I finally had some time this weekend to release this video about how I do paint streak lettering. If you try it out, tag me on Instagram so I can check out what you make.
Tag: hand lettering
Paint streak lettering is my new favorite thing
If you’ve checked out my Instagram stories lately, you’ve probably seen some paint streak lettering. Prior to trying it out, I had seen this technique all over my feed from talented letterers like @ipadlettering and @stefankunz, but I had no idea how to do it. Then Myriam, the brilliant letterer behind @halfapx posted a quick tutorial in her Instagram story. I knew I had to try it out, and I completely fell in love with the technique and now all I want to do is make more of these.
Here are a few I’ve done using the streaky texture technique.
If you want to learn how to do it, check out Myriam’s tutorial here:
Moonwalk font available now
I’ve worked on several fonts since taking Teela’s amazing font making class. The very first one I released, Sweet Revenge, got its name from one of my favorite albums, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. You can pick it up on Creative Market in OTF, TTF and webfont versions or get the OTF version on Etsy.
When I finally finished my second font and realized the texture looked like moon rocks, I knew immediately what I wanted to call it. It’s no secret that I’m a gigantic Michael Jackson fan and keeping in line with the musically-inspired names, I present to you (drumroll please) Moonwalk.
You can download Moonwalk from Creative Market or Etsy right now. If you use it, I’d love to see your work so tag me on Instagram so I can check it out.
I just released my first font and I’m super excited about it!
I’ve wanted to make a font since I got my first computer in 1993. I’ve always love typography and lettering, and a font seemed like a natural extension of that. But making a font seemed really complicated and difficult, and I could never really figure out how to do it. Recently, I took an amazing class from Every-Tuesday on how to create fonts from your hand lettering. The result was this, my very first complete font.
I decided to call it Sweet Revenge, a reference to a classic My Chemical Romance album because it had a grittiness to it, but it was also kind of pretty, which reminded me of Gerard Way and the gang.
You can download Sweet Revenge on Etsy (otf and ttf formats only) or on CreativeMarket (otf,ttf, and webfont versions) right now.