Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles

Overview

“Once you are familiarized with the basic strokes, you will start building some Chinese characters with fewer strokes.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Dot, Horizontal and Vertical Strokes 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles. Explore modern calligraphy techniques, expressive lettering styles, and creative compositions to develop your own calligraphic style.

Partial transcription of the video

“Dot, Horizontal and Vertical Strokes Basic Components Now let's move onto vertical strokes. The vertical stroke, in Chinese "xuan shu", is like this: the vertical line is lined on this red line, which means that actually it's a straight line, but similar to the horizontal line, there are a few things that you need to pay attention to. The starting point and the end point are also thicker than the middle part. As you can see, the middle part is a bit narrower than the start and the end point. One more thing you need to know is this part is a bit thicker and pointing to the left. In Chinese, ...”

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Course summary for: Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles

• Level: Beginner
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• 192 students
• 7 units
• 90 lessons (15h 27m)
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• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Calligraphy, Hand Lettering, Lettering