How to Draw Bubble Letters

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French at jayfrenchstudios.com and I'm going to show you how to draw bubble letters. O.k., to draw bubble letters, you essentially want to, you may want to beforehand, actually pencil in if you're going to be going over this with ink or with color, you can then erase your inner lines, but let's start with, let's see what word we want, let's do the word love. Just get your letters generally in there, very lightly. Then, remember everything goes out. Everything goes out and round. You'll see how this is still curved, but it does show a sharpness just so you can see that angle, in the L for example. Everything overlaps. And you can make this a lot tighter as far as the overlap goes. Course O is one of the easiest things, but when you have a hole in the letter like O or A or R or B, you want to show it with some slightly overlapping inward curves. And our V is pretty straight forward, again you have this little curve but you see it as an angle as well. And you can see where everything overlaps as if it was built from the bottom, from the back to the front. The front is in the front, the first letter is in the front. And here we have E, and when you have tightening you can do this with F as well. When you have something tight like this, do the middle one, the small one, in front. Do the top and bottom, behind that. Now if you want to add a little fun to it, now if you're just going to color this then you'll want to erase your inner lines so they don't end up visible. If you're going to ink it, well you don't have worry about that. You don't have to erase at all. Then you want to add some highlights to add more bubbly to it. it can be done several ways. You can do it in this sort of a curve and a square with a talon look there which gives a nice reflection. Or you can just do and oval. And again, if you're coloring, you'll just leave that as white, not actually with a black outline. And then just shade opposite. And that's a pretty good start for drawing double letters."