Documenting The Illustrative Design ProcessCreated by Von. R. Glitschka

Illustrative Lettering 3 – Fa La La La

11.01.09 | Tutorials

I’ve always enjoyed hand lettering. Creating unique custom letter-forms is actually very relaxing for me. I can’t say that about a lot of my illustration work which can often be some what stressful but when it comes to sketching out and creating custom typography it’s fun.

This tutorial documents the creation of the “Fa La La La Lifetime” Christmas promotional graphic I created for the Lifetime Channel.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Lettering, Branding, Lifetime

File Size: 9.4 MB

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  1. mocha_chick wrote: November 2, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Do you ever Live Trace your sketches?

  2. admin wrote: November 2, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    No. I almost never use auto trace. The amount of time I’d spend cleaning up my vector paths after the fact due to extra points, incorrect bezier curves etc. isn’t any faster or precise than just building it point by point.

    Even with more organic forms that have distressed effects I’d prefer scanning in at high resolution and using a tiff image instead of auto tracing it, it just looks more authentic that way.

    Auto tracing also bloats vector files and can cause rip problems in the production end as well.

  3. moonape wrote: December 25, 2009 at 10:37 am

    ah – very useful, thanks for this! Keep them coming

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