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We’re teaming up with Skillshare<\/a> to bring you some fantastic premium design tutorials. In this post, you’ll see an excerpt from Jennifer Coyle’s Skillshare class on creating your own hand drawn font<\/a>.

The video below will walk you through the process of taking your sketched letters into Illustrator and vectorizing them. The best part: it doesn’t require five years of Pen Tool experience. The process is super easy, so even if you’re a complete beginner, you should be able to follow along. <\/p>

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This is just a small sample of Jennifer’s awesome full course on creating a font in Illustrator. Head over to Skillshare<\/a> to view the other videos (also check out Jennifer’s Creative Market shop<\/a>).<\/p>

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