I can help! The Ames lettering Guide is one of those doohickeys with way too much crap on it for the average user, but it does have everything you need.
Set the guide to 3.5. If you hold the guide so the roundy bit is up and the larger flat edge is parallel to the bottom of your page, you'll see some numbers near the bottom edge lining the roundy bit. Use those numbers, not the other numbers. There should be an indicator ridge (or line) you can use for setting the line width. Put it between the 3 and the 4 (at least until you feel comfortable playing with it.
Now. Put your ruler on your comic page and the long edge of the Lettering Guide against the ruler (both items flat against the page). Typically, the Lettering Guide will be above the rule on the page, not below it, but you can probably experiment.
Using only the lower set of holes, and only the holes with the swoopy ridge connecting them, draw lines, like a lettering person. The extra holes between the connected holes are for the midline, or the top of the lowercase letters, and you don't really need the lines they produce.
If that doesn't help, I'll scan my guide and draw arrows at it if you like! But only if that doesn't help. I'm lazy today.
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Date: 2009-04-24 06:01 pm (UTC)From:Set the guide to 3.5. If you hold the guide so the roundy bit is up and the larger flat edge is parallel to the bottom of your page, you'll see some numbers near the bottom edge lining the roundy bit. Use those numbers, not the other numbers. There should be an indicator ridge (or line) you can use for setting the line width. Put it between the 3 and the 4 (at least until you feel comfortable playing with it.
Now. Put your ruler on your comic page and the long edge of the Lettering Guide against the ruler (both items flat against the page). Typically, the Lettering Guide will be above the rule on the page, not below it, but you can probably experiment.
Using only the lower set of holes, and only the holes with the swoopy ridge connecting them, draw lines, like a lettering person. The extra holes between the connected holes are for the midline, or the top of the lowercase letters, and you don't really need the lines they produce.
If that doesn't help, I'll scan my guide and draw arrows at it if you like! But only if that doesn't help. I'm lazy today.