Letter art

We'll begin with a basic oval shape. We're working in the 8 pen width area, so we're using the capital height, and we're going to make an oval in two strokes. Now,...

Capital "L", another straight letter, so I'm going to start with a straight stroke. But if you looked at the "I", you noticed we started it like this, and...

OK, not perfect. The X is a two story letter. It's bilaterly symmetrical. It needs to be weighted on the bottom for that sense of stasis, and therefore, you're going to try to aim so...

Remember that this is also the word I, as in I am, so it's a pretty important letter and it's an important word also. The J is actually a letter that was not there in the original...

Captial X. Very similar to lower case X only larger of course. So we're going to first just look at the shape and proportion of the strokes and then we'll sort of fine tune it. So the...

The Z is a one story letter. So, it has that width and it is also, believe it or not, meant to be one single stroke. So, the stroking, the lining sequence is; now you are just turning a corner. I...

Okay, not too bad, this is our "O", it's a one story letter. And the very important thing that you need to understand about all of the rounded forms is that they have an...

Alright! The letter I. We're going to be working, for the first time, with a vertical stroke. We've been doing curves up until now, so let's just practice a little bit of...

Here I am measuring the width of my tool. The width of the tool is a kind of proportion, but I can take this same length, and I can take this same idea, and I can get a little bit more dramatic about...

The letter E, and again, I'll show you two variations on the E. And, you know, the more manuscripts you look at, and this is where these alphabets are derived from manuscripts, the more...