How To Address A Letter To Egypt

joe hickerson, grindog.com. today we're goingto learn how to draw bubble letters. the first thing you want to do is you want to exchangeyour straight lines for bubbles. so if you draw an a for instance, you want to come backand draw a lips or circular bubble shapes where your straight lines are. now you noticei'm drawing in pencil here. i draw in pencil very lightly so i can come back after i pickthe lines that i want and erase my construction

How To Address A Letter To Egypt, lines. okay. so there's an a, b, c; if youhave a curve like this, maybe break it into segments, like that. okay. we'll start withfour letters. the d, will have a little bit of both. alright. there's your bubble letters.now i come back with my marker or darker colored pencil and just pick the lines on these bubbleletters that i want. here's, for instance

just the outside edge and on the inside, ilike to accentuate the curves a little bit. okay. same thing on the b; i come in. alright;c, d. okay. now if i'm done, what i wanted to do; i'm drawing very lightly on my constructionbase, it should be very easy to come back and erase these construction lines and seewhat i've ended up for. and once you get rid of these construction lines, you can comeback with your colors or with your shading and make them look even more bubbly. for instancewe'll start on the a and i'll just use a pencil for shading and i might come in and roundit out even more. and you do that, but maybe shading just one side of this bubble letter.don't try to shade the whole thing. okay, maybe just shade the bottom side. alright.i accentuate where the little bubbles come

together. okay. alright. you might even puta little reflection on it. if you really want to have fun and you want to make a balloonout of it, put a little circle down here and a, and maybe a balloon line flying off andsame thing on the b and all the other letters. you just want to make them look more roundedand to round these things off, you need to shadow one side and maybe give it a littlereflection. okay. see how my trends running here? that's pretty much what you want todo with all your letters. and that's how you draw a bubble letters.