Warm greetings to all , this side  I am Haleema Zubairi  a calligraphy teacher  from India. 

Degree: Bachelors of Arts - University: XYZ

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Calligraphy is an art that never dies. You see it coming back into style with hand-lettered invitations and in high-end magazines. It's a great way to jazz up your correspondence and impress people.

While most people think that calligraphy is difficult to learn, it's really made up of two simple strokes, which we're going to learn in this lesson before we start our series on "Mastering Calligraphy".

This calligraphy font practice will teach you the basics of this art. Now, if you're looking for the best font for calligraphy to use in your digital project, scroll down after this tutorial and find our selection of premium calligraphy fonts from Envato Elements.

Calligraphy is much easier than you think, once you have the basic strokes down. With these eight simple strokes, you can make nearly every letter in the alphabet. In future tutorials, I'll be teaching you several different alphabets using multiple pen nibs and showing you how to create your very own font.

• Learning Objectives:

  What You Will Learn in This Calligraphy Tutorial

  • How to pick the right penholder
  • How to pick the right nib
  • How to dip and hold the pen
  • How to do the basic modern calligraphy strokes

   

  What You'll Need

  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Black ink (preferably Speedball or Higgins waterproof ink)
  • Practice sheet
  • Pen holder (the black part of the pen above)
  • Pen nib (the shiny silver part of the pen above)

   

• Course Outline:

  1. How to Pick the Right Pen
  This is an oblique pen holder. The nib is inserted on the left-hand side. These pens are great for getting the right angle for your calligraphy. This is a straight penholder. Just like a regular pen, the tip of the nib is inserted at the top.

  2.How to Pick the Right Tip
  There are many calligraphy pen tips, called nibs, for you to choose from. To start out, it's best to have a nib that's not too flexible and not too sharp for ease and control when first trying out modern calligraphy. I will be demonstrating with a "Zebra G" nib, pointy but not sharp, and sturdy not flexible.

  For beginners, sharper nibs are harder to control as they catch on the paper fibres, and flexible nibs are a little difficult to control as a beginner because you are not yet used to the expected pressure needed for particular strokes. 

  3. How to Dip the Pen
  Dip the pen gently into the ink until the ink reaches 3/4 up the tip. Too little ink and you'll run out faster, leading to scratchy lines and constant interruptions. Too much and you'll overflow the tip and cause the ink to drip out in spurts.

  4. How to Hold the Pen
  Hold your pen like you would a pencil, gripping it gently. If you grip too tightly, you'll be more likely to shake as your hand fatigues.

  5. How to Do Calligraphy Strokes
  Let's be honest: starting calligraphy is daunting. So for starters, I just want you to play on the back of your practice paper. Make some big loopy lines and some straight lines. Play around with the pressure you exert on the nib and see the difference in thickness. Practice dipping your pen into the ink. There's no right or wrong here; you're just getting the feel of the pen.

   

  6. How to Do the Upstroke
  In modern calligraphy, there are eight basic strokes that make up all letter forms: the upstroke, downstroke, overturn, underturn, oval, compound curve, ascending loop, and descending loop. So let's start with the upstroke! If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way, you have a line to follow.

  Using your practice sheet, place your pen at the bottom line. Keeping the tip of your pen evenly flat against the paper, with the hole of the nib facing directly up, move your hand upward to the dashed line with very light pressure. You don't have to keep perfectly straight, but rather let your line slant right (like mine below) or not.

  7. How to Do the Downstroke
  With the downstroke, it's basically the same motion as the upstroke. However, instead of starting at the bottom line, start at the dashed line, and with a heavy pressure pull down slightly to the right (or not). If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way, you have a line to follow.

  8. How to Do the Overturn
  The overturn is the upstroke and downstroke combined. Starting with an upstroke, as you get to the dashed line, instead of stopping, arch over, keeping in mind the pressure switch from light to heavy, and pull down with a parallel downstroke. If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way you have a line to follow.

  9. How to Do the Underturn
  This stroke is the overturn stroke, just upside down! So, instead of starting with an upstroke followed by a downstroke, we want to start with a downstroke and as we approach the bottom line, curve under to the right and with light pressure create an upstroke. If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way you have a line to follow.

  10. How to Do the Compound Curve
  This stroke is the overturn and underturn combined. As we are about to end our overturn stroke, we curve under, like with an underturn stroke, ensuring our lines are parallel with one another. 

  13. How to Do the Descending Loop
  Like many of the other strokes, this is also another upside down. With this stroke, we start at the dashed line coming down with a heavy pressured downstroke, and as we get to that bottom line, curve up to the left and loop back, closing the gap.

  If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way, you have a line to follow.
  14. Strokes in Practice
  Here we have an upstroke, oval, and under turn stroke. All these together create the lowercase letter "a". Fun, right?

  If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way, you have a line to follow.

  11. How to Do the Oval
  This is the oval stroke. Starting just under the dashed line, we want to arch up and over to the left coming down with a curved downstroke, and coming back up closing the gap. This is a very tricky stroke, so do take your time, and use your pencils!

  If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way, you have a line to follow.

  12. How to Do the Ascending Loop
  Just above the dashed line, make an upstroke slightly out to the right up to the top line, and loop over with a downstroke all the way down to the bottom line. If it feels easier to you, you can draw each of these lines first with your pencil. That way, you have a line to follow.

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• Course Level:
  Beginner
• Language of Teaching:
  English
• Class Schedule Availiability:
  Morning