Calligraphy Punctuation Location Tips

Video Transcript

"Two marks which we used in adding punctuation are the exclamation point and the question mark. Now I don't know what hand you're writing in, so I'm going to assume an italic slant here. But it would make sense that if you're not doing italic, that you're doing a roman hand that you would make these vertical rather than slanted. So we'll start with the exclamation point, which is simply a straight line, which is not complete. So if we look at an "L", let's say, (and again I'm using an italic slant here) we're going to stop about 2/3 of the way down, and then balance a diamond on the base line, so there's the exclamation point. Now, a question mark has sort of a sweeping curve in it. So we can start with a curve, and a straight line, you can go back and make a little cap on it to finish it off, and again we have the period or the dot poised on the base line, so, 1, 2, 3, a question mark."