Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands

A course by Victor Kams , Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist

Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2014

Create lettering using your calligraphy for a printing project

99% positive reviews (169)
4,389 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese

Create lettering using your calligraphy for a printing project

Learn calligraphy with a graphic artist. Cross over to the world of lettering, typography, and graffiti and develop the superpowers that will change your work from the moment you click on the first lesson of this course.

Delve into the process of drawing and vectorizing a piece of lettering from a calligraphic sketch that you make with an automatic broad pen. Learn to use this tool with some basic chancellery calligraphy exercises and clean and shape the forms of your design through tracing. Finally, take it to the digital plane, where you vectorize and export it for the final project.

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What will you learn in this online course?

15 lessons & 14 downloads

Tools
15 minutes, 50 seconds
Initial exercises
8 minutes, 26 seconds
Capital letters
10 minutes, 21 seconds
Ligatures
8 minutes, 41 seconds
Initial sketch
14 minutes, 30 seconds
  • 99% positive reviews (169)
  • 4,389 students
  • 15 lessons (3h 0m)
  • 14 additional resources (10 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

The final project is to design a piece of lettering for an artist of your choice. It can be a designer that inspires you, a graphic artist, or an artist from any other discipline. It can even be for yourself—you can take advantage of the project to design your own logo or personal image. The idea is that your design be used for screen printing or printing on t-shirts or posters or other supports.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

The course is aimed at anyone interested in typography; students of graphic design, calligraphy, and/or lettering; and graphic designers who want to expand their knowledge in the field of custom fonts. In general, it is for anyone with a basic understanding of design and an interest in letters.

Requirements and materials

You need a pencil, paper, and a broad pen; a computer with vector software; and a basic understanding of how to use the program.


Reviews

4,389 Students
169 Reviews
99% Positive ratings

Victor Kams

A course by Victor Kams

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Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist

I am Víctor Kams (Mister Kams), a graphic artist from Madrid focusing on calligraphy, lettering, typography, and graffiti. I studied graphic design at Sussex Downs College in East Sussex, England. I have worked for different advertising agencies and for clothing brands, associations, album covers, accessories, and tattoo studios at a national and international level. I have also shown my work in different exhibitions and have given various calligraphy and lettering workshops.


Content

  • U1

    Presentation

    • Welcome
    • References
    • Tools
  • U2

    Calligraphy

    • Initial exercises
    • Italic italic basic alphabet (Cancilleresca)
    • Capital letters
    • Ligatures
    • Initial sketch
  • U3

    Lettering

    • Tracing
    • Cleaning and retouching
  • U4

    Vector

    • Scanner and import
    • Vectorizing I
    • Vectorizing II
    • Vectorizing III
    • We export and ready
  • FP

    Final project

    • Calligraphy and lettering for restless hands

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Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.

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The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.

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Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands. Calligraphy, and Typography course by Victor Kams

Calligraphy and Lettering for Restless Hands

A course by Victor Kams
Designer, Calligraphy Artist, and Lyricist. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2014
  • 99% positive reviews (169)
  • 4,389 students