{"id":175,"date":"2015-05-12T04:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T08:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makingcomics.spiltink.org\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-07-19T01:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T05:15:04","slug":"ames-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salgoodsam.com\/mc\/ames-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use an Ames Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Ames guide is a classic comic’s tool.\u00a0Also used for other forms \u00a0of calligraphy,\u00a0from drafting to decorative,\u00a0it’s a simple variable ruling\u00a0guide to render lines for lettering.<\/h2>\n

I’ve made a simple short video to watch here, and you can read the printed instructions most of them come with at the bottom of this page. If you would like to buy one, try your local art supply shop first, if that fails then google<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Dustin Harbin has posted a great photographic tutorial for using it too<\/a>;\u00a0The great letterer Todd Klein, who’s graphic I clipped for the thumbnails here – it’s lovely! –\u00a0has a great instructional posted here<\/a>; Another in cartoon form here on the Drawing Words & Writing Pictures site<\/a>,\u00a0from\u00a0where I borrowed the hansom\u00a0drawing of the Ames on the left! The book is the brain child of Jessica Abel &\u00a0Matt Madden,\u00a0I don’t know who drew the Ames though, that would one of them or someone on this page<\/a>.\u00a0All those sites are fantastic resources self directed learners should investigate!<\/p>\n

A separate post about how to letter,\u00a0and how I do so for my comics is coming.<\/p>\n