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The Art of Calligraphy: Blackletter Script

Megan Eckman
FREELessons: 21Length: 2.3 hours
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2.1 Small ‘Brick’

Now we’re ready to start practicing some strokes. First we’ll work our way through the most basic stroke, the ‘brick’, which makes up many letters of the Blackletter alphabet. We’ll cover the four directions the ‘brick’ can go to form the tops and bottoms of letters. Be sure to print off a practice page.

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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