in this class, I'm trying to break down these hand-lettering typography and what's the difference, calligraphy, so you understand better and you see the inner workings of the hand lettering. But at the end of today, from the lettering techniques I show you, if you want, just pick three and go with it and it will be enough for your sketch journaling and you just keep changing between them, whichever you like, whichever speaks to you, and you will be also fine. You don't have to know all of this to be able to stylize your titles in your sketch journals. I want to make this as easy as possible for you. I think that's it. We talked about sans serif, serif, cursive, bold, italic, blocky, rounded, and bouncy, and you can combine these with all the other things we talked in with the dimensions. Shall we do an example? For example, let's say we will do the top line. First, what was my mistake inclining? Not inclining, first increasing, then decreasing line. But we're going to keep the bottom the same. This will give a impactful look, like it's coming at you. You're going to write, again, happy, yes, but let's pick one. This thing looks good with bold. Let's do it blocky. I'm going to put the P because we have five letters here, in the middle. Let's say there's a P here. Here's the Y. As you can see, I was telling you before, we are combining the [NOISE] dimension parameter, changing the dimension to the perimeter of it, and changing this title perimeter and ending up with something different. We're going to do blocky. The P is going to go like that and then go down. Another P and Y. To finish it, I'm going to put the exclamation mark at the end. Happy. It's aggressive happy but as you can see, we had the word happy just like in here, but we change the style, we change the dimensions, and we end up with something different. Later, we will learn how to 3D to this like this. Or we will add little details like that to make it stand out or not so strong 3D, but just a little something to make it different. These also could contain the letters inside as an example. What else? Or we can fill them in. [NOISE] This we will talk about it in the next one. We can make all sorts of different things with it. This goes into the final details and this, we will talk about in the next lesson, the filling. This is it for style parameter. The next one, we're going to talk about filling. How we're going to fill inside the letters we drew? What do you think so far? Everyone can draw letters, I think so. I knew it. I thought you should too. Jack, is my coffee ready? It's next to me. Thanks. [NOISE] Jack is very quiet these days, but he called this mistake very well with the increasing. I should go now. See you on the next one. Bye. 11. Filling: Let's [NOISE] have a sip of cold coffee. Keep calm you are only 30 but I'm not 30 anymore so should I still keep calm? I don't think so. Guess how many years I've had this cup? Two years, five, nine. We just went over the different styles and how we can combine the dimensions and styles, change the parameters, and the last parameters we're going to talk about is how we can make a difference with filling. For that let's have a fresh page. The best way to do this will be, let's pick one word, put it down here, and fill every letter with different filling. Because to show every filling for every styling, it will take forever. You will figure it out by yourself. Let's say, Jack, can you give me a eight letter word? Fun has three letters my friend. Eight. Grumpy is a good word, but it has only six. I need eight. Can you think of anything. Nice one. He suggested exciting, shall we do exciting? The same way we could do explore, but Jack said exciting so let's too exciting. What I do usually, I quickly write the letters. At the moment it all depends what your goal is. My goal at the moment here is to write this word here in the center of the page and when you do sketch journaling, you have a certain space and you're trying to fill that space so your goal might be different. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 letters. The center is here. Four letters here, four letters here. When you have the letter I, because it takes less space than the others be mindful for that one because you want to put in the middle. But if you have I, one side might be shorter, but we have I on both sides so this should be actually okay. Let's say my center is here. It means I will have four letters on this side and four letters on this side. Everything is recording. Yes. I'm going to put two letters, t here, i, n, g. For this exercise, let's do it more interesting, let's not put the middle line in the middle but a bit lower. Let's see how it's going to end up. I will drink top of them and I will add another line here. Some letters like G has the details that finishes with the bottom line and some letters like n has details finishing on the top so I can choose in-between and another i here, c, x, the middle of the letters e. I'm going to put here. Guys, I make my rules as I go. This also one of the things I'm trying to teach you, you can do whatever you want. It's your paper, it's your pen. Someone who is more experienced, more studied on the topic might come and tell me that this is wrong I shouldn't do this or I should do this, but do I care? No, I can do whatever I want it's my pen, and I want the same freedom for you. Because someone says that this is wrong, doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong. You can do whatever you want. Because in here we are focusing on the filling. How we going to fill with this I'm going to go with my favorite style. I have a font like this and I use in my class as well and it's called fabs favorite, so I will call it fabs favorite. X. I hope I spelled this right. I looked at the word for so long it now is meaningless to me. Exciting. I think this was the right spelling. There's an I here. As you can see, while I'm drawing, my lines aren't perfectly straight, but it's not a problem don't worry about it. No one is going to come and check if all your lines are straight. When you put it in the context of a page that there's a painting there are lots of the other writings and there's a title and the fillings and paintings and so on. It won't show, there's our word, exciting. We planned it and put it in the middle. I think it worked out okay. [NOISE] One way to do this is you can use this tool. But when you have a bigger space, it makes sense to use a brush pen to cover a big area. The first filling style, let's say, is black. Make it completely black. That's one way to go about it. The other one would be the same way, but with colors. Yes, that's whatever your page needs. If you want black bold letters or if you want the color match to your painting, this is a moment to use this. Where are my brushes? Here's one. I picked up some pink with my brush. I keep telling you that this is one of the parameters we can play with. You can see the difference it creates. Because this parameter causes so many different things, like for example, when I'm adding colors, and you can use a brush pen. There are different things you can do with the brush pen and when it comes to watercolors there are all different things you can do with the watercolors. You can also apply here as well, so it gives even more possibilities. For example, let's say we still have some pink here and use pink and light paint blue. Then you can use the colors to your advantage and whatever your page needs. You can use watercolors to help you. Even more so, we can leave it white like this. [NOISE] You can make the ends a bit more blended, let's pick some more up, or you can bring them together and end up with something like that. Isn't it gorgeous? I love it. This way you have all sorts of things you can do because now the paints are involved. You can also, this is something I do often, make them bleed out of the page, out of the letters. This gives you even more possibilities. Then you can splash over it. Yes? Yes. The next one, I called it fancy because, for example, we have a nice rectangular space here to style this. By the way, this is not watercolor paper. It's not doing so well because I added water here, but you get the ideas. This is a normal copy paper. This is the middle. You could add designs like these. Normally I don't have such big titles. I'm making it big so it will be more visible for you guys. I call this fancy because you can use this kind of shapes, patterns, pattern will be the next one actually, these kind of shapes to make your writing more fancy. Let's fill it up quickly. Is everything recording? Yes. That after the fail with the previous video, I may be paranoid now that they will keep stopping on me. You can do a fancy filling like this. Let's do another example here. Let's say this is an example for another fancy. [NOISE] You can fill them whichever way you can think of, and feel free to use anything you see here. There is a fancy filling for you, or you can just use patterns. For example, these stripes I see often. If you are using, in your title font, like this one, like a blocky one, you will have more space to play with. Actually, this one is a bit more limited space that what you can do with it. Let's do another pattern, but let's say like this, for some bubbly personalities out there. Then you can also paint them if you want. You can make it look like a cow, for example. You can write cow and then you can fit it inside with black patches that will look like a cow. Does it make sense? Also, what else can you do; the last one? Texture. This is a bit like the fancy and a bit like the pattern, but let me show you an example. I usually like this one and you should use it too. When you are using a pen and not try to fill up the entire space, it leaves this texture behind. I like this one much more than plain black. This looks much more interesting. You can take that a bit further. You can do the entire thing like this or making it less and less and then use dots [NOISE] and make it fading. It gives a very interesting look this way. This is a texture. For our filling the letters after we played with the dimensions, we pick the style and then it comes to the filling on the last parameter. You can do black, color; these both examples of colors. You can do fancy shapes, whatever suits you. You can use patterns to fill them, or you can use texture. Black color, fancy patterns, texture. Doesn't it look interesting? Doesn't it look exciting? That was such a good work, Jack. Well done. Let's take a sip [NOISE] from my cold coffee. How great. Jack, can I get a hot one? Thank you. What would I do without Jack? This is it for filling everything I show you here and in the previous lessons, dimensions and style, they are meant to be combined together, that they are part of the same thing. That you just play with the knobs change the dimensions, style, and the filling, and you end up with the hundreds of different ways to stylize your titles in your sketch journals or wherever you want to use them. Maybe you want to make a poster. I'm looking if I have an example here. here is one. I told you that this is my favorite. The same way actually. Just what's the difference? I would say, change the dimension a bit more. This is even taller letters. I used full filling and the style is the same as the one in here for exciting and I use a texture that I didn't fill it all the way in. If you look closely that it's like this last one here. I made a poster like that. It's not always for sketch journal. That's it for now. That's it for filling. You can fill your letters in many different ways it's up to you. In the next filling lesson we'll talk about the final touches that everything we learned, we'll bring it together, and with little touches, we can also elevate even higher. See you on the next one. Jack, can I have cup for a warm one? Couldn't talk. 12. Final Touches Part 1: Welcome back. First of all, how are you? How are you doing? Is everything okay? I just realized that these glasses make my eyes so big and quite dark. This is how I look. Don't forget I'm getting old. Let's go over what we did. We talked about the dimension parameter. We can change the dimensions and end up with a different looking font. We can change the style on the top of it and end up with different results. The way we fill our letters can also make a big impact. This is the last parameter we can play with and end up with different typefaces, different fonts. These are the different ways we can style our titles and writings in our posters, in our sketch journals. Now we're going to talk about everything is cool. So far everything you've learned, you can just combine them and make your own writings. You now know you don't need anything other than a pen. Even pencil is optional. Pencil helps you plan things and helps you to get it right. If you are like me, you have a beautiful drawing and you don't want to [NOISE] the title. Excuse my French. You can do it like I do. Use the pencil to plan and then put your inking, but you don't even have to do that. The way you just draw anything, you can also draw your letters. Everyone can draw letters. If I asked you to draw a square, you just draw a square. How many times I use my pen here, 1, 2, 3, 4. The same way, letter M, 1, 2, 3, 4. I just did it in a different way. It's the same thing. That's what I'm trying to show you in this class. It's the same thing. There's nothing different. There's nothing magical about it. There's nothing that you have to study and practice hours and hours. Of course with practice, you'll get better, that you will be able to do bold letters just like this from your head. It will get easier. But you are already doing sketch journaling, you are already doing paintings and you want to add writings typography in your designs. It doesn't have to be so complicated. It's simple. Everyone can draw and everyone can draw letters. It's just taking the pen and putting onto paper and making some marks. That's it. As we clear that, in this one I call this final touches. We're going to talk about a few things. Everything you learned so far, you can use them and with this final touches you can make them even better. First, let's pick a word. Jack, give us a word. Nice. Maybe short this time, like five letters. What could it be? You suggested grumpy before. Can we use grumpy? Let's use grumpy. It's a nice word, six letters. It has angular M, there is G, P, curly letters. Good combination to have a look at. Jack suggested grumpy, I wonder why. No, I didn't say anything. It wasn't about you. Not everything is about you. Can I focus? I have people over. First, final touch we're going to look at is 3D, of course. 3D doesn't quite work when you just write the word grumpy like this. Let's say with your handwriting. You can't quite use 3D because it doesn't have dimension that you can add another one. I can't quite explain. But when you have a blocky or bold font, it's easier. I will show you in a second. But what you can do with this to give a bit of a feeling, you can just add a little line next to it to give a bit of a depth somehow. This could be the way to do it, but this is something I never do. It's not quite my thing. I don't like it. Let's quickly use your board. G-R-U. Like I showed you, just write with a pencil and make every line thicker. But there's something about writing it straight from the head. It's not so perfect. I like that feeling that it feels more loose and casual. My M is even thicker than the other ones. R looks a bit goofy and I like it this way. I would suggest you also don't obsess over this. It doesn't have to be perfect. This actually gives a very nice and casual feeling and it works very well when you're doing sketch journaling. The way we do 3D. Let's talk about 3D for a second. When you have an object in front of you, this is a battery from my camera. It's flat, it's two-dimensional. It has the width and the height, and that's it. But when you look at things from a bit of an angle, you see another line appearing. This is the 3D effect. If you look from bottom left, another line is appearing here that look in here you will see 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This is the feeling of 3D basically. You can always take an object in your hand and look at it flat and then look at it from an angle. This is what 3D does. I like doing it always looking from bottom left. If you are looking from bottom left, all we have to do is this is the angle we are looking at. It means that there will be additional lines coming from the bottom left. Here is another one. Another one. I have to admit, when you are doing curvy letters, it is always more complicated. More blocky letters like M. Let's have a look at it now. You just need to make from it corners. If I was looking at this M from this angle, I would see this side of it. The left side. From every corner, I just extend to a line like this and then I connect them. The same is here. Here's the same line, so I can just connect it like that. Same as here. That's how we do it. When you have a boxy like all sharp angles letters it's easier. With round ones it's more complicated. Here, let's have a look at U. One line coming out like that, another line coming out like that. Bring it down like this. R, bring out the lines and connect them. Maybe we would see the bottom of here as well a bit. I think we would see it here as well. It immediately elevates the style of your lettering. Bring out the lines and connect them. Then it goes into again the filling part that if you fill your 3D these extra parts you just drew, you end up with something like this. Do you see how much it stands out from the page? You can also just use patterns for the 3D parts. That also works really well. I really like how this one looks. You can choose to leave the 3D parts white, but use the filling on the letter. Like I keep telling you, you can do whatever you want, but leave it a bit of a texture. You can end up with this kind of lettering. You can of course use colors for this side. I have a brush pen here with a different color. It's drying a bit I think this brush pen. I haven't been using. You can do it like that. You can add, I was telling you, patterns like this and then color them. You can combine them as well. Let's do this roughly, leaving lots of texture here. Then put a pattern on the side. You could use any of these for your lettering. Or you can also do like that to all like a mix. Grumpy Jack. Grumpy Grumpy Jack. It sounds like a children's book. What's next? The other thing we could do is the shine. If you watched my other classes in the I think everyone can paint or watercolor sketch journaling, very first one. I talked about painting without painting. That's the shine part. That something is shiny, the highlight is always white. With acrylic painting, you can do that with white paint. But in watercolors or when you're just using your pen, just leaving that space white basically. 13. Final Touches Part 2: This was 3D, and now we are looking at the shine. This is actually way of filling, but I decided to keep this a bit different because it suggests that you are filling it with the idea in your mind that this is something related to what you're writing or what is the picture next to it about. Believe me, G is a difficult letters and I don't get it right every time, but I did that quickly there. Don't feel discouraged, it will take some time and some practice to get it right but G is difficult. S is also especially writing bold because you have to start on the inside and then it goes on the outside. You have to leave enough space to be able to come back and leave a consistent S shape. It takes time. These are the difficult ones, but you will get there. Grumpy, check. I'm not going to write the entire word. Let's go with gru from despicable me, was that his name, gru? Shine. Imagine that there is a light coming from this angle and this G has a shiny surface. What would it be that we would see shiny part on this side. Fill in the rest and maybe on this side as well. This could have been easier with the brush pen. We just left one side empty like this, and it gives a feeling of something shiny. Do I have something shiny to show you here, like this, for example. Do you see that this side there's a highlight? This is the shine and you just leave this side white and it gives the feeling of shiny. Also you can do the shine in a different way because the light source is not always coming from one way, from left or right, maybe it's coming directly from where you are looking. For this you could use this texture like I was telling you about, and especially leave these parts jagged, and this gives the feeling of shiny. When you apply this to the entire word, that it gets strengthened because then it's continues through entire word. Then when you look at the whole word it looks like the middle is shiny. This is the shine. Can you see? Another thing you can do is I call this accent, like a little something you add to your lettering to make it look a bit more interesting. In here I get into it quickly, If you remember. Let's continue this word then, grumpy. Accent could be not as strong as the 3D, but you just let's say, add a little line like that, and make your letters stand out more. This gives the 3D feeling but not all the way. For example, you don't have to worry about filling this 3D part or painting. It's just a little addition and it gives a bit of a different feeling. Or you can edit on the inside like this. This also is used for making it appear a bit more shiny like a balloon would shine. You can add these lines inside. Or you can keep the simple letter inside this bold to give a different feeling to your lettering as an accent. Or let's imagine if this wasn't written in such a bold but more rounded shape. Why? I showed you this before. You could add these shapes to convey a message that this is shiny, and then you color the same, but leave these parts white. It looks like it's shiny, but also it's a round object. You can add these accents and it's totally fine to leave it as it is as well without filling or painting, but you can also do so. Then you are putting everything together and, let's say, create a topography for your sketch on a view. You drew and painted scene from your holiday by the beach and you wrote something. Let's say you have a picture here. Yes, there is the sun, there is the beach, you wrote and you drew. You have the writings next to it, and there is another picture here, a long one like that. In here you draw a flower and you decide that this part is the writing. You have a space for the title here and you want to write something there, but it doesn't quite fit. You want to fill this space it's always good to bring it to a rectangle or square, your typography looks better, but it just doesn't quite work out. Here it is. For example, here. [NOISE] This is from my sketch journal. I'm going to show like this, sorry, because of space. You wrote like this, you have a space here and you write it down. I usually sketch it on a piece of paper with a pencil to see how it's going to play out the forms and the shapes, and how is it going to fit all together. This doesn't quite fit, there are some spaces. In those, you can use little shapes to help bring your typography together. Arrows are especially useful because they are pointing at something, and that's what you are trying to do with typography that draw attention. For that, you can definitely use arrows and triangles. I definitely use them a lot to fill the space. I end up with filling the space left for my title perfectly. It's one full thing. In here, for example, there is a little space left, a little triangle there, and it just completes the filling. Here's a good example of increasing and decreasing, creating, and how you could use them. I think later, we will go through my tittles and have a look at them and see them as examples. What I was trying to show here as a final touch that you can use little shapes, and triangles to finish up your titles. Later, we will get into this more with more examples from my sketch books. Let's say we want to write here Grumpy Jack. Yes. This way, we fill the entire space and we use triangles to actually draw attention to our title. Is just an example, check it you don't have to come down. How do you like Grumpy Jack? You can use this, let's call them shapes. Add shapes. We looked at 3D, we looked at the shine, how you can use it to level up your lettering. You can use little accents like this, and you can use shapes. I better speed up. I need to pick up my son. One last thing I want to talk about in this part, overlap. What is overlap? First of all, overlap looks much more interesting when you are doing bold and blocky letters of overlapping them on top of each other. It looks interesting. But maybe you are running out of space and you have a long word you want to write, but you have a small space. Overlapping them off gives you a bit of space. It's a functionality thing, but also it looks nice. An example of that would be, let's again write grumpy. Then imagine that this G is overlapping the next letter R, so I'm starting the R here. A bit longer. Yes. The U is starting from somewhere here, grump. In the meantime, to be able to see better, I made them a bit more bubbly, that the R is bigger than G and M is bigger than U so that it will show better. Until you feel comfortable, good to do with a pencil first. You see is if it fits in the space, you need to fit it in, and then you can apply the ink. We're not drawing these parts now, that's the G's territory. We see what's sticking out from under the G. Grumpy. This is one way to write it. Then you can add 3D to this. Well, if you actually wanted to add a 3D, you have to plan that in the pencil section when you're sketching, because if I want to add 3D to U here, it might not quite work out. It might work out if the 3D, if you are looking from left, but if you wanted to do from right, it will workout. Plan that first with your pencil. But if you wanted to add shine and these patterns already painted, whatever you want, that you can combine everything together here. This is another way to level up your lettering. I really like how this looks. Grumpy Jack. It was your idea to write grumpy. Here this Grumpy Jack [LAUGHTER] it could be linear children's book. I will think about this. Grumpy Grumpy Jack, so this is another way you can elevate your lettering with the 3D shine accent by adding shapes or overlapping them. Overlapping is, I use a lot and it's one of my favorite ways to write things in bold. I will see you on the next one. Jack, I need to go and collect my son. Did you take care of everything here? Thank you. Bye. 14. Jack and the Kitten: Before we move forward, I have another story for you. Jack and the kitten. If you had enough of Jack, like me, which I totally understand, you can skip this part. Totally, I totally agree with you on that. Again, he was late this morning, and do you know what excuses he gave? I was on my way to work when I saw a squirrel who needed help with his taxes. It's not even tax season in Poland. Can you believe that? If you have enough of him, like me, press "Enough of Jack" button right now. Oh, you don't fall for the same trick twice I see. On with the story. I'm just going to read like last time. One morning, Jack arrived at the studio with a box of fresh croissants, eager to impress Fab bit his baking skills. Good thinking, I like croissants, I love croissants. He had stayed up all night perfecting the recipe and he was sure that Fab would love them. I would. But as he set the box down on the table, he noticed something odd. A small, fluffy kitten had somehow found its way into the studio and was now perched on top of the croissants licking its paws. It must be one of my pets since I love them so much. Jack panicked. He knew that Fab loved animals, but he also knew that he was very particular about his food. I am. But a kitten wouldn't stop me from eating croissants. He didn't want to offend his boss, thank you, by serving him croissants that had been contaminated by a stray kitten. Frantically, Jack tried to shoo the kitten away, shoo, shoo, but it just petted at his hand with its tiny paws meowing loudly. Fab walked into the room and took one look at the scene before him. "Oww, how cute." He exclaimed, scooping up the kitten and cuddling it to his chest. You see, such a loving person I am. "I've always wanted a cat, we can keep her in the studio." I said, apparently. Jack's heart sank. You don't want the kitten? He had been hoping to get rid of the kitten not keep it around, but he knew that there was no arguing with Fab, that's true, when he was in one of his moods. Hey, what moods? For the rest of the day, Jack was forced to walk around the kitten, which seemed to take a particular liking to his hair. It would climb up onto his head and nestle in purring contentedly. See AI is trying to use so many big words makes it a bit difficult sometimes. It would climb up onto his head and nestle in it purring contentedly while Jack tried to type emails and make phone calls. Poor Jack, you are on trying to work. But despite the chaos and the hairballs, Fab seemed happier than ever. He would stop work every few minutes to coo at the kitten, I don't know what that means, coo, coo, or give it little pieces of croissant which only made Jack's anxiety grow. Relax, Jack. I like the kitten, I like the croissants. What's wrong? By the end of the day, Jack was exhausted and covered in cat hair. He couldn't wait to go home and take a long shower. But as he was packing up his things, Fab called out to him. Let's see what I said. "Hey, Jack, these croissants were amazing. You should bake for us more often." You see, I do appreciate when you do something good. Jack smiled weakly and nodded, but inside, he was already dreading the next time he would have to bring food to the studio. Maybe next time, he would stick to plain bagels and leave the kittens at home. Leave the kittens at home? You brought the kitten and blaming me for it? Unbelievable. Anyway, in the next lesson, we will play a game called letter yahtzee and help you with your creator's block. See you then or see you there. If coffee making was an Olympic sport, Jack, you would definitely get the participation ribbon. 15. Letter Yahtzee Part 1: Now, we talked about, I can take this off for a second, we talked about the final touches as I call them. Now, I have a little idea for it. Let's say you are like me and you find it difficult to choose something when you have too many options. Let's take this away. Look, I did I made this for you. You don't like it? Let's say you are like me. You have too many options and you freeze, you can't choose and you always want to make the best choices and it's difficult. I have an idea for you. Let's call this, I worked on some names, but I think I will go with Letter Yahtzee. Yeah, Letter Yahtzee. The Yahtzee, the dice game. This is also a dice game you can play with, let's say you need to make a title or something like that. You get a little dice that I found today among my son's Lego set by luck. Otherwise, I was going to dig in the boarding games to find the dice. We so far learned for three parameters plus the final touches. There are like four things to consider, yes. I will put those here. Dimensions and style, and filling and let's say final touches. This is optional. Let me show you quickly why my favorites font is my favorite font. It's just so easy to do. You just make every line on the left a bit thicker and it immediately stands out. Look at this one and look at this one. This is my handwriting. This is a font. It's my hand writing, this is the lettering. It was so easy to make. When you are especially keeping sketch and it's just so easy to bolden them, but not like the whole thing because then it might look ugly, but this one looks very stylish and it stands out. Let's make these ones too. I definitely recommend you use this. You can do more messy like this one or more tidy like this one or even tidier than that. You can just make a little box and fill it. It will look even tidier. I messed it up a bit. Or you make the box and just leave it as it this, There are four different ways to do this and it's just so quick and the result is very good, very impactful, and almost no effort at all. Even if you just get this wrong, this class, you're on the upside. What was it, four dimensions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and all of them it goes the same 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I'm saying six, some of them are more than six, definitely can be more than six but we have six sides on our dice and it will make it easier for us. That if there's a middle line here, you put it somewhere up there, or middle line down. You put the middle line somewhere here. These are for the dimensions and for style, sans serif, serif, cursive, bold, round, well, let's call this rounded or blocky. Six options in here and filling with black like these ones I did there. Color so one extra different color, but just one and multi color you can use two or three or more colors that may be, can make all the letters different colors, maybe. That's fancy was when we were making a different shape in the filling. Pattern was when we were making the filling with patterns only or texture. If you remember, this was the example for the texture. For the final touches, 3D, shine, accent. If you remember here that this was 3D, and this was the option for shine, and additional little lines like this was for accent. Add shapes. That here, there was an example to even that. You can use arrows definitely or little bubbles to make it blocky, and to fit in the space you need. Overlap, was example here, this one. You are bringing the letters closer, and overlap them. I'm adding one more idea here. Very quick idea that, how can we call this? Let's call this over shapes, and that idea is, let's say, I want to write 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I want to write grumpy again. I just draw 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 boxes like this. On this, grumpy. You can do any font you want inside. It's not about the font you use, but it's more final touches, making it a little more interesting than before. You can use this or you can use the pole like that, like you're writing it on a sign or something like that. You can make like that or like sign on the wall or some shape. Let's call this over shapes. Also now looking at myself from here, I didn't pick the best most flattering angle for myself today. You didn't warn me about this, Jack. check think about that next time. Now we have four different columns, and we have a dice. All we have to do, remember the idea, you can decide what you're going to do. Let's say, I'm going to write, again, grumpy Jack. This is my title. I'm sorry, people like it. Jack doesn't like this title. You want to write this, but you don't know what style to use. You can just have this chart in front of you, [NOISE] roll the dice. For the first one, number 5 came up. For the second number 6. Let's roll the dice. [NOISE] Number 2. [NOISE] Number 6. Now I can do both of them. Whatever style that will give you, we'll have a look in a second. Or for the Jack, I can do something different. Usually, I do combined two, three different fonts. This one is for Jack. Numbers 2. [NOISE] It came six again. Again, six. [NOISE] Number 4, number 6, and again, number 6 came. Is it a cheating dice? I don't know. Number 6 again. [NOISE] Again, number 6. Again number 6. What's happening? Number 1. Now let's have a look, what came up. For grumpy, I'm going to use middle line up, and style will be blocky. Good. I think grumpy is the main focus here, not Jack. Jack is never the focus, Number 2, colors. We will use color to fill it. Number 6, over shapes. For Jack, number 2, we will write it wider. Again, it's really good because Jack is a shorter word for grumpy. If you can match that to grumpy, Jack will be wider, and it makes perfect sense. First, it will be in bold, and number 6, you will fill it with textures, and number 1, it will be 3D. Here's our assignment. Let's make that happen. You can actually see me create this. That was no idea for this title second ago, and we just threw the dice, and now we know what we're doing. Let's get to business. You can do the same when you are filling your sketch journal, and you don't know what to do. You can just roll the dice, have this piece of paper with you or open my class again, and open this part, and in few seconds you will know what you're doing. First of all, with my pencil, I want to make this in the middle of the page. Grumpy will be more dominant here, so I'm leaving Jack one-third of this length, the height, so that it will be actually helped, because jack will be wide there, and grumpy will be blocky over shapes. Let's make it that this is like a sign, and that it's bolted to the wall. You're looking from the middle so you can actually see the 3D shapes of the bolts like this. I'm going to put the top line here, bottom line here. The middle line I was supposed to do up, so middle line will be here. It will be a blocky font. I actually have interesting blocky font I haven't shown you yet. Grumpy has six letters, so I need to divide this to half, somewhere here. Then 1, 2, 1, 2. Let's imagine these are the places for the letters. This is a bit super blocky font. Let's call it super blocky. It goes like this. You have your box here. Middle line is here. This is the G, can you see it? Maybe here it's shorter. G and for R, this is cut. This is cut as this is actually, maybe I will start this more from here because the middle line was supposed to be here, so this should be an R. I cut those, and this is our GR. For U, you only do this, and M, you only do this column and for P, that this part will be cut out completely. P. For Y, this part will be cut out. That will be our grumpy, super blocky font. It's kind of there's a box and you just completely pump the air into it and it just fill the entire space and there are no gaps. Grumpy and Jack, in what style, we're going to do bold. In here we have space for Jack. It's supposed to be bold and wider. Little bit textures and 3D we should control it. There should be some gap between them. Jack, we need to make this bold. Jack, this is bold, check. Then we need to do 3D. I will do like looking from here. Do you remember how we were doing 3D? If I'm looking from bottom left, I'm drawing a line from the end of the letter towards bottom left and then trying to go parallel with it. Here, because I can't draw for example a line from here because it would go into the letter. I need to find where it goes out of the letter. So it's here. Again, here I can't draw bottom left because it stays inside the letters. Somewhere around here so that it sticks out, and it is a rounded letter so you can make that more rounded, matching to the roundness of the shape. This one is more obvious that from here I can draw towards bottom left because that's where I'm looking from, from here towards bottom left, and then connect those. Here, there. Over here, again, it goes into the letters. You can draw it with the pencil, but don't bring it here as well towards bottom-left and connect them. Here, I think we wouldn't be able to see because it stays inside the letters. It's kind of a perfect angle that we are not able to see the other side of the letter. Now, we're going to ink them. 16. Letter Yahtzee Part 2: Let's do the sign first and grumpy. This is G. If you make the end things a little bit sticking out from each other, it will look nicer, or you can keep it completely block it's up to you. This is what we called super blocky. U and M, maybe if you cut the M here, it will look nicer and P. Look, when we started this lesson, I promise you, I have no idea what I'm going to draw for this part. Just we wrote down the things. We draw the dice and dice sides for us. I didn't spend any time deciding on how I'm going to write it, the dice decided for us. If this is something you have problem which you can definitely use this idea. Here, Jack was decided to be bold by the dice and be 3D, and this is what we are delivering. Whatever dice demands,Grumpy Jack, and lastly letter K. We're writing the 3D, here's Grumpy Jack and now last thing left is filling. For filling what do we get? For grumpy, we said we're going to use color. Let me erase the pencil marks first. Who took my eraser? Don't you hate it when you try to erase something on your eraser is dirtier than your page. I hate using this eraser,where is my favorite eraser? Look at the mess It makes [NOISE] we had no idea what to draw, what style of lettering to do. We just roll the dice and we end up with this. Not too bad, is it? I think it's pretty good. Now we should do the filling. First let me take a sip of [NOISE] I feel like making this red, because it set color, yes, not multi-color. I'm going to apply some red on the top and then try to bring it down. It's more water. I think this red matches the grumpiness of Jack. I'm trying not to use too much water not to damage the paper. It's at colors, we add color. I'm just going to add colors to the board, but normally if I was doing this, problem I would also add some colors to the board. You don't have to do exactly what the dice is. The dice is supposed to give you idea of what to do. But let's say you get 3D for this so you can add 3D to the board as well so that it would be more matching together. In here, I followed letter by letter what the dice said, because I was trying to show you the idea. I messed a bit there but it's okay. We print this and for Jack it's what did I say? I said make it texture. I'm going to use my favorite texture and I think it's very easy to use. I want you to use this as well. Like my favorite font. Fill the bottom, roughly. That's how you can see. Not like fully black, but make it white, visible between the black so there is a texture to it and then your texture finishes. Let's start putting some dots. But make it less and less towards the top [NOISE] Dot and Grumpy the Jack. We didn't know what to do. We looked at the board through the dice. Again, six, there's something off with this dice. It's my son's dice. His he cheating with this. And we roll the dice. We just did what the board said, and with what the dice said and we end up with this. If you also find it difficult that you can choose between so many options, go with this. The important thing is that you can also use the dice to come up with ideas for your titles and posted ideas so whatever you want to use the lettering for, or this is what I usually do. Pick your favorites, whatever fonts you like, that speaks to you that you are enjoying making it or you find it easy, whatever the reason is, and then just keep changing 3,4,5 and use for one Page 3 of those fonts and you'll be fine. That's it for today. We thank Jack for participating with his name in this creation. I will see you on the next one. We will have a look what else we can do to make our lettering better. See you on the next one. Hey, this look nice. 17. Copy Any Font: Recording. Now, what else can you do? Let's say all of these things I showed you, even though there are countless possibilities, you can create your own font and it wasn't enough for you. There are millions and millions of phones out that you can just go have a look. There is a website called for example, the Dafont, and there are many other websites for this as well. But I'm pretty old and they've been using default when I used to work in the agency. You can just go browse all the fonts they have they put it in different categories. You can pick one and say, oh, I actually like this one, and you can just copy it. You can copy anything you want. You can make a version of it that maybe you like it up to some point, but you want to change something, so you can do that. What you need to do is to have a look and just like drawing a mug, you'll see there is a line here, there's the line here. There is a line, an ellipse. You'll see the shapes and the handle has a line on the outside, has a line on the inside. This is how we draw. As we discussed everyone can draw glass. You also have a look at the font and say, oh, there is a line here, curved line there. There is a rectangle and you can just copy it and it's totally fine. In fact, let's do one. I picked one from the font. Probably I will pop it somewhere on the screen that's maybe here, and then I'm just going to copy it and I'm not going to even go with the pencil. I think it makes more sense to do with the pencil first, so that later you can put the ink and make sure everything is nice and even, but let's just draw the top and bottom lines here. I'm looking at this font as I can see, the middle line somewhere here, and that's all I need I think since I offended, check a bit with the previous gram picture drawing, I picked [inaudible], or saying this font websites. You can write down anything you want and see actually how it looks in those order of letters and I wrote down, Jack is the best. I'm just going to copy it now. I'm literally looking at my laptop over there and Jack is the best, because why? Because Jack is the best. This font has thicker on the sides, but the thinnish, so the line start going up and down, either thick and the lines going horizontally they are thin. I will try to copy that. Also at the end they're dose series, so it makes it look more old school. This is the J, and for A they made it look like a very interesting looking actually that one side is straight, the other side is curved, and both sides, this side is thick, this side is also thick. I'm just looking at lines guys, nothing else. The bottom line, middle line is dropped, so has an interesting look, this A. Really like this one, is very interesting. The C as you can see, it doesn't curve all the way in, but starts from the top like that and finishes there. But there's that little piece at the end, and left side is you can tick. K, of course the left side this thick is thick, and K, as you can see, they decided for the K, the middle line is actually high up here. From there, it goes down like that and here's tick. Then from here it goes up. I can stick. Jack and I is always pretty straightforward. Letter S is always the hardest, is my mortal enemy. So again, looking at the lines, it's straight on the top, then it goes down. The middle of S is in the middle interestingly, and one side is tick like that and other side tick like that. This is the S, Jack is I'm not going to fit in here the line. Maybe I will do my little own addition here. I will just put here best. Jack is the, and how does the B look like? Left side is pretty straightforward and then the middle line is actually here. There is a very interesting look. From here to thick starts that finishes. On the top of the belly of the B, I call it, B always look to me like a fat person. [LAUGHTER] I'm sorry, I probably I shouldn't say that. Here is thick as well. B, common, will I fit three letters here. E. The left is again normal. Let's draw this. The middle line is here at E lower. As you can see, you can also play with that. You can put the middle line for one one letter up here, one letter up here. This was a good one to pick, I think it gives us some options. S, again, start straight in the middle curves. There is stuff at the end. T is quite straightforward. This is the top, the middle. That this person who created this font used the serifs up here with it. They didn't use it in all the ends. For example, B doesn't have this. But then it makes it look very interesting. I'm looking at my time because I need to pick my son in a moment. I will use a brush pen to fill this up quickly. I wish as I speed up the videos I could speed up the processes like this. I'm always late. Always. I don't know among you there are people like me but I can't start doing something and once I starts I can't stop and I always think I have more time than I actually have. For me going anywhere to the city, my mind thinks I can get there in half an hour, doesn't matter if it's 20 kilometers away or five kilometers away. Can you see how nicely this is coming out? I love this font. It's very interesting looking. If what I gave you is not enough and you want more you can just pick a font, break it into pieces in your mind, see the lines, pay attention to the lines, and basically recreate that on your page. Guys, it's legal. Don't worry about it. The police won't burst in through the front door. As I'm filling in I realize that I made this side a bit too flat so, as you can see, I made it a bit bulkier here. When you look at the total thing, I make mistakes, it's not perfect. But when you look at the total T, it doesn't show. That, you should focus on. The B is very interesting looking, letter B. Leaving line like this also makes it look very interesting, I wish I did that from the beginning. You can do this if you want. But in the spirit of copying, I didn't. The S. This is the T. As we can see, this font was on my laptop, I just looked at it and copied it. You can also print it, put it under your paper and just with a pencil, draw the lines and just copy that way. It may make it more perfect. Or just look at it and try to get the idea from it. You can make a version of it, you can make the total copy of it, it's totally fine. If you want to make a fancy lettering for a posterior making with one of the paintings you made from my everyone campaigns class maybe or you are just making a little title but for your sketch journal and say important memory for you and you want to look a bit more fancy, you can have a lookup on the Internet and pick something you like and write down the words you want in the website and then you can just copy them. That's it. We just copy the font and this is also something you can do. The other thing you can do, you can just pick some fonts, there will be a list in the resources section and use those and we will have a look at that. I will actually recreate all of the fonts from the beginning so you will have a data bank for you to have a look and see how actually I do those fonts. You can pick those and use those and in the next lesson we will look at that. I will see you in the next one, Jack is the best. You are the best. I hope you're not still grumpy about the previous. This one was for you after all. I think he's happy. Now I will go and pick up my son, See you on the next one. Bye. 18. The List Part 1: All these recordings quite cramped in here. Two cameras and one from top, one from side. For this one, you are not going to see me because I decided to use both cameras on the writing so we can focus on that. I have very messy notes here that I was jotting down different typefaces, and this is what we are going now create. I picked a sentence to use for this. The first font is very easy and this is the sentence, I'm just going to write it. Jack loves ketchup. I'm running out of space. Maybe you remember this font, it was, I think, written the same style, TV show Friends, and this is like your normal handwriting capital letters, you just put some dots between them and this makes them look more interesting. The second one is also very easy, just using your usual handwriting, Jack loves ketchup. Now, you just wrote down your sentence, you're tittle, whatever it is, and then you make little dashes on the right hand side to give a bit of a 3D effect. But it looks more interesting than just your usual handwriting. I made a mistake. This was supposed to be on the right side. Sorry. Here one. Do you see how immediately it changes the filling of the font? To be able to fit more in here, I am writing them quite small, but I hope that the effect is visible for you guys. This is the same logic as the 3D ones that I was using making 3D on the left-hand side, because imagining looking from the bottom left, and this one more looks from right directly. Instead of making box look, this one more looks like a shade. When you make your letters a bit bigger, it will be also easier to apply these dashes that at the moment, I'm doing more like dots. Which I also quite like it. This was the second one, and now, let's push this up a little. Also, on purpose, I didn't draw any guiding lines, I didn't sketch beforehand, I'm just doing directly with pen. Maybe some of them I might use a pencil later, but I'm doing this on purpose so you can actually see that you don't have to be so calculating, you can just go there and do it. Of course, I have a bit more practice and this will come in time. There is nothing wrong with using pencil, that's why we are doing lettering, not calligraphy, that we are drawing the letters. You can always sketch it out, I always sketch out before I am going to make a title. Because I use two or three different fonts, I want to see them if they're going to work out, and how as a total it looks. I'm checking always on the site and then transferring that to my page. So keep that in mind. Next one will be perhaps favorite. Again, just writing your Jack loves, I'm writing this one a bit more loosely with my handwriting. Jack loves ketchup packets. If you remember, I've been telling you throughout the class, that my favorite is very easy trick, you just fill it in. I actually like doing just very messy, not drawing a box but scratch the left side of the letters. You can also use this to your advantage. It's sometimes some letters are more separate and sometimes they are too close, so you can decide with letters like e, to put on the outside, or to put it on the inside depending on where you need to space. I do the s like that, and e, I made it on the outside, t, I centered it more. With the curved ones, it's always on the inside. With u, I also, and p, I did on the inside. Here, I'm going to do it on the outsides, for example, a as well, c on the inside, k, e, t, and s. They all started from the same, my capital handwriting, and they look totally different. Let's push it a little on next line. I'm looking from my messy list number for this one. Again, I tried to keep them similar to each other and evolving. This one, again, is similar to this, but it has a low middle line, so the letters look a bit different. That will be an additional change with the filling as well, you will see in a second. Some more to the bottom. I should leave more space between them to be able to show you what I'm going to show you. Jack loves packets. As you can see, it looks a bit different because the middle line is low. So E, A, you can see with H. I'm realizing that this is a bit too small for what I want to do with. I will do my best. Similar to my favorite one, but more organized that I'm drawing boxes. I will make it on the outside this one to use the space better. Loves ketchup packets. The difference with this one, I decided to leave a little shine. Let's see, not filled completely, but leave a tiny shine on the left. It will look more interesting this way. It's difficult difficult to do it there, but you have an access to this list on the resources section and you can zoom in and have a close look. Basically this painting without not painting idea that I'm leaving a tiny white line in there. It looks like a little shine. It makes the letters look more interesting. Jack loves ketchup packets. It was amazing this story of Jack being obsessed about ketchup packets. That our story is evolving. I don't even know what's going to be in the next class. His superpowers coming from the ketchup packets. Incredible story. I'm almost tempted to take it tomorrow. Now Jack, I'm being sarcastic. As you can see, it was a bit more verbally when I first wrote down. But adding this filling it in actually tidied it up. This is number 4. Move it along. Next one is this one. Again, similar to the previous one and to my favorite, but this time the middle line is in the middle. But we're doing the shine in the middle like this. I just like this Look. Jack. My S's are not usually like this. I pay attention to make it more curvy. Normally my S is like that when I write fast. Paying attention, I'm trying to make it look a bit better than it usually is. Jack loves ketchup. It's been already 20 minutes. I feel like this is going to be a fast motion. This is taking too long like this. This, I should have arranged better. It should have come from here. Again, we're drawing the boxes. We're going to fill it up with shine. I like doing it in the middle. But you can do if more towards up or towards the bottom. I think it works better when these boxes are a bit bigger. You have more chance to give the texture with your pen like this one. I left a letter here. Jack loves ketchup packets. There's another very similar but different typeface. You can just pick what you like and learn how to make them and just keep using them. That's how I usually do. I keep when I'm keeping my own sketch journals there are few of my favorites, I just keep turning them around and making use of them. Next one, it will be again, we are going from the similar ones, but little changes. Let's first write our sentence. Jack loves ketchup packets. Yes. Let's imagine a font with these boxes. Let's draw them quickly. S is really my nemesis, my biggest enemy. If we draw we are drawing the boxes. This one came out too thin. But whatever. In the grand scheme of things, no one will notice. If you make a similar mistake, just move on. Jack loves ketchup packets. You can keep it this way. But I picked for this. Yes, this is definitely, I'm realizing I made a mistake in my list because it's also messed up and it's messy. Let me have a sip of coffee. I'm sorry. Oh, cold coffee. Nice Jack. What I was trying to say, I made a mistake. So this one is like this. We're going to keep it like that. Then let's push this up. You can have a similar font, but don't fill it in. It has a totally different feeling to it. You can see it here. Or I'm going to write sick of this sentence already. Then I have like, I know 25 examples. I did it like this on purpose, this bottom part, if it's sticking out here because it's supposed to be like that so that they even it out. Jack loves. When you plan more and you draw with pencils, you will be able to make them more accurate. I'm doing it a bit fast here at the moment to not to bore you to death. But this is the reality of anything with art that it actually takes longer than what you see on Instagram or most of the time on Skillshare as well. Two of the same. But if he had serif to this one, like this one, here. All doesn't have serifs. Suddenly you have this more old school font. You can fill it in if you want to or just leave it as it is moving on. At the moment, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 already and you can pick any you like. There'll be more. Again, we're going from this font to them. Let's say these are more like a family of fonts with different variations that you can use. I like using them. Jack loves ketchup packets. Why do you love them so much Jack? I wish you answered me sometimes. Jack loves ketchup packets. This one, again, I used earlier that you fill the bottom and then you add disappearing towards the top. It has this really cool texture. This is how I make them. This looks better if the boxes are a little big. You can actually see the texture. That's why another space basically. But the end result, I love with this one, don't you think so? It immediately transforms it to something else. Like I'm doing the bottom third of the box. Then in the middle I add some dots and one or two towards the top. This is really one of my favorites and really easy to do, just the pen. Moving on. 19. The List Part 2: This is a font with serifs. Let's do the check first. Then the top half is filled, but the bottom half is with dashes. This is the fun look. Jack. Again, I'll just go white on this font. This style of serif is very visible on the letter E. Let me show you. Instead of just at the end, it's a little triangle here as well. Then how we're going to decorate it. The top part, we will fill it in, and the bottom part with stripes, and this is how it's done. It was one of the good S's I've done I think in this class. S is always difficult. Let's fill this one too to the middle. One dash and another. I'm going to do here the same. Jack Loves. If you think these two are similar, but this one, the way we filled it's more feels like a texture there. But this one, more old school, more tidy. Let's not forget the serifs. That's what happens when you don't plan. You run out of space. Here is the lesson for you. This is taking forever. I think we finished this style of lettering. You can see how many different variations. Look from my favorite one. They're all similar, but with little touches, they end up differently. We can do the same. Now, next. This is the usual bold. Imagine writing with your usual handwriting and making it bold like I was showing you before. I will just do directly here. I like when it's a bit more messy. We'll definitely run out of space with this. That you can make this bold more tidy by writing with a pencil and then carefully making every line more parallel and matching each other. But I really like the feeling of it when you just do with the pencil directly, that this inconsistencies makes it look more friendly and you can use that to your advantage depending on what you are using the title for. But for me, it's really matching to sketch journal page, for example. But maybe for a poster, you will like it more tidy. I kept thinking that I will make a spelling mistake and it will be here forever. Packets. Let's think it through. S is always the most difficult. You can make a bold like this one. The good thing about this that there are lots of options to fill up. You can just leave it empty like this. Or you can fill up with any of the textures you've seen here. Or you can do different colors. You can put colors on top and make them fade to the bottom. You can do multiple colors. You can do every letter different color. There are lots of options with this font. Another one is the same style, but the top part is filled like this one. I will maybe just make an example like this. Imagine the rest is the same, but you draw the line in the middle and then you fill up the top part. As you can see in here, I'm not feeling like in here fully black, but leaving a bit of texture. That also is a fun look. You fill the top part or the bottom part full and it's a different style you can try. I will complete this later. I don't want to take too much time in here. Moving on to the next. Similar style, but let's imagine this on the pencil. I'm writing Jack and then I'm going around it. This is also a type of a bold but very rounded one. They almost look like those sausage balloons that you can make animals with. I think guys, I'm going to just keep on making the first letters like this to show you and then I will complete this and put the list as full sentences in the resource section. Is that okay? Let me take a sip from my coffee. Jack, this coffee is so cold. Next one. Similar style. Again, let's write it quickly. But in the middle, you keep the original letters, let's say, like this. This would be another style you could use. The next one is, if you remember before, I was calling it blocky fonts, and we will do a blocky one now. Imagine this one more buffed up. Sorry, this one. Let's see how that would look. In the meantime, I will do this overlapping. Jack. When you do these fonts, it's a very nice touch to make little additions like that. This gives an emboss feeling. Jack. Sorry, those are my headphones that fell. Again, it's something in between this one and this one. So more blocky. Then in the middle, again you can see the original letters, JACK. Next one, so let's do, of course, the 3D, that is right. A blocky JACK, 3D is always fun to play with. JACK, yes. Let's imagine looking from the bottom left, that's my favorite. We draw lines from the corners towards where we are looking from and then connecting them, like this. You can make the depth of this 3D look as deep as you want. That is a 3D look. This is where we left and we'll continue from the 3D topics on a new page. Notice this bar reverberated to 3D. Now for 3D, there is another option that again, let's write JACK. Instead of making such a blocky look like this one, I will just do this. Do you remember I said that we are looking from bottom left. [NOISE] Sorry. From where we are looking from, we draw lines from the corners towards that. Imagine you just keep doing that. Same here, you can do them as often or as part as you like. Here's another look. I can show you even next to each others, like that. Basically, the same idea but different. Next, it looks really cool this one. If you notice we want big bulky fonts. This is the most blockiest form because it's basically just blocks. Let's right JACK again. For JACK, I just draw four boxes. I haven't planned this by the way, I hope it's going to work out. Normally, for example, let's do letter A first. Imagine a letter blown up so much in a box, that there is no more space to grow, like a balloon in a box that's filling all the spaces. The legs of the A came together so much, and this is the hole, so this is A. J is missing a piece, so those parts normally I don't draw or if you want to keep the blocky look, you can just block them out like this. This is your J, and this is your C, and this is your K. There is your JACK. This is the blockiest font I can think of. You can make this also, all the boxes touching each other, so altogether it looks like a full block. This was the font I used for, let me see, such a mess in here. This is the one I used for GRUMPY JACK, but changed a bit because it was required by the dice to make the middle line up. That's that. Pushing the paper, and next one will be, this one is like a bolt. But let me show in here like this one. Imagine that rather than doing them nice without these sketch lines between them, keep those sketch lines, so it looks like this. J is somewhat normal. But for A imagine a look, that one line here, one line here, and one line here. C is again single line so it doesn't affect the C, but K could be like this one. Imagine you make up the letter sweet little sticks. Next one. Everything else is with capitals, but this one looks good with lowercase. Let's imagine like this, I'm writing jack, with small lowercase letters. The idea of this one, again, I think it will show in the second one. These are small lowercase letters, but in bold, like these ones. E would be like this and s is still pain in the ***. This is the sketch of it. Imagine writing small lowercase, this is from my Turkish because we call them small lowercase letters, but don't include the holes in the letters. So it gives you a different look. Let's see how that's going to be. I still cant find my erasers, now, flux amongst all and I'm going to erase them. You can actually see, this a really shows what this font is about , and e as well. This is the font idea that you could use, Jack loves ketchup packets. Next one on our list is. 20. The List Part 3: This is something I use all the time. Imagine writing with your cursive so this is a fake calligraphy. Let's call it fake brush lettering. Because when you do with a brush that's downstrokes are thicker, upstrokes are thinner and how do we fake that? I've shown you this at the beginning of the class, but let's do it here. I'm writing, Jack loves. Yes and all you need to do is to make downstrokes thicker. For an interesting look, you can leave it empty as well, but I usually fill it with watercolors or you can just do it with your pen. I just think black also works very well in typography. Jack loves ketchup packets, so this is how you fake brush lettering and also another font you can use. Next one. Oh, okay this one I will specifically, I'm going to use brush pen. [NOISE] You can also do it this way, just like we did, or you can write it with brush pen [NOISE]. Let's say we wrote Jack like this. This usually works with better for one letter writing because this idea is to make your lettering looks like stickers so you have a writing like this and you go around it with a rough rounded shape, like how the stickers would be cut with the machine. Then you have a sticker of your writings and for example if you plan it well, you could put it on top of one of your drawings like you put a sticker over. There is that Jack and the next one is, since we are on the cursive, there is this idea. Let's push our page. This one I think I don't want to mess it up so I will plan a little. Imagine you do a big bulky letters like this. Now we can switch to the pen. This can be another font for you, but the idea here is combining the two. [NOISE] Let's start here. This is J-A, so combining the cursive hand lettering with big, bulky font like this one. This is one idea. Or this is also a fun one. It's the same way. [NOISE] Let's write Jack and it needs to be light colors, highlighter maybe and you write like that so again, you combine the two big bulk letters with cursive. You can also use this. Let's push the page. Let's take a zip from my coffee, share the bet, will it be cold? Yes, it is. Now next one is, this one is again somewhere in-between. You imagine, to be quick, I'm going to do this with brush letter first [NOISE]. But the idea is not about the brush letter. Let's say you have written a font like this. Something bold, Jack yes. You can quickly take your pen and give it the extra line next to it. Just like that and suddenly you have a very interesting looking font. Don't you think it looks like totally stands out from the page. That's that, Jack. I think we're almost there. Let's next one. Let's push the page. This one, again, I'm going to do with this lowercase letters. This is how I usually use, but it can be used with capital letters as well. This font more looks like a form table to use on book printings, like Times New Roman. I guess that would be what I'm trying to explain. This is J. I'm going to do A the normal rather than this funny looking A. I'm showing you how I use them. Now I see my mistake. It should have been closer here. I messed it up. I'm only human. I'll try it again. This is J. This is a, this is c, and this is k, and this font has serifs as well, and it gets interesting when you feel like I'm going to show you now. You start very close and then you make it faint to the bottom. That is that. I messed up here first, but I think this looks pretty cool and interesting. Let's move on to another page. Look at all these fonts. You can pick and use any as you'd like. Just copy them and use them. I specifically picked these ones for you that they're easy to make. The next one is, these ones are the ideas using shapes. I mentioned before in one of the parameters that you could, it was in the final touches, I think like something extra. One idea is you can just draw a few boxes. We need four letters. Just draw your letters whichever font you want in them. It can be just like that or, you know me, I usually adjust my favorite in them and there you go. There's another funny looking font. You can use this to, again, depending on the subject, you can make, for example a sign. Actually I want to an arrow sign. Ignore this. Maybe even make it 3D like that. Behind it it's on a wooden stick like this. Cute. They wouldn't stick texture. Then write whatever you like in it anyway. In here it's more about how you can make your writing standout and I picked this easy font for it. That points to Jack, that's actually where Jack is. Don't look over, and there's a sign, and you can use this to your advantage. I know you are illustrating the whole day and next all day house, you draw the place you stay on your whole day and you make it a little sign like that and say holiday. The same could be the sign on the wall. We use this idea for grumpy check drawing. Put the bolts here. Again, you can make it 3D like this. You can the little shapes to bolt as well. Then write what you would like to write in whichever font. Just pick one of the fonts from this list, and this is another one for you. Moving on, I think this is the last one. Let me double-check if I didn't miss anything. This one is about negative space. Imagine, again like using the shapes, but let me show you to be easier. Let's say we are writing Jack, yes, we need four circles like this. Circle can be something else as well. We write a bold letter like this one in the middle. You just instead, fill, I think this will be easier with brush pen. Here's another idea for you, because we are doing the negative space, that makes it much more interesting, you can do a whole box and do the negative space as well. But like this, they look like I know little, suites with letters on them. In here, I'm doing black to show you the idea, but don't forget you can use your watercolors or any paint to make it stand out and match to your needs like if it's a poster or sketch journal. Here's another easy idea to use for your lettering needs. I just left out one idealized on my list, it was numbered properly. It will be going back to the beginning, similar to this one. But I like using this one. I will show you this is a version of it. That's middle line is a bit, middle line is pulled to the top. The letters are a bit elongated. Because of that, this font looks very modern to me and it doesn't have serifs and there's our checklists, write one more to see the effects better. L and O doesn't really show much, V as well. As you can see the middle line is up here, and this font has a very modern token I used often. That's it. We have all the fonts. Later I'm going to complete them and you can find them in the resource section with full sentences like these ones. Jack loves ketch-up packets. As you can see, we have so many different ways that you can try. There's my mistake. That's it. You can like I was telling you, pick just three, four from here, whatever comes easy, whatever comes interesting to you, and just keep using them, changing them, swapping them between each other and you'll be set actually, you don't need anything else. You don't need more than that. Then this another idea how you can be leveling up your lettering. That's it for now and in the next parts we're going to use everything we learned and actually create a title and finish it and it will be fun. See you. Jack could you warm up this coffee, please? 21. Jack and the Hoodie: We have so many easy and beautiful options to choose from, don't you think so Jack? As I mentioned, Jack, I have one last story. Ready? Do you want to skip Jack, be my guest, you know where are the buttons. This story is about my fourth class , Everyone Can Paint, and Jack's brilliant idea to wear a different colored hoodie for every class. Here we go. Hoodie in the summer. It was the height of summer and the studio was sweltering, but that was Fab clad in pale red hoodie that he absolutely could not take off. You might ask, why? Well, it turned out that Jack had decided to shake things up and wear a different brightly colored hoodie for each new video lesson they recorded. Not every lesson, but every class. Fab had been skeptical at first, but he had to admit that the resulting videos were visually striking, all my videos are. The only problem was that he was now stuck wearing a thick red hoodie in the middle of a heat wave, and that's true. For the last bit, I had my feet in ice bucket here to balance it out. Jack, for his part, seemed completely oblivious to the fact that his brilliant idea was making Fab sweat buckets. I'm sure I told you. He pressed on about [NOISE] painting techniques and color theory while Fab tried his best to stay focused. By the end of the recording session, Fab was drenched in sweat and practically panting with relief when Jack finally called a halt to the proceedings, so formal. Jack, finally called a halt to the proceedings, you mean stopped the recording. As he peeled off his hoodie and gasp for air, he shot a withering glance to Jack, which I always do. I hope you are happy, he mutters, me Fab, wiping the sweat from his brow. I feel like I just ran a marathon in a sauna and don't even get me started on this hoodie thing. Do you have any idea how many different shades of red there are? And how hard it is to find the pale red hoodie that doesn't make you look like a tomato? Really? That's where the story ends. Thank you very much ChatGPT for these ridiculous stories, and thanks to them, you know a bit more about Jack and behind the scenes, what we go through. ChatGPT can definitely write, but no one said that it had to make sense. Just like Jack's paintings. We're almost at the end. Now, if you had a little bit of a break, we can go back to my desk and put what we learned into work. First, we will create a poster, with an old painting of mine from Everyone Can Paint class. The main idea for this class, fake it till you make it. Then we will open my sketch journal and add a title in there. See you on the next one. Let me see what you're working on. Jack, I never met anyone who could make such a mess with such precision, beautiful. 22. Sketch Journal Title Part 1: Let me check on my note book [inaudible] Like a poster, a title to your sketch, I know, short planning. Welcome back. In this one, again, how can you apply these things you learned? This is what we are trying to get into. I thought I'm going to do one title on my sketch journal to show you how I do that. Because that one is more rather than feeling a painting and putting it in the middle, you have a small space, you need to work it together with the paintings, and the writings, and it has a different dynamic to it. Before doing that, I thought we could have a look at some of my titles on my sketch journal. I'm going to show few pages. This is a bit of beginning that you can see titles. You'll realize that there is a bit of a pattern. Like I told you, I have few fonts that I like, and I keep using them, and that's my style. When you look through my sketch journals, you can find it's familiar, and I like that. You can do the same for yourself, or you can just keep doing different fonts all the time, it's up to you. There are enough options, I think, we looked through. Here is a bit of a fake brush lettering, you can see. Here is an example of painting the negative space over a shape. It's a bold letters but with a bit of 3D effects with extra lines next to them, not like the deep 3D, but just give you the fair extra different feeling, like we learned in those final touches. In here, you can see I used, like I always say, bold blocky letters with cursive. Another cursive, I was using too cursive in these days, I guess, and combining it with normal letters, but I shape them differently. This is an example of, the top line is straight but the bottom line is curved, and I fit another word in there, exploring traditional paczek. Paczek is Polish doughnut, by the way. Let's have a look at here first. This one is similar to what we did with fake it till you make it. It's exactly the same layout. There is one word longer on top and another in the bottom and in the middle. I totally forgot about this one when I saw it's the same layout. When I saw this title, it's exactly the same. Here another example of combining cursive with blocky letters, and here as well. Over here, this one was a bit of a longer title. This feels a lot like the beginning of an apocalyptic movie. In here, apocalyptic was the main word, I guess, I wanted to emphasize. There's a bit of a typography going on, it's like a planet and exploding. I painted threads, with the colors you apply, you can definitely add meaning to them this way. Also use of shapes, I was telling you because I needed to fill this space and I wanted to make a full block and I used arrows. Arrows always help driving attention. In this space, very useful triangles, arrows, you can use this way. The colors from the letters paint outside, and then it blends into the page this way. Here's an example of changing the dimensions and the top and bottom line. Look, spring is increasing and is calling is decreasing in size, but spring is calling. Here, another example, cursive with blocky letters, and there's also overlapping here. Using shapes to differentiate, this looks like a tape that government people use to quarantine a place or something. Here is my favorite, but instead of filling it with black, filled with colors. Another example, here is another version of my favorite. But in here, the lines aren't so even like the other one, just more roughly. Over here, trying to stay active, three different fonts, that's more than enough. You can actually see all of these titles being done in my previous class, watercolor sketch only on the goal. This was the page that I was creating. Here's an example of cursive with blocky letters, but in between that are also normal thin letters, a page from the future. I also overlapped them because I was running out of space, and use of space is important when you are working on a sketch journal. Here is fabxplores waszyngton. Again, I used the shape, looks like attack, over here and attached it to the O of the word waszyngton. This waszyngton, I did it after drawing and painting. I realized this is not standing out so much, so I added extra lines on the left, like I showed you in one of the examples, to make it stand out more. Here is an example. Every road leads to, this is a short for Palace of Culture and Science in Poland. It's this distinctive building in the middle of Warsaw. Here I used my favorite font, every road, and then I used cursive. Then because the main focus here is the building, Palace kultury, I made it to speak in bold, and I used two colors to fill in. Here's an example of using the space. I had the little triangle space here, I wanted to fill it. Top line is the straight, but the bottom line is going up, so I have a decreasing size in letters. I used the shape at the end to complete the look. What else here? Very simple on the way, bold letters, and I used arrows and differentiate it with colors and just one font is enough sometimes. Another example of cursive with bold letters, overlapping letters, but I made it increasing in size towards the end. The word ****, the bike trip from ****, it's more emphasized this way. Here's an example of using shapes. There's an arrow here, fabxplores mazury. This example we also I think painted this book letters shape. I did at the end. But instead of doing the lines, I used paint to fill it in. Here is fun looking font here, fabxplores, they are bold and blocky, but I didn't make the shapes match to each other so much so it looks like more playful and they are overlapping each other, and underneath there is cursive. You can see I use cursive and bold a lot, they go well together for me. Here is an example of using, there's one and two fonts here, but one of them I wrote it diagonally, be a tourist, and then the remaining space I filled with shapes. Then I have a full composition, like a rectangle here. But it looks more interesting this way. Another example of overlapping bold letters with cursive. I think these are enough examples. Now, I'm putting this a side. I have my new sketch journal here I started. I started it a while ago, it's still in progress. It takes time. You need to give time. Let's put the glasses on. Let me take a sip of my cold coffee. Thank you, Jack, it's perfectly cold. This one is my work in progress, like I was saying, and I already sketched out this title. This was my meeting with my friend. We met over Instagram, she's an amazing artist. She does beautiful paintings of scapes, and streets and buildings. This is actually her Instagram handle, if I'm not wrong, Anneedove.art, you can check her out. We met for drawing that day. To memorize that, I wrote meeting with Anneedove. What I want to do with this is, I think I want to use maybe 0.1 for this. Because now we are working in smaller space, I'm not going to use 0.3, it's too thick. I'm going to make this meeting with part first of all, I think this h I'm going to make it finish here. I want to put a triangle here, and the T will come all the way here. I want to use on top, my favorites font, and I'm not going to use any paint for that, just with the black and more roughly. The Anneedove arts, I want to make it bold but in it, it will be very thin still. We will fill the space nicely with these triangles and this decreasing and increasing shape. Then underneath I will have writing to write a few words about the [inaudible] at Caffe Nero and drew my coffee, her coffee and my cake, and this was a corner from the coffee shop. Let's go. Now let's start with M. Also remember your middle line is starting in the middle if it's here, and it's finishing here in the middle as well. Your letter like E, the middle should follow the middle line. It shouldn't be parallel to this one because it's decreasing, so like this. Another E and T, I. As you can see, I'm not trying to fill it completely so it leaves a bit of a texture. I like that very much. N, G, the middle of G should also follow this line. MEETING WITH. Here is a triangle to complete this shape. Now we are starting the triangle here. This one I will try to make it little bold. These letters are quite tiny here, so it's difficult but it will get easier. Getting bigger already. Like I said, it's not one line letters but it's bold, but they're also still on the thin side. Here, for example, you can see this word Sochaczew, the name of the city I went. These are quite bold, like bulky. Here I'm trying to keep them lighter so it will more match to this, MEETING WITH, letters here. I see that Jack is waving at me saying that time is passing hence keep it up, but I will just ignore this. Jack was right, my second camera stopped for some reason. Jack, did you stop it? Let's see. It's going to continue now. Come on, we're almost there. How did you know it was going to stop? Last two letters and T. Here is one title for my sketch journal. 23. Sketch Journal Title Part 2: Done. Let's erase the pencil marks. I really miss my kneaded eraser and I hate to mess with this thing makes. Looks good, looks very dynamic, meeting with Anneedove Art. That's how I read, but I don't know if this is how she reads. Anneedove Art, maybe. Anneedove Art. I read like I would read in Turkish, Anneedove Art. I'm going to add a bit of color to this. Everything is recording? Everything is recording. Let me take a sip from my brilliant cold coffee. I think, what I want to do, I am going to bring color from here, from this corner, I will apply and make it fade, and then the same color, I'm going to use for the letters as well, but I'm going to use something like this. I'm going to paint this. What I do, when I do sketch journaling, because there are more things to consider on one page than one composition with the painting, and making a topography on it to make a poster. Color for my titles, I try to pick from the paintings I have. There is a pink going on here and here. I think I match to her, this pink. I'm going to use for this title, and also as an accent, I'm going to use this turquoise-ish blue, which, if I remember correctly, she gave me one of her colors. I mix some colors here. This one is mixed turquoise blue with malachite. Maybe it's not malachite, malachite. I don't think anyone would call the color chite, malachite, malachite, from malachite, and mix those two to come up with this color. This is the rose madder deep. It's dark pink and there's also light pink. So I'm going to use this three for this space and it will be more matching to the rest of the page. It will be unified. Let's do that quickly. What I'm going to do, I'm going to bring the pink from this corner because this lettering doesn't need painting for itself, but I want some color going on here. It will fade over here, and I will start this bold letters with this pink. I'm going to use this brush here. I'm going to add some blue in there and then I will let it bleed out and let's see how it's going to turn. Here is some pink for this corner, and let's bring that. Since I have the pink, I'm going to apply here as well. I have to be quick because I don't want this to dry. Now, I'm going to clean my brush and with clean water. I'm going to bring this in. Again, I'm going to clean my brush one more time. I like that. Now, I'm going to pick up my thin brush. I will take some of this blue. I'm not trying to do it perfectly. That it can come out of letters that because we draw our letters with black ink that's still visible after the paint dries and because I brought this pink all the way to the letters, now, when I add the blue, it escapes out and mixes with the pink, and I really like that. That's something I do very often. I think I'm going to use this for this. I want this pink and blue more mixing. So I'm going to push the pink up towards the blue. Let it bleed out here as well. Later, when I add light ink on these parts, that it overlaps with these colors coming out and it looks beautiful. I'm now looking if there are some parts that are too sharp, I try to also, blend them in. Doesn't have to be perfect. Not everything has to go into, such that, you can leave some white spaces, but that sometimes you look and you say, maybe this should be more blended. This is how I do titles in my sketch journal, basically. I think here, we need a bit more of the pink, it blended out too much. Another thing you can do, you know what I love doing, splash. This was for while this page was still wet, and later, once it's dry, I will supply some more. So I will get more dots like this. It will stay the way they're. This was to add some extra colors to this part of the page. This is it. We are done with the title. So this is what you learned from this class, apply to your sketch journals. That's it for now. Next, I don't know what's next. Jack, what's next? Well, okay. Thank you very much for being with me. I hope you learned a lot. That's what I want. See you on the next one. Bye. Bye. Bye. 24. Fake It 'till You Make It Part 1: Audio is recording. Camera 2 is recording, and camera 1 is also recording. Hello people. We are back. I'm back. No, we are back, Jack is also here. Of course, let me take a sip of my cold coffee. Now, this is from the last lesson. Let me get my things. Sorry as usual, really disorganized and cramped in here. In this one, we learn lots of ways to manipulate the fonts, make our own fonts, or you can go with some of the fonts you find from the list. Let's put the glasses on. We will put these things we learned into use. I will show you some examples now for example this one. There is an example here. Also here I can show you, good vibes only. This is a poster I made on my two classes before, everyone can paint. We painted this page and at the end I showed how you can turn your abstract paintings into posters. If you remember, we looked at this font. I just used this font all in black. You did it with a brush pen here. All black because everything else is colorful, I think black really stands out and it works as composition very well. We will make something like this. This is another one I did on that class. At this point I can actually tell you that everything you learned here it is to use with other projects of yours like your paintings and sketch journals. That's what I teach. You can use for your titles on your sketch journals or you can use for this kind of typography on your posters or cards or whatever you want, wherever you want them. You can take my sketch on class and now, thanks to this class, you will know how to do your titles better. This is another example, again from everyone can paint. If you want to have a poster like this, you can go and make a painting like that on the class and then come back and put the things you learned from this class and make your own typography, your hand lettering on top of it. Here's another example. I'll show you in full. Always something, it says. I really liked this one, because it's very graphic letters. I made them extra thick and extra thin. But when you look at first, just bunch of lines, but then it starts making sense. I will show up here as well. Always something. This one was also from everyone can paint class, you got this. I love how colorful this one is. This one was on purpose blending into the painting. It wasn't so to your face. This is something I did long time ago and I think I take it to the heart, keep it easy, make it real. I like keeping things easy. For this one, I thought I had this painting. Again, I did for everyone can paint class. You can go and learn how to make a pattern like that and then I will make a poster out of this with the saying, fake it till you make it. Oh, I think this was my left hand drawing for everyone can draw class. I use my papers all the time back and forth if it's necessary. In here I want to write fake it till you make it. But I also wanted to show you how actually I get around doing this instead of just diving in. We have bunch of fonts, like countless ways we can write this thing. Let's put this aside first. I always on a piece of paper, usually on my notebook, but on a nice piece of paper like this, where's my pencil, Jack? Thank you. You should not take my pencil, I'm doing a class here. Jack was using my pencil. I will of course make a sketch first and think, what can I use and try to think which words I want to emphasize, which words I want to hide. Sometimes with the things you say, hiding one word makes another meaning. We took the first visible ones and then you see the small letters and it makes another meaning, that you can consider these things. We're going to write fake it. I'm not going to write until but this short version till you make it. Which is the point of this class. I wanted to call this class actually a fake it till you make it because you are not a calligraphy artist nor you're trying to be. But you still can do typography and hand lettering. It just like I said, looking at it, deciding which lines to use and drawing. If you can draw, you can do hand lettering. Until you get better, fake it till you make it. That's what I'm doing. How can we write this? I definitely want to emphasize fake it. In here, make it is also important. I'm thinking, I always say, big blocky letters go well with cursive. They are opposite each other so they balance each other out, and I like using it that way. Then I want to emphasize something. I usually use bold or blocky letters. I'm thinking I want to make this fake it part big and bold. What we are going to use is a page like that. I guess I'm going to use this middle part for that here. It's actually very nicely even lined. I'm going to use these. I'm going to leave two from the bottom and top and one from the sides. I'm going to use this space. I have four by five boxes. I have a rectangle space like this one. How can I use this space? I think I could do cut in the middle, put the fake it here, make it here and till you parts cursive in the middle. But I think it will be more interesting because I have this 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 boxes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. If I divide it unevenly, it will be more interesting than symmetrical. I'm going to put the fake it part here and make it part here and in the middle till you. How would that look? This fake it parts will be elongated one to be able to fit it here. I think, good that I have I here. It doesn't take much space. Something like that. Maybe I can keep the middle line a bit high here. I have three boxes, keep the middle line here. Fake it. First, probably I'm going to write the cursive one and it will be standing over these blocky letters because they are so big it will be still visible. Tell you, and here it will be, make it. But I could use the same font for both of these. It will be slightly different because this one is elongated on the top, but I think I want to differentiate them a little because faking it and making it, they're slightly different, but also the same. We will design. I'm going to do make it part somewhat more angular and nicely cut, that everything is how it's supposed to be, and the fake part, I'm going to do a bit more rounded and not so certain. That's the faking part. I'm going to try to give you the meaning like that, because I can do whatever I want. The difficult thing will be fitting this into the space, it looks like, and I'm going to overlap them. This is where it comes in handy overlapping. You're tight in space, and you can overlap some letters. It will be something like this. Fake it till you make it. This is the planning part, done. I think it will be beautiful. I haven't decided how I'm going to fill it up yet, but I guess we'll cross that bridge once we come to. In here on the painting, I can use on the top of my pencil still, then later gently I can erase them. It's not a problem. This is this middle separation, here is going to be the fake it part, and here is going to be to make it part. It feels a bit tight. Let's see. My F is going to start from here and fake it, I think I should give this last box, one by three to it. The same as here, and then fake and make here. Three boxes for four letters, should be okay. My top line is here for these letters. For the middle line is going to be over here, out of the three boxes, on the 1/3, and for the make it part, middle line is going to be in the middle. This painting is guiding me and I like that. Here is going to be I, and here is T. Fake it till you make it. I'm going to leave less than 1/2 of this box as a space between the two letters and something like this I think. This is my F. I'm not going to go into 3D. I want it to be more flat these letters, and I'm bringing A as close as possible to F. I know at the moment it's difficult to see for you guys, but I'm trying to recreate what you see here. Then once I start putting the ink in it will be more visible. I think I'm being too skimpy about my space. I should make this a bit bigger. K, let's start from where A finishes but overlap a little, and here is my middle line, and E is also overlapping. F and E are very similar, so I will try to keep the same height for where the sticking-out parts for those letters. This came a bit short, I could have made them a bit bigger, wider, these letters. Fake it. On the other hand, the bottom one has m, and m is a bit wider than other letters usually. Here, again, i, t, I'm going to keep it in the same place. Here is i, here is t and m, this is where it's going to finish. M, a, k. Now I have more space. M, a, k and e. I'm drawing the m now. Middle line is in the middle. I'm making them overlap a little bit. K is here, middle line and make it okay. It looks okay to me. Now, in the middle till you make, this as our middle. Till you, should be okay to start from here. What's that? Apostrophe. Till you. I'm going to start with till you. Where is my full point. This is what we call fake calligraphy. Till. Remember what we're doing. Down strokes are thicker, same here. This down stroke is thicker. Here's another down stroke is thicker. This is down stroke, it's thicker. Up and down stroke is thicker again. This has turned out beautifully. I want to fill this just black. When you use blocky letters like these ones like fake it and make it part, that's putting small cursive on them, it doesn't actually affect the reading, that it is still readable because they're so big. There's the dot. Isn't that beautiful? I am doing this better than doing with the brush pen, because it's just more difficult with brush pen while I can do this with a pen, why should I bother learning how to do it perfectly with a brush pen, I just don't see that efficient use of my time. That's why I'm telling you, fake it till you make it. This is the part I made. Look at that, it's beautiful. Note to myself, be a bit more modest. Jack do remind me to be more and more of this next time. Thanks, so now let's put the fake. This is our f. I want to make this a bit matched to make before I point there because once you ink, there is no going back. So I want e to finish here like this one, it. I just remember I want to make this a little more wobbly and rounded. K is starting here, I need to. This is the part that hurts the most scrubbing what you have done and do it over, but sometimes it has to be done. Where is my other eraser, Jack? 25. Fake It 'till You Make It Part 2: If I keep F the same size as M, and make A bigger too much. You see, it's good that you see this part is out because sometimes it takes time and you need to be patient with it. I think now I can see how it's going to be. Let's not fake it up. I didn't say, I said fake. A bit more rounded, not so certain, pretending it has serif petals it's a bold font because it's faking it. When it comes to this part, I try to leave a tiny gap between, I don't just go over it because it's hiding behind after all. Fake it. This was A. This is K. Sorry, I got a bit quiet but I'm trying to focus and see the lines here. The pattern doesn't make it easy, and E. Here's the fake part. Here comes the T. Fake it. Can you see it better now? Fake it till you, now M, make it part. This one will be more precise. It's sharper edges like it knows what it's doing because it's made it; like Jack. Right, Jack? There is nothing wrong with faking it. Everyone is doing it in some way or another. Jack knows what I'm talking about. Right, Jack? This took us half-an-hour. I'm trying to really not to speed up these lessons. I used to do at the beginning, but I realized it's really not fair to the students running after me because this takes a certain amount of time and I think student has to see and accept the fact that okay, this takes time and decide for themselves if I want to do this or not. When you see, especially on Instagram, everything sped up. First of all, it makes people want to do the same, but in the meantime, it seems impossible, and at least this way, you can just see for yourself how much time and effort it takes and you can decide for yourself. I feel like it's fair. In the meantime, you can always skip. But please don't. The more you watch, the better for me. It supports me, and I can make more lessons like this. But it's up to you. That's what I'm trying to say. I'm also doing specifically in a way that you can see it. I'm not doing anything special, that I'm just drawing one line after another so that you can totally do the same. If I can do it, so can you. There it is. Fake it till you make it. I will have a look one more time. Here's my fake it till you make it. This is done and now I'm going to erase the pencil marks so you can see it more clearly. Fake it till you make it. How do you like that? This will definitely go on my wall. Now, how shall we fill this up? Because the background is so colorful, it's good to use black, like this one on such a colorful background so that nothing is competent. I think I'm going to use this fade technique. Because of this fading, faking, they make sense to me in a verbal way. I don't know how else to explain it. What's happening in my brain. I think what I'm going to do, I'm going to use black paint and apply it to top and then I will bring it down. The same way I'm going to do from the bottom here. It will be black and fading and black here again. I hope that's going to be fine. If not, it will be a lesson for us. Here is my brush, my black paint is here, let me take a sip. Let's be quick, let's not bore people to death, shall we? I think instead of doing fully black. It's a mixture of black and purple. It's mostly black. I'm going to apply heavily on the top parts. When there are letters like this very close to each other, usually what I do is I try to leave a tiny painting space between them to differentiate. But mostly they are black lines and doing the job, so don't worry too much about it. Now, I'm going to bring it all down. I'm going to clean my brush first [NOISE] and I will start. Sorry, I need paper towel. Everything is recording, good. [NOISE]. I have to apologize because we missed a part. On the Camera 1, there was a technical difficulty and part of the fading process was lost. I'm really sorry, but I didn't do anything special. After applying some paint to the top, I just pulled them down with my clean brush and to give this faded effect. That's what I did. While I was trying to delete the videos and transfer them, I just realized here it needs to be painted. I realized I want to make this, make it part more nice and black completely so that it will be separating from the make it part. But yeah, so I just gave this faded look. It's not even fully dried yet. [NOISE] I'm sorry for that. But you didn't miss much. This was let's say the easy part because I'm doing this on a paper that I already did a painting before, it's a bit wavy. I didn't flatten this. I could have sprayed the paper with water and put something heavy on top and make it nice and flat, but I haven't done that. That's why it's pulling a little like you can see here. But again, those will dry and make nice interesting looking shapes and it depends and I don't mind that much. This is the fake it part. I like it, it has inconsistencies, it's not perfect and the make it, I'm going to do this with black paint all the way without the fading. Now let's make it. Everything is recording this time. Sometimes I just get carried away and I'm painting I don't even look at the camera and this was one of those moments, it was completely gone. Jack should actually keep an eye on these things, but he was going to bring me coffee so it's not his fault. Let me take a sip. Somehow the coffee you just brought is cold again, I don't know how you do that. Now I'm painting the make it part. Nice. I'm putting some extra dabbing with black paint to make it nice and black. Now let's move on to A. Here I will have to be careful and leave a bit of space because now it's black on black, I don't want them to blend in too much so it won't be readable anymore. I guess these letters are big. In this part wouldn't matter much between M and A where they're overlapping. But I think I will still leave tiny gap between them, and later if I don't like, I can always paint it over. This one I'm trying to paint more carefully without going outside. I wasn't so worried with the fake it part. A is also done. Tap extra pigments. Now K. Come on, almost there. This is also what I want you to do, as I mentioned before for your class project, to have a final finished topography with the hand lettering techniques you learned. I decided to do this lesson so that I'm not just giving you technique and then there is no practicing, so we are practicing what we learned in this class here. I want you to repeat this. You can pick your own saying that I already prepared for another class, for everyone can paint a list of sayings you could use. You can download that from the resource section and pick something from there, or if you have a saying you like, you can just illustrate that. I guess it would be more special to you this way, and you could put it on your wall like I'm going to do with this one when I finish and please take a photo and share it with me and the other students. Having said that, it doesn't have to be like this poster style. Something you do on your notebook or on your sketch journal doing a title with this hand lettering techniques is also fine. Just whatever you do, just share with us. Tap dropping extra blackness. Here it's intricate which is why I'm trying to leave a space between. Point brush definitely helps. Here I went a bit too much. I think that will do. Now, almost there. Is everything recording? Yes. Make it. [NOISE] Let's do a little tap. Fake it till you make it. This is it but I think, you know me, I have to do this if you watched my other classes. What do I love doing? Splashes. With those splashes, I think this poster is done. We are done. Jack its done. [NOISE] I'm cleaning my brush. [NOISE] This wasn't short, but we did it. You see sometimes it takes a bit of time. Planning makes a difference, especially if you want to center it in the middle of a painting in a certain way. If you just start doing it, it might be off center and then it will ruin the whole thing. It's important to plan, decide what you're going to do first, pick your fonts and put it together with pencil to see if it makes sense and then apply it on the page and then go for it. It took a bit of time, but I like this, how the difference between this wonky bolt, and this blocky font, fake it till you make it. I added extra meaning to title here and I will let this dry and put it on my wall, and I will see you on the next one. Jack, bring my sketch journal and bring me coffee, but hot one this time. Please. 26. Conclusion: Is everything recording? Give the clap. This is it people. This is the end. Now you are ready to take on the world with your lettering skills. It wasn't that hard, was it? Why? Because, repeat it with me, lettering is just drawing. If you're going to leave this class with only one thought in your head, I would like that thought to be, fake it till you make it. No, that's not it. But this applies to everything. Just put it on the side for your life. That's my life motto, fake it till you make it. But if you're going to leave this class with only one thought, I would like that thought to be, lettering is just drawing. You can look up any font, see the lines, and just draw them on your paper just like drawing a cup. But this is not the only thing we learned. Now we know the difference between the calligraphy lettering and the typography. We also know that you can start with your own handwriting, change the parameters, and come up with tons of new forms all by yourself. Another thing we know is you don't need tons of fonts. You can just come up with a few you like and keep using them, make them part of your style. Or don't even create anything new because we have enough fonts as it is. Just pick something you like from the list we created and be on your way. If you feel stuck or around with too many options, you can always play letter Yahtzee sea come up with something fresh. We also learned that. Unfortunately, we also learned lots of unnecessary stuff about Jack and his obsession with ketchup packets, but no class is perfect. These teacher is definitely not. It's my brand not being perfect, I think. I can make a logo, fab, not perfect. I actually like this idea. Fab works. Perfection, not even close. I like it. Speaking of the class and the teacher, don't forget to leave a review. Please leave Jack out of it. He is already difficult as it is. But if you have to mention him, I would rather have a review with him than no review at all. Maybe you can leave a separate review for Jack. Can we do that? Skillshare people? Jack, can people live two reviews? What I'm trying to say is, reviews are very important. Speaking of important things, class projects. Class projects are also very important. You can pick anything either from my list, from the resource section, or your own, and create a typography with that with what we learned today. Can't wait to see them. Also now, I share every class project and review on my Instagram account, so make sure to connect your Instagram accounts with your Skillshare accounts so I can find you and mention you. Don't forget to follow me here and on Instagram, I'm awesome. Not perfect, but awesome. That's an option. But not just because of that. If you follow me, I can reach out to you with important updates and decisions like which hoodie lead wear for the next class or what the next class should be about. So it's like having voting rights, which is very important. So hit the follow button. This is the end, my friends. I will see you next class, which is not ready yet, but it will be, I hope so. Jack, is the next class ready? This was fun. I think I need the week off or two. Don't forget, keep it easy, make it real. Always nervous. Hi. Conquer. The person who conquers. Conqueror. Too much coffee. Any lettering projects. My hands and my mouth are not matching. Stop with this pumping. Come on, play it, show it. So is Jack. So please feel free. Class projects. Your class project is easy, man. Work in progress. Shots. For this shot, I drank too much coffee. No, I'm not going to sing. I'm not that desperate. Jack, you outed yourself this time. I always feel like I should show more, I should do more as a teacher. What I have inside my head, I just want to take it out and put it in your head, and sometimes I feel like I can't quite do that. Jack, since you're not real, does it mean that I'm to blame for all the cold coffees? Jack, it's cold again. I don't know why I'm surprised at this point. Immerse himself in the art world. I can't even read. Another quirk. Now, Jack, if you're imaginary, who's making all the mess? Me? Okay. I think this can be a second camera action, almost, where you would make a script of letters. Is everything recording? Welcome back. I'll come back, I call this listen, not listen, lesson. If this is next, this must be the previous. In the previous lesson. This is what I want you to imagine in your hand. In your hand? How do you imagine something in your hand? That was that done in nine minutes. Beautiful. I'm suddenly Australian. I don't know what's more entertaining, Jack. Your lettering skills or your coffee making disasters. Jack, maybe I make coffee today. He also had a strange quirk. How do I say this word? Again, he's using quirk. Now, I just realized I'm covering the camera completely with my knuckle. This camera angles are a *****. Sorry. Come on. I'm terribly sorry for this. I should totally keep this in the class. We had a bit of a technical difficulty, sorry about that. What is the main idea for this class, Jack? Are we done? Is this conclusion? I think so. Till you make it. Everything is recording? No, it's not recording. Again, what happened? ****. If you're going to leave this class with only one thought in your head, I would like thought to be, I don't know how, fake it till you make it. No, I'm getting really good at this. That won't pay anything for the bloopers part at the end. I'm just delivering lines one after another. Bam, bam, bam. Just like drawing a cup. It should change, shouldn't it? One smile. Just like drawing a cup. That was good. I'm not making any mistakes. Not even perfect. Please leave Jack out of it. Come on. Can't wait to see them. Am I my perfect now? Not even close. Are we supposed to know what we are doing? No. Okay, just checking. I think that was it.