Introduction to Foundational Calligraphy

Overview

“With the first modules worked, you can advance in the first group of letters: the straight lower case sisters (h, i, j, l, m, n, r, t, u, f); You will know ways to work them, based on the union of the initial strokes seen in the previous lesson. Later, we will play with words associated with this group of letters, which will help us in the adjustment of spaces, shapes and structures of them.”

In this video lesson Leo Calderón addresses the topic: A letter as a puzzle, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Foundational Calligraphy. Learn the basics of this style and explore the beauty behind it by creating your own calligraphy piece.

Partial transcription of the video

“Lesson I Alphabet level: Rookie The letter as a puzzle In this lesson we will learn to build straight letters, which I baptize as a rookie or rookie level alphabet. On this occasion we will work four variants of the first straight modules we work on: snake module, toucan module ... and duck module. For the purposes of this exercise we will call them stroke, 1, 2 and 3. Recall, then, that if we add the line 1 and to the side we add the stroke 2, we get the base of the letter N. And that, through this base, we can get up to ten letters. The first stroke will facilitate us the construction of ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Foundational Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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• 22 lessons (4h 25m)
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  Calligraphy & Typography

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  Calligraphy