- Letter forms are bodies, and just like the human body,…it can reflect a distinct personality and flair…when dressed in certain clothing.…Using style and detail methods,…like inlines, drop lines, and drop shadows,…can also dress up lettering nicely.…Let me show you how I use these with my hand lettering.…So on this design, it first started…in analog as a pencil sketch,…and then using that pencil sketch with my Lightpad…I inked it out in its final form that I scanned in,…and that's the TIFF image you see here,…actually two TIFF images.…
One is of this top hat,…and the other one is the lettering itself.…These, I believe, are scanned in at 800 dpi,…and I'm gonna image trace 'em,…and I'm gonna turn on that layer,…and you can see what that looks like here.…Now, if I toggle between the image trace layer…and the initial final ink scan,…you can see that I've made some changes…to how the type is aligned in space.…That's just continued art direction…at each incremental stage as I move along,…and now that I have this base artwork in a vector form,…
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3/17/2015Skill Level Beginner
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Video: Inlines, droplines, and drop shadows