Lettering
I work on a continuous word/picture spectrum. All my early poster art was hand-lettered. I wasn't ‘lettering' as much as I was drawing . . . drawing the shapes of letters, and often making them into graphic images. As I began to work on the computer, using fonts became more natural.
However, the ability to hand-draw letters and words, whether digitally or on paper, is still an important and useful skill for creating work in which the words are truly part of an image.
However, the ability to hand-draw letters and words, whether digitally or on paper, is still an important and useful skill for creating work in which the words are truly part of an image.
I have done quite a bit of calligraphy also, and that is lettering—totally nerve-wracking lettering. When you are making a hard copy wedding certificate white-out is not an option.
I'm experimenting with different kinds of lettering in the sequential art I'm working on now. More on this will be forthcoming. It's sad that so many comic strips and graphic novels these days use computer fonts for the lettering. It's faster and easier, but the potential for using the treatment of words as another dimension of meaning diminishes.
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The word Essense is hand-crafted; parfumerie is a font.
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The Maria DeMaio logos show more examples of hand-lettering. These were not used by the client.
Lettering from a commissioned painting made into a puzzle of, you guessed it, Squam Lake, NH.
It's a little bit nuts to draw letters to imitate a font . . .
