Welcome to another Smiling Colors video!

This is Smitha here today sharing a Brush lettering Compilation video.

In this video I hand letter many short quotes and positive phrases using brush pens.

What you will need: Today I will be showing examples of brush lettering, and I am using

the Tombow Dual Brush pens.

I am part of the Tombow design team and I have all 96 colors of the pens, but really

to start off you don't need all the colors.

You can start with just 10 pens and my favorite is this set with the BRIGHT colors.

Each of these pens have the brush tip that is necessary to do brush lettering.

It is important to set yourself up with good supplies.

When you begin with quality supplies you results are so much better!

With my dual brush pens today, I am using a Mixed media sketchbook.

I love this particular book- it has a nice spiral binding and is a combat 5.5 by 8.5

inches.

I do watercoloring, lettering, and marker art in this sketchbook mainly.

The paper you use with your brush pens must be smooth and I strongly suggest that you

go read my new blog post where I talk more about the different supplies and papers you

can use while using these brush pens.

In brush lettering your main aim is to create thick downstrokes by adding pressure to the

brush tip of your pen and you let go of that pressure on your upstrokes to achieve those

thin strokes.

The dramatic contrast between the thick and thin lines is what makes modern calligraphy

so pretty and eye catching.

I started brush lettering more than a year ago and I'll share a secret with you- it

takes practice and practice alone to get better at your brush lettering.

Someone asked me the other day if I took a class or learnt this anywhere.

No, I'm self taught and I learnt by making a lot of mistakes.

Trial and error for the win!

While lettering, you don't always have to write your quote from the top down.

Like here, I am lettering “Be your best self” and as you saw I started in the center

of the page and am working from there.

I went and made the letters of the word BE much larger here to align with the words below.

In this example here, I started similarly in the middle of the page and then since I

needed to fit a longer word at the top, I switched from the brush tip to the marker

tip to create a thin font style.

It is pretty neat that these Dual Brush pens come with both the marker and brush tips.

I often mix and match font styles while lettering a larger phrase or quote.

I used an all capital chunky style in one line and then a script like font on the next

line.

There are many fun font styles that you can try out and there are many free printable

available online that you can print and practice with.

I will link to a few of my favorites in my blog post.

For this particular quote, I took a few extra minutes to make it colorful and rainbow themed.

I used the blender pen to pick colors off of a blending palette to create softer shades

of the bright colored markers.

This is a great way to stretch your supplies and use your bright colored pens to create

pastel tones.

That's why I love that blender pen!

See more videos of this blender pen in action by clicking up here.

For me brush lettering is not just about the style of lettering, it is also a lot about

the words.

Simply sitting down with for a few minutes with my pen and paper and writing down some

positive thankful words changes my perspective of the day.

So that's my tip here: write it down.

This Handmade with love is one of my favorite letterings.

The orange color is a favorite of mine and I have used it over and over.

After many uses you might see that the brush tip starts to fray.

Frayed brush tips make it difficult to draw those thin upstrokes.

There are ways you can prevent your brush pens from fraying quickly.

The number one thing you need to pay attention to is the paper you are using.

The smoother the paper the more you will enjoy your lettering time and less you will end

up fraying your brush pen.

I list a bunch of my favorite sketchbooks and paper pads on my blog and if you are interested

you can find all of that information and links on my website smilingcolors.com.

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Hope you have a great day and get creating!