Hand Lettering Tutorial for Beginners | Monoline

Hand Lettering Tutorial for Beginners | Letterform Template [Free]

Hand Lettering Tutorial for Beginners

Hand Lettering Tutorial for Beginners | Lowercase Alphabet

Hand Lettering Tutorial for Beginners | Uppercase Alphabet

If you want to watch a much more in-depth monoline hand lettering tutorial, please go check out the man himself, It'sALiving's Skillshare class where he shows you the lowercase and uppercase letters and some very interesting compositions and much more! In order to see this class, you must purchase a skillshare account, but it's definitely worth it, so go check it out!

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Hey guys! So a lot of you on Instagram and facebook have been asking me how to create monoline lettering, so I decided I would make a tutorial on it for you. Granted, this isn't massively informative in terms of the style of the letterforms because it is essentially just your own handwriting drawn out, but very neat and more experimental with a bullet tip marker. This tutorial focuses more on the addition features you can add, such a shadows in this case. I show you how and where to add shadows to your type both in pencil and in photoshop. A monoline is a line that goes from paint A to B while maintaining a consistent width, however, don't let this stop you from fixing up your letters if they don't look perfectly how you want them, it's okay to deviate slightly from the consistent width. It is very very unlikely that you will ever create a piece of type that is 100% the same width all the way through, it's simply not going to happen, and you won't really notice if it's slightly thicker in some areas since it's such a minor difference. The goal here isn't to make the width of the lines absolutely perfect, it's to help you create beautiful pieces of hand lettering. I really hope this tutorial has helped you guys out, and let me know what other tutorials you want to see in the future and I will consider them and try and get some more made before I go back to university on the 1st of Feb.

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[SteBradburyDesign]

Thank you for all of you kind and supporting messages, this is what helps motivate me to put these tutorials out, seeing all of these supportive messages and people telling me how these tutorials have really helped them develop their hand lettering skills, so THANK YOU ALL! I appreciate your likes and comments more than you know!

[deceitdeceitdeceit]

this was basically one of the best tutorials ever

[maxcherry]

great tutorial fella - you covered off not only the monoline which id never heard of before but also the overlap/shadow style which I've been seeing quite a lot of but wondered how to achieve. Thanks again for putting these videos out there, you've helped me and others so much.

[LaLaKaWaii]

I've been looking for a tutorial like this for months! thank

[cutelittlerottengirl]

I'm so lucky to find this channel 💕
I'm always struggling when it comes to hand lettering. Thanks!

[leisawatson]

Gosh! I've just found you. love your work. I have mostly only worked in illustrator and after a long break "years" I've jumped back in and I just love all the advancements that have been made. Id love to see more of your work in illustrator. However your photoshop tutorials are so inspirational. I've subscribed so I'm very much looking forward to following you. thanks for sharing X

[roimanaog]

this is sooo very helpful! thank you for the motivations! over all video is not boring at all it did well smooth and fine and entertaining!

[anaveromontero]

I was searching a way to start learning this art of Lettering because this is really cool and beautiful, and you explain it so well. Thank you for this amazing videos you are a really good artist! :)

[NancyLynn]

Wow Stephen, such a talented young man! Your tutorials rock, even to this ole lady.

[thefreelancer]

That tutorial was awesome. very inspiring. I still didn't get my way completely on how to be confident while writing, but I'm gonna get there :)

[viviangrosch]

You are super talented, and I do learn so much from your tutorials ☺ really enjoying every singel video of yours 😁

[ArtbyKhater]

Very helpful tutorial and I really like this mono-line style, it feels so natural and authentic.
Keep up the great work. Thanks!

[picklepirate]

wow the shadow is so simple, but so huge in making it pop

[maxcherry]

also, just realised to save time on your very last step where you delete the excess shadow from outside of the letter itself - instead of masking out or deleting, just right click the shadow layer and choose Create clipping mask. This will hide the excess shadow and saves you having to piss around creating selections etc.
not tried it myself yet but almost 100% it should work.

[RJSTMGraphicDesigner]

Awesome tutorial man! really helps a lot, didnt think about the matalic look, thanks! <3

[rochellerojo]

Wow! This one is absolutely amazing! I am so excited to try this one, it was really helpful for a beginner like me. More tutorials to come! You are so great, I salute you! 😊

[snezhanafiuortt]

Cool tutorial. It was very pleasant to watch, very useful!!! Thanks!!! Looking forward to your next tuts)

[hollytoto]

love these videos. Thank you for making them!

[bgduckpnder]

Clever!, the photoshop shading is so simple. Will use this in the future, keep it up

[zmjw]

thank you so much for this tutorial. it is really help me to improve my hand writting.