Introduction to Calligraphy

Overview

“Finally we can start with lowercase letters. To construct the letters, I ask you once again to forget about their image and shape. You will have to focus a lot on the movements and, above all, I advise you not to be in a hurry. To make things easier, I have divided the letters into groups, according to the strokes and movements that make them up. But, once again, we will address them as a set of basic traits and not of figures. For each group I will reveal the writing secrets and some alternatives. You will also see that there are some special characters, for which we will have to learn particular movements. ”

In this video lesson Giorgio Gaetani addresses the topic: Alphabet: lowercase letters 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Calligraphy. Explore the rules of calligraphy writing by learning to compose words and phrases in an elegant and timeless style.

Partial transcription of the video

“Alphabet: lowercase letters In this lesson we will see how to build lowercase letters, using the movements seen in the last lesson. In this lesson it is important to forget about the letters. I ask you for this effort, to simply think about the movements we have seen so far and try to repeat them without assigning them a letter. Exercises can help with this task that you will find in the lesson. One thing that often happens is to be able to do, to perform perfect movements and then, when it comes to writing letters, to get lost a little, because you have too much in mind the idea of the let...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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