Mastering Script Lettering

3.3 Stabbing Connections

All right, so you can see that I have placed a piece of tracing paper on top of my printout, and have traced over the already existing forms to essential fine tune everything, truly understand like where everything is sitting, the composition, what these letter forms will look like. And right now, it's looking pretty good. But one thing I wanna discuss before we continue to further edit this, is with informal lettering we have stabbing connection. With formal lettering everything is very graceful. Everything is very fluid. But with informal you can get away with a stabbing connection, I think. And for example you can see in the e, we discussed it earlier but you can see how this e just almost stabs into the side of the t. Or even the t somewhat stabs into the other t. With informal lettering you can get away with these, these sort of scabbing connections, because it doesn't need to be so formal like our formal script lettering. So, it is very okay to do something such as this. But, for me, personally, there's something about stabbing connections that I just don't like within my lettering, so I am gonna try and fine tune this and bring in more of that smooth connecting point. So when you're drawing, and going through this editing process, don't worry if your letter forms are stabbing into others, similar to like this n to the g as well. So continue to fine tune this, continue to throw another piece of tracing paper on top and draw and draw and draw until you essentially perfect this, similar to how we perfected our formal script.