With Special Effects Lettering and Calligraphy, you’ll learn to master a variety of lettering styles and gorgeous mediums to create amazing lettered art. This fun, colorful, and inspiring guide for lettering enthusiasts at all levels of experience is written and illustrated by popular lettering artist and Domestika instructor Grace Frosen of @gracecallidesigns, who shares her secrets on how to create vibrant and unique designs.
- Getting Started. Experiment with pens, paper, and other essential art materials.
- Creative Lettering for Beginners. Warm-up exercises, hand-lettering basics, and alphabet guides.
- Adding Extra Sparkle. Develop your own style and add various special effects and techniques to make your lettering pop.
- Colors and Blending. Blend colors and learn to work with metallics and other glittering mediums.
- Oodles of Doodles. Add illustrations, flourishes, and embellishments to your lettering pieces.
- Putting It All Together. Create well-composed art pieces that combine different styles in beautiful layouts.
Explore a wide range of mediums and styles, dazzling special effects, stunning color combinations, and awesome embellishments with
Special Effects Lettering and Calligraphy.
With
Special Effects Lettering and Calligraphy, learn from artist and teacher Grace Frosen of @gracecallidesigns on Instagram how easy it is to create your own stunning lettering art.
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"A great lettering and calligraphy resource thats filled with inventive ideas, rather than traditional approaches. Readers interested in exploring creative lettering will likely find this to be a helpful title for getting started." * Library Journal * "An ideal instructional reference that explores a wide range of mediums and styles, including dazzling special effects, stunning color combinations, and impressive embellishments." * Midwest Book Review *
INTRODUCTION
1. Getting Started
Experiment with pens, paper, and other essential art materials
2. Creative Lettering for Beginners
Warm-up exercises, hand-lettering basics, and alphabet guides
3. Adding Extra Sparkle
Developing your own style and adding various special effects and techniques
to make your lettering pop
4. Colors and Blending
Blending colors and working with metallics and other glittering mediums
5. Oodles of Doodles
Adding illustrations, flourishes, and embellishments to your lettering
pieces
6. Putting It All Together
Creating well-composed art pieces that combine different styles in a
beautiful layout
RESOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX
Grace Frosen is a lettering artist and illustrator with a popular following on Instagram @gracecallidesigns. In addition to selling her doodle and lettering workbooks on her Etsy site GraceCalliStudios, Grace teaches a creative lettering class on the online teaching platform Domestika. Originally from the Philippines, she lives in Cambridge, UK.
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