Introduction to Calligraphy

Overview

“We keep practicing on ligatures and spacing. In this lesson, you will go from being able to write a single word to joining several words to form an entire sentence. To learn how to write a sentence and practice even the letters you learned in the lessons of the previous unit as much as possible, we will use pangrams. Pangrams are phrases that exist in various languages and contain all the letters of the alphabet. This way, you will also be able to test your skills in correctly distributing the letters in the spaces, tying different types of letters together and calculating the correct proportions on the paper.”

In this video lesson Giorgio Gaetani addresses the topic: How to write an entire sentence, 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

“How to write an entire sentence In this lesson, after learning more about ligatures and spacing, let's keep practicing writing a whole sentence. A useful and fun way to practice writing on sentences is to use pangrams. Pangrams are sentences that contain all the letters of the alphabet. I chose to write an English pangram: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Let's see now how to write it together following the rules we have seen in the past lessons. In the exercises you will find different versions of pangrams in different languages that you can also use to practice phrases. Our ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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