Hey guys! So I thought I would make this sort of into a series, where I use different tools and different names to show you guys the different styles I can achieve with each of them. Of course, some of the styles will be fairly similar, but all will have their own unique traits due to the different tools used. As before, feel free to comment your names below because I definitely plan on doing more of these! But please only post your first name, not your channel name please. I won't be writing channel names.
Let me know if you guys are enjoying these sorts of videos. Please try and give some feedback if you can; I wan't to make these videos as good as I can for you guys, and I can only do that with your feedback :)
Hey guys! So I thought I would make this sort of into a series, where I use different tools and different names to show you guys the different styles I can achieve with each of them. Of course, some of the styles will be fairly similar, but all will have their own unique traits due to the different tools used. As before, feel free to comment your names below because I definitely plan on doing more of these! But please only post your first name, not your channel name please. I won't be writing channel names.
Let me know if you guys are enjoying these sorts of videos. Please try and give some feedback if you can; I wan't to make these videos as good as I can for you guys, and I can only do that with your feedback :)
Skype SteBradburyDesign (Business Enquiries Only Please)Chiseled Text Effect Tutorial | Adobe IllustratorSte Bradbury Design2018-03-26 | Big thanks to Wix for partnering with me on this video! Go to wix.com/go/SteBradburyDesign to learn more
Hey guys! In this tutorial I show you how to created this chiseled text effect in Adobe Illustrator. I tried to keep the tutorial as short as I could, but there is just a lot that goes into successfully creating this style, however, if any of you know of any better ways to do this, please feel free to post it in the comments and I will pin it! Once you have all of the shapes made, thats when you can start to experiment with different colours, so you could go for something like what I used in the video, just random colours, or you could use different shades of the same colour, as shown in the thumbnail and start of the video. Alternatively, you could start to experiment with gradients (which does look good, i've tried it) but for this tutorial I wanted to focus on getting the style down. Anyway, I hope this tutorial has helped you guys learn a thing or two that you didn't already know, thats always the goal with these videos. As always, thank you so much for watching and supporting the channel, i'll see you guys soon!
If you have any suggestions or requests for any tutorials, post them in the comments below. Take it easy guys!
Hey guys! First of all, I want to wish everyone a happy new year! I hope you've all had a good one! So in this tutorial, I show you how to create a liquid-like effect in photoshop which can be used for a wide variety of purposes, but of course for me, these would be used behind my lettering work. As I mention at the start of the video, I understand that the overall concept is fairly straight forward, you use the liquify tool, however, I am showing you the settings which I have found to work best, and some tips to help you achieve the best possible effect! In addition to the liquid effect, I also take you through a couple of further steps to give it the halftone and grainy look which you may have seen on my Instagram posts, and at the start of this video. As always, I really hope this tutorial helps you out in one way or another and teaches you something you maybe didn't know prior to watching. Anyway, take it easy guys! Here's to a new year of creativity!
If you have any suggestions or requests for any tutorials, post them in the comments below. Take it easy guys!
Hey guys! In this tutorial I am showing you a method used to create a liquid-like effect for you lettering work. As mentioned at the start of the video, this isn't the only way to create this kind of effect, this is just how I did it. The idea for this originated from when I saw a blog post tutorial showing you how to create a water effect, however, after following all of the steps, the end result didn't look too great and wasn't really what I was looking for, so, using different methods and techniques I have learnt over the years of using photoshop, I branched off about half way through the tutorial and started experimenting by myself to see if I could figure out a way to get the sort of effect I was striving for. I finally came up with a process I think works fairly well and gave me the result I was looking for. Hopefully this tutorial has taught you a thing or two that you didn't already know, and if you have any questions at all, just post a comment below and I will get back to you asap. As always, if you use this tutorial and post the results on social media, please feel free to tag me as I love seeing what you guys come up with!
If you have any suggestions or requests for any tutorials, post them in the comments below. Take it easy guys!
Hey guys! In this tutorial I am showing you how I create an acrylic paint effect on my lettering within Adobe Photoshop! This is by no means the ONLY way to do this, I can imagine there are some other techniques to create a more liquid-like paint, but this is the method I personally use. You can probably tell that I am kinda rushing through this whole process in the video to try and constrain it to a reasonable length, however, when you come to using this tutorial, I would recommend you spend a lot more time perfecting each stroke before moving on to the next one. The end result will turn out far better that way! This tutorial can be used for anything, such as an abstract wall paper, or just cool paint brush strokes. As always, if you use this tutorial and post the results on social media, please feel free to tag me as I love seeing what you guys come up with!
If you have any suggestions or requests for any tutorials, post them in the comments below. Take it easy guys!
Hey Guys! In this tutorial Im showing you how to create different geometric line patterns using a very simple method. As I mention in the video, although these shapes and patterns look very complex, they're actually very easy to make. I hope this video has helped you guys learn a thing or two that you didn't already know, and as always, if you post anything on social media after using the tutorial, feel free to tag me!
If you have any suggestions or requests for any tutorials, post them in the comments below. Take it easy guys!
Skype SteBradburyDesign (Business Enquiries Only Please)3D Paint Lettering Tutorial | Cinema 4DSte Bradbury Design2017-08-08 | Hey guys! So this is a video I have been wanting to make for some time now, and I have finally figured it all out and found the time to get this recorded. This 3D style of lettering mixed with the right textures can create a hyper-realistic 3D brush stroke, or at least looks as such. It reminds me more of acrylic paints, if you're not sure what they are, just google it and you will see what I mean. As I mention in the tutorial, a lot of this is just trail and improvement, there is a lot of tweaking to get the desired result, but that's the fun of this process, the results are endless. I really look forward to seeing what you guys can put together using this new tutorial, it should be fun to see. Make sure you tag me on social media if you do use this tutorial as I would love to see what you come up with! Anyway, I hope this tutorial has helped some of you guys out and allowed you to further your design skills, take it easy!
Hey guys! In this tutorial I will show you how to create two different striped 3D shapes within Adobe Illustrator. The methods used in this video can be applied to a variety of different shapes, and the directions of the lines can also be experimented with. There are truly endless results you can achieve with these processes, so I look forward to seeing what you guys can do with this knowledge! One of the shapes we will make is a sphere/globe, and the other is a ring/doughnut shape. These shapes are easy to create in a 2D sense, but creating a 3D version of that within Illustrator isn't so straight forward, so in this tutorial I walk you through the necessary steps to achieve a 3D look. I really hope this tutorial comes of some use to you guys, whether it be the tutorial itself, or even just some shortcuts/tips used within the process which you didn't already know. As always, let me know what you think of the tutorial, let me know if you have any tutorial ideas you want me to make, and if you use this tutorial and post something on social media, feel free to tag me, I always love seeing what you guys create after watching one of my tutorials!
Hey guys, so i've been putting this project off for a long time now, simply because the thought of figuring out how to create a script/cursive font was daunting, but now that I have finished uni and have plenty of time, I decided to see if I could figure it out, and when I did, that's when the ball started rolling and I decided to turn this test project into a full font. I honestly wasn't expecting my first script font to be very successful, however, I personally believe this was a success. I think the end result came out very nice and the font works great for a variety of purposes!
The name 'Monoline Script' is a very literal name, and I chose that because I couldn't find any other fonts out there with this name, so it made sense to call it what it is since nobody else had taken the name. Anyway, I really hope you guys like this new font and I hope it can come of some use to you. As always, if you do use this font, please feel free to tag me on social media, I love seeing what people can do with tools I make!
Hey guys! So this tutorial will teach you how to achieve this vintage type style within Adobe Illustrator. On the surface, it looks like there are a load of elements to this, however, it's actually quite a simple process, just fairly time consuming. For the results you can achieve, it is definitely worth putting in that bit of time and effort, as with most things! If you're a bit lost for colour schemes, you could simply google "Vintage colour schemes" or vintage colour palettes", or even use Adobe Color CC (Which is a free online service - color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel )
As always guys, thank you all so much for your support, and hopefully this video has taught you a thing or two. Please feel free to tag me on social media in any work you do using this tutorial, it's always awesome to see the results you guys get and to see them with your own twist too!
Hey guys! So first off, a huge thank you to everyone who has supported my channel over the years for helping me reach 100,000 subscribers! I can honestly say I never expected to see this figure, so I am sooo grateful to you guys for showing your support, it really means a lot!
I'd also like to apologise for being away for so long. As some of you know, I have been studying Graphic Design in university for the past 3 years to get my degree, and I have now GRADUATED!!!
This tutorial will help you create a much more realistic look with your tube-like lettering, as seen in the interlaced lettering tutorial. Working within Cinema 4D allows you to use realistic materials, and with all programs, the more experience you have, the better you will be. I myself am still a novice when it comes to C4D, so when it comes to building scenes and selected render settings, I'm not great in all honesty, but I did my best. Of course those of you who are more experienced with C4D will be able to achieve much better results than I have which is awesome! The main point of this video was to show you how to achieve this tube-like look in C4D because upon initially trying to do this, it was much more difficult than I anticipated to get the rounded caps on the letters. I finally managed to figure it out with a little help from some more experienced C4D users who gave me tips and possible solutions to the problem.
Again, a huge thank you to everyone for sticking around during my inactivity, I really appreciate your support. Hopefully my videos will become a lot more frequent like they used to be, however, I am still in the process of figuring out where my life is going now that I have graduated, so my upload schedule may be shaky to start with, but that will be back to normal once I'm back on my feet and know what I'm doing!
Apologies if I sound a little monotone in this video; I recorded the full thing and my screen recorder crapped out on me when I stopped the recording right at the end and basically deleted the footage, so I had to re-record the whole thing -_-
Skype SteBradburyDesign (Business Enquiries Only Please)How To Make A Portfolio WebsiteSte Bradbury Design2017-02-06 | Big thanks to Wix for partnering with me on this video! Go to wix.com/go/SteBradburyDesign to learn more.
Hey guys! So following from where we left off with the first tutorial where I showed you how to build the initial foundations of your website, in this tutorial I show you how to can add a portfolio section to your website, rather than simply using the gallery feature within Wix. Following this tutorial, you will be able to create your own portfolio pages which gives you full creative control over how the project will look. As of right now, there is no feature within Wix which will build the portfolio layout for you, so I wanted to create this tutorial to show you how I personally would lay out my portfolio within my Wix Website.
As always, if there is anything else you would like to know in regards to Wix, or just design in general, feel free to ask me in the comments down below, and I will get back to you as soon as possible! Thanks again for the amazing support everyone!
Hey guys! So it's been a while since I posted a speed art video, and I wanted to change it up a bit because I am aware that speed arts are quite boring these days, so I thought that I might start to talk about specific subjects over the speed art videos to make them more interesting? This is where I need you guys feedback. Is it better like this, or better with just music?
Anyway, to the subject of the video. In this video I am talking about Skillshare; discussing the benefits, why you should use it, and how it has personally helped me. I really do recommend you at least head over to the Skillshare website and check it out for yourself, there is an abundance of amazing content on there and by purchasing a membership, you have full access to everything on Skillshare. So put that into perspective, $0.99 for 3 months worth of unlimited access to everything on the website... it honestly is madness!
I know Im really plugging this to you guys, but that is because this is something which I truly believe will be beneficial to anyone who want's to learn. Having had Skillshare for a little over a year now, I can safely say it is 100% worth the price.
Hey guys! It's been a while, and I apologise for that. As you may know if you have watched my update video, I am in my final year of university, so Im having to prioritise that work over my youtube channel unfortunately. As soon as I finish my final year, my youtube channel will be nice and lively once again.
So, I posted a new years post on my Instagram and out of all of my Instagram posts of 2016, this one got the most likes... I posted it at 10pm on new years eve, so yeah, I think it's fair to say you guys really liked this style. I asked you guys if you would like to see a tutorial on this, and I got a unanimous "YES PLEASE", so here it is.
I tried to be as detailed as possible when talking you through this process, and I also want to shoutout Ian Barnard. He's the guy who showed me how to create this 3d style using the blend tool, with his great tutorials. If you haven't yet checked him out, I would definitely recommend you do, you will learn a hell of a lot of useful tip for your lettering work. You can find Ian here: youtube.com/ianbarnard Go show him your support!
As always, I really hope this tutorial has helped you achieve this awesome effect, by all means tag me in any work you create using this tutorial, it's always awesome to see peoples results! If you have any recommendations for future tutorials, feel free to post them in the comments below! Thanks for your amazing support everyone!
Skype SteBradburyDesign (Business Enquiries Only Please)Ste Bradbury Design Live StreamSte Bradbury Design2016-12-18 | ...How To Build A FREE WebsiteSte Bradbury Design2016-12-05 | Big thanks to Wix for partnering with me on this video! Go to wix.com/go/SteBradburyDesign to learn more
Hey guys! So this is a bit of a different tutorial from what I normally post, which is usually just anything based around hand lettering, so I hope you enjoy this video. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to make a website, with premium option for added perks.
The website I am building in this video is a mock-site of a hand lettering artist/designer, so basically a website for someone like myself, and the designers name/alias is "Mellow", because I had some lettering lying around so I figured I'd put it to some use.
I would encourage you to first design your website on photoshop or illustrator, whichever you're most comfortable in, and then re-build that design within Wix (if you're a designer) If not, you can simply use one of the templates and build your website from there. By following this tutorial, you will learn how to basically navigate through the Wix website builder and learn how to use some of the more basic features in order to create a simple, but professional looking website. This means whether you're a designer, a business owner, a chef, it doesn't matter, you will be able to follow along and use Wix to create your own website. You do not need any experience in web design to do this!
As I stated in the video, I may be doing more of these tutorials soon, showing you how to add additional pages such as portfolio pages, project pages, the mobile version, parallax scrolling, etc. So I really hope you guys have enjoyed this tutorial and hopefully it has come of some use to you. Thank you so much for watching guys!
Hey guys! So this is yet another tutorial based on shadowing you can add to your lettering. This is by far the most straight-forward tutorial on shadowing I have made, and it is very quick and easy to do, so this is only a short tutorial. These tutorials have all been about showing you guys how you can transform a standard flat piece of lettering into something that is really eye catching and really stands out over a flat piece of lettering.
As always, I really hope this tutorial has helped some of you guys, and if you have any suggestions for future tutorials, feel free to drop a comment down below! Thanks!
Hey guys! So I was writing out some random words the other day, and this piece just really stood out to me, so I decided to vectorise it and try and create a neon kind of look to accompany the word. I actually created 2 versions of this, both of which can be found on my Instagram page in case you're interested in checking them both out. I decided to record this process since it's kind of different to my usual lettering work which you see on here, so I thought it would be cool to post this for you guys! Let me know what you think, and thank you for the awesome support!
Hey guys! So this is yet another video to add to the 26 names series. For this one I decided to use one of my favourite brush pen, the Zebra Fude [Medium]. Ive used these pens for about 2 years or so now and I have always loved how they feel and the results you can achieve with them. With them having fairly short nibs, they're very versatile because you can apply just a little bit of pressure and get drastically different results, so of course like all brush pens, it take some getting used to, but once you grasp it, you will love this pen. There are many other similar style pens out there, such as the Pentel Touch, and I believe TomBow have a couple of brush pens with fine nibs too, and that's just the main ones I know. If you're really into brush lettering, I would suggest maybe looking around on some websites, or watch some reviews on youtube and see if you can find some new brush pens you haven't seen or used before, that's how I found most of the brush pens I currently use!
As always, thank you so much for watching and supporting my channel, I really do appreciate it. If you want your name to be featured in the next video in the 26 names series, just comment your name below and it may be picked. Please only post your first name [surname] and not your youtube channel name.
Hey guys! So this is a tutorial I have been planning on making for a while now, but never got around to doing it, instead I made other tutorials, but I figured I would get this done now before I head back to university in mid September, which is when the activity of this channel will die down a fair bit unfortunately, due to me having to prioritise my university projects! Anyway, in this tutorial I am showing you how you can easily vectorise your rough brush lettering to achieve this paint brush kind of style lettering. Rather than having to use the pen tool, you can use image trace for this since the lettering needs to look quite rough, and if you have used image trace before, you will know that it doesn't create perfect shapes most of the time, which is ideal for this style. I do NOT recommend you use image trace to vectorise your clean style lettering because it simply won't be half as good as it could look if you vectorise it with the pen tool, so I would suggest using image trace for this style only, and others like it.
As always, I really hope this tutorial has helped some of you guys, and if you have any suggestions for future tutorials, feel free to drop a comment down below! Thanks!
Hey guys! So this I recently posted a tutorial on how you can create shadows and highlights for your lettering work to give it a bit of a 3D sort of effect, so in this tutorial, I will be showing you some different styles of shadowing/cuts you can use to help make your work stand out and give it some depth. Rather than giving it this 3D sort of effect, I am showing you how to properly make create shadows on parts of your lettering work which overlap each other, like the letter 'A' for example. The line which goes through the middle overlaps the rest of the letter, which means there is the potential to add some shadowing and give it a bit of depth. Of course there are plenty of different letters this can be applied to, and those letters will vary depending on the style you've created. The key with this effect is to now over-do it, so don't try and throw this effect on every possible overlap because you will reach a point where it starts to look very over-designed, so keep that in mind, just add a couple in the obvious places and see how that looks, don't get ahead of yourself!
As always, I really hope this tutorial has helped some of you guys, and if you have any suggestions for future tutorials, feel free to drop a comment down below! Thanks!
Hey guys! So this has been a long awaited project for me to release to my Behance page. I have been actively creating a lot of lettering work over the past few months, and I feel that my work has improved significantly, so I have out together a collection of my work. You may have seen the collection I posted last year, and when I look back at that now, I can see how bad some of the work is. This is one of the main reasons I am so excited to finally release this project, because it refreshes the face of my Behance and shows my current abilities rather than what I could do a year ago.
This video is sort of a speed art, except nothing is sped up, I have simply edited the video to synchronise with the music, which has enabled me to create a short video whilst maintaining the regular speed. This is more of a shortfilm kind of style I suppose, and took quite some time to out together considering it's such a short video. Anyway, I really hope you guys enjoyed this video, and also the Behance project too!
Hey guys! So as some of you may have noticed, over the past month or so I have been posting a lot of lettering work to my Instagram page, and the style which I have been posting is significantly different to the usual stuff that I post. The reason behind this is, I havn't been using a brush pen. Now, Ill be the first to admit that everything hand lettering related with me always revolved around a brush pen, and as soon as someone mentioned hand lettering, the first thing that would come to mind is "BRUSH PEN. However, I recently tried to achieve some different styles (like the style in this video) with a brush pen, and of course found it quite difficult since you cannot do this in one stroke, so I started sketching out the letterforms from scratch using just a biro to create a rough piece which I would later refine in pencil. The results I started to achieve were very pleasing to say the least, so I decided to stick with it for a while and see what I could create once I was more familiar with the process and letterforms. Around month later, and here I am, very happy with how this has turned out.
I know it's not just me that jumps straight on a brush pen for any lettering work, so I thought I would share this process with you guys to let you know that you can create any style of lettering you like without a brush pen, it just requires some knowledge of the actual letterform style you're trying to achieve. So, as I mentioned in the video, a good idea would be to create a moodboard, and if you're unfamiliar with a moodboard, simply google it and that should enlighten you. Once you have studied the style you wan't to achieve, start practicing and from there, you will start to improve!
As always, I really hope this tutorial has helped some of you guys, and if you have any suggestions for future tutorials, feel free to drop a comment down below! Thanks!
Hey guys! So I havn't really posted many speed art videos recently, I have been more focused on other things such as tutorials, and the 26 names series, but I thought I would throw a speed art video in from time to time, and now is one of those times. I actually wasn't even planning on doing anything with this lettering, I actually drew the whole thing with a brio pen in about 10 minutes and I thought it looked kinda cool, so I decided to vectorise it. I then thought I would record it too since I have been doing quite a lot of lettering in this style recently, and I have yet to post anything on my channel like this, so I thought why the hell not! I was quite happy with the final result to say the least, I genuinely wasn't expecting this to turn out even half decent, so this was a pleasant surprise. Carhartt is currently one of, in not, my favourite clothing brand purely because the clothes the produce both quality and design-wise is exactly what I have been looking for. The quality of the fabrics they use is amazing. Granted, a lot of their stuff isn't exactly cheap, but it is definitely worth the money in my opinion. I recently had a bit of a blow out in my local Carhartt store, spending over £370 on a couple of t-shirts, hoodies and shorts :) Anyway, sorry for rambling on haha, I hope you guys enjoy this video, and don't forget to go check out my spreadshirt page via the link at the top of the description. I have placed my designs on American Apparel t-shirts rather than the regular Spreadshirt t-shirts because I would rather you guys have to pay a little more to get much better quality. Don't worry, it's not me being greedy, I would get the same profit if I sold my designs on the cheaper t-shirts, I just wanted to make sure my designs were being printed on some good materials and would last longer for you guys! Got more products coming!
Hey guys! Here's another video to add to my 26 names series! I feel like I have been making quite a lot of these recently, and i'd like to know if you guys still want me to continue posting these kind of videos. Your feedback is crucial to the direction in which this channel goes, so let me know what you guys want to see and if you're getting tired of seeing these sorts of videos.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this video, I decided to use a Posca marker for this and create some thin monoline style lettering. If you guys want me to do more, I have a couple of other pens and ideas in mind :)
Hey guys! So in this tutorial I am showing you an easy way to add highlights and shadows to your vectorised lettering work. I have had a few people ask me how I create this effect and of course this process would be fairly difficult to simply explain over a message, so I thought I would make a tutorial on this to help those people and to also give you guys a bit more insight on the processes I regularly use when creating my vectorised lettering. As I said at the very start, adding these highlights and shadows can make a great impact on the overall look of a piece of lettering, it helps bring some depth to your piece without being overly intrusive if done correctly. You of course need to keep in mind the colours you're using, you don't wan't the shadows to be drastically darker than the background and you don't want the highlights to be drastically lighter than the lettering they're sitting on because then they will simply stand out too much and can easily make your lettering look over-designed and messy, so please keep that in mind. I hope this tutorial has cleared this up for you guys and hopefully helps you out in your journey to becoming better at both hand lettering and the vectorising stages. It's always nice to learn something new in the digital process to make your lettering stand out more. Let me know what you guys think of this tutorial, and as always, if you have any suggestions for future tutorials, feel free to drop a comment down below! Thanks everyone!
Hey guys! So this has been a long time in the making. As some of you know, we actually planned to make this collaboration around a year ago, but we have both been busy on other projects which made it difficult for us to actually work together and think of an idea for this collaboration. Now, we finally got around to doing it, and I am extremely happy with how this turned out to say the least, same with Vexx, he loves it too! If you don't know who Vexx is, or if you havn't seen his work before, I would highly recommend you go check him out, his work is absolutely amazing! A lot of his work consists of realistic drawings blended with his unique and beautiful doodle style characters, all of that in combination with his great colour awareness as you can see in the final result of our collaboration. Like I said, make sure you go check out his YouTube channel, and also his Instagram, that is where he posts all of his magic! Vexx's links are below!
Hey guys! So this tutorial is me showing you how to achieve a chalk-like texture on your hand lettering in a couple of easy to follow steps. This, just like the gold foil texture tutorial, was figured out by myself purely by experimenting with different blend modes, gradients etc etc. As I said in the other tutorial, there may be other or better ways to achieve this sort of look, but this is just a way that I found out and I wanted to share this with you guys! If there are any other sort of textures you would like to see, just let me know in the comments below and I will continue to experiment and see if I can achieve anything new to show you guys! It is important to experiment in these programs because there are just endless possibilities, so experimenting allows you to really dig deep into what is possible and sometimes you will get lucky and end up with some awesome results, so make sure you yourself have a play around with some settings and see what you can make. The blend modes are a very powerful feature when it comes to creating cool effects, so keep that in mind! As always guys, thank you so much for watching and supporting my channel, and have an awesome day!
Hey guys! Here is another video for the 26 names series! This time I decided to change it up a little by using black paper, and using a metallic brush pen. I think the next video in this series will either be a white Posca Marker on black paper, or the Zebra Fude brush pen on white paper. If I do the Zebra Fude video, I will also be scanning in all of the names and throwing them into photoshop to present them better since that pen gives that gritty style of lettering as shown in one of my tutorials, so I think that would be a cool little addition to the video. As always guys, I hope you enjoyed this video, and be sure to leave your first name in the comments down below. Please don't post your channel name because I am not writing channel names since that is unique to 1 person, whereas actual names will apply to probably more than 1 viewer. Hope that makes sense!
Hey guys! This is my first Q&A video where I answer some questions from you guys! I didn't want to make this video too long, so I chose a fairly small selection of questions and answered them, whilst also going off on some tangents while answering them. I tried to be quite thorough with my answers and I hope this video had given you all some insight into what I do. Of course I will do more of these if you guys are interested, so if you are, feel free to ask me some more questions in the comments section down below! Also, feel free to give me some feedback on this video, so what you liked, disliked about it, things you think I could do to make these videos more entertaining and interactive for you guys! Thanks again everyone for you amazing support, and I hope you enjoyed this video!
Hey guys! So as I said in the video, I actually created this effect completely by accident. I had some random hand lettering which I had scanned in and thrown into photoshop to play around with between projects, just to mess around and experiment really. Then I ended up creating this effect and thought it looked quite cool, and sort of like a gold foil texture on black paper. I then posted the results to Instagram, and a few people asked me how I did it, and I honestly had no idea, so I basically undid everything and noted each step I took to achieve this look, and then created this tutorial for you guys! I know there will be other ways to achieve this effect, maybe easier and or better ways, but the purpose of this was just to show you how I achieved it. I hope this tutorial helps some of you guys out and enables you to expand your digital capabilities when it comes to lettering! Thanks for watching and reading, have an amazing day!
Hey guys! So this tutorial is something I have been meaning to make for a while now! I know a good few of you have requested I make some sort of template that you can use to practice your letterforms, rather than simply trying to copy what I do on screen, so here it is! I have basically drawn out the basic shape of each letter, vectorised them to make them neater and easier to use, and turned it into a template/guide for you guys to use! I have also included some arrows too, to show you where to start each stroke, an which direction each stroke should go in. There are also some short and simple instructions at the bottom which tell you where thick and thin strokes should be used. The template/guide is quite self explanatory, however, I wanted to make this video to show you guys how to use it in case anyone was unsure, and also to help promote it so more of you guys know that it is available for free!
The reason I include the fact that this is free is because I know a lot of lettering artists out there only give these to people who sign up to their online courses or workshops. While I totally understand why they do this, of course to make some money from it, I am fully aware that a lot of you don't have money to sign up to these sorts of courses, and there isn't very much that is freely available to help you improve your hand lettering skills! I know this from personal experience from when I first started, I learnt simply by looking at other peoples work and trying to understand the letterforms. I had no guides or help, it was simply all about doing my research and studying other artists work! While this is very good practice, it is also a long and tedious process, so having some form of guidelines to follow should hopefully help you guys improve your skills at a more steady rate! I would still definitely recommend constantly looking through other artists work as this is hugely beneficial and a very important step towards improving and expanding on your styles and idea!
By all means, feel free to sign up to any of these online courses or workshops from other artists out there because there will be much more info about hand lettering and much more in depth tutorials than what I am putting out. Most of these people are pretty established artists and have way more experience than myself, so feel free to search around for some of these if you don't mind spending a little bit of money. It is worth it!
Thanks again everyone for your amazing support of both my work and my channel, I really do appreciate it more than you know!
Hey guys! So after posting the first version of this video, the response I got was amazing, so I figured I'd make another video using a different pen, writing in a different style, and using different names! I asked you guys on Facebook and Instagram to post your names in the comments and I got SOOOO many! I think in total there were just over 600 names, so of course I couldn't include them all. I will probably make more of these videos, so drop your FIRST names in the comments below, and also some suggestions as to what pens I should use etc! Apologies for this video not being completely in focus, I only realised this after recording the video. It was a mistake on my part because I adjusted the focus so it was right, but then I adjusted the height of my tripod and forgot to re-adjust the focus. Rookie mistake right there, so hopefully I will learn from this. That aside, you can still see the video quite clearly, if it was really blurry, I would have simply had to re-record the video, but I think this is good enough. Thank you everyone for the amazing support, it really is so motivating! Have an amazing day!
Hey guys! So I am going to start posting some shorter tutorials like this on some tips and tricks which I have learnt over the years and have been very useful! When I first started using Illustrator, trying to add a smooth gradient across a full piece of type seemed impossible and it was infuriating after transitioning from Photoshop where it was so easy to do. I can imagine I am not the only one who had this problem, and it was certainly a deterrent for me. Trying to learn how to use a new program is definitely a difficult thing to do, but by learning just some of the most basic tricks will allow you to create almost anything you want. I actually only use a small selection of tools within Illustrator to create everything, so it is just a matter of learning how to use them and what they are capable of!
If you have seen me do things in other videos and would like to know how I did it, just drop a comment below! I will be looking for ideas for other tutorials like this one! I already have a couple of ideas in the works!
Hey guys! So this video is basically a way of me showing you guys the completely raw, unedited lettering I produce. I got this idea from Ian Barnard and asked him if it was okay for me to take this concept and sort of turn it into a 'challenge', for lack of a better word. I wouldn't necessarily call it a challenge, but I wan't you guys to basically recreate this video using your favourite brush pen and write 26 names, 1 name for each letter of the alphabet. Do it all in 1 go, no jump cuts, if you mess up, keep going because that is the point, to show people that although the vast majority of the content we post on social media of our work, this is how it all begins, with the first draft. I just think this will be an interesting idea to see you guys do the same so we can all see the different styles people can achieve with different tools!
Like I said, feel free to post a link to your video in the comments down below, it would be awesome to let everyone see your work!
Anton Ben Ciulia David Eldosky Fatima Genny Harsh Ian Johannes Karman Luke Mikey Nicole Obrien Paulo Quagmire Ricardo Sacha Tehiti Usman Victoria Weyland Xavier Yannick Zack
Hey guys! Again, this piece simply started off as a practice piece and I wasn't anticipating it turning out this well, which is why I hadn't recorded the physical drawing process of the lettering! I will definitely be uploading more speed arts to come where I include the drawing process, so apologies for this, I know a lot of you would like to see this part of the process. Aside from that, I absolutely love this piece, I think it has a cool flow to it and it just looks right, I don't really know what it is about it that I like so much, I just think it flows well. Let me know what you think, and as always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comments below and I will try and answer you as best as I can! Thanks everyone!
Hey guys! So since I posted the last tutorial on the gritty lettering, and also the inspire lettering speed art, a lot of you have requested I make a tutorial on how I vectorised this style, so here it is! This style is fairly easy to create and can give you some truly amazing results, so I would definitely recommend giving this a shot. Also, you don't have to use the pens I have used to create this lettering, you can use a TomBow for example and still add these rough lines to achieve this effect, it's just a matter of finding the right places to out them, and over time you will start to learn where these lines would naturally appear.
Go check out Nick Raizvikh on Instagram, he does a lot of work in this style and he is very, very talented, so go follow him!!! instagram.com/raizvikhnick
If you have any questions in regards to hand lettering in general or this video, maybe you didn't understand something I did, feel free to drop a comment below and I will help you out as best I can!
Hey guys! So this was an outcome I wasn't really expecting when I started this piece. It was initially just a practice piece, however I am very happy I decided to record this. If I had known I was going to take this design further, I would have recorded the drawing process, so I apologise for that. I will try and include the drawing process in my future speed art videos for you! This is sort of an example of how much refinement goes into creating a successful piece of type. This took me around 3 hours in total to vectorize and it was definitely worth it! I hope you guys liked this piece, and if you like, you can download this as a desktop wallpaper with the link above!
Hey guys! So this tutorial has been requested left, right and centre haha. I've had requests on pretty much all of my platforms, so I figured I might as well make it for you guys. I am also planning on doing a follow up to this tutorial, showing how to vectorise this style; I just need to make sure I myself am comfortable with the method first since I have done it only once to date. In this tutorial, I take you through the process I use when creating one of these gritty style lettering pieces, both the physical and digital stages as Im guessing a lot of you wan't to also know how I edit these in photoshop. I hope this video gives you guys some insight into my process and helps you develop your own skills both with the pen and in phptoshop! As always, thanks for watching guys and have a great day!
If you have any questions in regards to hand lettering in general or this video, maybe you didn't understand something I did, feel free to drop a comment below and I will help you out as best I can!
Hey guys! So I actually didn't plan on uploading a speed art today, however, I created a quick piece of type last night which I thought looks pretty cool, and since I havn't done much lately due to some issues, I figured it was time to get back in the game and get some practice. Turns out I created one of my favourite pieces of lettering to date! I will probably make a tutorial on this if you guys want it, so let me know in the comments below! Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this video! I have another tutorial coming out this sunday!
Hey guys! So this tutorial has been delayed a fair bit, and I know a lot of you have been requesting I make this video for a good few months now. So I want to firstly apologise for the huge delay and Im not going to go into detail as to why it was delayed as I don't think it is relevant; I'll just skim the top and tell you I've had a rough few months. As for the tutorial, I really hope this helps you guys and I would love to know what you think. You will notice that a lot of the letters are quite shaky and look fairly messy, and the reason is, is because I never write this slow, Im used to writing much faster, which gives you smoother strokes, at least it does for me anyway. So this was a bit different for me, but the main shape and form is there for you to see. If you have any questions in regards to this tutorial or hand lettering in general, feel free to ask me in the comments below and I will try and give you the best response I can! Thanks again everyone for your patience and continued support!
Hey guys! So first off, again, I want to apologise for the lack of uploads over the past year or so, but I have been attending university and simply don't have the time to put out many videos. However, I am now home for 4 months before returning for my final year, so Im hoping to get a good few videos out. Anyway, Chris from ScrawlrBox contacted me and was interested in having me as one of the featured artists for one of their monthly boxes. This was because the May edition was based on hand lettering, so of course the featured artists should be a hand letterer and luckily for me, I was picked! Im super happy that this box was influenced by the pens I use, it just gives it a more personal feel and also gives people a bit of an insight into the tools I use. This is not a paid advertisement, I just want to make this very clear, I am not promoting ScrawlrBox for money, It's because I love what they're doing and they do a fantastic job of it, and they also such nice people. I really do recommend you go subscribe, even if it's just for one months box to see what it's like.
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Hey guys! So this is my new logo. I have been wanting to reinvent my brand for a while now, and one of my current university modules is to create a our own self branding, so this was a great opportunity to rebrand myself and do it as a uni project, so that worked out quite well! I am very happy with how this logo has turned out, however, I will not be using it until I have finished the full branding, so it will probably be implemented in the next month or so. I want to thank those of you on facebook, instagram and snapchat giving me constant feedback on the process of this logo, it helped greatly and I appreciate it so much, so thank you all!
Hey guys! This was just a random piece of type I threw up on Instagram a few weeks ago; it was just sitting on my laptop and I figured I could maybe do something cool with it and make it into a wallpaper for you guys to download, so this is what I came up with! Personally, I really like how this final design came out, it has sort of a vintage/retro feel to it, maybe due to the colour scheme I ended up sticking with? Anyway, there isn't a whole lot for me to say about this piece, but I hope you enjoyed the video, and keep this quote in mind! BE CREATIVE & BE AUTHENTIC!
If you want to watch a much more in-depth monoline hand lettering tutorial, please go check out the man himself, It'sALiving's Skillshare class where he shows you the lowercase and uppercase letters and some very interesting compositions and much more! In order to see this class, you must purchase a skillshare account, but it's definitely worth it, so go check it out! skillshare.com/classes/design/Its-a-Living-Lettering-and-Shading-a-Monoline-Wordmark/59747654
Hey guys! So a lot of you on Instagram and facebook have been asking me how to create monoline lettering, so I decided I would make a tutorial on it for you. Granted, this isn't massively informative in terms of the style of the letterforms because it is essentially just your own handwriting drawn out, but very neat and more experimental with a bullet tip marker. This tutorial focuses more on the addition features you can add, such a shadows in this case. I show you how and where to add shadows to your type both in pencil and in photoshop. A monoline is a line that goes from paint A to B while maintaining a consistent width, however, don't let this stop you from fixing up your letters if they don't look perfectly how you want them, it's okay to deviate slightly from the consistent width. It is very very unlikely that you will ever create a piece of type that is 100% the same width all the way through, it's simply not going to happen, and you won't really notice if it's slightly thicker in some areas since it's such a minor difference. The goal here isn't to make the width of the lines absolutely perfect, it's to help you create beautiful pieces of hand lettering. I really hope this tutorial has helped you guys out, and let me know what other tutorials you want to see in the future and I will consider them and try and get some more made before I go back to university on the 1st of Feb.
Hey guys! So this is sort of a part 2 to my first hand lettering tutorial which was a great success! I was struggling to think of what I could do for this tutorial since part 1 sort of covered the main areas that would help you develop your hand lettering skills. However, I looked through the comments, and made a post on my Facebook page and came to the conclusion that a lot of you want to see a full alphabet so you can refer back to it if you forget how to create some of the letters. So, I put this video together where I simply walk you through each lowercase letter, using a brush pen. I really do hope this video helps you guys out; I would have loved it if someone had made a video like this when I was just starting out... I actually looked for one back then too but never found anything that was fitting to what I wanted to do. Anyway, I want to wish you all happy holidays and a very happy new year, welcome to 2016! Let's try and top 2015!
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Hey guys! First off I want to apologise for the lack of content over the past couple of months. I have been back at University in case some of you didn't know, and since I am now in my second year, the grades I get now actually count towards my degree at the end of my third year. So, this means I am prioritising my university work over uploading content to here because I am paying to be at Uni, so it makes sense. I hope you can all understand. Hopefully I'll have some videos made over Christmas so I can upload a video say, once every 2 weeks or something if I get a good few recorded. Again, I'm sorry about the large breaks between videos, It's just very hard to find time to work on things for my channel. This video was easy for me to make because this is part of one of uni projects, so I could record it and not really waste any time on the project. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this video, and hopefully it wont be such a large break between this upload and my next!
Hey guys! I have finally released a new project on Behance which features some of my best lettering work from the summer of 2014-2015. This includes both logotypes, and random pieces of type I have created. It has been over a year since I last published a project on Behance (I think), and I was very excited about posting this one. I need to start posting more projects up on there really. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this video, and please go check out the new project. Link at the top!
Hey guys! So I know a lot of you have wanted to see how I actually go about creating a full logotype from start-to-finish, so I thought I would make this tutorial/walk-through showing you the process I take when creating one. Like I said in the video, this is by no means the only way to create a logotype, many other people use completely different methods, but this is just the way I do it. Some of these steps would be different depending on what style of type Im working on, for example, if it was a very neat and more classical style of lettering, I would draw out a rough version, and then go over it using tracing paper to make sure everything is aligned etc since pieces like this tend to be very neat. Anyway, I hope this video helps you out, and I know I speed through the drawing stage at the start, but this video isnt about how to create the type itself. If I made it in real time, this video would be over an hour long, and it was only intended to be between 10-20 minutes. Thanks for watching guys, let me know what other tutorials you would like to see!
Hey guys! If you follow any of my social media pages, you will have seen the YouTube type I drew up last week, just for fun and I figured why not vector it and give it out as a free wallpaper as a thank you for 30,000 Subscribers. I made some changes from the original drawing which I think ultimately made it better and gave it a more unique look. Let me know what you think!