In this clip we'll be demonstrating how to do the letters S through Z in the miniscule italic cursive hand starting with the letter S. Start with your forty five degree angle, and the important thing is to turn early on the S and then finish it with your serif. If you don't turn early you won't get a good balanced letter. What happens is it gets too top heavy. So just be sure with the S that you turn and make a nice smooth letter. T is an interesting letter. It starts above the body height line, comes down just like the other letters, come up on the edge, and then it crosses back over. So you're going to go above the body height, draw the line down, and then over. Again you find that forty five degree angle for the U, come up, and down. Once again you want to be concerned about body height, or the counter space so that you don't create too much of it in the wrong place because if you turn too soon, I'm not sure what that letter is. V, you're actually going to turn your pen inward when you get to the top. The V comes down and it just slightly turns inward. W is actually a double V, just what W is. So there will be two slight turns in. Slight turn V, and another V. Double V, W. X. When you come back over you put the serif on the end. Y which is like the V or the W. You're going to turn early. I'm going to show that again. Come all the way up, one stroke, and Z. Now with the Z the tendency for most people, I find, is that they don't come straight across and just get a little bit of an edge up, and what happens is they get very, very wavy lines. So be sure you keep a nice straight edge across.
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