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The Art of Calligraphy: Blackletter Script

Megan Eckman
FREELessons: 21Length: 2.3 hours
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5.2 Pencil Your Letters

Once we have the margins and line spacing drawn in, it’s a good idea to pencil in the words on your invitation. This will help eliminate the need to start over if you run out of room on a line. It’s always best to avoid hyphenating words if possible. Don’t get discouraged if it takes you several times to get the words on properly. That’s why we’re using pencil.

1.Introduction
2 lessons, 04:36

1.1
Introduction and Course Overview
01:50

1.2
Mastering the Pen
02:46

2.Basic Strokes
3 lessons, 07:05

2.1
Small ‘Brick’
05:06

2.2
Downward Stroke
01:15

2.3
Straight Stroke
00:44

3.The Lowercase Letters
5 lessons, 37:02

3.1
Practice the Brick Letters
12:22

3.2
The Brick Letters Continued
09:49

3.3
Practice the Downward Stroke Letters
07:42

3.4
Practice the ‘Oddball’ Letters
04:05

3.5
Ink the Lowercase Alphabet
03:04

4.The Uppercase Letters
5 lessons, 47:12

4.1
Practice the Uppercase Strokes
07:02

4.2
Practice the Downward Stroke Letters in Uppercase
15:21

4.3
Practice the Curve Stroke Letters in Uppercase
11:07

4.4
Practice the ‘Oddball’ Letters in Uppercase
06:45

4.5
Ink the Uppercase Alphabet
06:57

5.Create a Calligraphic Poster
5 lessons, 43:12

5.1
Measure Out Your Paper
09:46

5.2
Pencil Your Letters
11:54

5.3
Ink Your Letters
12:43

5.4
Pencil the Embellishments
03:11

5.5
Ink the Embellishments
05:38

6.Conclusion
1 lesson, 00:38

6.1
Conclusion
00:38

Megan Eckman
Megan Eckman
I'm the full-time illustrator and author behind Studio MME Illustrations. After graduating from art school, I set out to make a living from my art. It took 5 years of hard work but I made it and now I'm sharing some of my knowledge with people like you. My recent collaborations include Google and Modcloth. When I'm not drawing, I can be found exploring state parks.
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