Visual gothic

Letter F. Now, the letter F is going to challenge your skills, because we're going to take the letter F from the top of the ascender space all the way down through the descender space. So, in...

Continuing with Uncial hand and I hope you've watched the first in this series. We are going to be looking at the rounded forms of Uncial hand. And we are going to be working with a dip pen in...

To begin I'm going to go over just some basics, which are, I'm using a pen that I'm dipping into the ink, I'm wiping the edge of the pen on the rim of the ink bottle,...

The numeral six is based upon an oval shape. So, I'm going to start by showing you an oval. Because, we haven't looked at zeros. Save zero for the end. There's an oval and when...

One way to accommodate letters that almost have a tendency to overlap, is to go ahead and overlap those letters and connect them. And we call those connections ligatures. And in the days of type...

So once you've decided upon a layout that you like, (so I've chosen this centered layout) I'm going to carefully transcribe these guidelines onto a good sheet of paper, now I...

Hello, we're going to be going ahead with the remains of the lower case alphabet. But before we do, I just want to touch the point that we're going to be hitting these letters between...

Now again, you can choose to use paper with torn edges, or cut straight edges, or cut curved edges, depending on what type of effect you're looking to achieve in your piece. But for some of...

So now we've laid out our second piece. We're beginning to move it along. I'm going to lay out my third piece. I've laid it out onto the paper here. Again, as I said...

So you can see I'm trying to work and build up a little bit before I actually begin laying out the pieces with my adhesive. But one of the other things I want to mention is that because you...