Introduction to Calligraphy

Overview

“Now that baselines and lowercase letters have no secrets for you, let's talk about uppercase letters. First, you will learn the universal beauty line, one of the fundamental movements for writing this type of letter in English cursive. In fact, we will often find it during the course, so concentrate well on its execution. Then, you will learn the other three basic lines of letter construction. Watch the video of this lesson carefully to practice the movements before moving on to the next lesson. Don't be in a hurry, every line is important to get clean and well executed letters.”

In this video lesson Giorgio Gaetani addresses the topic: Capital lines for uppercase, 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

“Capital lines for uppercase Now, having seen the movements for lowercase letters and lowercase letters, we're going to look at the movements for capital letters and after capital letters. In the case of capital letters, we will have more movements to see in particular. This may seem a little bit more difficult, but, in reality, if you learn well the two, three, four movements for capital letters, you have less problems, later, to learn them, because some capital letters take movements from the movements seen above for lowercase letters and, in any case, at this point our hand, the arm will ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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