How to Draw Bubble Letters

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Tres Hoyt. I'm here at Asel Art Supply in Austin, Texas and I'm going to talk today about drawing some bubble letters. I've got three examples right here. When you say bubble letters, essentially what that means is a fat letter that you can put into a 3-D format. This is a basic bubble style, this would be a block style and this is a bit of a combination of the two. So, let me show you essentially how this works out. The easiest way is just start out with some graph paper, that way you can keep your letters scale. You can use regular paper or just notebook paper to line it, so that you've got just a way to gauge that all of your letters are the same. But, you just start out round shapes, and that's just a basic simple bubble right there. To do a blocks you want to probably count out around a few different sizes. I like to use five, cause it's an easy one, you've got an odd number in the middle to kind of gauge off a lot of your letters. So, just do a straight line down, two, three, four, five, and I like to go four over so it's even. And, for the A, just make a straight block, line down the middle, another line there up top and you've got an A. For the S, you go about three blocks over and then go four for the bottom part of the S, and a nice little line down the middle there, you've got your S. The E, got up and go all four over for the top part, all four blocks over for the bottom and you go in a little bit, make a couple of extra lines there. You've got an E. And, then for your L, come over two blocks, go down a few there, go over four at the bottom and there's your L, and pop on a little exclamation point if you'd like that. Throw those on at the end there. Then when you're combining the two, you're essentially taking the aspect of a little bit of round and a little bit of square and you can just kind of throw it into a little bit of round there, there's your A, there's your S- little round and square at the top, there's your E- little bit of round, and your L- throw in a little exclamation point there at the end. That is a real simple, simple way to do this. Bubble letters can get even more elaborate, what I find is the best thing to do if you get kind of stale with this style here, you go out and you can buy font books, or you can look up all kinds of different things on the internet and essentially what you can do is just take your basic letting form like this, and start tweaking it here and there to make your own little style and make them a little bit more elaborate. But, that's the principals of block lettering and bubble lettering. Thank you!"