Visual gothic

The letters "G" and "Q" also built on the oval shape. So, we're going to start with the letter "Q", which is of course an...

Now as you're going along and practicing your capitals, I'm sure you're going to find that you like some and others you don't like. So one thought is that very rarely...

The letter o. Most of these letters are written with a broad pen are going to require two strokes. There'll be some exceptions. But, think about drawing these letters as drawing not writing,...

Alright, we'll begin with the numeral 1. And because this is our first experience with putting the numbers between guidelines, it's a good one, because it's very simple. So in...

The letter x. Well, unfortunately you don't get to write x very often because this letter, I think, is a lot of fun. We're going to start by drawing a diagonal stroke, like so....

The letter s presents some challenges because it has a lot packed into this small space of the x height. So I will draw an s for you here. And then we'll de-construct it. Again, the s is...

The letter Z. Again we find the same problem we had with the lower case z. Which is, if we don't change the pen angle, and this is even more dramatic, we come up with a letter that looks like...

Aright, now we're going to do the letters b and d. We'll start with the b, it's a little bit easier and unlike the p and the q, the b and the d do not look exactly the same,...

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 letters p and q resembles each other so closely that if you've ever heard the expression mind your p's and q's, for typesetters, the p's and q' were almost...