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Variations on Versals in Calligraphy

Make up variations after understanding what a versal is. Learn about writing variations on versals in calligraphy with this free art video from a calligrapher.

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I can even add a little bit more. I'm doing the inside stroke. Exaggerated serifs and I do the outside stroke. See now, I'm doing this in just black because I'm being simple about this but this could be a beautiful color, easily, or many colors. I'll do one more. Do the inside and the outside and join. Let me just do one more still because here's what called the rounded E. Influenced by the unchel hand which we will deal with. Watching the counter, slightly above center. So, there you go. This is versals. There's a million variations on this theme, you can make up your own just understand what the purpose of the versal is. It's to draw your eye to the write place to begin reading, that's the basic idea. Clean the brush, clean the brush.

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Variations on Versals in Calligraphy

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