Video: Calligraphy Pens & Inks

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Discover how to control the flow of ink. Learn about pens and inks in calligraphy and tips for writing the alphabet from a calligrapher in this free art video.

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And what you do is you put it in here, like this. Here's the pen holder. And then I use, I don't use ink. I use guasch. And I water it down to the viscosity. That consistency that I want. And then I fill or load the pen, like that. So some of the difficulty of learning calligraphy of course, is figuring out how to control the flow of ink or paint. And this is a lining tool. This is an oblique pen holder. And I will show you about this. This is pretty exciting. It's a pointed tool. Let me have mechanical tools beyond the lettering tools. I have a lot of mechanical tools that I use. One of my favorites is this. A divider and I'll show you about that. And I also use a lot of things that just graphic designers might use. Like compasses. Show you a bit more about that. You know, what this is. You know, what this is. But, you don't know what this is. And I'm not going to tell you, until later. Because I want you to keep paying attention. And this is a mechanical pencil. You need lots of pencils in this business. So these are a few of the tools that I use. And there's variations on all of these. All of these have many different varieties of same.

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