Daily Shaarli
Excellent blog post by James Edmonson (OHNO Type Co.) about vectoring letters, with invaluable tips for both lettering and type design.
Drawing Vectors for Type & Lettering | OH no Type Company
Can also recommend this series of posts by him about drawing letters in general; it’s filled with tips and important content but communicated visually and in a chill way.
Scott Biersack’s step-by-step tutorial of how he used to go about vectoring his letterings
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hand-lettering-how-to-vector-your-letterforms--cms-23248
Great tutorial by Glyphs about drawing with béziers showcasing good practices:
Article by type designer Fábio Martins going deeper into how bézier curves are made and how they behave:
Bézier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial | Learn - Scannerlicker!
So What’s the Big Deal with Horizontal & Vertical Bezier Handles Anyway?
Dave Coleman’s blog post commenting the importance of keeping anchors in extrema and handles horizontal and vertical, showing examples of how other professionals vectored their letters and also how they used exceptions to that “rule”
So What's the Big Deal with Horizontal & Vertical Bezier Handles Anyway?
Adé Hogue
https://web.archive.org/web/20211221173728/https://www.adehogue.com/journal/2019/10/23/beziermethod
Arrow Type’s Instagram post with a sped-up video of him building sans serif letters in Glyphs, showing how he uses parts of already drawn letters to build up other letters.
Illustrator
Illustrator's Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide
Vetorizani com Saiani
Series of mini-tutorials by Plau’s Rodrigo Saiani, with invaluable tips and tricks about Illustrator and letter vectoring (it’s narrated in Portuguese but you can probably grasp things by just watching the visuals).
BOOKS
Leslie Cabarga - Logo, Font & Lettering Bible
The book is a bit old, but has overall great content about drawing letterforms. Around page 130 there’s a specific part about letter vectoring tips in Illustrator.
COURSES
Phaedra Charles - Hand Lettering Styles and Techniques for Embellishment
Hand Lettering Styles and Techniques for Embellishment | Phaedra Charles | Skillshare
Marta Cerdà - Characters with Character
Online course - Characters with Character (Marta Cerdà Alimbau)
Illustrated tips for making your UI and web designs more visually interesting · Backgrounds · Borders & dividers · Shadows · Text · Other techniques
Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the public by Stability.ai six days ago, on August 22nd.
It’s similar to models like Open AI’s DALL-E, but with one crucial difference: they released the whole thing.
You can try it out online at beta.dreamstudio.ai (currently for free). Type in a text prompt and the model will generate an image.
The double thumbing, 2-finger picking approach makes use of the thumb and only one finger and can be the basis for some very rhythmic and exciting ukulele playing.
Cold Rain and Snow
A lot of people commenting think that removing nudity form the training is fine, as it just makes the model safe for work, but it actually hurts the generation of non-nude humans as well. Significantly. I use the f222 model as my main general-purpose model, because it generates better clothed humans than SD1.5. The f222 model is based off of extending SD1.5 to have more knowledge of nudity (so the total opposite of the direction SD2.0 went). This actually makes f222 better at making humans IN GENERAL. The f222 model knows a lot more about the shape of humans. It's not perfect, but what f222 needs is just even more body types and ugly folks, but it's not completely lacking in the ability to generate those either. It definitely does have a bias towards pretty people, but it is not near as overwhelming as some of the other models.
Here's a good one I use a lot:
https://stablediffusion.fr/artists [stablediffusion.fr]
Another example:
https://proximacentaurib.notion.site/e28a4f8d97724f14a784a538b8589e7d?v=ab624266c6a44413b42a6c57a41d828c [notion.site]