living, creating, & appreciating: Creating and Appreciating: in Philadelphia Part 3/3

Monday, March 26, 2018

Creating and Appreciating: in Philadelphia Part 3/3

In Conclusion... this is my review of the Better Letters Lettering Workshop by Mike Meyer. If you are a self starter and learn easily from YouTube videos..this class may be too easy for you. If you are a complete beginner and want to learn Casual Flash Lettering and Script. Skip this class. Go find a class that is just casual lettering and script lettering. It is covered so quickly and not in depth enough to learn enough to even get a grasp of it well. Only two hours for casual and no strokes were given to practice. I got very little from this workshop as far as that is concerned. This workshop is basically a demo and the students go off on their own for the rest of the day. Mike walks around a little but mostly worked on painting projects for students to watch. During the fourth day, the person next to me had a mistake in their letter that I noticed. I mentioned it to him and he didn't ask for further help. Mike didn't say anything when he walked around. If you need a teacher to really push you and teach you how to improve then this class is not for you. Don't get me wrong, Mike will help you. I asked for a lot of assistance and got it. The cool part of the workshop in Philadelphia was meeting Gibbs Connors, he hosted the workshop at his studio. He is real nice and a super good teacher. He gave me a lot of tips on how to improve. He was the true teacher at the workshop for me. Tips like how to use a maul stick to pull straighter lines and how to make the slanted strokes to pull sharp corners. Gibbs made the workshop worth while for me. That and the fact that I scheduled extra time to walk around Philadelphia for a few days after the workshop. Here are some pictures from today. I learned how to make special effects. This was so cool and super easy to do. I just need to learn to pull straighter lines.