Visual gothic

Alright, we're going to start the letter u. Now the letter u is compose of two strokes, the first stroke is the down and then up again, like so. I can do it this way. And the second stroke is...

The capital "I", we have a couple of options on the capital "I". So I'll show you first the most simple option, which is to make a capital...

To get started, let's get some ink going through our pens and do a little warming up with fitting the letters, or the marks in between the guidelines. So a good warm up is just to make a...

Capital Y. Here's a letter that, well, I will give a little guide line here so you can see what I am talking about. Here's a letter that doesn't quite follow the pattern of...

I always think it's interesting to look at where we start from when we see where we're going. So in drawing numerals, or writing numerals, we're starting with a system of...

Capital U is another letter which exactly mimics the lower case letter, so should be somewhat familiar and easy to draw. So, two strokes, a couple of points with the U. You want to keep this line...

I'll be continuing with the italic capitals. And if you haven't watched the series on the lower case, there would be some good information in that series that would help you understand...

We're going to be beginning the italic capital letters. Now the italic capitals are based on a particular proportion scale, and I'd like to show you that. That's the letters...

Letter b, lower case, it's going to be combining that long stroke of the l, here's an l and also the rounded stroke of an o into one letter. So we're going to make a little...

Okay, I want to revisit the way that the letters fit within the space of the guidelines. So here I've drawn four guidelines. The first guideline is for the ascenders. The second guideline is...