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Brushpen casuals by Wayne Thompson

Casual Letters with a Brush Pen

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Do you love looking at those online videos of old sign painters creating cool lettering? Now you can learn how it’s constructed and do it yourself, using nothing more than a brush pen. Sign Casuals is a lettering style with lots of tradition but also lots of flexibility. At this workshop you’ll learn the basics of letter construction, methods of creating pen strokes for lively letters, along with techniques for shadowing and embellishment. You’ll also take home some alphabet sample worksheets for practice. Suitable For This class is designed for participants who have a professional or personal interest in typography, art…

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Sheridan McMahon Legal wordmark

Creating a Signature-style Wordmark

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Do you design logos using type but don’t know how to customise them? Would you like to create vivacious typographic solutions for your design practice? In this workshop, I’ll show you my technique for creating a typographic wordmark or logo. Using the example above, I’ll start with the drawing stages and demonstrate how I refine and improve the letter shapes, flow, and discuss the merits of ligatures, cursive joins and baseline consistency, as well as other lettering styles. I will also show you how to use tracing paper to improve your design in stages before photographing your wordmark and vectoring…

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iPad Pro Lettering

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This short workshop introduces you to the tools and techniques required to do lettering on an iPad Pro. Using an Apple Pencil, we will explore the features and capabilities of the ProCreate app, and it’s applications for expressive lettering. Your tutor will show you his personal techniques and methods. Participants require their own iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. All other materials supplied. For an example of iPad lettering, see this link. Cost: $55.00 (includes refreshments) Venue: Pumphouse School of Design, 24 Greenway St, Wickham NSW Bookings: Phone Pumphouse School of Design 02 4962 4985 or email info@pumphouseschool.com.au

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