Intro To Cursive Lettering - Draw with Stefan

so thank you so much for joining into this dream I'm super thankful that you are here today we're gonna talk about script and cursive lettering I'm going to do a introduction on how to do script and cursive lettering and pretty much what I wanted to say from the beginning is I am using cursive lettering and pretty much every single piece that I do so over here we have we create two inspiring you can see the top is cursive the bottom is cursive everything that I do has a cursive script element in it and this is why it's so important to actually use and know how to just create cursive lettering I'm going to do a little introduction how to use it I have a whole sheet on the side over there where my computer is at where I fail to stream before and I'm going to do an introduction show you how to use it where you can use it how it's often used and then also going to talk about the basics of you know how to set up guidelines the weight and finally what's - how to do some practice exercises and all of that finally spacing and how to play around with letters because it's cool if you know one style but I'm not a big fan of of just knowing to do one perfect style and do it one time well I'm really about how to love doing what you do and create something amazing so guys I'm really excited to be doing this and I can see that the other side is still seeing the stream on the other platform and this is good but so guys I'm really excited to be here I hope you are too I hope you grab your pen and paper something to write with and that we're not gonna just not I'm just gonna do it alone but you guys aren't enjoying this with me so let's get started let's look into the first step let me turn around the screen over here and then finally boom perfect I have no view or control over what you guys see and you don't guys won't see me except maybe if I get my see this is why I don't like to do it on the on the phone but we can figure this out together so let's see if we can if you guys can see me over here nope this is maybe I have to turn this a little bit down kind of like this over there alright so let's move this a little bit around maybe I can grab this a little bit like that okay this is a working progress but I hope you guys can see something of that see this is my desk this is not tidy at all and I'm probably gonna have to redo this stream because I pro liked the idea of that so first of all introduction yes introduction so script lettering is very popular so usually it's used by calligraphers in different styles in different ways and you also have people that use it for brush lettering so a lot of people love brush lettering where you have a nib that has a different variable weight so meaning you can do up strokes really thin and down strokes a lot thicker so this is usually the case how you use it where you can do up strokes down strokes then combine them and then kind of go from one to the other so this is where it's mostly used and it's mostly used in in an older form of design of lettering where we have been doing a lot of different ideas so man I'm losing I'm losing my train of thought so why do we use it so usually it has a personal note to it so when I draw something out for example like love if I draw it out like this it has a lot more flair to it a lot more personality to it because it comes from a hand and it looks a lot combined softer and warmer so it has a lot of warmth to it and it translates a lot of beauty and this is why I love to use something that is cursive and script because if it breaks down something that is more bold and has a more round or round more edgy shape you can always combine that with love hope for example here and then combine these two different styles so we have block letters and we have script letters and this is why I really use script in all of my work is mostly because it's it's really great to combine it with block letters and with scripts and with cursive because these are very contrasting styles hope love and then faith for example this is why I really love to use script in all of my pieces now I'm going a little bit fast hopefully this is OK for you guys I'm not I'm always checking for comments here over there and so one of the things when you're getting set up set up is really important and set up is what makes it makes it really good or special when you're drawing something so we're going to start off with our base line the base line is the first stroke that you'll do this is where your lettering your word is going to be placed on then we have the Exide which is a line that is set a little bit higher above and usually X height so over here we have the x height we have the base line and and here we have the ascender line so this is the ascender and descender do you need to know all these names absolutely not they won't help you become a better lettering artist but they can help you communicate better between lettering artists so this is why I'm feel it's important to do that do you guys have no sound Steph creativity sounds alright okay so now over here we have this is where you're gonna ride on so this is where you're gonna start off why are you usually not going to start from down here but let's say I have coca-cola for example like that so coca-cola is written on here so everything every single bottom of the line of the word is on the base line the x-height is for the small caps letters and for the letters that have ascenders meaning the letter goes over the top they will hit the ascender line and sometimes cap has also like capital letters have sometimes also a lower line but you can learn all of that in usually in books in other places where he can find out more information about that so what is important here is really to know again that's having those lines those guidelines be it's just creating two strokes like that some slanted here maybe I can take this a little bit lower here kind of like that so over here we have for example the I don't know if I can do this for me here from that side alright so over here I can start the same way for example thanks so this is my basically my X height and this is the baseline that I have this will always help me to draw a word a lot better now this is always something you can do to set up a base line and the x height so it's usually two parallel lines that will be parallel to each other and this is really helpful so one thing that I would not recommend to do is to do lines that are like this because this will distort the letters and will make it look really weird if you look at that it's possible to use that but it's not necessarily recommended and this is why you can do these lines usually slanted upwards and then also for the for the guidelines is to set up a slant so going back here to this here you always will add a slant so the slant is a certain angle that your letters will be faced at a slant will be here a straight line that it that has an angle here between and so often like copper plates will have a certain slant a fixed lens but when you're doing freestyle lettering you can really choose however you want to do it there's no necessary way of doing this so somebody asked what pen am I using here I'm using a 4b so it's a really soft pencil which allows me to draw a lot better all right so we have again we have the baseline the x height and the slant now this is pretty much how you set up your script lettering to do it really way to do it really easily so again if I want to write stuff on for example there I can use the slant the slant helps me to direct the strokes from the top to the bottom and then adding here the way or the the drawings like that now finally there's the whole question about spacing spacing is also a very important thing so spacing what I've learned so far is you can really decide yourself but usually you always will have this spacing here so if you do the AU continuous U or even an O it will give you the spacing between letters that said if I take for example a lighter brush here for example there this will help me create the strokes for example if I want to write out what do we say what names will appear here let's see I want to see live chats over here so Lindo Lindo is an awesome guy who has been on the chats often so Lynn and then here we have the end that will come back here and I'm not sure exactly how to do every letter but this is pretty much the basic basic spacing between letters that you'll use even though like that now I rarely follow this this rule here I usually will go by by a feel and this is how I will do things is usually I will space the letters how it feels right so I will always have kind of this stroke and I will kind of like follow it as close as possible but not necessarily is nuts not necessarily as strong now going through every letter so we could go now through every single lowercase and write out the whole alphabet so again if we have here this is our baseline quick a ruler here over there perfect and let's do a quick this is the upper the X Heights and let's do another one over here and then we have these slants just to give us the basic idea of every single slant now of course it's not perfect what I'm doing here the spacing is not perfect it's more about just going through every single letter now of the alphabet just so that we have a basic idea so we start with the a from the from this side going down going up now a B can be done in two way so be going down over this like this or up here or it could be also a B that is more like a school this is how I learned it in school going up through here then finally I see a D and E and what is also really important for me is always that I can actually not have to so here's an F this is I don't know where it went like a G and is also to actually let go of your hand to leave the paper not just to always stick with it on it the whole time so G H I J and then we go further down so let me just pick that up here so k hey usually goes maybe sometimes back here I'm not exactly sure k L M so here you usually go like that out of the M so an N would not necessarily be like this this is usually how I like to do it but I've also learned that you can do an N more like this so where you come out here and you go out there so KL o Q I did a Q ha okay perfect k L m and then we have the O now we have the Q R and the r there's many different ways of doing an R those are like this and there's an R that goes like that and then kind of like moves into the S I usually like to do them a little bit like this RS T you hear the V I will usually go out and can do a loop and then seu W then we have the X the X is actually I'm not sure how to do the X X Y and Zed I think that's correct maybe maybe there is a different way to do the X so whenever yeah definitely forgot some letters here I'm definitely not an alphabet expert so the P P like this again on the descender and you can set up the descender lengths the way you wanted to so for example you can make it go really far down or far up so this is what we're going to look in the next parts but first before we jump over one last thing is the weight of the letters so how do you add the weight the weight is usually and that's the default is usually set on the down stroke so here we go up then we go down so this is where you would add the weight then you would have here another weight that you would add so boom just like that and and so far normally the weight is sets by the brush tool that you use for example if you go up so here I would go down I would go up and I would go down kind of like this so this is the brush here this is the weights that I will give it if I use a different brush for example a tombow brush it will be so much thicker and and so the up strokes will usually also be a little bit thicker than that so yes so up thin down thick and down thick again here so the exercise that you can do the exercise that you can do at home to try it out let me see if I can get closer here is that you will exercise some up strokes some fine thin up strokes and then you up practice your down strokes and really add the full weight to your brush so really press down and give it all you got and then you can start to combine them by doing some loops over here and then you can do the reverse and then you can start to combine them with different options for example going like that and so pretty much everything that you will do even your loops and these are a great way to practice all of this so this is a touch pen by pen tool that you can use this is the barcode if you want to use it you see pen tool Co United but you can find it under a touch alright so this is this is how you can practice adding some weights by again upstrokes thin downstrokes thick and this was probably the most important lesson that I've ever learned as a lettering artist is to adhere the thick strokes and down strokes so when you've learned that this is probably the most important lesson so far and and then now comes the part where it's really fun is how to play around with letters so letters are really a really great way to play around with um let me just get that really sharp perfect so this is an a that you'd normally have now of course you can stretch it so you can stretch it long way or you can squeeze it together and you can really play around and and have some fun with it so imagine like pressing towards it here inside and into a hydraulic press and combined it here so really squishes together then you can also make them a different weight size so for example I can have them really thick and have a mono thickness for example I can also have a different type of weight for example so this is usually the way it is here with the weight so downstrokes are thick and in lettering so this is where the it's really different from doing calligraphy is that in lettering you will draw out the thickness of the letter you will not actually use the pen to do that you cannot really do that with a pencil so this is where drawing first outs for me it's always drawing out the skeleton of the letter and then drawing in the thickness adding the thickness to the letter finally what you can also do is kind of inverse the weights the contrast usually when it's from side to side why not add it to the top and the bottom and add it for example here so this is one of my styles that I love to do you can see this on the background here of my wall that I actually really like to do this type of style where it actually inverts the weights of the letters and Felicia is right you can have so much more control with your pencil then with doing it with a brush so this is why one of the first things that I will notice if I look through an account if I critique someone's account is that I will see it here that something is not working so this is why I recommend to to check it out and see what's not working and how you can actually fix it and so here you can play around with the weight but you can also now start to play around like adings away just at the bottom for example just here this will make it look more like a I don't know a tease like a hips hippie font that has kind of the weights more distributed at the bottom you can also make it more edgy saying for example I want it to be like if this is is if this is round why not introduce some edginess to it something like that and you can really play around with those letters this is something that you cannot really do whenever you're drawing with a pen or pencil with a brush and with a certain nib so this is where it's going to be fun where you can play around with those letters again also squish it out so for example if you want to write it a word out that is long for example something like this would be different than writing it out kind of like squished or kind of like you can change the design of that and so this is why it's really fun to play around with it also because finally you can add also a lot of ligatures and elements for it to it for example if I draw thank you this would be more like this now here I can start adding some ligatures and kind of combining those letters creating a lot of playfulness with the strokes I can decide whether or not I want to connect the a here for example you can make the a just connect through the bottom so meaning if I want to do something more like this it's totally up to me to make sure that it works and so I have a lot of freedom to do whatever I want to do and to create and play around with it so here's my dalgona coffee need some energy fix right here so this is where it's really fun is to play around and to add here some elements for example I could turn this around here and to do some flourishes and really to give this the style the look the shape that I want to give by just adding all of these flourishes like I could go even with a K I could go around here at the back I could play around with all of these elements so this is where it gets really fun where you can have a lot of ideas where you can play around with it as well and this is flourishing so you can look this up on online look for flourishing and you'll find a lot of awesome content there but I'm gonna do a class on flourishing as well I'm gonna do a last room for sure and we'll look at that as well in a moment okay so now is the time where we get to create this was kind of the introduction to cursive script lettering and now is the time where we get to creates before we start creating I want to thank my patrons I don't get to thank them enough so I had a list prepared for that so the are let me see if I can find that out here over there over there over there and put it up um where do we have that so I had a whole list of patrons for example we got sauna we got broke we got Emma we got back we got India tuned journal we got Ludmilla we got Chris Ron so many awesome wonderful people that are supporting the screen making it possible that I get to do this of course we're far away from making it financially okay to for me to do this but I'm enjoying this time here with you guys but I'm also really excited for later today where I'm going to do a Q&A livestream on patreon with my patreon where I'm going to answer their question they've submitted wonderful questions for example like how do I organize my brushes in procreate how do I deal with advertising myself and creating some content for for others this is okay to advertise for yourself right now or is it or should you stay off and so a lot of these things we're going to talk about later today in our patron zoom chat so if you want to join you can become an exclusive member there support this channel and also get all these awesome things about that so I'm really excited about that it's gonna start in probably two hours so we got to move on so I asked on ins or on YouTube as well where you guys are what you wanted me to draw and actually let's just do stay home stay home is right now is something that everybody is talking about and why not draw something really wonderful so I usually start with a slant like if you look at the page straight like it's always a little bit slant upwards and also here give this also this is exciting news to my brother is helping me out to set up a great studio so we're buying a computer we're setting up some beautiful lights and hopefully all these technical difficulties will not happen again because we're fixing this it's of course it can always still happen but we are trying our best to make something awesome so that you guys enjoy it and have the best time so here we go this is I'm gonna start with the s pretty drawn something here this is kind of how I like to do my s pretty much usually you'd draw an S the other way around saying that this is your usual s but I love to change the proportions and add it's more to the top hopefully this is pretty fun for you guys and so yeah so setting up a new studio is really going to be exciting setting up all the livestream equipment and buying all the stuff so that's again thanks to patrons who support me there who make it somehow possible to do that all right so here we go and then finally let's add the home maybe I can add the home a little bit to the right over here and see because we have the the Y also here I want to make sure that there's enough space but I'm gonna draw maybe the home a little bit lower trying to get the same height here the X Heights down here as well and then pretty much the same same width of those letters as well on the home side so back here down here I'm just gonna play around with that also spacing between the letters this one is way too close and something like that so we're getting a little bit closer I'm just gonna move this a little bit up and what else now I can also add here something more round so still this is a sketch way too big for a sketch usually I I would sketch really in a small scale so it may saying like I would usually sketch out this size and see how this would work because if it doesn't work on the slow on the small size it will not work on on a big scale so always always play around because you will waste less time sketching on a small scale than on a big scale kind of like that and so this is kind of what I want to do here is to also have the H a little bit not both lines on the same height and now I get to decide what kind of style I want to do like is it round is it more edgy so if it's more edgy I can actually give this here some strong edges and how thick I want it to be so the thicker it is the more this is also very interesting when you have those curves the thicker it gets the thinner it is the less it will go into the bound but the thicker it gets the more it will it will connect towards the other side so this is something for example if you have like a small line it will only be thick for the inside here and not actually go out too far but thicker it is the more it will actually go into the other line just and a little information for you guys there so there we go so now trying to keep up the same weight here and then also here trying to keep up the same the same weights so I'm already drawing this in way too early but it's more to help you guys visualize it a lot better also thank you so much for liking this video you guys are pretty amazing thank you so much for being so patient with me here as well and helping me set up the new stream jumping over to another stream as well this is just wonderful I'm glad that you are there and that we can do this together and maybe we can get to all the crazy numbers of likes that everyone that we have in viewers as well so meaning if we have 300 viewers that we can get also 300 likes maybe we'll get today last time we did this we got to almost 220 likes and since we have a lot more viewers today i believe we can reach 300 likes what do you think do you believe that we can do this together maybe we can maybe we cannot but I believe we can do this together so here again I'm trying to get the same weight the same distances between to try to make it more consistent and so this is really the challenge that we're you're gonna play along is is to make it consistent and this is why drawing it out with actually pencil will help you to get it a lot more consistence than you would if you were drawing it out with brushes because even though you might have the best hand or the best muscle memory you will still always probably always fall short of being able to redraw this perfectly wow we had a massive jump from 88 to 129 likes guys this is you guys Drock you guys are strong and also thank you for someone who just joined the patreon group I just got a notification on my phone that somebody joined the patreon group you guys are amazing thank you so much for supporting this this is super helpful okay this is starting to come together again putting those guidelines down that guidelines the baseline and the x-height also they're important to get the structure right and from the beginning here and to help you get set up now I am excited to see all of you guys see what you guys are creating I get so many beautiful pictures or I'm tagging so many awesome things and I share them all the time on my Instagram of how you guys are creating at home being creative during this time during this lockdown and making awesome stuff so you guys Rock you guys are amazing and I hope that you guys keep on doing that and even if we have difficulties which is kind of like going into the create something today even if you have creative difficulties so now this why here is pretty it's bothering me a little bit but you know what we're not gonna let that stop us and I'm going to make this round here and here maybe introduce at home a little house because why not always stay creative open to new ideas that could come potentially during this time while you're drawing it out but I'm not really excited about the way tier at this at this point but that's okay stuff like this okay and finally the s oh yeah stay at home I like that stay home stay at home but the ads being a house you see together we can explain anything even if it's not what we intended to do well it wasn't the initial idea let's say it like that Wow we're almost at 150 likes how amazing is that okay so this is one version that I want to do here let's see this is stay at home let's have a look so usually in a good process is where you would actually start to redraw this over and over again so you actually take up a tracing paper and start redrawing making sure that you kind of work out those mistakes for example here this would be a little bit too thin too close together so you'd space this a little bit more out there might be some things where I want to move the whole home a little bit on the side so if we want to try this let's see if I can move this around the orientation is locked oh so I have to move this more like that okay so this is the view for outside and I'm going to take my over here and I hope that you guys can see this yes this is what you do when you don't have any tracing paper and now I want to make the the wide a little bit bigger and I want you to actually take this more up here maybe leave out the ass that we have here even though it's bled yet sometimes fill your darlings and now I can move this around move this up a little bit if it's a little bit more space maybe even take the s down a little bit more and then take the edge here the OH all right let's move back to this side this is a exercise that we're doing here so over here is what I redraw and it's not looking that great but I also didn't really add the the weights in here and we can think of even changing it around like what about so making sure that this is still on the same level of the Y by the HHS line hmm oh I do you mean something where can i sketch it on to have the the Y go something like this out here probably it could work but this is a little bit weird like what it could work is maybe more of the Y coming back here and then turning around but then you kind of have this space that you want to fill out so what I really recommend and this is why I love you guys writing out those tips is it's really helpful to play around with these things so you could try to connect this over here you could play around it and you could also have a lot of play with it that's a goal of this exercise too is to really see what you can come up with how many ideas you could have and trying out new and different things so the goal is to always keep trying to always keep practicing new things so again if I wanted to say like this is the baseline here so I want to have the stay go from there again for me it's usually I like to redraw everything fresh so like this but I want the the why not to go too far down so kind of like so here that's also a question of the angle that I want to have so here it's a little bit higher so actually the descender line should be naturally a little bit lower and go down maybe somewhere here here that is fine kind of like that now another style that again I love to do that you've seen me do probably enough times is and I want to give it just a tiny little bit of space I can breathe between in between and see if I can get the same heights of those letters yes that is about the same heights so here we have a lot of space which is kind of like sad in some way what if it splits who knows maybe I have to find my eraser where is my eraser here it is is this too many swoops and squashes around I don't know what is wrong with the negative space so negative space is always important to use it in the best possible way so you don't want to leave out too much space so for example if you have the stay here and then you have home like if it touches the negative space is equal zero if you want to make sure that it's correct or correct correct is always a different difficult term to to really to really negotiate because it's never really corrected it depends on who is looking at it or who or how you look at it so what I would always try to argue is to add space in between to leave some some space some some balance like space creates balance in those letters and words so again we have this this whole thing of maybe we're at we're adding this home here that almost looks like a flesh or drawn so one of the styles that I love to do again is to add the weight at the top at the bottom kind of like that and to play around with it and what I usually will do is also look at other fonts and styles that I find on on Internet's on on Pinterest on on Instagram and we'll try to get inspired by them and see if I can implement something that I've seen there into my own work so here again I'll try to make sure that the space the the weight of those letters here of the thickness is consistent and so this is what I'm trying to strive for is having consistence gaps in between so the size this stretch of these letters are the same here the why and the a the O and so forth and also to have the gaps in between the letters pretty consistent too and if you want to learn more about spacing letters and I heard that Martina Fleur a wonderful lettering artist from Germany is doing a newsletter where she's sending out some tips on spacing so if you haven't checked that out you should go follow Martina floors sign up to our newsletter and get all the insights on that here because artists support other artists all right yes her book is amazing I have it too it's one of my two favorites books the other one I just got recently from Ken barber who is also a wonderful artist who creates amazing pieces and I also get inspired a lot by him and as you can see you could go on forever and ever and ever this looks a little bit more devilish like Satan than something else I'm probably gonna stay away from that but yeah for an introduction to script lettering I hope that this makes sense let me know if you have any questions and so I can try to help you answer these before we go offline and hopefully in the meantime I'll be able to fix the camera the audio to make sure that this doesn't happen again that you guys don't waste any more time because we're already spend a lot of time out here who is watching so let me know if you have any questions regarding regarding this let me switch around the camera boom Alice is asking can you write her name again whose name I don't know which name you're talking about let me know they're Martina Fleur oh yes perfect Martina flora this is what will you review someone's portfolio today not today fortunately we can I have a hard time doing this on on this camera here with a camera there then if if I'm doing this on YouTube with the phone is there a difference between script and calligraphy well script lettering is not necessarily calligraphy calligraphy is when you draw something out by hand in one go so you add the pressure and you add the weight of the lips by adding pressure for the downstrokes and upstrokes and you have a perfect control over your muscles and this needs some this needs a lot of practice a lot of knowledge and just knowing how to do it so this is why calligraphers lettering artists and typographers are very different from each other you can actually check out my video that i've done on that the difference between these three types and i've done a really concise video over there are you Australian is gazoo masking no I'm not I'm German I live in Switzerland but I spent one and a half years in Australia can we ask you a question during the patreon session live yes absolutely you can if you're a patreon you will get will jump on a zoom call and everybody will get a chance to ask questions and we'll have a one-hour chat where I'm going to be coaching answering questions hopefully help people with their journey and lettering manual is the book from Ken Barber that he used it's a brand new book it's a beautiful book you guys gonna love it how to join in patreon so I have a link on my other last stream video it's also you can just find me with patreon so pay patr e om comm slash Stefan codes and you'll find me there right away when are you planning for another life on Monday next Monday same time as before three o'clock and I'll try to make YouTube live work on OBS so I can stream better with better camera with better angles and everything which I hope this will work a lot a lot better again alright guys thank you so much for watching for spending your Friday afternoon or morning or evening with me I'm so thankful that you guys were here and thanks again to all the patreon that have during this time thank you for all the other patrons who are supporting me from between one or $25 per month this is really helpful and I'm also really excited to see what you guys have created during this class also that you guys are so patient is just means so much to me you guys are awesome don't forget to enjoy your del gota coffee if you haven't already I'm really excited for Monday for the next livestream we're gonna have so much fun too and don't forget to leave a like a comment a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel if you haven't already really is awesome if you were here and we'll see you on Monday and you can also send me some ideas or suggestions for other livestream videos I'll get guys and this was it we're about 56 minutes in here I wish you a great weekend enjoy this and I hope to see you very soon bye

Channel: Stefan Kunz

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Length: 50min 3sec (3003 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020