Writing Complete Words in Cursive Italic Calligraphy

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I'll be showing you how to put together words and sentences with the Italic Cursive Calligraphy. I typically keep the paper out in front of me and try not to turn it too much unless I really feel I need to get a sharp angle. It's better to let you pen do the angle then your paper and your body. So, sitting in front of the paper, with my lines already ruled, I will go ahead and start my sentence. Starting with your first letter, it will be a capital, and since we're trying to keep out lettering close, you can actually cross the capital "T". Typically you want to keep your letters just barely touching, or not touching, distance apart. And then to make your next word, you're going to think of an "o" in between. So, an "o's" distance, basically one of these spaces, apart. You just want to try and keep your lettering somewhat tight. But it's the thicks and the thins of the letters that?s going to make it look beautiful. Now you can see the difference between writing with a nib dip ink and writing with the calligraphy marker, is you don't get the same thicks and thins as you would if you're using a dip pen. But for the purposes of this video, we're using the marker right now. You can see the lettering isn't quite as thick and thin, or as beautiful as it would be with the dip pen. You always want to remember to go back across all your serifs and all your "t's"."