Bridal showers, graduations, invitations, oh my! I’ve made it to the point in my life where it seems like everyone who is close to me is experiencing a major life event. My two best friends are each getting married, my boyfriend just graduated medical school, my friends are getting jobs and my siblings are having kids. With each milestone, I find myself Pinteresting ideas for personal gifts and decorations. When I was presented with the opportunity to choose something new to learn using only online resources, I decided now was the time to take matters into my own hands – literally. Over the next few weeks, I am going to learn how to write using hand lettering or modern calligraphy. What on earth is that, you ask? It’s the beautiful lettering you see in the photos below.
I’ve started by watching a few different YouTube videos and reading a couple blogs. One video on YouTube was particularly helpful since the creator, AmandaRachLee, shared the tools I would need to get started. She suggested specific markers like TomBow Brush Pens and TomBow Fudenosuke Brush Pens, so I went out and bought both! She didn’t mention anything about paper, so luckily I had noticed something in Little Coffee Fox’s blog. She highly recommended the Rhodia dot pad, which was also recommended by many other sources I found. I tried to find it Hobby Lobby, Joanne’s and Michaels but had no luck so I settled on a sketchbook. Figure 3: A practice page in my sketchbook. Photo by: Hayley Justin After trying a few exercises from AmandaRachLee’s video, I decided that I needed to order the Rhodia dot pad online. The blank pages in my sketch book make it difficult to line up my letters and it was getting far too time consuming and frustrating to draw my own lines. I am counting down the (2) days until my dot pad arrives in the mail, TGFAP (Thank God for Amazon Prime). Here’s to trying #myhandathandlettering!
Abrahamsen, S. (2019, June, 3). The Ultimate Hand Lettering Guide for Beginners (2019) [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://littlecoffeefox.com/hand-lettering-guide-for-beginners/ Lee, A.R. [AmandaRachLee]. (2017, June 15). How To: Calligraphy & Hand Lettering for Beginners! Tutorial + Tips! [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBoVGqiSzr4
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