Hand Lettering A to Z: A World of Creative Ideas for Drawing and Designing Alphabets

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Make your ABCs more FUN with Hand Lettering A to Z. Along with the popularity of journaling, paper crafting, book crafting, and making personalized gifts and cards, comes a renewed appreciation for hand lettering. Hand Lettering A to Z is a fun, hands-on, write-in book, in which artist and calligrapher Abbey Sy presents her creative lettering and invites artists from several countries to contribute alphabets of their own designs: all unique, all hand drawn. Each alphabet will be paired with a collection of phrases to show readers different ways to use the lettering and to have fun with an international variety of ways to turn the phrase. Readers can use the phrases when making cards, gifts, Valentines, or embellishing their journals. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 3 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 7 Introduction......Page 9 The Basics......Page 10 Paper......Page 11 Pens, Pencils, Brushes, and Paint......Page 12 Finding and Filtering Ideas......Page 13 SERIF......Page 14 SCRIPT......Page 15 LETTER EVOLUTION......Page 16 Swash Serifs......Page 19 Lazy Serifs......Page 25 Bone Type......Page 31 Woodpecker by Guest Artist João Neves......Page 37 Midwestr by Guest Artist Lisa Lorek......Page 43 Condensed Capitals......Page 49 Inline and Outline......Page 55 Nature Story......Page 61 Bubble Letters with Gradients by Guest Artist Googly Gooeys......Page 69 Freehand Brush Script......Page 77 Lined Script......Page 83 Retro Script......Page 89 Swish & Flick by Guest Artist Meagan Hyland......Page 95 EMBELLISHMENTS......Page 100 Custom Artwork......Page 102 Art Journal......Page 106 Notebook Cover......Page 108 GALLERY SHOWCASE......Page 111 Abbey Sy......Page 113 João Neves......Page 116 Lisa Lorek......Page 120 Acknowledgments......Page 127 Index......Page 128 About the Author......Page 130