Hand Lettering 101

Improve your penmanship and learn modern calligraphy with this comprehensive step-by-step hand lettering workbook for beginners.

Chalkfulloflove brings her popular Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy workshop right to you with this comprehensive how-to hand lettering workbook! Created for both beginners and experienced artists, you will learn the basics of alphabets (both lowercase and uppercase) and numbers in many different styles. This workbook includes detailed instructions for nine different hand-lettered projects so you can learn to create your own style into beautiful pieces of art. This gold, spiral-bound workbook lays flat and provides plenty of opportunities for practice. 
 
Includes:

• Hardcover, gold spiral-binding and gold corner protectors 
• Step-by-step instructions for how to create various fonts and designs 
• Thick premium paper, perfect for lettering (no bleed through)
• Simple, easy to follow instructions
• 8 unique lettering styles including uppercase, lowercase and numbers
• Cursive, Hand writing, block lettering style
• Brush pen recomendations 
• 9 hand-lettered projects

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