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Good morning everyone! 🎉Welp! I’m crusty with lettering right now because it’s been over a year!! Omg! So sorry about that everyone! But I’m back now and trying at it again. Today I have the letter N for you in a different style. I was going to use a different color but it was dry and I had to grab the first pen I saw to complete the video! Haha 😂 this is the N that was posted to my stories last night. Step by step. If you haven’t already. Vote a color number for my word art I’ll be sharing tomorrow! What has everyone been up to! ❤️🎉 .
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Good morning everyone!! So this is a lettering video of lowercase c. Going in order this time! Hopefully this is helpful to you. If you have any questions let me know in the comments!!! Have a great day everyone!! 💛🎉
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Good morning everyone!! Here’s my entry for the challenge hosted by .. it’s a late entry and it was quite the process for me to try to squeeze in to do. I’m trying to get use to work life balance but I think I’ll figure it out. ! I wanted to use gold and purple but I left my gel pens elsewhere. I had to use the ones I had. Swipe to see the process. The letter spacing was all wrong and then I had to use my tracing light pad to fix the spacing. Which I rarely have to do. But this word was a longer word than I’m use to lettering. Hope everyone has a great day!! .
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@ Hagerstown, Maryland
Good morning everyone! So it has been a while and I’m a little RUSTY with my lettering but here’s the letter b in lowercase serif style for you! Tomorrow I’ll be positing a word. Thanks for all the support and all of you that waited for my return! I love you all! And I’m always open to any suggestions. So if there’s something you’d like to see on my account do comment below and let me know! .
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Good morning everyone! So on the last post I had a few people say I should start the lowercase lettering videos with the letter “a”. The letter a can be drawn in two styles. Here’s one of the styles. I may post the other style later on. It took me a little redrawing and erasing to get this a to look decent. Lowercase letters aren’t what I usually draw but this is good practice and I’m up for the challenge ! Hope this is helpful and everyone has an amazing day! 🥳🎉
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Good morning everyone! So it has been a while since I’ve done a quick lettering tutorial. Here’s the letter U. In upcoming posts I will be doing the lowercase letters! I’m nervous about that because I rarely use lowercase but I’ll do my best. Also practicing the letters like this helps me to memorize how to draw them without needing to look at a resource. I drew this one from memory! Yay!! 🎉🥳✨. Also comment which lowercase letter I should start with! Have a great day everyone! .
Some hand lettering done using gray gel pen ink.
Good morning everyone! It’s been a few days of detox for me and now I’m back with my entry for the challenge hosted by and . I decided to use the classic gellyroll gel pens for this piece because I don’t feel I use them as much as moonlight and the others. I also experimented with a little full detail for the lettering. Blue color suggested by and .tales from a poll I put in my stories last week! If I have done your color yet I will be getting to it 🎉 have a great day everyone! 🥳.
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Good morning everyone! I’m kind of in a creative “fog” right now so a simple lettering video of the letter O with some embellishments. Inspired by book on vintage hand lettering. Hope you enjoy it. Also used black because I hardly ever use black. Haha Have a great day everyone! 💛🎉.
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Good morning everyone! This is my entry for the challenge. Color choice requested by for an olive green shade. Challenge hosted by and . Hope everyone has a great day! I’m still going to do more colors from the people that voted in the stories two days ago 🎉💛💛 .
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Good morning everyone! Today I have my entry for the lettering challenge. Hosted by and .The challenge is the word FIERCE and to make it bright! I’ve decided to try a skinny font style from the lettering alphabets and artwork book by . Coloring idea from letsdoit.calligraphy who suggested to blend two colors together! I will be doing more art using the colors suggested in yesterday’s story poll. Have a great day everyone! 🎉💛.
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Good morning everyone. So a lot of you voted in my stories to do a letter so I did a graffiti style letter G. This style can be referenced from the great big book of amazing creative lettering. It’s a fun style that I love to practice and that I have used in some of my previous lettering pieces. So if you’d like to see this style in action give my feed a little scroll and locate the word Green 💛. When lettering graffiti letters it’s important to be lose. And try to write the letter quickly. I feel I get the best results that way. 🎉💛 if you have any questions let me know in the comments below 🥳.
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Good morning everyone! (Hopefully you can see this ok the color is very soft and light) 😆 this is my late entry for the challenge hosted by and . The task was “embellish it” so I just used some simple flowers for the inside of my lettering. Comment what colors you think I should use next below! If I choose your color I’ll take you in the next post! Have a great day everyone 🥳🤩✨.
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✨sparklepop gel pen
✨soufflé pen
✨watercolor paper
Good morning everyone! So today I have the letter B sketched out. As a beginner I struggle with this letter sometimes and I thought to include a video showing how I kept drawing lines until I get the shape that I’m happy with. Sometimes the letter doesn’t turn out the way I would like it to and it’s ok. With practice there’s progress and that’s what I try to aim for. Not perfection. If you’re a beginner like me a book that’s really helpful for learning to draw the letters is book MASTERING HAND LETTERING. For me I feel I learn better with written materials to reference back to. Hope you enjoy and find the post helpful. Happy 4th to those that are celebrating today! 🎉💛. Also I’m continuing the challenge from last month from we love to letter. I had a few request asking me to do all the letters. So I will be adding the letters here and there for those that use them to reference ✨
Good morning everyone! I’m so excited to announce that I am today’s We Love To Letter featured artist! Head over to to hear more about this piece and my lettering journey. and .
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Good morning everyone! So this is my last entry for this months challenge! Can’t wait to participate in the July monthly challenge next month hosted by and ! This was so much fun! Hope you enjoy! Have a great day! Also if there is a letter I have not done and you’d like me to make a video of let me know in the comments 💛🎉.
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Good morning everyone! Today we have the letter “Y” for the June lettering challenge! Hosted by and by .If you would like to learn this style of Y please reference the lettering alphabets and artwork book. I added the shadow to give my own touch. Pen used is the doodlerz by in brown! .
Good morning everyone!! So I tried to do some deco foil and it didn’t come out perfect but I like how it looks! Let me know what you think in the comments below! I’ve learned a lot and I feel for best results it’s better to use a big piece of foil and place over the entire word rather than doing it letter by letter! ✨ enjoy the day!! 🥳.
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Good morning everyone! Here’s my letter “S” for the challenge hosted by and S can be difficult so hopefully this is helpful. I struggled a bit with it myself. Lol 😂 have a great day everyone ! .
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Good morning everyone! Something simple today! The letter “Q” for the lettering challenge. Hosted by and . Hope everyone has a great day! 🎉💛.
Good morning everyone! Such a busy day yesterday so I have this simple video of me doing some blending with the gelly roll glaze pens! And also trying a calligraphy style “m”. This is my LATE entry 😂 for the lettering challenge this month. This is a fun challenge! And the first one I’m sticking to pretty well! Hosted by and . .
Good morning everyone! Who loves 3D lettering? (Swipe for pens used) This is my attempt of some 3D lettering using Lisa Quinn’s book on vintage hand lettering. I love having book references to use to draw inspiration from! Comment some of your favorite art books below if you have one! Let’s help one another with some resources today! .
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@ Hagerstown, Maryland
Good morning everyone!! I’m a little behind on the lettering challenge because I lettered a word in between .haha but it’s ok! I’ll catch up! Here’s my letter K. hope everyone has a great day!! .
Good morning! Have you ever tried to letter with charcoals!? Here’s my attempt at it and I must say the tips aren’t very pointy so it’s pretty difficult to get thin lines. Every time I sharpened these pencils they broke after a certain point so I used the sides of the sticks to get a thinner line and a blending stomp to add a faded look. .
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Good morning everyone! Continuing the challenge. Hosted by and . Here’s my I. Keeping it simple. My camera setup right now is meh lol 😂 but still got it done! Have a favorite word that starts with I comment it below! Have a great day everyone!
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Good morning everyone! This is a letter F tutorial as part of the challenge. Hosted by I’m a little late on this one but here it is! Love the pink color at the end. .
Good morning everyone! It’s been a while! Sorry about that. But I’m trying to spend more time on learning than on social media for the time being. Here is some work I’ve done from a course I’m taking on . There are a lot of great classes on there for anyone looking to go into illustration. In my course so far I’ve been learning about shape language (drawing items from basic shapes) , digital coloring, how to apply colors and textures, shadows, highlights, etc. here’s my artwork from one assignment. Will be learning people next. Wish me luck! .
Good morning everyone! Have you tried embellishments in your hand lettering? What are some of your go to ways to decorate your lettering? Let’s share ideas! Here’s a close up of me trying some floral embellishments inspired by a design I saw in book on vintage hand lettering! I’m so happy with how it turned out. And this is the most even spaced letters I’ve done I think. Lol 😂 hope everyone has a great day! .
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Good morning everyone! Have you ever taken an online course? So I have always been interested in character design and so I decided to go through a course on and I choose one by and these are my hand drawn eyes!! I love the course and I may be posting more drawing of coursework that I do. I’m still trying to figure out my art journey and as much as I love Handlettering I’m super interested in character design! Also if you have a favorite artist share their name below. I’d like to take a look. I was afraid to post this but I honestly don’t do lettering every single day. I draw a lot of things. .
Good morning everyone! Just dropping in to remind everyone not to give up on their goals and dreams! Here I am attempting a small layout! Even though I have a lot to learn still. I keep trying. Hope everyone has a great day! .
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@ Hagerstown, Maryland
Good morning everyone!! Hope everyone is having an amazing day! So I tried some vintage lettering last night inspired by some lettering from book vintage hand lettering! Y’all know how much I love vintage letters. So let me know what you think of these letters! Have a great day! .
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Good morning everyone! So I know it’s been 4 days since my last post! Sorry I’m just a bit overwhelmed lately. However! Positive vibes. This is the outcome of my “use your brain quote” any feedback is welcomed! Thank you all. Have a great day! 💛🎉.
Good morning everyone!! It’s been a while since I’ve posted and that’s because I am practicing so many things. So I decided to share with you some hand lettered abcs that I worked on a few days ago. I’m pretty proud of this style. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thank you! Have a great day! 💛🎉.
Good morning everyone! Today I have for you some lettering on a diagonal path practice I did for fun! And the first word that came to my mind was fun! Hope this is helpful to all that are interested! Have a great day! 🎉💛.
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Good morning everyone! Just a simple reminder to REST for everyone that is working so hard. Lately I decided to take up some personal classes to help benefit me in future goals I have for myself and I’ve been at it for days! For hours! And sometimes I just have to do something simple and rest! So today will be a rest day for me! Hope everyone has a great day!! 💛🎉
Good morning everyone!! So today I have a collaboration post! It’s a quote of encouragement during these times! And a variety of different lettering styles and talent. (Swipe does closeups). Comment what new hobbies you have came up with to keep yourself busy! 💛🎉 artist is the post are as follows .alisa.engeln ._ .
@ Hagerstown, Maryland