The ultimate hand-lettering workshop for young creatives! Taught by the popular and skilled hand-lettering artist Dawn Nicole Warnaar, Adventures in Lettering combines creative self-expression and beautiful designs for an exploration of various lettering exercises. This hand-lettering workbook features hand-lettering lessons for beginners, from playing with style and brush calligraphy basics to illustrated hand-lettered designs and lettering styles. Once you’ve mastered the basic techniques, apply them to additional crafts and projects. Adventures in Lettering is the ultimate workshop to get started in the art of hand-lettering!

This Blackletter style also known as Old English or Gothic was used in some of the first books in Europe in the 17th century. This dramatic style is recognized by it's thin and thick strokes with elaborate filigree and serifs. This 30 page practice book includes a full alphabet with both lowercase and uppercase letters with a bonus tutorial on how to create ornate filigree from scratch.

Art Deco lettering is a geometric type style from the early 20th century that was used primarily in advertising and movies that needed a sophisticated feel. This modern yet vintage style is perfect for logos, posters, and other decorative print designs. In this issue, you'll learn how to draw all 26 characters step by step so you can draw art deco style illustration from your imagination. After some fun alphabet practice pages, you'll explore how to decorate this style and create supporting accents. Then, for our Drawing Challenge, I'll show you how to create a Art Deco themed postcard of your city.

On their way to school, the little letters of the alphabet have to rescue little "i" and then find his dot before they can proceed.

Whether you want to create an eye-catching banner for a party, some nature inspired place cards for your table, or you just want to relax while enjoying the art of lettering, this is your go-to guide. With a growing legion of hand-lettering fans on Instagram and her Skillshare classes, Peggy Dean is a rising star in the lettering world. As a follow-up to her successful book, The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide, Dean is going back to nature in this woodland-themed book packed full of projects, lettering tutorials, drawing how-tos, and a wealth of practice pages. Lettering in the Whimsical Woodlands provides plenty of space to practice basic and intermediate strokes, with the goal of creating your personal lettering style. Once you've mastered lettering, Dean shows you how to draw a variety of woodland creatures, including chipmunks, birds, bunnies, and foxes, as well as flowers, leaves, acorns, mushrooms, and other flourishes. By combining your lettering with line drawings, you can create stunning works of art, including home décor, invitations, gift tags, and unique holiday tablescapes. For those in need of inspiration, Dean provides a bevy of fun and creative do-it-yourself ideas. This book will provide you with an elevated lettering experience and many hours of practical, clever projects. It's the joy of lettering meets DIY fun!

Take an exciting journey into learning as Kate and Jake enter Alphabet Land, where they are introduced to the names and sounds of all the letters. This unique book uses a variety of educational approaches, including cartoon images that show the shape of the mouth when saying the names of the letters and making their sounds. Children also meet diphthongs and upper and lowercase letters. Visually appealing and delightfully imaginative, Adventure in Alphabet Land will make a valuable addition to every home and school library.

This is a book for lovers of Victorian literature, but it is also a bracing antidote for those less enthusiastic readers who may have found Dickens a little too melodramatic, Thackeray too allusive, Trollope too protean, and Hardy too pessimistic. For both kinds of readers Hall's book offers the hope of redemption, a thoroughly engrossing ramble through the literature of the enduring Victorian galaxy.

Seventies script is bold, curvy, and can make any illustration look "totally far out". This "funkadelic" script looks groovy when used in posters, magazines, and book covers, with its updated look made for the 21st century.In these 30+ pages, you'll learn how to draw both upper and lowercase letters for this issue. From there, you'll explore a drawing challenge that will teach you how to create a card for Mother's Day that incorporates custom swashes and filigree to create interesting compositions.

On a rainy afternoon, Alex comes home from school looking forward to playing video games before his mom gets home from work. When the power goes out and his only entertainment option is to read, Alex feels certain that he will die of boredom. Enter Zora, the new girl next door who is determined to go on an adventure. Zora discovers that Alex's old picture book, The Great Alphabet Adventure, is mysteriously blank and that their job as explorers will be to find the missing letters and return them to the book. Alex's ordinary room begins to reveal extraordinary hidden worlds and a cast of colorful and wacky characters who lead Alex, Zora and the audience on a treasure hunt through the alphabet. In the end, Alex and Zora learn something about the fun of reading and about the value of friendship."--Page 4 of cover.