Gentlemans Tattoo Flash Script Lettering Book (A Gentleman's Guide to Fine Script, Volume 1) Ring-bound – January 1, 2009

I'm a tattoo artist whose long time clientele asks for a lot of old english and script lettering... Get it? Never used computer fonts, always drawn for the customer. Nobody (almost) makes up their own lettering styles from whole cloth, it all comes from somewhere. My big old english letters come from several pages of an old german design textbook--- I take a little from this chart, a little from that one, so it comes out cool and unique. Script was a different matter. For too long my script looked like the lettering chart above the blackboard in the 4th grade! My script improved when, a few years ago,I started studying other artists work, primarily hispanic artists. When I stumbled on this book and ordered it, the potential for expanding your lettering skills exponentially is all there! Which is exactly what happened... And in a hoo doo--voo-doo kinda way, all of a sudden so many clients started reguesting fancy script... So I whip out this book for guidance and draw it up slick and charge a very reasonable price and I'm in the name and long pretentious slogans business! All kinds of real cool looking styles, how to form every letter in a wide variety of ways. Highly recommended for tattooers or any artist.

The book came safely secure in a cardboard package,the author says its not a lettering guide, theres examples of script but not enough for the price its sells for I say save your money, let the price go down on this grimy book,the book needs more examples of different styles,alphabets in different styles, he shows lots of words bot no alphabets to come up with your own words,so I give this 3 stars, mainly for the lack of examples almost the same thing in every page,for the high price, and the cover should be a hard cover

I wrote a review earlier where I stated that it was a photocopied book. In talking with the vendor, that is how the book really is. It IS a really great book on script lettering from a very well-respected script artist. I was expecting an ISBN barcode, etc etc and I had read reviews from other less reputable businesses where they had done just that. Xeroxed the original and bound it.So I am very happy with the book and now that I know exactly what the real book is, I am even happier.

After reading a multitude of positive reviews, and only a handfull of poor reviews, I ponied up the 44.00 plus shipping. After recieving it, I am certain that the flood of positive reviews have been artificially created to water down the legitimate reviews. Here is the real deal,.. what you get. In my opinion, you do not get what you pay for. The book itself is a very well put together paperback with slip cover. It is printed on high quality parchment paper with a decent quality of print. So for anyone who thinks their book was photo copied,.. It probably was. The book itself was well put together, and as far as quality, would be above my expectations for an instructional manual. The content however is extremely lacking in instruction. I am not saying nothing can be learned, but if there weren't a famous artist's name attatched to it,.. I would expect to pay around 5 dollars for the content, which is as follows: a few pages of forward, stating the Artist is super great at freehand script, (DUH), one,.. single,.. page of actual instruction (seen in customer images), three pages of one Alphabet, and two variations. And 30 or so pages of examples of what can be done with that alphabet. That's it. The basic idea of the entire book,.. Draw three guidelines, draw thin guidelines from the provided alphabet, then sculpt the lines, and add flourishes. The reason I find vary little value in this, is that this alphabet, along with 100's of thousands of other alphabets can be found online, and traced right off the internet for FREE!?!?! The reason I paid the premium price, is not because I am in love with the artist,.. or because I was without access to a proper scripted alphabet to trace,.. I bought the book because it touted itself as the number one refference and instructional manual on freehand tattoo script. If one page of instruction is the best you can do,.. Please,.. For shame Boog,.. and shame on the publisher. What they have done is advertised false expectations, wrapped it in a nice package,.. and laughed all the way to the bank. I will never purchase anything associated with the artist Boog again, and will hold a grudge against both him and the publisher for being horrible, dirty liars. Again, one hundred and ten percent of the info in this book is available on the internet,.. and more. I am very interested in looking toward the BJ Bett's sketch books, and it looks like Amazon has a 3 volume set for 90 dollars. I am hoping that there will be more than one measley page of instruction, and theory. Up stroke, downstroke, how do you prefer to sculpt the lines, etc.. I know how to sculpt lines,.. but when I pay 44 freakin dollars to a famous artist,.. I expect to know what their prefference is, and how they would tackle it. I have learned more in 20 seconds of youtube tutorials on handwriting, than this entire book. Furthermore, I have been enriched by the life stories and biographies of many of the worlds leading artists,.. again,.. for free,... by either watching freely provided online video, or articles and blogs they have written. They didn't charge me a dime,.. And I respect them for that. I don't expect things for free, but when you charge me money, give me something I can't find for free after 10 seconds of searching the net,.. seriously.As for the book seller,.. kudo's to you, qualified for Amazon prime 2 day shipping which is always a plus, came packaged well, and in mint condition. Thanks guys! As for the author and publisher,.. Boog = LAME! I would much rather you steal my money in person,.. at the very least it would add a sort of personal touch, and also display some sort of effort on your part,.. instead of unraveling the scraps in the waste basket next to your sketch desk, and trying to sell them as an instructional manual.

I purchased Gentlemans Tattoo Flash Script Lettering Book for my daughter-in-law from Full Trottle Tattoos. She is a new tattoo artist who wanted to explore script tattooing. This book was well received and she is bursting at the seams to start using script lettering. As I said, I purchased it through "Full Trottle Tattoos," and I was very pleased that she will be able to go beyond her current boundaries. Anyone who buys this book will be pleased beyond their dreams, try it. I would tell the ladies out there, it is not just a "gentleman's guide to fine script."

great book

Anything Boog does is legit!

The book only explains step by step how to draw basic script cursive. The book shows other types of lettering like old english and block lettering with no instructions for those. Kind of dissappointing when your wanting to learn different styles, you end up only getting one.