How do you digitize hand lettering? How do you use the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator to trace a sketch? How do you draw letters with the Pen Tool? How do you use Bezier Curves to draw vector lettering? How do you vectorize Procreate lettering?
Braintrust Creative's Lead Designer Edward Sun walks you through the BEST way (not the quickest way) to achieve the SMOOTHEST curves that are easy to edit and update after receiving revision requests. Use this method when drawing letterforms that need to be printed, scaled up (or down), re-used across a campaign, and stand the test of time.
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00:19 - The problem with Image Trace
00:49 - Preparing Illustrator layers to trace a sketch
01:13 - Setting up guides
02:25 - Rules #1 and #2 for drawing letters with the Pen Tool
02:40 - Plotting anchor points at outermost extrema with handles at 90º increments
04:56 - Rules #3 for drawing letters with the Pen Tool
05:18 - Making sure anchor point handles don't intersect
06:18 - Dealing with letters that contain corners
07:57 - Closing the letterform with the Pen Tool
08:37 - Refining anchor points, handles, and curves with the Direct Selection Tool
09:36 - Tips for drawing words with repeating letters and similar shapes
10:25 - Main benefits of using the Pen Tool instead of other methods
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