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In this unit you will learn to play with your letterforms, creating unique and

interesting designs. Develop alphabets without the constraints of traditional

typography. We will create words with energy and emotion and create designs

for layouts for your own typography portfolio. You'll work through a series

of lettering exercises, each designed to create your own design style. Establish
a

process that will be essential to your own art and design career and finish

up with creating a sketch design from an overheard song lyric. In this lesson

we'll start with drawing the letter A and we'll develop our A's into a variety

of different styles while at the same time building our skills and confidence.

So I'm going to grab my pen and I'm going to start here and this time I'm

going to leave out those pencil guidelines and I'm going to use the same

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process as before. I'm going to draw, write out my letter A and then using the
thick

side of the pen I'm going to

beef up those lines, make them nice and chunky and there's my first A.

Next up I'm going to draw the A, not too fast, I'm just going to try and
recreate the same letter A

using the nice chunky side of the pen to get a nice thick stroke.

There we go and I'm going to do it again and keep practice drawing my A.

And then slowly as I move across I'm going to start to shift the design,

make this one a bit chunkier. There's a really nice fat A and then I'm wondering
well

how fat can I go with this? Let's make a really fat chunky A

and then I'm going to go right across the spread and make a really wide fat A.

And now, how far can we take this?

There we go.

So this one has barely even got room for the counter in the middle, and there's
a really

fat A.

So this lesson is all about trying to draw this A in as many different ways as I
can

think of.

I'm not trying to overthink things too much, I'm just trying to develop a flow.

Just draw the letter as it comes to me.

And if I make a mistake, well then I can just incorporate that mistake into the
design somehow.

Again, not trying to overthink this.

I'm just going to draw as many different A's as I can.

So there's the first line.

And next up, I'm going to start to add some shadows.

So with this A, I'm going to add a drop shadow.

It's almost like there's another A hiding behind it.

There we go, don't forget the middle bit.

And again, I made a small mistake.

This is too far over to the left for my liking,

so I can use the pen and use the shading again

just to adjust things.

There we go, that looks a bit better.

I'm gonna draw another type of shadow

just away from the letter.

So again, just not rushing, but drawing quite quickly,

not being too precious.

And the idea is not to try anything,

try to make anything too perfect.

We're just gonna have fun and play

as many different ways as we can draw this.

So there we go, incorporating mistakes along the way.

So if the mistake is too big, you can just shade in.

Shade in these dodgy lines.

And there's another A.

A really nice one that I like to draw is a cast shadow.

So here with an A, you can imagine the sun setting somewhere over here, and it's
casting

a nice long shadow from this letter, and again, I'll shade that in.

And it just kind of helps make the A jump off the page,

makes it a little bit more interesting.

And this can kind of work for any shape letter, really.

So let's make a really rounded, bubbly-looking A.

We can make a shadow for this one.

This one's got nicer curves.

So the great thing about these pens

is you can really color in quite quickly.

You can use the fat side of the pen

to really get that contrast.

Okay, I'm gonna keep with the kind of curved letters.

So I'm gonna make a curved A, kind of rounded ends.

Maybe I'm gonna make this one a bit wider.

This one kind of has 3D elements to the side.

Maybe some kind of more dynamic shadow lines in this one.

And then.

Let's make a really curved one.

And then maybe we can get to the point where we can draw a shape

and it's barely a letter A at all.

And then we realise that dot, or that counter in the middle

is what really helps us recognise it as a letter A.

So if we draw something really tall, is that still an A?

Can we get that even taller?

So we kind of learn the limits of the legibility of the letters.

Maybe this time it's really low.

So we're just playing. I'm not trying to overthink things too much.

I'm letting the pen and my hand guide me most of the time.

This isn't really ending up looking like an A, so here's another mistake.

But actually, maybe we can do something with this.

Maybe that leg gets tucked under there.

Is that still an A?

Who knows? Let's keep going.

Let's make something really pointy.

Maybe with a shadow.

There we go, lots of A's building up, and slowly we're building up a double page
spread

of A designs.

And we can look back at what we've done and maybe one springs out to us as
having a potential

to become a typeface or as part of a design you're thinking about.

So we can pick a letter out, maybe this one, we can redraw it, and maybe we can
start to

wonder what do other letters look like in this style.

So we can start drawing out a few other letters.

Maybe these have a shadow as well, so I'm going to start to incorporate a shadow
behind

these letters.

And then we can start to see how different letters and different shadows kind of
interact

with each other and get tucked behind.

So, this is a really good way to build confidence with your line strokes.

Really get used to the pen, to the point where you're not really concerned with
how your

drawing is going to look, you're more kind of in tune with the pen.

So how the pen feels across the paper, the feedback that nib is giving to you as
it runs

across the paper, and you can kind of use that feedback to kind of direct your
designs

a little bit.

So I'm not totally obsessed or overthinking what I'm trying to do here, I'm just
kind

of experimenting, having fun, trying to let that pen guide me, and try to make a
mistake

or try to do something unexpected.

Instead of colouring in your shadows, you can also maybe add some patterns or
some crosshatching

to create a bit of texture, and these could become the beginnings of a design
for another

project, for a poster, or for anything else.

So I'm just gonna stick with this letter A for a little bit longer. I'm just

looking for something that's going to catch my eye. Maybe there's a letter

somewhere here that's going to be quite different, something quite unique that I

can really develop into a whole new project. So maybe this is quite

interesting where we have a 3D letter where the sides are kind of a different

pattern. So we can just quickly explore the idea just by quickly drawing out

another couple of letters to see if it works.

Let's try a C. So what happens here, or maybe we can divide this one up, the
lines at the top.

Okay, that's pretty cool, I quite like that.

So there we go.

So I'm going to leave that one for the second, I'm going to keep going with my
A's, I'm going

to try and think of other ways I can draw this letter.

I think just redrawing and redrawing, exploring different processes and
different ways to

draw this letter, kind of make us think differently about other letters and just
see where it

goes.

Okay we start to get a bit crazy here. Maybe I'm going to lose those straight
edges.

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So I've kind of finished a spread of A's and a couple of other letters, so now I

can just look back, maybe make a few adjustments to a couple, thicken up some

of the lines, and again I'm just not trying to overthink things too much. I'm

trying to have fun, trying to be quite playful with this, and that's sometimes

when the best ideas come to you when you're kind of relaxed and you're having

fun with the process. Here I quite like how these letter A's have got this kind

of wobbly edge, so maybe I can just exaggerate that a little bit, and then

maybe I'll just shade that line in, and I can add the wobbly edge to this side.

Maybe this won't go anywhere, maybe this isn't a successful A, but it kind of

doesn't really matter at this point, we're just playing, we're just being

curious as to what we think might work, what doesn't work.

But I quite like that, there's quite a bit of movement in there.

So maybe that's something we can put a little star next to,

and so we know we can reference that at a future date.

Again, I quite like these ones with the textures and the patterns in.

So maybe we can just make a bit more of that.

So I'm just going to thicken up these lines around the side.

And at this point, I don't really know exactly what I'm looking for.

I don't have a project brief or a problem to solve as such.

But I'm just looking for something that looks quite different,

looks quite new, kind of feels like my work in a way.

This fluffy looking A is quite fun, so add a few more details in here.

What would this look like with a shadow?

Well, let's just add a few quick lines in to get a sense of how that could look.

So we're kind of building up, slowly building up a resource of different
letters.

But the main thing is that we're...

kind of learning to enjoy this process, learning to repeat, to try and find
unique letter designs,

interesting ideas. So I'm just going to add a few more details to ones we've
already done.

Maybe this fat A has kind of details on the inside. We're going to add a few
quick lines

to emphasize that.

and we want to use as much space in the sketchbook as possible so all these

little gaps at the sides maybe we can add another quick letter and this one

starts in this kind of shape you could do this quickly shade in the sides

So we're using every bit of space we've got just to practice our pen strokes,
get

used to the pen that we're using and draw as many different A's as possible.

So on this A, we've kind of got the beginnings of a slab serif shape.

We've missed out one of them here, but maybe that slab that's missing

makes this design a bit more interesting.

So I'm just going to colour this one in quickly, just to see how it looks.

That's the great thing with these pens, you really can get the ink out fast,

colouring quite large areas quite quickly.

Maybe that does look a bit strange, maybe we'll add in that slab serif just to
this leg.

There we go, maybe a bit of extra detail.

In this lesson you've learned to begin playing with your letters and learn

different techniques to get your ideas out across the page. In the next lesson

we'll move on to the rest of the alphabet and continue the fun so join

me there.