Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Lessons
- 15 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Snooze One
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Want to learn how to create graffiti-style lettering? Join Nick, better known as Snooze One, a renowned creator of lettering art who, in combining calligraphy with graffiti, creates unique and modern work. He specializes in composing posters in a variety of styles and his typography designs appear on products from brands such as UNATICS, Combo Breaker, and Bad Apple Skateboards.
Give way to fantasy and design graffiti-style lettering pieces through an incredible art form that inspires in its messages as well as in its lines and shapes. Make a striking poster using modern calligraphy and apply an expressive graffiti style to the words you design.
Description
Nick, better known as Snooze One, introduces you to the course by telling you about his professional career and how he got started in the world of lettering and calligraphy. He also shares some of the influences that have inspired his style.
Next, Nick shows you all the materials you need for the course. He teaches you the basics beforing moving on to the structure of letters and how to work with them.
Develop an inspirational mood board, choose a theme for your poster, and decide on a style to apply to it. Put the concepts you've learned into practice by drawing a test sketch with different letters, an exercise that allows you to develop your artistic vision.
With the help of your teacher, prepare your paints and choose the right design. Then, sketch your phrase onto the composition and transfer it to the final piece of paper using a light pad. Now it's time to paint the letters and go back over the edges with maximum precision.
As a last step, add the final touches of color, shadows, and perspective to your drawing. Frame your piece with extra elements in the margins and decorate it with paint, smoke, or bubble effects to give it your signature style. To wrap up the course, Nick shows you the best way to present your work on social media.
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