Video: Calligraphy in Northern Gothic: Pt. 2

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Keep calligraphy strokes smooth when writing in Northern Gothic style. Learn about the Northern Gothic style in calligraphy with this free handwriting video from a calligrapher.

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scarlettink Aug 26, 2010
YOU are GREAT! what kind of brush are you using ie: brand , size etc??????

Video Transcript

I'm going to twist that at that, out of this stroke. Straight down. Actually, I'm giving this a little bit of a twist and a turn. And I'm going to go like this. I want to keep this stroke, not too cronky. I would ask you to be conscious of where this E comes from. It comes all the way from the Roman capital E. You don't want to forget that. Now right here, here's our, this is. You know, what this is called? It's called the Pedibus. I'm going to go a little bit faster. I just want to get to the I. You can go like this, if you want. Here we go. Here's our I. Now something absolutely, momentously important is going to happen here. This is kind of, like a secret. Remember I told you, I was going to give you secrets. Because this stroke looks so much like all of these other strokes. They needed it to have a distinguishing characteristic. And so they did the very most logical thing. Which was, to just gave it a dot. O.k. So that the dot over the I, comes in here. In terms of history. And that dot over the I, is a beautiful thing. Because not only it is a simple solution. A very perfect and simple solution. But a dot also, in different cultures. They are of different cultures. Especially, in terms of you know, religious manuscripts. Is a, is an indication of spirit. It means spirit. So if I wanted to distinguish a capital I, from other letters, I would not add strokes to it. I would put a dot over it.

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Calligraphy in Northern Gothic: Pt. 2

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