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Their are different categories of calligraphy tools. Learn about tools and materials for calligraphy and tips for writing the alphabet from a calligrapher in this free art video.

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Before we go on to more lettering I'd like to share with you some of the tools that I use as a professional calligrapher and some of the tools that you may very well want to play with yourself. So, there are different categories here. One them is the category of brushes. There are flat brushes like this that you can letter with and there are rounded brushes like this that you can letter with. I'll be showing you all of this. There are very long and narrow brushes like this and there are crazy wild brushes like this, the fan brush. I can't really say I do a lot of letter with it, but I do use it in my work. There are almost like felt marker brushes. There are sponge brushes, which again I don't usually use for lettering, but you can use for making washes and so on, for backgrounds. There is the pen tail color brush which is a marvelous tool. It's an imitation of a Chinese brush, lettering brush. This is what I was using to demonstrate the Roman. This is a Zig Marker, felt marker very, very high quality. Yes, OK, I consider it a toy, but it's the top of the line toy. Let me get into the metal markers, or the metal lettering tools. Here are two really big ones, but you know they get smaller of course. This is a speed ball nib. It comes in lots of different sizes of a certain sort of medium range width.

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