Anything galaxy seems to be the latest trend and I jump on the bandwagon right away. Another thing I’ve been crazy about lately is hand lettering. I know it’s been around for awhile, but instagram has made it into some sort of masterpiece. I mean, not to be a snob but even before this hand lettering trend, I already consider myself to have a pretty neat handwriting. So, I thought it shouldn’t be too difficult to make one. But in reality it’s quite a challenge because it requires delicacy and flexibility (the current eating canvas logo shows how much I was failing, guys, I will definitely update the logo to prettier one).
I learned a lot from Instagram but here’s the basic key:
Downstrokes are thick, upstrokes are thin.
You master that, you own it. To completely master that though, I need a lot of practice so that my hand can remember to apply pressure firmly for downstrokes and to not apply pressure when doing upstrokes. I will skip the basic because so many have created the guide for it. Here is a good start to learn hand lettering (because it’s free):
By Dawn Nicole
Grace Song Calligraphy
I first saw galaxy hand lettering from Grace Song on Instagram and although she showed snippets of how it’s done on her instagram, I want to create more step by step guide for beginners. Because, who understands beginners most if not a comrade beginner, right?
You’ll need:
- Brush #3, #1, and #000 (if you have #0000 it’s even better)
- Blue-ish purple water color
- Pink water color
- White water color
- Water color paper (or thick drawing paper)
- A cup of water
- Napkins
- A colored pencil with the color of your choice
- Find quotes or words you want to write
- Hand letter it with pencil first. I used violet colored pencil so that the color will blend when I trace it with water color.
- Trace stroke by stroke with brush #3 dipped in purple water color. Use more water than usual because you’ll need to blend the next color for the galaxy effect, but not too much or it will make blobs of water.
- After a word is done, grab brush #1 to add a pink color to the top (or bottom, depending on how you want to make your gradation) part of the letters. Blend with the purple colored brush. Do this step before the purple is completely dried. This step also allows you to fix some imperfections by blending it smoothly.
- When all the words are done, with the smallest brush possible, do white dots randomly as if you fill the letters with stars. Do variations on the size of the white dots to create that galaxy effect.
You can also choose other colors. I tried marine blue and green and it still created that galaxy effect. Or, if you just want some gradation, skip the last step 🙂
It may not be the best guide but I hope you get the big idea of it. Hand letters also have some variations and you can certainly make your own version but this post will probably explain and inspire you most.
More galaxy trend:
- Galaxy eye make up by The Blushing Rabbit
- Galaxy mirror cake by Rosanna Pansino (I’m totally trying this out, will blog about it if it works!)
EATING CANVAS 