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I'm Stephen Pies, a freelance lettering artist from Portland, Oregon
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Lettering and design tutorials
Designing Successful Compositions
A lettering composition is a group of words and sometimes other elements, formatted together as a single design. This tutorial ...
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Digital Tips and Tricks - Adobe Illustrator
This post includes my top 10 tips and tricks for tracing hand lettering in adobe illustrator. 1. Create as many ...
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Different Ways to Digitize Lettering
Learning to digitize lettering opens the doors to new possibilities. Digital lettering can be used on the web or printed ...
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Intro to Hand Lettering
Hand lettering is the process of artfully crafting letters. This post is an introduction to the different categories of lettering, ...
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Using Lines and Shapes to Guide Your Lettering
Guidelines are tools used to create structure, balance and consistency within lettering. In this post, I'll cover the basics, how ...
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Finding Nice Flourishes
Flourishes are decorative elements that can extend from letters or stand on their own. By developing an understanding what to ...
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Rider Critique
Jonathan, a subscriber to the Piesletter, came up with an awesome idea for a blog post. He suggested sending me ...
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Script Lettering Illustration Process
This is how I revise a rough sketch into a final illustration. Below, is a section on script lettering. In ...
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Tracing with the pen tool using Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial will teach you how to convert your hand lettering into a vector graphic using the pen tool in ...
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