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    Lettering for Planners: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond (Learn Calligraphy)
    Lettering for Planners: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond (Learn Calligraphy)
    Lettering for Planners: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond (Learn Calligraphy)
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    Lettering for Planners: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond (Learn Calligraphy)

    By Jillian Reece and Jordan Truster

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    Easy Guide to Modern Calligraphy and Hand Lettering

    “If you thought you couldn’t learn lettering, Jillian and Jordan will show you that you can.” —Erin Domoney of The Petite Planner

    #1 Best Seller in Calligraphy

    Learn calligraphy from two accomplished calligraphy experts

    Calligraphy for your journal aesthetic. Beautiful "bullet journals" are popping up all over Instagram and Pinterest. The joys of decorating the pages with drawings and lettering are many. If you want to start your own bullet journal or if you want to improve your journal aesthetic, this book is for you. Get this informational workbook that teaches lettering styles to help you organize and beautify your everyday life.

    Learn calligraphy. Follow a step-by-step guide to creating a basic hand-lettered alphabet for beginners. Then learn five additional alphabet examples in assorted styles, explore letter variations, and choose your favorites that best fit your style.

    Hand lettering workbook. You’ll learn how to build words using common word examples like days of the week, months of the year, and other words commonly found in planners. After learning the script styles, you’ll learn concepts of composition by discovering how to mix and match styles of lettering in creative ways.

    Learn all the components of lettering. You’ll also learn some key “don’ts” of lettering to avoid. Also find step-by-step instructions on how to draw decorations to embellish lettering including shadows, borders, banners, and flourishes.

    Also discover:

    • Five lowercase and capital stylistic alphabets
    • How to find your own lettering style
    • What not to do when lettering

    Fans of The Ultimate Guide to Modern Calligraphy & Hand Lettering for Beginners; CalligraphyPaper, Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy Notepad; Creative Lettering and Beyond; or The Complete Book of Lettering will love Lettering for Planners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTMA Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2019
    ISBN9781633539266
    Lettering for Planners: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond (Learn Calligraphy)
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    Jillian Reece

    Jillian & Jordan are twin sisters who teach calligraphy through online courses. The sisters took a calligraphy class when they were in middle school and became obsessed with hand lettering, adding lettering to their notebooks and journals throughout their years in school. After graduating from the same college, they moved to two different states and lived apart for the first time in their lives and used lettering and other crafts to stay connected. In 2015, they founded Loveleigh Loops. They’ve created a highly engaged and supportive online community and built a global following of over 50,000 across their online channels. Their background in analytical fields (Jillian was a data analyst and Jordan was an engineer) have influenced their teaching methods. They’re able to breakdown the complicated discipline of calligraphy into a step-by-step system that even complete beginners can understand. The sisters are passionate about helping letterers of all levels become the artist they know they can be.

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    • 4/5
      An excellent book for beginners or people who have wondering how to even start handlettering in their planners. (Or anywhere, really.) I really enjoyed the thoroughness of the examples, and the fact there are simple banner and botanical embellishment how-tos. That's a really nice touch for people who want a little more deco to their planner pages.

      If you're a novice or have done the #LoveYourLettering challenge/starter course, then there's not much in here that's going to be new to you. A few tidbits here and there, but nothing that would merit actually buying the book. (Read it here on Scribd, or ask at your public library.)

      If you're a beginner or just starting out, then by all means give this book a go and see where it takes you! I would probably recommend the physical copy, since it's got those dot grid practice pages at the end of each chapter, but you can also just haul out a regular lined notebook and grab a pencil & a ballpoint pen to get going.

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    Lettering for Planners - Jillian Reece

    Copyright © 2019 Jordan Truster & Jillian Reece.

    Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

    Cover and Layout Design: Elina Diaz

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    Lettering for Planners: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond

    Library of Congress Cataloging

    ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-925-9 (ebook) 978-1-63353-926-6

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962596

    BISAC category code: ART003000 ART / Techniques / Calligraphy

    Printed in the United States of America

    Contents

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 How Do I Incorporate Lettering Into My Planner?

    Chapter 2 Lettering Overview

    Chapter 3 What Are the Characteristics of Calligraphy?

    Chapter 4 Downstroke Creation

    Chapter 5 Basic Strokes

    Chapter 6 Creating Lowercase Script Letters

    Chapter 7 Connecting Lowercase Letters

    Chapter 8 Block Capital Letters

    Chapter 9 Script Capital Letters

    Chapter 10 Incorporating Capitals Into Words

    Chapter 11 Numbers

    Chapter 12 How to Experiment with Your Style

    Chapter 13 Flourishing

    Chapter 14 Decorations and Embellishments

    Chapter 15 Composition: Putting It All Together

    Chapter 16 Alphabet Examples

    Chapter 17 Word Examples

    Conclusion

    Acknowledgments

    About the Authors

    Introduction

    So, you love your to-do lists. But you’re not the type of person to just grab the nearest scrap of paper and pen to scribble down tasks.

    No. You’re the kind of person who appreciates organization and adds your creativity into something as everyday as a planner. (We totally get it, even if your friends and family don’t!)

    Your tasks, schedule, and notes deserve more than a scribble, and maybe you’ve tried your hand at decorative lettering but you’re just not sure where to start. You’re afraid to ruin the pages of your journal and so you’ve stayed away from getting too fancy. Sound like you? We’ve got you covered!

    We’ll walk you through the steps of how to hand letter a basic script alphabet with confidence, focusing on the basics to build up a strong foundation for the details. Then, we’ll move into more letter styles and embellishments so that you can create truly unique lettering. We have tons of examples of dos and don’ts throughout the book to help you learn.

    There are lots of benefits to learning hand lettering, particularly in the context of journaling.

    •It’s a relaxing and therapeutic hands-on activity, especially in our digital age

    •You can do it anywhere, unlike some other crafts and hobbies

    •It’s completely customizable (no need to search for a stencil or buy a bunch of fonts!)

    The best part? It doesn’t take a long time to learn, and you don’t need to buy fancy calligraphy supplies. You can get started today with supplies you already have.

    From Jillian

    You know those small moments in life that you never expected and will never forget?

    I was in eighth grade. I always decorated my homework pages with colorful lettering and borders and doodles. If anyone could make the words Chapter 12: Homework look less boring, it was me!

    Anyway… One spring afternoon after turning in my homework, my history teacher, Mr. B, told me to see him after class. Mind you, I was the straight-A student who never got in trouble, so I was terrified.

    After forty-five nerve-wracking minutes of class,

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