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- Hi, my name is Mr. G, and I have a series
of lessons planned for you that are based off lettering.
First of all, I wanna let you guys know the materials
that you guys will need for today to do the project
that we have at hand.
One would be a ruler.
Two would be a sharpie.
Two colors preferable.
Three would be a pencil.
And four would be a good eraser.
And again, this is Mr. G's lesson
on starburst lettering, okay?
Welcome guys.
So we're gonna start off with just drawing a letter.
Just with this pencil here.
I'm gonna draw, and I'm gonna do a G,
because that's the start of my name.
And I want you guys to draw the letter pretty big,
so take up most of the paper.
Second thing that we're gonna do
is that we're gonna make this line drawing
into a block drawing.
So, I'm gonna expand on this.
So now, I've made a block letter.
And now I'm going to make a registration mark,
and that's just one simple dot.
So I'm gonna make a dot anywhere on the page,
preferably kind of in the center of your letter,
not off to the side.
And you'll see why I say that to you in a minute.
So I've made a dot.
Right there is my dot, and that's gonna
be my registration dot.
I'm going to bring six, that would be six lines through
this g and then we're gonna start to break it off
and make our negative and positive space.
So again, grabbing your ruler and your pencil.
First line will go through your registration mark,
or the little dot that you made on your page.
Now I will take and make my second.
And I'm going all the way to the end of the page, okay guys?
Don't have it not go all the way through the end
of the letters.
And again, you guys might make some mistakes,
that's why we have an eraser.
Okay so I have three lines now, now
this will be number four.
And then again, make sure you get all the way to the end.
And again, don't worry about fine tuning your design.
You're going to end up doing that.
Okay, so now, I'm gonna start looking
at how I'm gonna wanna put my black fills.
So, if I'm gonna have this one be black,
I always try to map out stuff.
Then I would have this one be black, and this one.
And I usually leave a little bit of a dot
on there just so I know which ones I need
to color what colors.
And that was another reason that I asked you
to make six lines, or an even number of lines,
so that you can have an even dispersion of opposites,
or positives and negatives.
Okay, so now, I have some elements
that I can already start to fill in in black.
So I'm going to start to fill.
And I want to give you guys a tip,
when you guys are using sharpies, you guys should try
to color as even as possible, and color all the way through
what you're coloring through to the end
so that you don't make darker marks on stuff
and I'll give an example of that now.
So again, try to get your fills
so that it's a nice even fill,
and that you are not getting any areas
that are lighter or darker than the other areas.
Might have to go over stuff a few times
to be able to get to that point.
And then, on the opposites you're going
to add what other color that you want.
Let me show you an example of it
when it would be filled just with black.
So now you can start to see the letter shapes form
and the letter forming with the black and white,
and you're seeing negatives and positive space.
Negative space would be the black,
positive space would be the white.
But we're gonna add another color to it okay,
so we're gonna add a green to it.
And I have...
So as I started to do this here with the black,
let's say that I'm gonna work with green,
I'm adding green opposite of it.
So I'm running black, green, then black.
So you're running opposites of your colors.
And again, take your time, go a little bit slower than I am.
Right now, I'm just trying to give you guys an idea
of what things look like.
And that's what you're gonna do throughout the whole piece.
So, somebody might go, here, where you're looking
at something that has a piece coming out,
but they're sectioned off pieces.
This would be green.
Where this one would be black,
and I'll fill those in real quick for you guys.
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And again, taking your time to get nice,
even lines with your colors.
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And then, something like this right here, would be black.
And then you're gonna work out
through your whole piece that way.
So I have an example of a finished piece.
And then you can see how you formed your letter shape,
and how you gave it some contrast.
Really cool thing to be able to work
with when your building up words and things of that nature.
And I'll give you some examples of negative
and positive space to use in word graphics too.
And there you go.
I hope that you guys had fun learning about negative
and positive space and applying it to a lettering technique.
Thank you, my name is Mr. Greg and I'll see you next time.
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