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​​Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration

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Overview

Learn to create joyful lettering compositions for your book illustrations that appeal to readers of all ages
  • Introduction
  • Composition and Lettering
  • Using Lettering for Storytelling
  • Once Your Illustration Is Done. What’s Next?
  • Final project
Through hand-lettering you can take an author’s story and give it a playful visual language for children. Hand-lettering artist and illustrator Shauna Lynn specializes in creating compositions for children’s publications and a whole host of other clients including Adobe, Samsung, and Facebook. She is also the co-author of Creative Lettering and Beyond.

In this course, she teaches you how to design and incorporate hand-drawn lettering into your children’s book compositions. Shauna guides you through how to create a vibrant spread featuring both lettering and illustration that appeals to children and those who are children at heart. Illustrate beautiful messages that make young readers happy.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • What, How and Why of Lettering
  • Inspiration and Mood Board
  • Three Composition Styles
  • Lettering to Convey Movement
  • Fitting into a Composition
  • Refining Sketch for Legibility
  • Lettering and Sound
  • Expressing Moods
  • Themes and Time Periods 1
  • Themes and Time Periods 2
  • Color Blocking and Final Details
  • Preparing the Artwork
  • Creating the Work You Want to Get Hired For
  • Other Applications
  • Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration

Taught by

Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn

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