Hand-Lettering Workshop: Illustrating with Lettering
Mary Kate McDevitt
36:07
Description
Join Mary Kate McDevitt as she brings lettering to life with illustration. This 35-minute class explores using concepts to drive the style of your lettering and finding inspiration in reference materials. Focused on sketching, you’ll explore 3 different approaches:
- illustrations alongside typography
- letters taking the form of objects
- subtle motifs throughout letterforms
By the end, you’ll create your own hand-lettered illustration inspired by your favorite animal. This class and project is perfect for beginners seeking a fun project as well as intermediate and advanced students looking to deep-dive into a sketching challenge.
More than 25,000 students have learned to hand letter with Mary Kate's first 3 Skillshare classes: The First Steps of Hand Lettering, The Final Steps of Hand-Lettering and Vintage Hand-Lettering: Styling Phrases for Timeless Appeal.
What You'll Learn?
- Illustration
- Typography
- Lettering
- Hand Lettering
- Graphic Design
- Creative
- Workshop
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My new book Illustration Workshop is available for purchase on Amazon and a book store near you!
You can purchase it online here!
I'm excited to announce my new journal Every Day is Epic is officially out today! This journal takes the pressure off documenting a regular day by framing it with illustrations, funny quips and plenty of places to doodle.
To celebrate with all of you, I'm offering a giveaway to 5 Skillshare students to win a copy and one grand prize winner will also have a 30 minute portfolio review/consultation. Use the hashtag #EPICSKILLSHARE to enter through instagram with a link to your project.
Contest Details:
- To be eligible, you have to have already submitted a project or submit a new project in one of Mary Kate's 6 Skillshare classes
- Post an Instagram or tweet with the hashtag #EPICSKILLSHARE with a link to your project to officially enter the contest
- You can also enter the contest by commenting below with a link to your project.
Here are links to my classes to enter the contest!
Hand Lettering Techniques: 5 Ways to Better Work
Designing Hand Lettering Systems: From Single Motif to Cohesive Project
Hand-Lettering Workshop: Illustrating with Lettering
Vintage Hand-Lettering: Styling Phrases for Timeless Appeal
Hand Lettering: Add Digital Color and Texture for Final Polish
Hand Lettering Essentials for Beginners
What I look for in a winning project:
- Progress from start to finish posted in the project page
- Lots of exploration
- Self-critique (check out my self-critique class if you need to brush up on those skills)
- Great layouts and fun lettering!
Contest Dates / Duration: 10/17-11/7 (3 weeks)
Prizes: 5 Winners
The Grand Prize Winner will receive
- 1 copy of Every Day is Epic
- 30-minute online work consultation with Mary Kate
4 Winners will receive a copy of Every Day is Epic
Mary Kate McDevitt is a Philadelphia-based illustrator and lettering artist. Since 2010 she has created hand lettering for clients including, Target, Chronicle Books, Smuckers', Macy's, and author to her books Hand-Lettering Ledger and Illustration Workshop. Between client work and personal projects Mary Kate teaches at her alma mater, Tyler School of Art, and co-founded Okay Fine, a shared studio that hosts workshops and events. On the weekend you'll find Mary Kate exploring the historical streets of Philadelphia, thrifting, and hanging with her cat Peppy Mew Mew and her old dog Fritz.
Look out for Mary Kate's new journal "Every Day is Epic" with Workman Publishing and new instructional book "Illustration Workshop" with Chronicle Books. For more information, and to view my entire portfolio, visit marykatemcdevitt.com.
SkillShare
View courses SkillShare- language english
- Training sessions 8
- duration 36:07
- English subtitles has
- Release Date 2024/01/21
