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TXT LETTERING ON FABRIC
7 Tips for Art Journaling
Handwriting
by
Joanne Sharpe
1. Play around with your own handwriting, creating words and entire alphabets
with all the pens or markers on your desk.
2. Write several pages of words and alphabets in many styles of letters, upper-
and lowercase, large, small, tall, wide, skinny, and fat. Don't judge, just
write pages and pages, sampling your letter flow and creativity.
3. Doodle letters with colored markers. Add colorful patterns, swirls, stripes,
lines, and dots to embellish the letters.
4. Look through old magazines and other printed materials to find words and
phrases in assorted typefaces and sizes that you find interesting. Cut them out
and paste them in your journal. Become a pasting pack rat with anything that
you hand letter and make sure it ends up in your journal.
5. Using assorted markers, color in layers and add words on top of each layer.
6. Collect brochures or magaz ine clippings with interesting letter placement
and unusual compositions and layouts of text to inspire new ideas and direction
for your lettering projects.
7. Do an Internet search for topics relative to lettering, such as lettering,
fonts, typeface, handwriting, letters, alphabets, calligraphy, etc. Use your
colorful pens and markers to jot down notes and inspirations in your journal as
you come across ideas that "speak" to you. ~JS
Which one of these tips speaks to you the
most? Do you have a lettering tip to share? Personally, I like to experiment
with different sizes of pen tips. Fine tips are great for details, but wider
tips seem to let me write more loosely. If you
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