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Just received this new book today:
Creative Lettering and Beyond: Inspiring Tips, Techniques, & Ideas for Hand Lettering Your way to Beautiful Works of Art. Authors: Gabri Joy Kirkendall, Laura Lavender, Julie Manwaring, & Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn.
This is a really fun book filled with delightful examples of hand lettering. It begins with a modern calligraphy tutorial by Laura Lavender which has some great pictures and tips. It starts with a very informal copperplate script and then a whimsical "upright" script. This is followed by a small section on flourishing with some flourished capitals which I would say are not ideal examples but a good effort.
This is followed by a fantastic section on "Illustrated Lettering" by Gabri Joy Kirkendall. This has some great exemplars and helpful information on how to get started with hand lettering. It then goes on to how to letter in a shape. There is a project showing how to letter on a canvas (meh) followed by hand lettering on glass (marvelous!).
Many of you will love the next section which walks you through how to convert hand lettering to a digital format, starting with photographing your work and then removing the background in Photoshop. Then there are several good projects.
The Chalk Lettering section by Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn is my favorite. There are some GREAT exemplars in there and some really nice filler ideas. Julie Manwaring wraps it up with several cute "Lettering Crafts" projects.
This is definitely a book for beginners. It has some really exciting, well done examples but also some so-so work. One of my pet peeves is blank pages where you are supposed to try your own or practice or whatever. I never write in my books and trying to write in a bound book is ridiculous so I find these a complete waste but thankfully, there aren't too many. Overall, I'm really glad I bought this one and I'm sure I will refer to it many, many times.