Lettering Artistry with Jessica Hische

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LETTERING ARTISTRY WITH JESSICA HISCHE
You've probably seen Jessica Hische's work in a lot of places. She has designed everything from chocolate lettering to Wes Anderson movie title sequences. In this installment of Art School, San Francisco artist and author Jessica Hische takes us into her design studio with a demo on custom lettering from pencil sketch to vector paths.
Most of us have experimented with lettering at some point --maybe doodling our name or our favorite band's lyrics on a notebook or on our desk at school. But Hische has taken her love for lettering to the next level and built a successful career from her word designs.
“When you’re starting out in lettering, being naive can be really amazing because you do weird things that people with experience do not know how to do anymore…“
Hische is known for her quirky word inventions such as procrastiwork and designastrator to describe her work practices. Her book, In Progress, provides a deeper look into the lettering artist’s design process with tips and tricks on pencil selections, her story of turning lettering into a career, rough sketches, illustrator advice to live-by, social media tips and amazing examples of her work.
Start lettering or digital illustration by learning the pen tool as your first big hurdle. It can be frustrating to start, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be drawing and vectorizing everything! Here’s a handy guide to help you get started with the pen tool.
“Don’t let the intimidation of actually starting down the path to do anything be what stops you because it’s hard for everybody."
--Jessica Hische
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What is lettering?
- Lettering is the process of creating illustrations with letters, numbers, or any type of character or phrase.
How do I vector hand lettering?
- The same process can be utilized for anything you compose within Illustrator. In the case of lettering, the key is to have relatively few anchor points while utilizing proper point placement and a variety of other tricks to perfect those curves, angles, widths, etc. Go here for more information: design.tutsplus.com/tutorials...
Additional Resources:
Jessica Hische's website: jessicahische.is/
Jessica’s Dandy Resource List: jessicahische.is/heretohelp
Take a full design course with Jessica at Skillshare: www.skillshare.com/site/join?...
Plotting Vector Points with Jessica Hische:
• Plotting Vector Points...
Step by step to digitize lettering in Illustrator with Image Trace:
www.hellobrio.com/learn/digiti...
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[@abuusaid5640]

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” -Jessica Hische

[@kwerdasatmusika8325]

Hi! Thanks for this. I love lettering and been doing it since my school days. I just never thought I can earn money from it.😃

[@WI9LL]

Awesome video. I'm a big fan of Jessica's work.

[@tonikab3486]

So cool!!

[@nicolenew1708]

SUPER COOL

[@rangolibyvino]

I love all your videos.with love from India.

[@sandihester]

really enjoyed that video!

[@janiesmash]

LOLed at the weird uncle/dollhouse/never again

[@drmiteshtrivedi]

Dont think of your inexperience as a disadvantage...i like that.

[@IshaDrawingAcademy]

Beautiful painting👌❤ new subscriber 👍

[@inknoir]

I want that Pencil Sharpener! Anyone know what brand?

[@sanchita1579]

welcome back ....after 4 months😱😱😱

[@montypelto]

What brand of sketchbook do you use/brand of pencil? (This calligrapher wants to know 😉.) And does the sketchbook taker watercolors/ink well?

[@zahrapashamaki8309]

Woow 👍👍👍👌👌👌🌹

[@ranjanwadhwa4963]

to best art

[@georgeguo8648]

tru

[@cutiegirlsn]

Where did you go?

[@belowaverage2754]

I think they ran out of ideas

[@jordanterrazas1350]

Does anyone know what pencils she's using in this video?

[@inknoir]

Palimino Blackwing

[@men_del12]

Are just curious about the pencil or you wanna buy that pencil for art?

[@raviravigraphicsandsketcha6247]

Hello, i want learn lettering sketches

[@bujwam9825]

:)

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I feel your enthusiastic investment through your videos. To spread them to more viewers, I would love to repost your whole channel, without changing anything, on the nice platform called Ganjing World. If you agree with that, please let me know.

[@jasmineli1925]

Jessica, your words and thoughts were so well put together, perfect introduction for my 9th graders who are a little intimidated by our lettering project!❤🖤💚 @mrs.eli.wash on instagram