By starting a hand lettering project, my aim initially was to develop my own skills as I had no prior experience in this field. One of the reasons that I wanted to start learning to do lettering is exploring design with my hands, rather than doing it on the computer. I wanted to discover the opportunities of a hand made work, also the challenges compared to digital platforms. I decided to use brush pen as I saw that the effect of the brush suited well for a book telling a story of a fish. The words that I created was looking ‘watery’ with the flexible forms in which appeared from the mossy effect. After deciding my tool, I started to think about the storyboard. When I completed the storyboard, I decided on the book format as accordion because the story of the fish starts in a stream and then continues to the river and then the sea, this book format gave the opportunity to reflect this continuity in the story and strengthened the relationship between the meaning and the visual. Then, I started to exercise how to brush lettering with thin and thick strokes, the curves, and how to link the letters. After I gained some experience on that, I started to create the words and plan the spreads. I drew basic shapes to the papers with watercolour and ink to produce backgrounds in which I played with digital tools later. I followed the same approach for illustrations as well.