Calligraphy Tips: Writing Letter K

Video Transcript

"All right, here's our K. The K is a two-story letter, and what you want again, is the sense that there's a heavier sense of feeling on the bottom than on the top. And what that means is that this shape, and this stroke are going to, it's going to come down, and hit just above the visual, or the rather this precise geometric center; more like what we call the visual center. Which means that this stroke is going to come out have to come out further than this stroke, so if you can imagine; use a little dotted line idea here, you can see that this stroke comes out further. So the K has one, two, three strokes, and its distinguishing characteristic is that it's open on top, unlike unlike the the R. So here's our K, and our special words, our words for the letter K are Know-How. You know, you've heard that idea that know, that knowledge is power, but I'm going to amend that a little bit, and say that when it comes to studying calligraphy, Know-How is power. The more you know of the Roman alphabet, the more powerful you're going to be in terms of what else you are able to do. And I'm and I'm talking not only about just in the field of calligraphy, but it's there' s a certain kind of self control that comes along with it that's going to help you in the rest of your life, so Know-How is power. And then, here's an interesting word, kinesthetic. Kinesthesia, the sensation of bodily position, presence, or movement, resulting chiefly from stimulation of sensory nerve endings in muscles, tendons, and joints. So when I speak of kinesthetic, I'm talking about the muscle sense that goes along with doing calligraphy. And this is something that you're training yourself to have; it doesn't happen overnight. It's just like a sport, or it's just like dancing, or like playing the violin. So there's our K."