Video: Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter F

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The crossbar on an 'F' won't go above the geometric center. Learn about calligraphy and tips for writing the letter 'F' from a calligrapher in this free art video.

- Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter E

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Now maybe the F should be about forgiveness, this is a terrible spacing problem here but I wanted to put the E and the F together because I want you to see the difference between the two, okay? Let's look up here. The crossbar on the F is not going to go above geometric center, it's going to go a little bit below geometric center, and that's because otherwise you'd have like too much of a gaping space in here. But another thing that you're going to notice is, that in most cases calligraphers consider the F as a letter that is slightly wider than the E and that's because of when you, the fact that when you shift this crossbar down a little bit, you want to make, you want to make, you want to harmonize this shape with this shape with this shape. You want to harmonize all of these shapes a little bit more. If, if I were to raise this crossbar, then this rectangular shape in here would be a little disharmonious. That's a tough one to understand, it takes a lot of practice but yes, okay, you want as a model you want these two, these guys to be in line. Now what are our fancy F words? Focus and freedom. Focus, obviously to do these letters, you're going to have focus your mind and make your mind do, make your hand do what your mind has imagining in it, and the freedom idea comes in because calligraphy has been described as disciplined freedom. So the Roman alphabet is very disciplined model, this is where we have to begin.

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Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter F

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