Create stylish characters with hand lettering. Let's design together with the illustrations

This class is a course where you can learn “hand lettering,” which combines “illustration,” recommended for those who want to write beautiful characters and those who want to learn design].

ペンで学ぶハンドレタリングの基礎

Hand lettering is a type of calligraphy. It is a freehand technique for designing beautiful and stylish characters. Since they use pens, fountain pens, and markers rather than specialized tools, they are easy to get started and incorporated into everyday life.

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Learn the basics of hand lettering and tips for drawing illustrations

ペンで学ぶハンドレタリングの基礎

[3 types of hand lettering fonts]

First, practice writing the alphabet freehand. Of course you use it1 pen only! While looking at role models, let's complete stylish characters with just a pen and your own hands.

Also, what you learn in class is the round letter M (circle) gothic, the flowing character R (style) gothic, and the long letter N (long) gothic, etc.3 types of fontsThat's it. Although there are differences between the three types of characters, they all have in common: they are pop, casual, and easy to incorporate into designs.

It also includes tips on how to break up characters and arrange them, so you can apply them to design your own style of characters.

[Illustrations that fascinate with lines]

万年筆で描くイラストとハンドレタリング

In Chapter 2, you'll learn how to draw illustrations! Let's switch from a pen to a fountain pen and practice drawing small objects, patterns, plants, and landscapes. Fountain pens can express delicacy because they can write in detail even by hand.

Finally, we will learn how to lay out and combine them with letters and illustrations to create designs.

Hand lettering for daily use

ハンドレタリングでポストカードをデザイン

Actually, hand lettering is useful for everyday life. For example, New Year's cards, message cards, letters, etc. It is also recommended to add it gently as a gift for someone special.

In addition, I will introduce tips for creating materials and deciding on compositions to draw stylishly!

You can learn how to do it one by one so that you can design your own.

Designs learned from active web designer creators that can be used in real life

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The creators in this class are active web designers. Therefore, you can tightly summarize and learn design know-how that is useful even in practice.

Once you learn how to draw hand lettering and illustrations, you will be able to make your own wedding welcome boards, interior boards, New Year's cards, in-store POP, logo marks, signboard designs, etc.

From beginners to aspiring designers, why don't you learn design that can be used in a variety of situations, from everyday life to work?

Also, try digital with an iPad!

At the end of the curriculum, I will also introduce how to write with a tablet such as an iPad and pencil. You can learn in a practical form how to choose a typeface that fits the photo and how to synthesize it.

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Hand lettering expands the range of designs.

Why don't you learn freehand skills and have fun writing stylish characters?

Stylish character design drawn with hand lettering [introductory edition]

Stylish character design drawn with hand lettering [introductory edition]