Hand Lettering Inspirational Quotes with Huston Wilson - 1 of 2 | Adobe Creative Cloud

Join lettering artist and designer Huston Wilson as he hand-letters two inspirational quotes on Adobe Live. Watch him bring his designs to life as he sketches in Fresco, vectorizes in Adobe Illustrator then adds unique effects and treatments in Photoshop! Stick around as Huston shares how he prepares his designs for social media then posts his work to a MAX Visual Conversation!

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Huston Wilson is a lettering artist snd designer based in Johannesburg, South Africa: https://www.behance.net/hustwilson

Host Arabela Espinoza is the Co-Founder of Weekend Creative, a Photographer and Art Director team based in the San Francisco Bay Area: https://www.behance.net/weekend-creative

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Chapters

00:00 Start

05:20 Huston walks us through his work

10:59 Starting with thumbnail sketches in Fresco

14:40 Where Huston gets his inspiration

22:05 Working with precision and clean lines while keeping texture

28:55 Fresco and how easy it is to pick up and use

31:24 How long does it take Huston to complete a project

34:42 Working over the sketch with cleaner lines

42:19 Continuing to work on the lettering - creating a 3d look

49:09 Discussing client work with ESPN - sketching in shadows

52:55 Importing work to AI and begging to vectorize artwork

56:12 Creating all of the letters with basic shapes

1:01:15 Cleaning up the vectors - removing extraneous points

1:08:15 Creating 3D type in Illustrator

1:10:39 Creating multiple color palettes for the “we can” quote

1:15:27 Changing the color and shape emphasis for the 2nd iteration

1:19:03 Huston talks about developing his style

1:21:23 Using Recolor Artwork for the 3rd iteration

1:25:12 Exporting artboards for working in Photoshop

1;28:21 Adding texture to the type in Photoshop - adding subtle details

1:36:50 Starting a 4th iteration - creating 3D type

1:47:17 Trusting your gut and experimenting

1:51:04 Recap of the work so far

1:54:16 Preview of the next quote

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