Video: Calligraphy in Uncial Hand: Pt. 1

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The uncial hand in calligraphy is like a fourth century hand. Learn about the uncial hand in calligraphy with this free handwriting video from a calligrapher.

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Going to work on the Uncial hand. The Uncial hand is like a fourth century hand. It's called Uncial and it's the rounded form. It's a book hand. Very, very important hand. Because of all these rounded qualities, it's a very sensual hand. It was it, it was done, used for books to write religious manuscripts. Very Christian in orientation. And it's important because of what's happening with all of these rounded forms. And how we're making our way to the miniscule hand. The lower case hands. It is a very, very influential hand. And you see lots of variations on it. So what I'm giving you here, please understand. It's just very generic. Just sort of, giving you an idea of how it works. Basically speaking, the Uncial was pretty thick hand. They used to use reeds to draw these letters. Now watch how the 'A' makes it's way to, now it's a two stroke letter. And you know what? I don't think it's too much. It takes too much imagination to see how this 'A' eventually leads to this 'a'. And you know, where you are now. Right? You know, where you are with that one. Anyway, the 'B'. With these letters, the character is that it's very rounded and very simple. And the reed that they were using to get out of this stroke. The way they picked up on it. Was sort of like this. They picked up on, I'm using a brush, I know. But the way they picked up on it. Was sort of like that. So that, that little, little detail that I'm showing there, is quite valid.

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Calligraphy in Uncial Hand: Pt. 1

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