Introduction to Calligraphy

Overview

“So far we have seen how to practice basic strokes to break up letters and learn how to write beautiful uppercase and lowercase in the style of English cursive. We begin to take the first steps to lay the foundations to build a word and, subsequently, to write sentences. You will see that to build a word you will not only need the basic movements you learned in previous lessons, but you will have to take into account the ligatures, those thin outgoing lines that are used, in fact, to join the letters and give a new meaning to what you are. writing. ”

In this video lesson Giorgio Gaetani addresses the topic: Ligatures 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

“Ligatures Now that you have learned to write letters in this lesson we will see how to tie them together to form words. As we have seen, each letter has an entry line and at the end an exit line. We will need these lines to connect the letters to each other. It will be interesting to see some cases, such as for example the A linked to the X, the A linked to the N, to the M. These are all special cases. They may seem a bit difficult at first. Especially double letters. We will also see the double L, the double R and the double S. And then we will also see the spacing between the different le...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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