Brush Pen Lettering Practice Book: Modern Calligraphy Drills, Measured Guidelines and Practice Sheets to Perfect Your Basic Strokes, Letterforms and Words

By Grace Song

Practice your brush pen lettering til you’re perfect with expert drills, tips, and exercises.

If you want to take your hand lettering to the next level, you need to practice, practice, practice. But merely writing the same letter over and over often leads to repeating the same mistake instead of improving your skill.

Packed with expert drills, tips and exercises, Brush Pen Lettering Practice Book provides the smart coaching and blank workspace to make your daily practice easier, more efficient and more fun. It’s the ideal way to speed you on your way to creating gorgeous lettering styles.

The perfect companion to author Grace Song’s Brush Pen Lettering, this handy workbook features helpful practice pages with guided lines, hints and even specific letter form combinations for many popular words, including:

• Congratulations

• Greetings

• Wedding

• Happy Birthday

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781612438481

Book preview

Introduction

Welcome to the Brush Pen Lettering Practice Book. I’m so glad you’re here! You may have just discovered the world of brush lettering, or maybe you’ve already started your journey and feel like you need some guidance along the way. Either way, you’re in the right place because this practice book will give you all the tips, drills, and exercises you need to make significant progress in the art of brush pen lettering.

This practice book is the companion workbook to the instructional guide Brush Pen Lettering. Just like the instructional guide, this practice book starts with the basics, and the various drills and exercises that follow increase with difficulty, helping you build your skills in a gradual way. The practice book will show you what to work on and in what order, so that instead of going about your practice haphazardly, you can spend your time truly honing your skills.

CHAPTER 1

What You Need to Get Started

Brush Pens

This practice book is designed so that you can letter directly in the book. You will need smaller-tipped brush pens to do so. There are quite a variety of brush pens available, but I recommend a few of my favorite ones to get started:

•Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen

•Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen, Hard Tip

•Tombow Fudenosuke Twin Tip

Here are a few other small-tipped brush pens you can try:

•Kuretake Disposable Pocket Brush Pen (Fine and Extra Fine Tip)

•Kuretake Bimoji Brush Pen (Fine and Extra Fine Tip)

•Pentel Pocket Brush Pen (Hard Tip)

•Pentel Fudemoji Brush Sign Pen (Fine and Extra Fine Tip)

•Pilot Fudegokochi Brush Pen (Extra Fine Tip)

•Pilot Fude-Makase Color Brush Pen (Fine or Extra Fine Tip)

•Pilot Futayaku Double-Sided Brush Pen

•Zebra Disposable Brush Pen (Fine and Super Fine Tip)

•Zebra Funwari Fude Color Brush Pen

Not all brush pens are created equal. Experiment with a variety of brush pens and find the one that is right for you. Generally speaking, brush pens with a harder tip are easier to control.

Paper

Although you can practice directly in the book, it will be a great idea to have tracing paper handy. Tracing paper has a translucent quality and is made by several brands, including Canson, Strathmore, and Borden & Riley, just to name a few. You’ll be able to place it on top of the practice pages and see the guides through it, giving you the ability to trace the examples and repeat any drills or exercises as needed. It is also very smooth, which means the tips