Introduction to Calligraphy

Overview

“We begin to lay the foundation for the practice of calligraphy. In this lesson, in fact, I will teach you to build and trace on paper the lines that will help you to better orient yourself on the worksheet, so that you can understand the proportions and distances between the letters well. You will discover the names of the baselines and that each of them has a specific purpose. With protractor, ruler and pencil you will learn to draw the lines on the paper, always taking into account the inclination that differentiates the English cursive from the other calligraphic styles I told you about in Lesson 2. Finally, you will learn the tricks to make this phase slightly faster as soon as you get a little familiar with this style.”

In this video lesson user4365721 surname4365721 addresses the topic: Trace the guides on paper, 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

“Mark the guides on the paper In this lesson we will prepare our guidelines together. That is the basis of what will then be the proportion of our letters. The lines may vary depending on the style we write, in our case we will see in particular the lines for English italics. Before we start drawing our lines, let's see a little the description of each line we are going to draw. So now let's see the nomenclature of the lines. The first line we'll see is the baseline, which is this right here. The baseline is the line on which all lowercase letters are they will lean. After that we have the t...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Calligraphy

• Level: Beginner
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• 2181 students
• 5 units
• 24 lessons (5h 18m)
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• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Calligraphy