{"id":19462,"date":"2019-04-01T01:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=20913"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:03:05","slug":"book-review-the-art-of-doodle-words-by-sarah-alberto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/04\/01\/book-review-the-art-of-doodle-words-by-sarah-alberto\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review \u2013 The Art of Doodle Words by Sarah Alberto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Book Review<\/strong>
The art of Doodle Words<\/strong>
by Sarah Alberto<\/strong><\/em>
144 pp. <\/strong><\/em>
Race Point Publishing<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe\nart of Doodle Words\u201d is an inventive, amusing look into a playful\nart style: Sarah Alberto\u2019s \u201cdoodle words\u201d are hand-lettered art\npieces which incorporate fun pictorial imagery into the construction\nof a hand-lettered word or phrase. For example, the word \u201ctools\u201d\ncan be spelled out with different types of tools, or a line of\ncursive may be incorporated into a larger drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nintroduction walks the reader through the basics of creating doodle\nart (including some suggestions for brain-storming and laying out a\nspecific design), while the first part of the book gives numerous\nexamples of different letter form styles: basic handwriting, a few\nscript examples, bubble letters, block letters, and several other\nstyles to give lots of variety and options to the imaginative artist.\nDifferent letter styles are offered side-by-side with numerous\nexamples of phrases rendered in that style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part Two of \u201cThe art of Doodle Words<\/a>\u201d contains numerous examples of fully doodled words, each example broken down in a step-by-step process so that the artist can follow along and practice creating them. Many of the examples would make good signage for parties or invitations, and fuel the imagination for more. Creative children may enjoy this book especially, as doodle words can work with any skill level and level of creativity; it could also add playfulness to any journaling or scrap-booking practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t a book that teaches fancy hand-lettering or calligraphy, but if you\u2019re drawn to learn Alberto\u2019s playful style of typography, you\u2019ll doubtless find many uses for this technique, and have a lot of fun learning and experimenting along the way. \u201cThe art of Doodle Words\u201d doesn\u2019t teach anything besides this very specific style, but the style is one that has an infinite capacity for variety and experimentation \u2014 certainly a great tool for any hand-lettering or crafting enthusiast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art of Doodle Words: Turn Your Everyday Doodles into Cute Hand Lettering! on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About\nthe Author:<\/strong>\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah\nMcMenomy <\/strong>is\nan artist and witch. Her craft incorporates herbalism, spellwork,\ntrance, divination, auras, and more. Her work can be found at\nhttps:\/\/sarahmcmenomy.tumblr.com<\/a>\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Review The art of Doodle Words by Sarah Alberto 144 pp. Race Point Publishing \u201cThe art of Doodle Words\u201d is an inventive, amusing look into a playful art style: Sarah Alberto\u2019s \u201cdoodle words\u201d are hand-lettered art pieces which incorporate fun pictorial imagery into the construction of a hand-lettered word or phrase. For example, the word \u201ctools\u201d can be spelled out with different types of tools, or a line of cursive may be incorporated into a larger drawing. The introduction walks the reader through the basics of creating doodle art (including some suggestions for brain-storming and laying out a specific design), while the first part of the book gives numerous examples of different letter form styles: basic handwriting, a few script examples, bubble letters, block letters, and several other styles to give lots of variety and options to the imaginative artist. Different letter styles are offered side-by-side with numerous examples of phrases rendered in that style. Part Two of \u201cThe art of Doodle Words\u201d contains numerous examples of fully doodled words, each example broken down in a step-by-step process so that the artist can follow along and practice creating them. Many of the examples would make good signage for parties or invitations, and fuel the imagination for more. Creative children may enjoy this book especially, as doodle words can work with any skill level and level of creativity; it could also add playfulness to any journaling or scrap-booking practice.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a book that teaches fancy hand-lettering or calligraphy, but if you\u2019re drawn to learn Alberto\u2019s playful style of typography, you\u2019ll doubtless find many uses for this technique, and have a lot of fun learning and experimenting along the way. \u201cThe art of Doodle Words\u201d doesn\u2019t teach anything besides this very specific style, but the style is one that has an infinite capacity for variety and experimentation \u2014 certainly a great tool for any hand-lettering or crafting enthusiast! The art of Doodle Words: Turn Your Everyday Doodles into Cute Hand Lettering! on Amazon *** About the Author: Sarah McMenomy is an artist and witch. Her craft incorporates herbalism, spellwork, trance, divination, auras, and more. Her work can be found at https:\/\/sarahmcmenomy.tumblr.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}