Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter X

Video Transcript

"OK, not perfect. The X is a two story letter. It's bilaterly symmetrical. It needs to be weighted on the bottom for that sense of stasis, and therefore, you're going to try to aim so that the very center point of this X is slightly above that perfect geometric center. So it's as if, you know, you've got a waist band in the right place. If, if you draw this letter perfectly, which I think I've done a little bit better in this sample, you're going to have these lines, this line come down so that it's slightly inside where this line, this ends up, and it's going to symmetrical, so the same thing is going to happen on this side. If I were to take a vertical line and draw it down here, this comes out just a little bit further. So, two story letter, and what have we got for X. Oh, this a beautiful word, expressiveness. Alright, we're, with our Roman capital alphabet, we're expressing tremendous discipline, dignity, simplicity, all of these beautiful things, but you can get very expressive with letters. You can get as expressive with letters as you can with acting, as you can with dancing, as you can with the English language itself. So expressiveness is something that you, that you gain the ability for the more skilled you become, and the more fun you have with it. Expressiveness."