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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Lettering is primarily graphic design.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot@blambot.bsky.social |
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20+ years lettering for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image. Eisner nominee. Award-winning design & typography. Author of The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Lettering is primarily graphic design.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Latest tchotchke for the Blambot studio. (Triceratons were my fav OG Turtles villains!)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Folks have gotten WAY too accustomed to poor quality lettering in comics.
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AIN'T NO GRAVE #3 hits your local comic book shelves TODAY! Go get you some! @skottieyoung @jecorona #JeanFrancoisBeaulieu @blambot #MarlaEizik @imagecomics
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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More of Death's giggles from AIN'T NO GRAVE #5. He's an easy-breezy, carefree kinda guy.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Out TODAY! Minor Threats: BARFLY #1. The tale of a human fly named Shiteater, and his punk rock life of crime. Shiteater is my *favorite* MT character. (Some reviewers are crediting me for the crazy SFX, but Ryan drew about 80% of those. I mimicked his style for the other 20%.)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Done with Opentype auto ligatures and contextual alternates.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Death is not amused by your shenanigans. (AIN'T NO GRAVE #5)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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At 10:30 last night, we noticed our refrigerator died. Only 3 years old! Could be worse...Luckily, I have a 20+ year old fridge in my garage that still works FINE. I usually just keep beer out there. So we hustled boxes of food out to the garage in the dark last night. Sigh.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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#graphicdesign #sigh #facepalm
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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They will swap around automatically.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Progress update on Project B-Nib Shouts! All done in Illustrator for both versions. I'll be porting all this over to Fontlab next.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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And yes, I whipped up that graphic.
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#graphicdesign #sigh #facepalm
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Best movie logo design I’ve seen in a while.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Ace in your face Friday
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Finished up a new map for our upcoming family game (Dungeons & Dragons 5e). It's a big'un!
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Nope. Not really. However, you can certainly fit more dialogue in a rectangle!
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Okay, that's not bad...
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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I can't draw a torn paper caption to save my life today. WTF. I've only done it a zillion times.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Lovely day. Overnight emails are answered, and I have just finished my review as a judge for the American Manga Awards! Good luck lettering candidates! Next up, I'm going to letter another chunk of Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death.
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Blambot INDEPENENCE DAY SALE! Save 10% site wide from July 1st to 4th 2024! (Discount will appear in your cart at check out!) blambot.com
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Blambot INDEPENENCE DAY SALE! Save 10% site wide from July 1st to 4th 2024! (Discount will appear in your cart at check out! blambot.com
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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A special congratulations to my wife, Concetta, on her SECOND Master’s degree! So much work! Very proud of you!
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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#UmbrellaAcademy Some days, the swag comes in handy.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Ace in your face Friday
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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A short video of how I'm automating tapering balloon connectors in Illustrator:
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Here's lovely little chestnut of info for you. Read lots more Better Letterer infographics at blambot.com/pages/letter...
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Lovely day. Still half asleep, but I'm prioritizing my day, which will be short as I have an eye doc appt this afternoon, and I'm going to end up with my eyes dilated. (yay.) Anyway...chugging water, and I have the new Pearl Jam album cranked in the studio. (It's growing on me.)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Freelancers, don’t ever let a prospective client try to justify a low page rate by saying, “but there are a lot of pages!” If you take into account your average time spent per page, (which isn’t going to change,) you’re being lowballed. It’s a bullshit argument. Walk away.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Here's lovely little chestnut of info for you. Read lots more Better Letterer infographics at blambot.com/pages/letter...
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Feel like there's been an uptick in the amount of pitch projects that have been offered to me lately. I think I've done 3 in the last month. These are usually 5-10 pages of lettering. I like coming up with style guides, so these are fun even though I don't have a lot of time to squeeze them in.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Lovely day. So far, I've delivered final files on another chapter of the lettering remaster of Corben's DEN. Now I'm taking my first look at the lettering submissions for the American Manga Awards -- I'm a judge! Listening to Ozzy Osborne in the studio and chugging water.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Meet my new friend, Otis, who will hence forth be keeping an eye on everyone approaching the studio. (Including the pedestal, that’s about 180lbs of badass.)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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So far today, I’ve dressed four front covers, three back covers, completed a credits page, and pre-pressed 24 pages.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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It's the building blocks of other letters. If you make that shape with rectangles, it becomes the basis for most of the other letters.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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This morning's warm-up letters, Number One.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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A good letterer can use solid graphic design skills to ramp up emotional intensity in a scene even if they have a single word repeating; in this case, “Die!” In panels 2-4 and then down again in panel 5. (From Stranger Things: Voyage)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Thanks!
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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A good letterer can use solid graphic design skills to ramp up emotional intensity in a scene even if they have a single word repeating; in this case, “Die!” In panels 2-4 and then down again in panel 5. (From Stranger Things: Voyage)
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Yeah!
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Ace in your face Friday.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Progress report on Project B-Nib Shouts. I've gone through and and added a fourth variation to the letters and numbers of the extended version -- which is pretty much ready to port over to Fontlab. Still have quite a bit of work on the Condensed version.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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Watched the first 2 episodes of SW: The Acolyte and so far...it's pretty meh.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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The horns are wider than a 61 as well. Lots of little differences.
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Here’s my Pelham blue Gibson SG - 2017. This was a limited ed. color. Officially, the model is called a “Standard T.” Does yours have locking tuners too? The neck joint is also slightly higher than the 61 reissues.
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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NICE! I think I have that exact SG. Same color and everything.
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A project I'm lettering will have balloons with thin, "string" tails, so I came up with this Adobe Illustrator Action to quickly make them out of calligraphic strokes! #lettering #comics
youtu.be/QY9AvZDD7bw?...
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Nate Piekos of Blambot
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A project I'm lettering will have balloons with thin, "string" tails, so I came up with this Adobe Illustrator Action to quickly make them out of calligraphic strokes! #lettering #comics
youtu.be/QY9AvZDD7bw?...
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