78+ Lettering Two Calligraphy

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Calligraphy is the art of writing letters and is related to the idea of penmanship. In order to maintain a good and consistent spacing you need to go slower lift your pen between each stroke and also keeping an eye on the space of the previous letter pair. The earlier angled nib version and what they call the flat pen version. Marc drogin s medieval calligraphy also includes two varieties of uncial a plainer version and the later calligraphic artifical uncial pictured above.

Like calligraphy hand lettering also requires discipline. It traditionally uses specific tools like a nib and ink and it is marked by a. If the letters are too squished together that could have a negative impact on your calligraphy of course we want to avoid that. I often use sharpies brush pens and gel pens to create hand lettering.

Hand lettering is a more specific subset of lettering that refers to the art of drawing letters specifically by hand and not creating them in a digital program like illustrator. I lovingly refer to hand lettering as faux calligraphy as it uses the sames principles of thick downstrokes and light upstrokes but is written with a pen of some kind rather than a nib and ink. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a new video. Hand lettering ultimate guides tagged with.

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