handlettering resources
My preferred tools
In my bag:
Sharpie, Fine Point
Papermate Flair, Medium Point
Pentel Sign Pen
Pencil and Pentel Hi-Polymer Erasers (any white eraser can do the job)
On my desk:
Towbow Dual Brush Pen
Pilot Parallel Pens
Crayola Supertips (a great budget marker!)
Canson Mixed Media Sketchbook (get the large ones)
Rhodia journals
Smooth Laser Paper
Practice and instructional Books and sites
Modern Mark Making (just reintroduced as Modern Calligraphy and Hand Lettering) by Lisa Engelbrecht
Hand Lettering Ledger by Mary Kate McDevitt
The Daily Lettering Journal by Prairie Letter Shop
Jenny Highsmith Learn Hand Lettering
Tombow Lettering Guide download
inspirational BOOKS
Steal like an Artist Journal by Austin Kleon
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickenson
Hand to Type: Scripts, Hand-lettering and Calligraphy by J Middendorp
Sign Painters by Levine and Macon
The children's section at the library also offers great illustrated and hand-lettered books.
inspirational websites
Julia Rothman Illustration and Pattern
Lindsay Letters by Lindsay Sherbondy
Lisa Congdon Art and Illustration
Instagram accounts:
calligrabasics (also an online community of letterers)
tombowusa (a different guest letterer each week)
Stay up to date following my lettering practice and inspiration on my instagram account kdelap.