Design and Creation of Chalkboard Lettering

Start the course by getting to know a little more about Paola and her career as a graphic designer and lettering artist. She talks about her influences and references, as well as the course content.

Delve into the fundamentals of lettering to help you conceptualize your ideas. Then get straight to work creating the structures of your letters and learn to shape them focusing on proportion, weight, contrast, and angle. Paola also shows you the basic calligraphy rules to apply to your lettering.

Once you've defined your letters, gradually add the details and take your piece to the next level with shadows, volume, and color gradients. Use flourishes, flicks, and even illustrations to help get the most out of the space.

Next, Paola explains some of the visual cornerstones for distributing elements across your chalkboard and establishing hierarchies before teaching you some tricks for working with chalk and distorting the letters to fit different shapes.

Apply everything you've learned to your project sketch following a client brief. Wrap things up by discovering how to resize your design and transfer it to the desired chalkboard format. Paola gives you some final tips to make sure your lettering turns out exactly how you'd imagined.