This is achieved by drawing the pattern with some kind of curve.Īs with a real rope, this will create areas of varying thickness. If you want to make your rope a little more realistic, you can draw it without an outer contour. If you want to color the rope afterwards, you should use a waterproof fineliner for the outlines and the pattern. Your rope lettering font also is a great style for a focus word in longer lettering compositions.
Adding colorīy coloring the rope in brown you get a charming maritime look.
HOW TO DRAW ROPE FONT FULL
So: music on, head (almost) off and full concentration!Īlways attach the elongated “S” in the direction of the rope to create the typical rope pattern. Once your basic shape is finished, an almost meditative process follows: we have to apply our rope pattern line by line to our letters. You can then erase the pencil lines completely. Drawing the patternįirst, you now trace all the outer lines with your fineliner so that only the shape of the rope remains. Here you can already define where the rope overlaps – and which part is on top or bottom. In the second step, you draw a border around the previously drawn line, always with the same distance between them. You should make this preliminary drawing with a pencil. After all, the rope is always the same thickness. The basis for rope lettering is a lettering with thick, consistent line width.
In this case I used a thick rope where you can easily see which lines are characteristic for a rope:Īnd based on exactly this pattern we will design our hand lettering. At the beginning I have to repeat my typical hint when it comes to transferring properties of an object to a lettering: Take a close look at the object in reality!