{"id":24695,"date":"2015-05-29T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=24695"},"modified":"2024-04-05T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T07:20:02","slug":"how-to-create-beautiful-hand-lettering-with-a-1-carpenters-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/how-to-create-beautiful-hand-lettering-with-a-1-carpenters-pencil","title":{"rendered":"How To Create Beautiful Hand Lettering With a $1 Carpenter&#039;s Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Market shop owner Ian Barnard (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/ianbarnard\/shop\">Vintage Design Co.<\/a>) is one of my favorite hand lettering artists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianbarnard.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His website<\/a> is overflowing with beautiful examples of lettering work. Recently though, he posted a quick video tip to Twitter that was simply too good not to share.<br \/>\nMost people wouldn&#8217;t look at a carpenter&#8217;s pencil and see it as a tool for creating beautiful works of art, but in the right hands, it can do exactly that! See how in the quick video below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don&#8217;t have a parallel pen to hand? Fear not, a carpenter&#8217;s pencil works just as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hyperlapse?src=hash\">#Hyperlapse<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/kRuWHOPjid\">pic.twitter.com\/kRuWHOPjid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&acirc;&euro;&rdquo; Ian Barnard (@Ian_Barnard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ian_Barnard\/status\/603882013435768832\">May 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Market shop owner Ian Barnard (Vintage Design Co.) is one of my favorite hand lettering artists. His website is overflowing with beautiful examples of lettering work. Recently though, he posted a quick video tip to Twitter that was simply too good not to share. 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