I took a lettering class on Sunday and thought I’d post a quick review. Jennifer Hines is a great letterer and was great at teaching the basics. I think my biggest challenge right now is composition and not letter construction. I just want everything positioned just so. Calligraphy projects have to be pretty much perfect/uniform so its a real paradigm shift for me with all of the layout options and directions a hand lettering piece can go in!
Because I’m all about composition and layout right now, it was great to see that Jennifer covered this extensively. From the thumbnails that she used to create the logo for the class as well as her approach to it. LOVE. I think my layouts should have a better direction now as I want my work to be stronger.
For the class I picked a quote by Derrick Rose that I love and can apply to my own life in some respects: “…I quit a couple of times but I never gave up.”
Thumbnails and my own review in terms of which style I wanted to go with.
I usually just like to dive in and start sketching thumbs, but Jen encouraged me to use shapes. It DID help to organize my words and my thoughts so I think I will use this method from now on. I’ve seen this in books before but it was different doing it in a class and really considering what you are doing spatially.
Bought some goodies from Jennifer after class simply because I like supporting other artists. Full stop. Great work.
I’m still working on my final quote and will share it on Instagram when I’m finished!
—ct