You want beautiful rainbow blends but don’t want to ruin your brush pens? In this tutorial, I’ll show you rainbow lettering with Tombow Dual Brush pens using faux calligraphy. You may or may not know that lettering with brush pens on watercolor paper will fray your brush pens really quickly. However, blending on watercolor paper …
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Are you learning calligraphy, a hand lettering beginner, but don’t know where to start? This faux calligraphy or fauxligraphy basics tutorial is for you! I LOVE fauxligraphy. This is how I started learning lettering and it really helped me to understand the thin upstrokes and thick downstrokes when I started using a brush pen. One …
Do you want to add rainbow colors to your hand lettering? Learn to create a rainbow watercolor background with brush pens you already have as watercolor! You can use any colors, but my favorite is the rainbow blends so that is what I will show you here. I know watercolor is expensive and it can …
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Fauxligraphy is the best way to learn hand lettering. I want to show you how to do faux calligraphy with brush pens to help you experiment with your lettering style. This is a simple way to add something different to your hand lettering that anyone can do. It definitely makes your lettering stand out. If …
I often get asked, “How do you get good at calligraphy?” Talking about hand lettering is obviously my favorite thing to do, but with this, there isn’t a simple answer! Because what’s the difference between hand lettering, calligraphy, brush lettering, typography, and modern calligraphy? Let’s define that! Do you want to improve your hand lettering …
If you’ve been around for a while, you know I’m all about that confident hand lettering style. But do you even know what a ” lettering style” means? I want to help you create your unique hand lettering style by showing you how to connect letters to create your lettering style. So what is a …
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Are you a hand lettering beginner wondering what the best brush pens for beginners are? By far the question I get asked the most is “what are the best brush pens for beginners?” In this post I’m going to show you that brush lettering is simple with my 3 favorite brush pens for brush lettering …
Do you practice the basic strokes? Hand lettering the basic strokes is such an important part of learning hand lettering! If you can master each of the basic strokes, you can master any letter. I will show you each basic stroke here, and I will tell you how to download your very own free hand …
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Are you obsessed with lettering videos and art videos? They’re all the rage, right? If you’ve seen my Instagram feed, you know that 95% of my posts are all videos. I have wanted to make lettering videos from the very beginning of my lettering journey. Because I have always loved watching them, and still do. …
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Fearless Lettering is back in stock! Grab your digital workbook here. Hello! I’m Sarah, owner of Ensign Insights, hand letter artist, and ice cream connoisseur. I started lettering during a time when I needed to be reminded how to be happy. Lettering became my therapy. But I started seeing so much talent and realized that I …