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Get Started in Brush Lettering

Brush lettering is the perfect way to start personalising – whether you're crafting homemade decor, unique papercrafts or thoughtful gifts! Create a calligraphic style of lettering, but with a brush pen. By applying more pressure on downstrokes and less pressure on upstrokes, you can produce flowing letters to customise every project.

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Pen Guide

Vary the effects you create by experimenting with a range of different pen thicknesses and colours!

Pen Guide
Tombow Beginner Lettering Set

Tombow Beginner Lettering Set

This is a great way to get into hand lettering, with everything you need to get started. The instruction guide explains the basics of lettering and you'll also have the perfect set of pens.
Papermania Fluid Metallic Brush Markers

Papermania Fluid Metallic Brush Markers

These metallic markers bring you shimmering shades that are perfect for practicing your decorative brush lettering on gift tags, ceramic blanks and more.
Tombow Dual Brush Pens

Tombow Dual Brush Pens

Tombow ABT Dual Brush Pens are ideal for a variety of art and brush lettering projects. Use the fine tip for drawing precise details and use the brush tip, which is thicker and more flexible, to create flowing application for broader areas.
Kelly Creates Black Brush Pens

Kelly Creates Black Brush Pens

These multi-colour small brush pens are perfect for practicing small lettering, perfect for contemporary and colourful designs that brighten up scrapbooks, journals, cards and more.

Lettering Practice Sheets

Download FREE practice sheets below to help you master every pen stroke.

Brush Lettering for Beginners Download

Video Guide

Learn the basics of brush lettering with a handy tutorial from illustrator Becki Clark, with plenty of tips and tricks to get you started. Practice your strokes, work your way through the alphabet and then get personalising!

FAQ

Calligraphy is the art of using pressure to write words, so in this sense brush lettering is a type of calligraphy. Hand lettering is the art of drawing type to look as if it has been written, often using a pen with a stiff nip to first draw an outline and then fill in the shapes – sometimes this is called ‘faux calligraphy’.

The Kelly Creates Brush Lettering Bundle is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in getting started in brush lettering. Here you will be able to use different sized brush pens within the lettering workbook in order to learn all basic movements and train your muscle memory for each stroke.

It is recommended that a brush pen is held at a 45 degree angle to the paper.

It is best to use smooth paper that does not bleed; for example, the Seawhite Marker Paper Pad.

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