Art Lesson #34: Lettering for Travel Sketching
Add some panache to your writing!
Sketchbooks are for writing, too
This is week two of a mini-intensive on travel sketching. To catch up, start here.
If you’re taking a sketchbook with you when you travel (or anywhere, really), you might want to do some writing. Do not be intimidated by fancy lettering you see on Instagram! You can do nice lettering in basically your own handwriting. I’ll show you how.
First, a shout-out to some artists who do cool things with lettering:
in her wonderfulJoaquin Gonzalez Dorao who you can admire on Instagram
Ella Ruth, who makes it looks effortless in posts like this one
Liz Steel, who often uses faint lines when she adds text in her nice architect handwriting, as you can see here.
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