Alright, so it's not going to completely follow around, as if it were going completely along with the circular diagram, so I think you can see my point best in this little diagram. And also you want to be sure that this ends up in a place that makes sense; this one being a smaller circle if you imagine, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot and it ends up here, not way out here, but there, and this one is going to end up out a little further than that. Alright, so this is a slightly, nicely better drawn "S". What do we have for "S"? Ooh, okay, slow down, okay. There's no way to get a beautiful letter onto the page, especially in the beginning, if you don't go slowly. "Sensual"; there is a sensual nature to calligraphy, the same as there is a sensual nature to dance. You know sometimes they call calligraphy the dance of the pen. If it were not sensual, it would not be working, or the shapes of the letters, and the way you form the letters would not be working with the way we are designed as people, as human beings; so yes it has a sensual nature, yes it takes "skill", and the studying of the skill has to come first. First you get the skill and then you get the creativity. "Spacing" of course is a huge, huge thing. We've talked about negative space; negative space and positive, negative space. So your spacing is very important. And we'll talk more about spacing, as time goes on. But right now lets stick with the ideas of the models, getting our basic stuff down.
