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This Usborne Young Artist How to Draw Lettering book is a unique book that shows you many different lettering techniques. You will be able to design your own lettering. It is a great book when you are making posters, flyers, or anything artistic and you want your letters to stand out, be eye-catching and different. There is definitely an art to picking the right styles and sizes of lettering to make your message clear. You can also combine letters with pictures. The book will also have instructions of how to make an envelope so that it is a perfect size for your card. This book by Judy Tatchell and Carol Varley is full of great ideas and tips and it has 32 pages. It is illustrated by Fiona Brown and Guy Smith and hand lettering by David Young.

Content of the Usborne How to Draw Lettering book

• About lettering (choosing styles, sizes, materials, tools and how to copy letters)
• Lettering techniques (using geometry, picking pencils, flowing letters, italic pens, spacing tips, and more)
• Atmospheric lettering (decorating letters, ancient letters, metallic letters, secret message, digital style, making envelope)
• Time travel (Gothic script, Art Nouveau, 1930s style, letter stitching styles)
• More lettering techniques (letters in perspective, shadow lettering, solid lettering, a word tower)
• Comic strip lettering (titles, sound effects, speech bubbles, centering letters)
• Making posters (materials, design, drop shadows, poster tips, giant sized posters, and more)
• Graffiti styles (tag, materials, political graffiti, graffiti techniques)
• Magazines and newspapers (writing a news story, pictures, columns, layouts, copying the paper)
• Illuminating lettering (boxed letters, free letters, modern styles, magazine style)
• Lettering on fabric (t-shirt art, practical tips, printing on fabric, flags and banners)
• Handwriting styles (calligraphy, swirls and flourishes, signature, handwriting secrets)
• Printing letters (making printing blocks by carving, texture and color, designs, monograms, letter shapes)
• Stencilling (stencilling with a brush and more)
• Creative photocopying (enlarging, reducing, 3-D lettering, correcting mistakes, etc)
• Layout and presentation (choosing paper, front or first pages, layout of the pages, ways to bind project)
• Alphabets to copy (samples of different styles of alphabets)
• Index

How to Draw Lettering

Just click the link and/or picture above to see it on the Usborne website.

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