Design a signature font that feels like YOU!
(and learn how to use it with confidence)
You don’t need to like your handwriting (I know don’t), You don’t need better handwriting.
You need your OWN handwritten “font.”
Love Your Imperfect Letters is a lettering course about designing a personal, handwritten font and building the muscle memory to use it naturally and consistently in your mixed media art.
Not copied. Not corrected. Not perfected.
Designed. Practiced. Owned.
Are You Ready to Funk Up Your Letters?
Then you better get ready to…
Love Your (imperfect) Letters!
Here’s What this course is really about
This course is about moving from uncertainty to intention.
Instead of judging your letters, you’ll learn how to see them as design elements — shapes you can refine, repeat, and rely on.
There are two essential phases:
- Designing your signature font
- Practicing it until it becomes second nature
By the end of the course, you won’t be guessing how your letters will turn out.
You’ll know.
Watch this quick video for a Rundown
& Sneak Peek at the Lessons!
Who is this course is for?
This course is for you if:
- You love words and text in art, but hesitate when it’s time to write
- You admire other artists’ lettering and wish yours felt more cohesive
- You want consistency without losing personality
- You work in mixed media, collage, journaling, or expressive art
- You want your lettering to feel intentional instead of accidental
You do not need:
- Calligraphy skills
- Typography software
- Fancy supplies
- Naturally neat handwriting
You need curiosity, patience, and a willingness to practice.
Inside the course: designing your font
In the core lessons, you’ll learn how to intentionally design a handwritten font that you can return to again and again.
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify letterforms you’re naturally drawn to
- Analyze what makes certain letters feel right to you
- Combine those elements into a cohesive alphabet
- Refine rhythm, spacing, and repetition
- Create letters that feel expressive and reliable
This is where your font is born.
Building muscle memory through practice
A font only works if you can use it.
That’s why this course goes beyond design.
You’ll learn hand lettering practices that help your font move from something you designed to something your hand remembers.
We focus on:
- Slow, intentional repetition
- Consistency without rigidity
- Confidence through familiarity
This is how your letters start showing up the same way — without forcing them.
The 30‑Day Love Your Letters Challenge
Once your font is designed, it’s time to live with it.
Included with the course is a 30‑day challenge with thirty unique exercises designed to help you:
- Use your font daily in small, approachable ways
- Strengthen muscle memory without burnout
- Apply your lettering in mixed media, collage, journaling, and art pages
- Explore variation while maintaining consistency
- Move from practice into finished work
This is where confidence clicks into place.
Why this works
Most lettering frustration comes from skipping steps.
This course slows the process down — just enough.
You design first. You practice with intention. You apply creatively.
That’s what turns a style into a font you can trust.
What’s included
When you enroll, you’ll receive:
- Full access to the Love Your Imperfect Letters course
- Guided lessons for designing your own handwritten font
- Hand lettering practice methods that build real muscle memory
- A complete 30‑day challenge with daily prompts
- Lifetime access so you can return whenever you need a reset
A note from me
I didn’t want perfect letters.
I wanted letters I could count on.
Designing my own font changed how I use words in my art — and how confident I feel when I write.
This course is an invitation to stop borrowing styles and start trusting your own.
Still on the Fence?
Read more Student Reviews!
This was the first course I tried. I’m a retired art teacher with lots of imposter baggage so the online course worked for me. Wendy’s serious but positive approach is so good for me, it gives me confidence, helps me trust my instincts as well the energy to try new things. It makes me happy when she exclaims how cute a letter or style is and gives me energy to try all the things. This was a good ‘gateway’ course to the world of Fodder School. I haven’t stopped since!
Marilyn Seals
I loved this course sooo much. Of course everything I have taken from Willa Workshops has been amazing, but this stands out as one of my favorites. I have messy writing and that held me back from putting it in my art. But this course helped me practice basic shapes to make my writing more fluid, understand that lettering is just drawing and explore what type of lettering appeals to me. I tried so many different techniques and really had fun. I love how it was presented systematically without being boring. I felt so encouraged to embrace my own lettering, imperfections and all. It is definitely a course that I will go back to again and again.
Heather Reardon
Of all the classes I have taken, this is my favorite! Wendy is the best teacher and I use what I learned in the class every day.
Paulette Gledhill
I have always hated my handwriting. Mom said I should have been a doctor. So when I saw this course, I knew I had to take it. I am impatient and rush too much, so it has been tricky for me, but I love the instruction and logic behind it all. I just need to slow down and practice more- and stop comparing my lettering to Wendy's amazing lettering, but I am making definite progress! And I no longer feel I have ruined my journals with my terrible penmanship. I wholeheartedly recommend!
BethAnn Harrison
I have just begun my journey into art, and I realized I didn’t care for my handwriting paired with what I created, even though my handwriting is perfectly fine. I was thrilled to find the Love Your (Imperfect) Letters class. Through it, I was astonished to discover that I actually have an artistic style in lettering! Who knew?? It was hidden away all this time, and the class helped me define it. I loved the practice drills and variety of lettering types. I didn’t have art journals to letter in, and I didn’t need to; but creating art journals will be my next class, and I can’t wait to letter in them; I will be revisiting the different lessons in this class for a long time! In the meantime, I already had a friend ask me to letter a message in a birthday card she made for a friend!
Rhonda Marple
I enjoyed this course so much! I'm a complete novice at this type of thing. The course was fun! Wendy has a friendly, totally non-judgemental manner, and I felt encouraged and supported, even on-line! She's a talented artist and a great teacher - I'm really happy with the results and find myself referring back to the notebook/journal all the time. Highly recommend!
Chris Watkins
Wendy's "Love Your (Imperfect) Letters" course definitely helped me to improve and gain confidence with my hand lettering. Each lesson helped me to develop muscle memory while also honing my own imperfect lettering style for use in my art. I especially enjoyed the 30 daily challenges and followed along as part of my 100 Day Project (see attached photo) and repeated my favorite techniques to complete all 100 days in my mixed-media books. To this day, I love incorporating imperfect lettering into my artwork, bullet journal, and mail!
Mel Beach
I am currently taking both the letters and the watercolor for relaxation course. I am about 75% done with both. I can definitely share my artwork when I’m done. I’ve combined both courses in an art journal I made as well as in a cotton watercolor journal. I began these courses when my best friend, with whom I’ve spent 20 years doing art, died last month. These two courses have been a lifeline for me. The combination of the short videos and Wendy’s authenticity have gotten through this fog I’ve been stuck in and are helping me sort through some pretty big emotions. Wendy has unknowingly helped me to not feel so adrift and hopeless. Seeing her work and her words in her journals gave me the permission to freely write down my own. And it’s been liberating.
Tiffany Robinson
This course changed my whole writing experience in my journals. The lessons were extremely thorough and persistence was the key for me. Like most of Wendy’s courses the lessons just seemed to going and going so was excellent value for money. I feel I can now confidently write in any of my journals, whether it be a quote, a heading or daily writing, knowing it looks unique to me.
Cathy Watson
I just wanted to say thank you for all your generosity in teaching and sharing your love of art. I’ve been having fun for a while with the first 3 years of Fodder School. THEN I found your Love of (Imperfect) Letters course. Since my heart has always belonged to pens and letters, this was MY course! I am LOVING all the drills and experimenting and searching for fonts! Your approach to teaching is so inviting and welcoming, I can’t tell you how at ease it makes me. This year, and especially the last 2 months, have been brutal for me. Having a safe, enjoyable practice awaiting me each day has helped to mget through. Thank you, as always, for all that you do for people you don’t even know. You give me hope.
Phoenix Dals
Willa Workshops Generic FAQs
- What is your refund policy?
- There are no refunds on online courses
- How long do I have access to this course if I purchase it?
- You will have “Lifetime” Access to all classes unless otherwise mentioned—"Lifetime" is relevant to the lifespan of the Willa Workshops business (I don't plan on leaving anytime soon!) or the longevity of the technology
- Does this class have subtitles/closed captioning?
- This class comes with captions in English, Spanish, French, and German
- How do I watch these classes?
- All Willa Workshops lesson content is prerecorded video. Once your purchase is complete, you will have instant access to the classroom, and are free to work through the content at your own pace
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- Are the class videos downloadable?
- No, at least not available as local downloads to your device. The Teachable app for iOS may allow you to download lessons for offline playback.
- Can I share access to these courses with another person?
- No. One student per registration. This is an honor system that if violated will result in your removal from the course with no refund.
- Can I post images of what I create from these courses on social media?
- Please do! Always tag @willa.wanders and mention the course in your post description
- Can I sell the art projects that I learn to make in these courses?
- Yes! Please keep them for yourself, give them as a gift, or sell them.
Meet Your Teacher!
Wendy Solganik
@willa.wanders
Wendy Solganik, aka “Willa Wanders” on Instagram, is a life-long artist and crafter, currently working in watercolor, hand lettering, mixed media collage, art journaling and handmade book arts. From production wheel pottery to scrapbooking to knitting and so many more passions, Wendy always dives deep to master a craft.
After a fifteen year stint as the co-owner of Luscious Verde Cards, a successful, Louie award-winning, custom invitation design, printing and manufacturing company, you can find Wendy at home in her spare bedroom art studio moving around from art project to art project. It is the experience of a delicious flow state while she is creating that keeps Wendy coming back to making day after day.
Wendy balances making art with energetically running her online art course platform, Willa Workshops. Over the past four years, she and other artists from around the globe have launched over 40 new online mixed media art, handmade book, collage art and watercolor painting courses. This includes the epic year long mixed media collage art experience called Fodder School, which is the creation that Wendy is most proud of.
You can listen to Wendy interview other prolific artists on her podcast, “Show Up or Shut Up with Wendy Solganik.” Her work has been featured in Uppercase Magazine and Strawberry Moon, and you just never know where she will wander to next. Find all this and more at willawanders.com.
