Are you a brush lettering buff, and you’ve been wanting to try something new with your brush pens? Then this post is for you! In this post, Reshu will be showing 3 new things you can do with your brush pens: bubble lettering, ribbon lettering and glitch lettering
About Reshu:
My name is Reshu Garg, and I am a full-time artist and calligrapher. I have been working in this field for the past four years. I specialize in various calligraphy scripts and am passionate about art and calligraphy. My main interests lie in watercolours and sketching, along with calligraphy, particularly broad-edged calligraphy scripts.
Supplies Required:
– Pencil
– Brush pens
– Watercolors
– Colored pencils or markers
(You can use any colouring medium, as these techniques are suitable for both kids and adults.)
Bubble Lettering:
Bubble lettering is a type of artistic writing where the letters appear puffed up, similar to bubbles. This style is commonly used in graphic design for creating logos, posters, and children’s books.
Steps to Create Bubble Lettering:
Draw monoline letters with a pencil.
Trace the letters with round, curved lines to create a bubble effect.
Erase the unnecessary inner lines and colour the letters, leaving highlights.
Outline the letters with a bold marker, then work on shadows and highlights. You can add any theme you like.
Ribbon Lettering:
Ribbon lettering transforms our letters and strokes into beautiful, flowing ribbons. With the proper light and shadow techniques, we can create a 3D effect, making the letters appear to have depth and dimension, similar to real ribbons.
Steps to Create Ribbon Lettering:
Draw a monoline letter with a pencil.
Outline your letter and add folds as shown in the reference image.
Colour your word in your chosen colour.
Use dark pencil colours to add shading to the folds.
Add shadows using a grey brush pen and highlights with a white gel pen.
Glitch Lettering:
Glitch lettering is an art form that embraces digital errors. This style features wavy letter outlines, pixelated or broken letterforms, overlapping or duplicated letters, and some blurry effects.
Steps to Create Glitch Lettering:
Draw monoline letters.
Trace them with a brush pen to create your normal calligraphy letters.
Use a light colour to add a shadow on the right side of every stroke (as shown in the reference image).
Add another light colour shadow on the left side of each stroke.
Using the same colours, draw small breaking lines on the right and left sides of each stroke with a white gel pen.
Incorporating new lettering styles into your artwork can truly enhance your creative journey, and these three techniques—bubble lettering, ribbon lettering, and glitch lettering—offer a fun and exciting way to experiment with your brush pens. Happy lettering, and I can’t wait to see what beautiful creations you come up with!