Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles

Overview

“Now that you have your equipment ready, you will start to warm up your hand by creating your first brushstrokes with your nib and ink. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Warming up Your Hand with Basic Strokes, 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

“Warming up Your Hand with Basic Strokes In this lesson, we'll start warming up our hands with some rapid movement exercises with a pencil and then we'll move on to using the nib and ink to do your first basic strokes to get used to that. First, I want to invite you to think about the mindset of calligraphy. I like to think of calligraphy much more as painting letters with strokes, rather than handwriting. As you go through the different exercises, you'll find that you'll be able to focus on all the different strokes and see what I mean by that. The first thing we'll do is start warming up o...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 478 students
• 7 units
• 90 lessons (15h 27m)
• 50 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Calligraphy, Hand Lettering, Lettering