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Creating a sound effect palette

Creating a sound effect palette - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a sound effect palette

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- As the letterer, you'll be called on to create all kinds of sounds, from dripping water to ear-shattering explosions, from knock-out punches to electric zaps, so it's important to have an arsenal of sound effect fonts at your disposal. Alright, now that we've finished the sound effects on this page let's zoom out, take a look. They're all looking pretty nice. Zoinks is a pretty versatile sound effect font. You'll probably find a lot of ways to use it. But, you know what, if I was lettering an entire comic I don't think one sound effect font would do it, it would get pretty boring after a while to keep seeing those same letters. So something I'm doing as a professional letterer, I'm constantly creating new fonts. Now it's not something we have time to cover in this course, but let me show you some examples. If I was doing an electrical sound effect, I might use "zzzaapp". You can see it's a font I've created with lots of little jagged outlines to look like electricity. If I was doing…

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