In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
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In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
endless late-night trips to Wawa for shitty coffee and sandwiches.
Jessica Hische • In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
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If I had to represent my career visually, it would look like a constellation—a line, interrupted occasionally by bursts of energy that slightly or dramatically shift the direction of the path. Finding design was one of these bursts—an ah-ha moment, reaffirming all the decisions I had made up to that point.
Jessica Hische • In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
The steps that I established for myself are straightforward: (1) research and brainstorm, (2) explore thumbnails, (3) sketch, and (4) create the final artwork (and, inevitably, (5) revise). But it’s the pacing of them that was key for me. It took time to figure out how long to spend researching and what kind of research I should do, how to pull ide
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Visual research is something that should be a part of your day-to-day life, not just something that you do at the start of a project. Be a sponge; absorb everything around you. Read books that have nothing to do with design and lettering, visit art and science museums, pay attention to fashion, stop to admire interesting graffiti or amateur sign pa
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The Clothes When I first started lettering, I cared more about the clothes than anything else—I used the same basic skeleton over and over again, tacking on serifs and swashes where I saw fit. After a few months, I started to realize that all my work had a sameness to it. Instead of creating distinct lettering styles, I created one style, with many
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Procrastiwork is a term I made up to describe the work that I do when I’m putting off the work I’m supposed to be doing. It originated from an interview I gave in 2008 on a website called Humble Pied—I was asked to give one piece of advice to other designers, and the advice I gave was, “The work you do while you’re procrastinating is probably the w
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them—more independent, more empathetic toward whatever secret hardships others have gone through (or are currently going through), and more in love with all the good parts of humanity. If you ever wonder why I seem to love people so much, to make endless Internet stranger friends, getting coffee with anyone who writes me a nice email, it’s because
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Lightly sketch out a few small illustrations of possible layouts, emphasizing different key words (like verbs, nouns, and sometimes adjectives and adverbs) and playing down less important words (like articles and prepositions).
Jessica Hische • In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
When making decorative lettering, the decorative bits, no matter how over the top they may be, should make sense and feel like natural extensions of the letterforms themselves, not tacked on and unnecessary.