Select one of the sketches that you think is best for your tshirt design. I played around with my natural cursive handwriting, which I will turn into a thick brush-like script. Experiment with lettering shapes, angles, and compositions. As a beginner, start by quickly sketching out the concept ideas through thumbnail sketches. You will be able to adjust the thickness, curves, and balance of the design later on. The sketch will be used just as reference material. In celebration of Envato's France culture week, we’re going to draw the French phrase ' Fou D'amour' meaning 'Crazy in Love'. I prefer to use either Adobe Photoshop or Procreate for sketching, cleaning pencil marks, correcting, spacing, alignment, and adjusting proportions. You can use a traditional pen or ink and paper to sketch and scan, or you can use your choice of digital pen and tablet. To kickstart the process, let's whip up a quick rough sketch. 1. How to Sketch & Plot the Hand Lettering Step 1

If you want to find hand-lettering images or get inspired, please visit GraphicRiver. We will begin with a concept sketch and move on to learn how to vector the design in Adobe Illustrator.Īlong the way, you will learn some lettering tips and techniques that will enhance your lettering skills. This tutorial is for beginners who want to start the art of hand lettering, not just for t-shirt design, but also for anything else, like a book cover, mug design, or art print. In this tutorial, I would like to share with you the artistic process of creating a unique, personalised hand-lettering design and transforming it digitally into a ready-to-print T-shirt design.

Creating t shirt designs in illustrator