Video: Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter G

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Make sure a 'G' doesn't look like a 'C'. Learn about calligraphy and tips for writing the letter 'G' from a calligrapher in this free art video.

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Alright now, here we have our G. And oops, I forgot to do this. We'll go like this. The G is very much like the C. It has a distinguishing characteristic, however, and that is this stroke right here. So you have first stroke coming around like this, and that is going a little bit straight here, and what you want to think about when you're making this straight curve right here is the fact that this stroke is going to receive this stroke. We call this stroke a beard. Anyway it's one, two, and then three. Now, remember that idea that we had, remember that principle that the eye tends to connect parts? So what we're going to do is we're going to allow this stroke to start right around, right at around midway because we want to make sure that everybody knows that this is a G and not a C, so we have to give this, we have to give this enough, we have to have enough of this. OK? But we don't want to get it any closer, this stroke to this stroke, because we also want to make sure that everybody knows that this is a G and not an O, so there is the character of the G. Now let's look very quickly with our little bit of time and come up with some happy G words: gentleness and grace. Oh, what lovely words we have. Gentleness; having to do with the way that you're using your hand and the pressure in your hand. You don't want to expend anymore energy or place anymore pressure into your strokes than you have to. They're going to come out looking better that way and you're going to keep yourself from being exhausted. Grace; these letters are designed to be graceful and that's one of the beautiful things that the Romans gave to this set of forms when they modified them to this point of beauty. So grace for G.

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Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter G

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