Specialization in calligraphy: art from fundamentals to ornamentation

Overview

“Another important group to practice in foundational learning is numbers and intonation marks, punctuation, basic accents, and other fundamental symbols, such as parentheses and brackets. We'll learn how to construct them and add them to our character set to further enhance the development of paragraphs in texts.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Numbers, signs and symbols 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in calligraphy: art from fundamentals to ornamentation. English calligraphy dominates with plumilla and watercolor techniques to create elegant and artistic works.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson. we'll learn about the construction of numbers. signs. and symbols. We'll start with the letter B. Noticing its composition. we have a vertical line. And two curved lines logically extend from the base of the letter E. forming its distinctive shape. Here. we remove the three strokes and utilize this section of the letter B for our purpose. Thus. we obtain our first number. which is number 3. The composition of number 3 is as follows. We check: the first curve very similar to the one seen in the lowercase letter G. and then a second curve. this time larger. a bit larger and fi...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in calligraphy: art from fundamentals to ornamentation

• Level: Beginner
• 68 students
• 6 units
• 83 lessons (14h 21m)
• 44 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Calligraphy, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering