Italic Hand Calligraphy: Lowercase "a"

Video Transcript

"Alright, we're going to go from o to a. I want you to keep in mind the o shape as we make the a, because the letter a is based upon the oval of the o. Again, there's probably an a in your past that doesn't look like this and we're amazing creatures, we will go back to the a that we learned in kindergarten and it might look something like this. So we want to avoid that, with the a to slant forward. So when I make the a, it has a slant forward. And if we do construct the a, we're going to see that it is almost exactly the same as the o. It has about that much inside. Not half but two thirds, three quarters."