Warm up with just one word! See how many ways you can draw it. It doesn’t have to be 50, but try 5 or 10!
Or try to think of descriptive words and draw them in a script style, serif style, or sans serif style! These are just a few to spark your creativity...
Here are a couple other phrases to use for practice. I specifically chose phrases that have a variety of letters that are fun to play with! Letters with descenders, ascenders, cross bars, etc. These 4 phrases have a good mix of creative possibilities!
Don’t have any descenders to play with? Make some! R’s and K’s are fun to play with!
Same goes for ascenders! Sometimes you just have to use your imagination and take that upstroke for a little journey!
Thumbnail sketches are just quick little composition studies to get you thinking about where everything should go and how you can arrange it. I like to work very quickly through these - just letting myself play with ways to arrange everything. By working quickly and sketching small, I can flesh out a lot of ideas in a short amount of time!
