Super Simple Hand Lettering: 20 Traceable Alphabets, Easy Projects, Practice Sheets & More! (Design Originals) Includes Technique Guides, Skill-Building Exercises, Art Prints, & Vellum Tracing Paper
Super Simple Hand Lettering: 20 Traceable Alphabets, Easy Projects, Practice Sheets & More! (Design Originals) Includes Technique Guides, Skill-Building Exercises, Art Prints, & Vellum Tracing Paper book cover

Super Simple Hand Lettering: 20 Traceable Alphabets, Easy Projects, Practice Sheets & More! (Design Originals) Includes Technique Guides, Skill-Building Exercises, Art Prints, & Vellum Tracing Paper

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Price
$16.13
Format
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Design Originals
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1497203716
Dimensions
8.5 x 0.6 x 10.9 inches
Weight
1.35 pounds

Description

Super Simple Hand Lettering: 20 Traceable Alphabets, Easy Projects, Practice Sheets & More! by Kiley Bennett includes all the alphabets for the different styles lettering. She has illustrations of which direction to begin your lettering had where to fill the area in more. Even for someone that doesn't have pretty handwriting she makes it easy for your letters to be pretty too. --Outnumbered 3 to 1 Book Description Transform simple words into stunning works of art with this interactive workbook. Super Simple Hand Lettering gets you started right away with 20 traceable alphabets, 5 skill-building projects, quality vellum tracing paper, and 4 frameable pullout art prints. Learn to Letter Transform simple words into stunning works of art with this easy introduction to hand lettering! Super Simple Hand Lettering is a valuable resource for any artist, whether you're a complete novice or an experienced designer looking to expand your technique. Learn to create your own unique lettering for everything from thank you notes to photo mats, mugs, clipboards, and more. Hand lettering expert Kiley Bennett gets you started right away with sage advice, traceable alphabets, inspirational prints, and fun lettering projects. Inside you'll find everything you need to get started on your hand lettering adventure: 20 Traceable Alphabets 20 Traceable Alphabets Guide to Tools and Techniques Guide to Tools and Techniques Useful Practice Exercises Useful Practice Exercises Fun Lettering Projects Fun Lettering Projects Frameable Pullout Art Prints Frameable Pullout Art Prints Handy Tracing Paper Handy Tracing Paper Kiley Bennett is the brush-lettering artist, teacher, and blogger behind Kiley in Kentucky ( www.kileyinkentucky.com ). After getting her start in 2015 by experimenting with a couple of brush pens on her lunch break, Kiley now has a combined 40,000 followers across all of her platforms, and her hand-lettering tutorials get 20,000+ monthly views. Kiley Bennett is a professional brush-lettering artist, teacher, podcaster, Etsy shop owner, and TombowUSA Brand Ambassador. She is the hand letterer and blogger behind Kiley in Kentucky (kileyinkentucky.com) and has a large following on Instagram. Kiley teaches hand lettering online via her YouTube channel, as well as in-person classes to students from around the world. She runs her business from her home in Southern Illinois. Though Kiley is no longer in Kentucky, she will always have a serious love for all things Bluegrass. Read more

Features & Highlights

  • Discover how to transform simple words into stunning works of art with this interactive workbook!
  • 20 traceable alphabets, both lowercase and uppercase, let you get started lettering right away
  • 20 traceable alphabets
  • , both lowercase and uppercase, let you get started lettering right away
  • A beginner-friendly guide to tools and techniques is included, for an easy introduction to creative hand lettering for absolute beginners
  • A beginner-friendly guide
  • to tools and techniques is included, for an easy introduction to creative hand lettering for absolute beginners
  • 4 skill-building practice exercises help build your lettering skills
  • 4 skill-building practice exercises
  • help build your lettering skills
  • 5 easy-to-execute projects incorporate the hand lettering skills you've learned
  • 5 easy-to-execute projects
  • incorporate the hand lettering skills you've learned
  • 4 frameable pullout art prints to display, gift, or embellish
  • 4 frameable pullout art prints
  • to display, gift, or embellish
  • Quality vellum tracing paper to practice your lettering
  • Quality vellum tracing paper
  • to practice your lettering
  • Color gallery of finished art to inspire your creativity
  • Color gallery
  • of finished art to inspire your creativity
  • Drawing beautiful letters by hand may seem intimidating, but it doesn't have to be! "Kiley in Kentucky" hand lettering expert Kiley Bennett gets you started right away with 20 traceable alphabets. She guides you through five skill-building projects to let you practice drawing each upper and lower case letter.
  • This interactive workbook also provides quality vellum tracing paper, along with four frameable pullout art prints and an inspirational art gallery.
  • Super Simple Hand Lettering
  • is a valuable resource for any artist, whether you're a complete novice or an experienced designer looking to expand your technique and toolkit. You'll learn to create your own unique lettering for everything from art journals and scrapbooks to greeting cards, gift tags, invitations, and more.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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love it. to the point

love it. to the point. 20 full fonts upper and lower case. tracing paper. good price. author thought of everything and is very thoughtful to her readers. Thank u just what i needed wish i had found this before buying the 10 before this
82 people found this helpful
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Great beginner book for brush tip pens

Of all the lettering books I have gotten, this one is my favorite for a beginner using brush tip pens! There are a few material recommendations at the beginning of the book, lots of easily traceable alphabets and a few extra tips/tricks you can try in the back of the book. I recommend getting tracing paper along with this book so you can continuously practice writing over the alphabets, as there is really only one practice page for each alphabet.
74 people found this helpful
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Off to a good start

This book has lots of modern, useable Alphabets to copy, trace, and learn. The instructions are brief and direct. Would like a little bit more explanation on how to string the letters together to make words. Overall, a good book.
44 people found this helpful
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A great help with my lettering.

I usually don't like to buy books online because I can't look through it. I'm never sure if it's what I'm looking for. This was a pleasant surprise! It's the first such book that actually has some instructions. Plenty of practice space. I'm very happy I bought it.
38 people found this helpful
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Excellent book for a beginner in hand lettering !

This book was just what I was looking for . I wanted a lot of examples of different lettering . I especially like the worksheets set up so you can trace the letters and then try them on your own .
35 people found this helpful
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Fun book if you're looking for different fonts/styles to practice

Bought as a gift for a friend and almost kept it myself. The book provides several alphabets in different styles for the reader to practice tracing. It even comes with some tracing paper to practice with. I might end up buying myself a copy.
30 people found this helpful
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Real Super Simple!

Super simple! Still struggling to find my style. This has helped me to get closer to choosing. Twenty different Alphabet styles both uppercase and lowercase to practice.There is a page for flourishes and project ideas at end of book
25 people found this helpful
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Misleading Cover, Vague Guidelines

I purchased this book because I wanted to practice writing like the style featured on the cover - particularly with the "practice sheet" featured on the cover.

Turns out... This font is not one of the 20 featured in the book, and the practice sheets do not look anything like those on the cover.

On the plus side, the book does feature a few useful tips on brush stroke technique and choosing supplies, including four types of a brushes/nibs. Also, there are a few pieces of tracing paper inserted into the back!

It's confusing that nowhere does the book provide specific guidance on which types of nibs/brushes to use for each of the 20 fonts (although somewhere earlier it mentions that you'll definitely want to use specific pens for specific fonts...).

Overall, if you are looking for a legitimate learning resource, there are far better options out there. This book is simply too simple.
16 people found this helpful
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Great value, best hand lettering book I’ve tried so far

This book is the best hand lettering book I’ve tried so far. It starts with 21 pages of typical intro to paper, materials and hand lettering basics and a gallery of example layouts/projects. Then it gets into the pages with the 20 different styles/alphabets. Each style Includes suggested uses, a page each of traceable letters for the upper and lower case, and a page each showing the directions and order of the strokes for the upper and lower case. Intermingled in these pages are 4 exercises on turning non-serif letters into serif, mixing and matching styles, adding flourishes, and creating your own alphabet. This is followed by 4 removable pages of lettering art. The book wraps up with detailed instructions for 5 projects, lined practice pages and vellum paper for tracing.
10 people found this helpful
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A nice, but glorified tracing book

This book is definitely a reminder that more is not always better. It's definitely a good book for inspiration, but there's just so many styles and not nearly enough guidelines that I can't really recommend it. I suppose if you want a style for everything, then it's a good choice, but really, how often are you going to use styles 19 or 20, which have so much flourish they're partially illegible.

I wavered b/t 3 and 4 starts, but settled on 3 because I really do think this book could've been 10-15 good styles, but included more practicing and that would've improved it immensely. It does some nice serif fonts though which few books have so I do commend it for that.
9 people found this helpful

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