Subtitles of the Movie

In this lesson we're going to finish up our part on Free Hand Drawing with a lesson on handwriting. I'm going to open up a new file. I'm going to fill the background layer with kind of a creamy color, and then we're going to create a new raster layer on top of that to draw on. A lot of times I will not draw with pure black, but I'll pick a dark shade of gray which looks a little bit more like a pencil would. So let's pick our brush, lower that size down so that it's more like a pencil, and then start going. Now handwriting, I think, is a valid subject of drawing, because handwriting is really using your hands and pencil to draw things. And most of us probably have horrible handwriting and wished we had better handwriting. So approach it as if you would art, and fire up Paint Shop Pro as if you were drawing and start handwriting. Now you might be able to hear that I'm using my pen and tablet. I'm trying to orient the tablet like I would a sheet of paper, which I'm left-handed so it's a little strange. Okay. This would also be probably good practice for children, teaching them how to write, giving them plenty of practice and fun on the computer. If you could see my wife's handwriting, which I think I'll probably put that in another lesson when we in the scrap booking section, her handwriting is just beautiful. So here I've gone through A through F, just kind of quickly practicing some handwriting. Now the computer is also a good tool to analyze that handwriting and try to correct what's wrong with it. For example, if you look at the B here, the space inside the loop - draw that in after you've finished your writing, and see if they are the same sizes. When you draw that in you're able to evaluate that shape much better. For example, this one here is skinny and tall, whereas this one was fatter. The goal is to practice long enough so that they're all uniform and attractive. My A's are pretty good. I think I naturally have an ability, at least that's not been killed out of me, to draw circular objects very easier, and more you know consistently than other types of shapes, like this F, you can see I have a lot of trouble with my F. I hope you can see a little bit of the work flow here, too. I'm just going to create a new raster layer and hide the first one. I don't have to delete it, I don[Ôt have to start over, I can just keep going. That was a Q I think. Oop, did it again. A long time ago, basically I and probably many other men went to this, I printed and I everything was capitalized, which is really a tragedy because there's very little personality or artistry there, it's just Bang, here's my A. Bang, here's my B. I would encourage you to use Paint Shop Pro Photo to use this tool to kind of improve your handwriting. If you're going to, if you're interested in drawing, make handwriting a part of that practice. Use all the tools here at your disposal. You've got brushes, and erasers, just like you would on a piece of paper; you've got backgrounds and different artistic techniques. If you get good enough that your handwriting is really a work of art, you can incorporate that into other artwork in Paint Shop Pro and create special effects, and actually frame it. Let's put this through the Time Machine as an example of 1830 text. See? That looks pretty cool. And so I think we can wrap this lesson up.