Writing Roman Calligraphy Letters: Part 4

Video Transcript

"Not with this the simplest of the simples. Minimum stroke, topper one's to come around, look at that negative space please, okay. And then, we're going to have, this is our third stroke. And then thinking, sort of like this, think about this letter as being a piece of architecture. You want it to stand out. So this comes out, as does this come out, so that you have enough of a space in here, enough of a sense of weight. The S is, is a two-story letter, so its narrow and it has a bigger bow on the bottom. This is our little nail stroke, probably the hardest to do on S and A. That's our little nail stroke. Hopefully, this looks like it's standing up. A cross bar, for a model, I want to go start directly from the center. That's what I did when I started that stroke, I pushed into it. You wasn't there, when they're beginning in Imperial Rome, they had a V and the V made us way into U."