hand lettering of Bosco using watercolor and a water brush

Practicing waterbrush lettering

Posted on by Amy Lamp

I’m binge-watching lettering classes on Skillshare and two that I love are Waterbrush Lettering Essentials and Bounce Letters: Adding Character to your Hand Lettering with Teela Cunningham. To practice these skills, I’m writing Bosco’s name…over and over and over.

hand lettering of Bosco using ink in a water brush
Using slightly watered down india ink in a medium Pentel Aquash water brush
hand lettering of Bosco using watercolor and a water brush
Using the Aquash water brush filled with water and dipping into tube watercolors
practicing my bounce letters and drawing Boscos name
practicing my bounce letters

Tools

  • medium Pentel Aquash water brush
  • india ink
  • tube watercolor
  • pencil