Italic Hand Calligraphy: Lowercase "n" & "m"

Video Transcript

"We'll continue with the letters n and m. And they're group together because obviously they're related to each other in structure. We'll start with the n. The first stroke of the n is very similar to the lower case i, then we're going to take one of those stamp strokes out up and down. So here's the n, one; two. One, two. So I want to look for the little white triangle on the rising stroke on the hairline. Now the m is just a combination of an additional bump stroke. So if we think of it as being related to the n in structure, here's the m. One difference is that the intervals of the m are slightly smaller than the intervals or the spacing here, slightly smaller than the spacing here. M is a little more demanding. Any stroke that has any letter that has multiple strokes that are very similar sort of requires that we keep the same interval between the strokes, that we start them at roughly the same place. So that's going to be a little trickier than say the n, which relates to the u. When you look at the u, it sort of like an upside down n. Oopps, we're almost out of ink, a little bit. There u. So the n, you probably want a little wider than the pen in the m with the repetitive strokes, n and m, there."