Abbey Sy is an artist, best-selling author, and creative entrepreneur from Manila, Philippines. Her penchant for analog-style documenting, reading books, and exploring the world ignites her passion for making art and sharing stories. Her work is characterized by a keen eye for detail and an ability to capture the beauty in everyday moments, offering readers inspiration and delight.
The Art of the Travel Journal offers all the techniques, ideas, inspiration, and step-by-step instructions needed to create artful, one-of-a-kind journals filled with drawings, ephemera, lettering, and more that document our lives traveling around the world—or around the corner.
Removable practice sheets in a range of lettering styles from traditional to modern and for a variety of lettering mediums; includes basic instruction and offers guidance and inspiration throughout.
The book begins with an overview of tools and materials, both traditional (pointed pen and fountain pen) and modern (including brush markers and chalk), then presents a visual glossary of letterforms, highlights the unique characteristics of the featured alphabets, and demonstrates how to draw letterforms to foster an understanding of how they're created. The core chapters explore traditional, modern, and special effects lettering using a variety of mark-making tools, with in-depth how-to on adding flourishes and other special details, plus creative projects. There's also an introduction to modifying and creating letterforms digitally, as well as practice sheets for the featured alphabets. So whether you've never tried lettering before or you'd like to develop your skills and consider all your creative options, The Complete Photo Guide to Hand Lettering and Calligraphy will guide and inspire you on your lettering journey.
Learn to draw your own alphabet as Abbey Sy and other artists teach you the art of hand lettering!