Letterforms & Typography class

Pencil strokes exercise

This class is a meditation in drawing letterforms. You will need a 14×17 pad of drawing paper, an HB pencil, and a sharpener (you may use an eraser, although the goal is to go slowly and not erase). 

We will work for at least one hour, twice a week. You will see the development of consistent lines, even spacing, and a consistent texture on the page that is unique to your own hand moving across the page.

We will learn physically how to pull the vertical lines first, establishing consistent spacing between strokes and placement on the page—we use no guidelines. Through the practice of drawing lines slowly and evenly, making our pencil strokes with a “pressure-release-pressure” method, we will develop a unique and uniform texture on the page. From vertical lines we move to half-horizontal, diagonal, and half circle lines. After significant practice in these basic typographic strokes, we will form Roman capital letterforms on the page. 

Estimate 8 weeks
Monday, Thursday at 3pm, HIVE