From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Hand Lettering

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Redrawing typefaces

Redrawing typefaces - Illustrator Tutorial

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Redrawing typefaces

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- [Instructor] Sometimes the styling on a project requires type that is compatible with it aesthetically. In this movie, I'm going to show you how you can take an established typeface and redraw it to achieve a better match with the design and type within it. This is best showing than explains, so let's jump into it. These are the analog tools that we're going to be using in this movie. And it's kind of funny because this was a long time ago. In the previous movie with image tracing, you saw some hand lettering I did where I actually used white out to touch it up. That was the last time I had used white out in like, man, maybe a decade or more. So, it'd been quite a while. But the artwork for this movie comes out of my archive and that goes back even farther. That goes back actually to 1989, It was shortly after I got a art school. I was working in a sportswear company. These are similar. Not the exact tools, obviously,…

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