From the course: Creating a Hand-Drawn Type Portrait
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Digitally inking the initial lettering - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Hand-Drawn Type Portrait
Digitally inking the initial lettering
- The next part of this design that I want to Hand Letter will be his name Alfred Hitchcock. It runs up the left-hand side and down the right, and kind of frames in the composition of his head, and the base for his shoulders. Now, one thing that I can't show you as I begin this is that I've rotated my iPad so that I'm looking at the letters as if I just wrote them out on the paper. So, kind of orientating your art board is important when you're drawing. You want to draw in a comfortable position, you get better results that way. It doesn't change if you move to digital, that's why they make certain types of devices, so that you can rotate the screen for that very purpose. In this case, you can't rotate the art board within the app, it'd be kind of nice if you could. There's an app called Concepts I use on my iPad that allows you to do that, and it works really well. In this case, we can just rotate the iPad to orient it the way I need. Now before I start drawing through, it's…
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