“There are a few different ways of doing it,” says Mackenzie-Gray. “You can draw a design, print it up on acetate, project it onto the wall, trace it onto wrapping paper, and then use the pounce, (or pounce-wheel), running it over the design perforates the paper, and then use a chalk pad. You put your design on the wall where you want it, bang the chalk pad through, take the paper off and you’ve got a dotted line. A lot of these methods are hundreds of years old; things haven’t changed much at all.”

After graduating with a degree in graphic design at LCC, with a focus on typography, Mackenzie-Gray took a leap of faith and opened his business, Toucan Signs. His intuition seemed to have proved correct. Working both digitally and by hand, his signs can be seen at Honest Burgers and the Museum of London, with his painting surfaces varying to include brick walls, gloss, shop faces, and glass.

But you can also follow his creative thought process on his Instagram page:

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“I think that it’s important for all designers to be good at drawing, even if their work is completely digital,” she told The Design Kids.”Drawing is such an immediate way to jot down ideas and iterate. It’s much more fluid than working ideas out digitally.”

Her work, a blend of digital and analog, begins in a pencil sketch. From there, the final output depends on the purpose. “For hand-painted signs, the entire process is analog,” she explains. “For designs that utilize hand-painted letters, but have final output that is print or digital, I scan in the lettering to manipulate in Photoshop. Other times, when something needs to be scaleable, my sketch is vectorized in Illustrator.” 

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area her work is very much in tune with her day to day life. And when she’s not illustrating or lettering, you can find her playing in her garden, cooking up something tasty, beekeeping, or rock climbing with friends. A healthy, adventurous lifestyle we very much envy.

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Growing up in rural Kansas, calligrapher Lindsey Bugbee had to find creative ways to keep busy. That was when she discovered her knack for art. “I discovered that making art was a great way to have fun,” she recalled in an interview with Sweet Meadow. “My mother didn’t mind letting me draw or paint on certain walls, and we had a sand driveway that I could make line drawings in after it rained. My grandmother used to color and paint with me, and I remember watching her and thinking, ‘I wish I could keep inside the lines like that!’”

Now, years later and based in Boulder, Colorado, where she shares a home with her husband and baby boy, she treats art as a career. A full-time calligraphy artist and teacher, Bugbee has mastered the art of lettering and passes it on to her many fans. With almost 100k followers on Instagram – she clearly has her work cut out for her.

“I think that pretty penmanship comes with being able to draw,” she says. “If you can convincingly depict a 3D object onto a 2D object (e.g. draw a sunflower on a piece of paper), you can write. It just takes a steady hand and some practice! I don’t use traditional calligraphy styles, though; I like making up styles as I go. Often I create new styles depending on the client and what I think will be best for their event.”

Her untraditional calligraphy styles have sure caught our attention!

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Check out Lewis’ work below and follow him on Instagram if you want to see more! He also shares the process of creating his pieces there.

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“There are a few different ways of doing it,” says Mackenzie-Gray. “You can draw a design, print it up on acetate, project it onto the wall, trace it onto wrapping paper, and then use the pounce, (or pounce-wheel), running it over the design perforates the paper, and then use a chalk pad. You put your design on the wall where you want it, bang the chalk pad through, take the paper off and you’ve got a dotted line. A lot of these methods are hundreds of years old; things haven’t changed much at all.”

After graduating with a degree in graphic design at LCC, with a focus on typography, Mackenzie-Gray took a leap of faith and opened his business, Toucan Signs. His intuition seemed to have proved correct. Working both digitally and by hand, his signs can be seen at Honest Burgers and the Museum of London, with his painting surfaces varying to include brick walls, gloss, shop faces, and glass.

But you can also follow his creative thought process on his Instagram page:

The post Commission This Typography Expert to Upgrade Your Storefront appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I think that it’s important for all designers to be good at drawing, even if their work is completely digital,” she told The Design Kids.”Drawing is such an immediate way to jot down ideas and iterate. It’s much more fluid than working ideas out digitally.”

Her work, a blend of digital and analog, begins in a pencil sketch. From there, the final output depends on the purpose. “For hand-painted signs, the entire process is analog,” she explains. “For designs that utilize hand-painted letters, but have final output that is print or digital, I scan in the lettering to manipulate in Photoshop. Other times, when something needs to be scaleable, my sketch is vectorized in Illustrator.” 

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area her work is very much in tune with her day to day life. And when she’s not illustrating or lettering, you can find her playing in her garden, cooking up something tasty, beekeeping, or rock climbing with friends. A healthy, adventurous lifestyle we very much envy.

The post The Nostalgic Hand Painted Signs and Murals of Heather Hardison appeared first on TettyBetty.

Growing up in rural Kansas, calligrapher Lindsey Bugbee had to find creative ways to keep busy. That was when she discovered her knack for art. “I discovered that making art was a great way to have fun,” she recalled in an interview with Sweet Meadow. “My mother didn’t mind letting me draw or paint on certain walls, and we had a sand driveway that I could make line drawings in after it rained. My grandmother used to color and paint with me, and I remember watching her and thinking, ‘I wish I could keep inside the lines like that!’”

Now, years later and based in Boulder, Colorado, where she shares a home with her husband and baby boy, she treats art as a career. A full-time calligraphy artist and teacher, Bugbee has mastered the art of lettering and passes it on to her many fans. With almost 100k followers on Instagram – she clearly has her work cut out for her.

“I think that pretty penmanship comes with being able to draw,” she says. “If you can convincingly depict a 3D object onto a 2D object (e.g. draw a sunflower on a piece of paper), you can write. It just takes a steady hand and some practice! I don’t use traditional calligraphy styles, though; I like making up styles as I go. Often I create new styles depending on the client and what I think will be best for their event.”

Her untraditional calligraphy styles have sure caught our attention!

The post Lindsey Bugbee is a Master In Calligraphy appeared first on TettyBetty.

Check out Lewis’ work below and follow him on Instagram if you want to see more! He also shares the process of creating his pieces there.

The post Amazing 3D Lettering by James Lewis appeared first on TettyBetty.