Essential Steps To Confident Hand Lettering

Class Description:

Embark on a fascinating journey into the art of hand lettering in this stimulating course designed for beginners. The guide explores all foundational aspects of lettering mastery, from the importance of posture to understanding letter anatomy, line weight, various styles, and creating balanced layouts. Whether you are starting from scratch or wish to hone your skills, this course offers a thorough introduction to the hand lettering process, backed by hands-on projects, mindful practice tips, and insider advice.

What You Will Learn:

The importance of posture in the art of hand lettering
The correct way to hold your pen for hand lettering
The fundamental components of letter anatomy
The role of line weight in hand lettering and the simple rule to follow
The effective use of drills to enhance your lettering skills
Tips and techniques to create a well-balanced lettering layout
How to plan, prepare, and experiment with different lettering styles for better results
Encouragement to embrace your mistakes, experiment, and keep practicing for continuous improvement

Supplies You'll Need:

The Ultimate Lettering Essentials Workbook (included in the Materials section of this course)
A pencil
An eraser
(Optional) A black bullet tip pen
(Optional) Tracing light pad

Ultimate Lettering Essentials Workbook

Tracing Light Pad

Class Content

Lessons Status

Essential Lettering Guide

About Instructor

Shelby Abrahamsen (Foxsy)

Shelby is the co-founder of Foxsy and the creator at Little Coffee Fox. She is a professional watercolorist, letterer, and artist with a passion for teaching others to reintroduce creativity back into their lives. Shelby lives in Chicago, IL with her husband Jon and her pets Summer, Basil, and Korra.

191 Classes

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Class Pass includes:

✓Lifetime Access To Class

Foxsy Membership includes:

✓Live Class Access To This Class & All Foxsy Live Classes
✓Access to full 200+ Class Library, The Watercolor Academy, & The Modern Lettering Academy
✓Project feedback from Foxsy Pros & Unlimited Support

Ratings and Reviews

5.0

Avg. Rating

2 Ratings

What's your experience? We'd love to know!

Danette Toledo

Posted 5 months ago

Just started learning about lettering

This is so much fun ,looking forward to get started, just print out my wookbook Danette

Rhonda Gamble

Posted 1 year ago

THANK YOU!

Thank you for this course content! I had no clue posture played such a important role when hand lettering. I have been "attempting" hand lettering on and off for a few yrs. Just got serious about it and really started experimenting .I have seen SEVERAL ESSENTIAL mistakes I have been making after taking this course. I cant wait to try it out now with the different techniques you taught me.

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