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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
are all eight pen widths tall. I'm going to be working with a pen. I'm using a C1 size,
which is an eighth of an inch. You can use either a dip pen, as I'm using, or you can
use a marker pen. But the letters should be measured, and you should give yourself guidelines
where I've made a stack of eight pen widths, and that's going to be the height of my letters.
So if I make an italic B, it's going to fit into this space, just like that. Hopefully
with a little more ink in the pen. So we're going to be starting there. So you'll need
to have some paper. I use gridded paper. You're going to need a straight edge, or a ruler,
a pencil and some sort of writing instrument.