Italic Hand Calligraphy: Lowercase "t"

Video Transcript

"The letter t. You might remember awhile back I said while we have these four guidelines, the letters line up to them. Well, the letter t is one letter that does not follow the guidelines. So, we're going to start t right there in the middle of the ascenders space. I'll write an h next to it so you can see how it fits. So instead of starting the t up here, we're down here. We're starting the t right in the middle which makes the t, the anomaly in this alphabet. So the t, pretty straight, except for the bottom where it curves. The cross bar, again, hanging from the waist of the letter or the x side of the letter. We'll make one more because I kind of got off my slant there. There's a better t slant wise. Some things to think about, the beginning and the end of the cross bar should be kind of slanted because your pen is slanted, that this hook shouldn't be overwhelming but it should come up a bit. We can start and stop with exit strokes."