Recent Reads: The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners by Joanna Monuz

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The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners: Beautiful Projects and Essential Techniques by Joanna Monuz

Publisher:  Rockridge Press
Publication Date:  December 18, 2018

 

Format:  Paperback

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Synopsis: 

Transform your words into an art form with the largest collection of tutorials, alphabets, and DIY projects from The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners. 

Hand lettering adds a fun, creative touch to crafts and projects―and the best way to learn is to start putting pen to paper. The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners is a hands-on guide to master the art of lettering and create your own signature style. 

Invitations, signs, personal notes, tote bags, and more―this hand lettering guide offers 20 DIY projects for you to try. Complete with a step-by-step guide to basic hand lettering techniques and 8 sample alphabets, The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners encourages you explore and experiment with your artistic style. 

The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners gives the tools you need to master the craft of hand lettering, with: 

• 8 sample alphabets (4 cursive, 4 print) that offer stroke-by-stroke instruction and space to practice, plus downloadable practice sheets. 
• 20 projects that include thank-you cards, gift tags, wrapping paper, bunting, envelope liners, place cards, and more!
• Create your own alphabet that provides guidance for personalizing your style with tips for incorporating different moods and tones for variety. 

For wedding invitations, birthday cards to a loved one, or just because―make your words bold and beautiful with The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners.

Review: 
I have been on the bullet journal train for over a year now and the most daunting part is seeing all this wonderful handwriting out there and mine is crap. This book is such a great learning tool for Hand Lettering. I have already learned so much just by sitting down and reading through it. I have yet to use the techniques but as an informational it is already great.

The book is broken up into four sections - the basics, learning some alphabets, projects, and how to create your own alphabet and style. Each section is super easy to read and understand and there are a lot of wonderful visuals as well that really helped me to learn about the parts of letters (Want a peek? Amazon's Look Inside feature shows a good section). There are a bunch of practice pages as well and if you need more there is a link for downloadable sheets too.

They way this book was put together made me feel like this is something that I can handle and do., and I really appreciate that. It seems like a practice that is simple enough for everyone and that is what it is about, practice practice practice. Joanna also goes one further and through all of her practicing and experience she has formed these tips and tricks, so throughout the book they pop up in the margins to help further. I really loved reading all of them and it made me feel like I have such a jump-start on this technique.

If you have been interested in learning more about Hand lettering, this is an amazing starting point and I already recommend it. I can't wait to practice with it and finally have one of those journals that I can show on my instagram!