Category Archives: Sketches

Happy 2009!

By Josh | Published: January 1, 2009

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ruling pen practice

By Josh | Published: June 30, 2008

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More brush work

By Josh | Published: June 17, 2008

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Ok, so it’s totally embarrassing how long it’s been since I’ve posted. Umm……. Sorry?
Teaching took up more time than I expected (more on the awesomeness of my class later) and we just bought and moved in to a house (yeah, like real grown-ups!). Class is over and I’m all settled in now so 26 Symbols [...]

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The Cherry Blosoms…

By Josh | Published: February 11, 2008

I’ve decided it’s time to put some structure behind my crazy lettering so I’m going back to fundamentals. I’ve been focusing on drawing skeleton (or monoline) capitals. This will help me create better forms when I loosen back up.
This example however, is a casual interpretation of skeleton capitals.

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Alpha 06

By Josh | Published: November 4, 2007

This fat, experimental alphabet was done in Illustrator using my Wacom tablet. I created a calligraphic brush with these settings: Angle 30º, Roundness 50% and Diameter 300pt with Pressure Variation set to 300 pt. I wanted to see what a brush with a huge range of pressure sensitivity would do. Here you can see the [...]

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Ghoulish Glyphs 06: Happy Halloween!

By Josh | Published: October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween! Make it a great one!
I used a Brause broad-edge nib and black Sumi ink on the chipboard back cover of a sketch book for this one. Oh yeah, and a bit o’ Photoshop of course. This is the original scan.
Ghoulish Glyphs has been fun. I look forward to doing it again next year.

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Ghoulish Glyphs 05: Werewolf!?

By Josh | Published: October 29, 2007

This is one of my Dad’s favorite lines from the hilarious Mel Brooks film, Young Frankenstein. The full quote is actually;
Inga: Werewolf!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Werewolf?
Igor: There.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What?
Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way.
Igor: I thought you wanted to.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, I don’t want to.
Igor: Suit yourself. [...]

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Ghoulish Glyphs 03: Spider!

By Josh | Published: October 18, 2007

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Ghoulish Glyphs 02: Zombies!

By Josh | Published: October 16, 2007

It’s a zombie double feature!

By the way all images can be clicked to view a larger image. Fancy popups provided by Lightbox 2.

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Ghoulish Glyphs 01: Jack-O-Lantern

By Josh | Published: October 15, 2007

From now until the 31st, I’ll be keeping 26 symbols Halloween themed with Ghoulish Glyphs. Look out for creepy characters, spooky words and phrases and maybe a bone-chilling alphabet.

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Continuous line alphabet

By Josh | Published: October 10, 2007

Alphabet drawn without picking up the pen.

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Alpha 04

By Josh | Published: October 8, 2007

Sorry, Bamboo. It was back to good ol’ paper and pen for this one.

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Bamboo alphabet

By Josh | Published: September 30, 2007

First Alphabet drawn with my new Wacom Bamboo. Created entirely in Photoshop using a custom brush with the following settings; size 60 px, 138° angle, 32% roundness, 10% spacing with shape dynamics set to pen pressure.

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