The easiest way to answer this would be to ask you a few questions back. Have you taken Let’s Start Lettering or another beginner lettering course? Do you feel confident with your brush lettering basics? Do you love to carve out time to practice your lettering? Do you feel like you’ve gotten good at writing simple words but you want to be able to create the lettering pieces that you drool over in your social media feed?

If you said yes, yes, yes to these questions, then you’re so ready for this!

Since this is an Intermediate class, you’ve probably already have amassed a small collection of your favourite pens so you’re not starting from scratch. Are your pens running dry? Well, fear not! By registering in one of the courses (either one), you’ll get a bonus happy mail package of three of my favourite pens: the Tombow Fudenosuke hard nib (obviously), a crisp black Tombow Dual Brush pen and a perfect grey Dual Brush pen.

If you register for the course combo, you will get these three pens and also a 10 pack of Tombow Dual Brush markers. So much pen goodness!!

Some of the pens that I use most often, and use in the course, are the Tombow Fudenosuke Hard Nib and Soft Nib pens and the Tombow Dual Brush Marker in black. The other supplies that I use are Strathmore tracing paper, pencils, a soft white eraser (definitely don’t cheap out on this!), a cheap lined notebook and paper. If you need any of those items, just click on an item on the list to quickly add it to your Amazon shopping cart.

But remember that, there are pens coming your way when you register!! Boom!

Well, more pens, of course! But even more importantly, the Intermediate Course Combo Masterclass also comes with those invaluable weekly check ins, a roadmap to completion, and the supportive, closed Lettering Dominance Facebook group for questions, building relationships and getting completely personal feedback on the pieces you share… And did I mention that the combo comes with more pens!? An extra 10 pack of Tombow Dual Brush markers to be exact!

While one course costs less than two, the combo pays for itself by expanding your skills in a way that one of them alone never could. It’s like trying to paint a masterpiece. You need all of the tools. If you have paint and not a brush, you’ll still be able to create a painting but your abilities will be seriously limited. In the same way, taking only one of the courses will give you some tools, but not all of them. It’s time for you to make masterpieces with a masterclass!!

All of the courses are composed of video lessons that you can watch on your own time when it is convenient for you.

If you’re in the course combo, you’ll have road map that shows you which lessons you should try to cover in a week and then post some practice pieces on our closed Facebook group for input, comments and critique (friendly critique, of course!). And I’ll also be keeping you on track with check in emails each week!

You definitely will get the most out of the course if you can stay on track with the rest of the group, watch the live videos during the week that they address the lesson and get feedback on your work at the same time as everyone else.

Now, I know that life happens! Taking that into consideration, the 6 lessons will be scheduled over 8 weeks so that two lessons have a bit of grace/catch-up time so we can stay on track together.

No problem at all! You own access to the course and you can work on it any time that works with your schedule. I know you’re busy and I want to help you achieve your goals even if that means that it takes you a little bit longer. Six weeks might not work for everyone and you can access the course well after that!!

In order for me to serve people in the course, the registration period is only going to be one week long. That will create a cohort of amazing letterers who will work through the course together, supporting each other along the way! Lettering is always better in a community and this is how we will do it. I want to be able to give you my all and the best experience you’ve ever had in an online course!

The course won’t be launching again until early 2017.

If this was a beginner level course I would say, with lots of time, effort, and scouring every blog, video, Facebook group and artist feed online, you probably could. But these are the types of lettering secrets that lettering artists usually keep to themselves because they don’t want to create competition. Lucky for you that I see this more as building a community than worrying about competition!

I also know how hard this stuff is to learn on your own through trial and error. No one has the time for that! So, the course combo is designed to give you the skills you need for lettering awesomeness without all of that wasted time practicing and searching Pinterest and YouTube and copying people’s Instagram posts. Forget that! We’re here to make our own magic!

Heading into these courses, you will already need to =have the basics of lettering.

If you need to learn the basics of lettering, Let’s Start Lettering is the perfect course for you!

People were asking me the exact same thing but, while I do teach 6 more styles, and composition keys, we really focused on mixing those with their own style and even taking the styles and making them their own. It's not as much like beginner learning where you trace letterforms. It's learning the keys of the style, specifics of pen position, downstroke angle, thickness etc for each letter in a style and then going from there. Everyone's work still looks like their own work, there's just much more variety and waaaay more solid composition happening. Now when they create lettering, they make art pieces.

Pop back up to the first FAQ; Do you have the basics down and do you want to learn more about lettering? You can totally keep learning when you can at your own pace by yourself but the results you see won’t be nearly as amazing as what you’ll be capable of after taking this course. I know what it’s like to be afraid to put yourself out there because you’re worried that you won’t be good enough and I’ve avoided too many potentially awesome opportunities because I got stuck in that worry. I want so much more for you! This isn’t just about taking a course. It’s about working together to bring you to that place where you just can’t wait to show off the amazing lettering that you’re able to do. You might not think you’re good enough now, but let’s change that!

If you're still unsure, let me check out your work! You can send me an email at amanda@amandaarneill.com with the subject "Masterclass: Am I Ready?" Attach a picture or two of your work and a link to your Instagram page (if you share lettering there) and I'll let you know if you're ready for this next awesome step.