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Jessica Hische Lettering
Posted by VisualPollution in
24 May 2010 — 3:52am
24 May 2010 — 3:52am
Hello everyone!
I'm really in love with all Jessica Hische lettering works!
Are they all custom made/handmade vector type?
Is there any specific technique or Illustrator tool that help us to make something like this?
Any tips for the "swirly" and "curly" decorations?
Thank you so much in advance!
Bye :)
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24 May 2010 — 5:23am
Are they all custom made/handmade vector type?
I would think so.
The small text in the second image is Mark Simonson’s Coquette.
25 May 2010 — 1:17am
She draws a lot by hand and scans. There's no "helpful tool" other than time, practice, and talent. Try the almighty pen tool.
25 May 2010 — 9:50am
Drawing a path and applying a stroke is the way to make flourishes in a drawing program, whether Illustrator or FontLab; apply contrast by dragging extrema points.
To figure out the shape of the swirls, it may help to study old calligraphy specimens and practice drawing the shapes with an ink pen; this is because soon after you've started a flourish, you have to start leaving gaps for later passes of its one long stroke, which requires enough "muscle memory" familiarity with the flourishes to think ahead.
25 May 2010 — 12:12pm
Working with circle/ellipse segments and keeping your Bezier handles orthagonal makes curve editing a lot easier...
26 May 2010 — 12:42pm
wow! thank you guys!
26 May 2010 — 4:29pm
Working with circle/ellipse segments and keeping your Bezier handles orthagonal makes curve editing a lot easier...
BTW do you know how to get rid of stray centre points once you've made segments from the original circles? I get this in Illustrator, and they aren't selectable with the direct select tool.
27 May 2010 — 12:43am
I don't think that's a point, it's just a marker showing you the center of the object.
27 May 2010 — 12:20pm
You might want to check her blog:
http://jessicahische.blogspot.com/
27 May 2010 — 1:51pm
That’s her old one. The new address is jessicahische.com/spendstoomuchtimeinternetting.
27 May 2010 — 7:38pm
I don't think that's a point, it's just a marker showing you the center of the object.
Is there any way to get rid of them?
27 May 2010 — 8:26pm
It's in the Attributes palette:
Be sure to select the object first.
I don't know if there is a way to change that centers are shown by default with new objects.
28 May 2010 — 8:28am
Thanks a lot Mark