Friday Archive Dive: Hand-Lettering Basics
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 5:00AM Today's Archive Dive is a very rudimentary guide to hand-lettering that originally ran on Jan. 19, 2010.
In response to a request for a guide to hand-lettering, I prepared the brief overview below. But, as you'll soon see, I'm not such a wonderful letterer (especially when you look at my lettering this big). I am, however, a pretty good researcher, and much of this material was gathered when I was preparing to write "The Everything Cartooning Book."
The amazing Chris Eliopoulos, Webcomics.com subscriber and letterer for Marvel Comics, will be writing a step-by-step guide that will run here in the near future.
The basics I'm describing below apply to a pretty straightforward alphabet. As you get better, you will find small ways of personalizing this that will end up identifying your lettering as your own style.