From Cursive to Calligraphy and Printing to Lettering Welcome!

from cursive to calligraphy and printing to lettering Welcome!

Hey! Glad you could make it. Welcome to your new skill, hobby or script. I promise that after completing this workbook once through, you will be well-versed in monoline calligraphy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Welcome & Table of Contents 2. Monoline Calligraphy Explanation 3. Monoline Letters - Uppercase + Lowercase 10. Monoline - Words 13. Monoline - Flourishing 16. Faux Calligraphy Explanation 17. Faux Calligraphy - Uppercase + Lowercase 24. Faux Calligraphy - Words 27. Serif Print & Lettering Explanation 28. Serif Letters - Uppercase + Lowercase 34. Serif Letters - Words 37. Calligraphy Composition - Guidelines 39. Calligraphy Composition 40. Calligrascape Monoline & Serif Certificate 41. Appendix A: Monoline Calligraphy Alphabets 42. Appendix B: Serif Lettering Alphabets

If that sounds like too much, don't worry, I'll walk you through it. As always work at a pace that works for you. The only thing I will stress is to keep at it and don't give up. Try your best to be consistent in making time to practice. That will be the key to your success.

Page 1 of 40 Monoline Calligraphy: Explanation

Calligraphy is intriguing to look at due to it’s contrast in strokes, it’s symmetry and its consistency. Each script comes with it’s own unique challenges and tools.

Copperplate Calligraphy Blackletter Calligraphy Modern Brush Calligraphy

But what if I told you there are decorative scripts you can learn easily without any purchase of new tools? Look no further than Monoline Calligraphy.

What is Monoline Calligraphy?

First, when a word is written in a monoline style, it means that every line, letter and connection are written with the same consistent thickness. Second, calligraphy is de ned as decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering. So when you put those two de nitions together you get: “decorative handwriting or lettering completed using a singular thickness”.

This means that

*decorative*

are technically

This means you can make monoline calligraphy with any normal pen, pencil or marker. You just need to know how. In these practice sheets you will learn 2 monoline calligraphy scripts (cursive and serif) and how to thicken them into faux calligraphy and serif lettering.

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Cursive is the best place to start. On the next few pages we will go through the cursive alphabet. If you already know how to cursive write, it may be still important to brush up on some of the letters and connections before moving into faux calligraphy.

2 1 = + = 1

1 2 = +

1 2 2 = + = 1 +

1 2 = + = 1

2 1 2 = 1 + = +

2 1 3 = + + = + 1 2

2 = = 1 + 1

1 2 = + = + 2 1

1 = = 1

1 2 = + = 1

1 2 1 2 = + = +

2 1 1 = + = + 2

2 1 = + = 1

1 = = 1 + 2

2 2 1 = + = 1 +

1 2 = = 1 +

1 2 3 = = 1 + +

1 2

= + = 1 + 2

1 = = 1

© 2021 Copyright Calligrascape. Page 11 of 40 Open Practice Write anything you want to practice the new script you learned. Try a word, a quote, some names, etc. On the next page we will learn to ourish your words.

What are flourishes? A ourish in calligraphy is an ornamental owing stroke that adds to calligraphic letters to beautify a composition. There are two main types: Letter ourishes that extend from existing letters, and abstract ourishes that are independent from the letters.They can be as simple as adding ornamental ends to your upstrokes to multi-stroke abstract ourishes.

Letter Flourish Abstract Flourish

Where do I flourish? There are 4 main places where you would want to ourish.

1. Beginning and end of a word or sentence Capitals are naturally decorative but you can change it up. This kind of “frames” the letters.

2. Ascenders and 3. Get creative! Extend a section of Descenders a letter and ourish o that!* *Careful with letter clarity. Instead of looping into itself, or For example, you could extend the next letter additional loops an “a” into a “d” are added.

© 2021 Copyright Calligrascape. Page 14 of 40 Monoline Calligraphy: Abstract Flourishes Below are some styles of abstract ourishes that can be added to lettering compositions. In the box below, think of your own monoline ourishes you could add to your calligraphy.

Plants Simplistic Icons Waves

Innity

Banners

Faux calligraphy is a style of lettering that imitates calligraphy that is completed with a brush tool. In brush calligraphy, there are upstrokes and downstrokes that have di erent pressures. These pressures correspond with the di erent thicknesses that we nd so aesthetically pleasing. Faux calligraphy takes monoline calligraphy or cursive writing and thickens the letters in the right spots to simulate brush calligraphy.

How do I make Faux Calligraphy?

1. Write your cursive (a) Loop (b) Tail Using your new cursive skills, write the “skeleton” of your faux calligraphy. Ensure to space your letters slightly further apart than you would if you were just cursive writing. Additionally, add a bit more space in letters with “loops” (a, d, p, q and some capitals). The loop (a) and the tail (b) must be spaced out a bit more than other letters so that when the letters are thickened, the loops is not too small (c).

(a) Loop

(b) Tail (c) Too small (d) Downstrokes

2. Sketch your outline.

Using your “skeleton” as a guide, sketch an outline around your cursive to thicken the strokes in the appropriate locations. To learn the appropriate locations, knowing brush calligraphy helps a lot, but you can follow the following guidelines:

i) For strokes that you pull towards yourself, aka “downstrokes” (d), draw a line on either side of your cursive stroke equally distant from the cursive stroke. (e) Upstrokes Try to keep the thickness consistent on straight lines. However, when thickening curved strokes, gradually increase thickness of your outline until halfway down the height of the letter and decrease the thickness until you reach the bottom.

ii) For strokes you push away from yourself aka “upstrokes” (e), leave them the same thickness. Typically, upstrokes are the connecting strokes of letters.

3. Fill in your outline.

Within the outline you created. Fill in your outline with the colour or texture of your choice.

And there you have it! On the next pages, you will practice the construction of each faux calligraphy letter.

The term “serif” refers to the little “feet” on the letters above. Unlike the sans-serif font that this sentence is written in, the additional strokes on the letters above help decorate and dignify the letters. Sans serif fonts are said to be easier on the eyes to read.

How do I make Serif Lettering?

1. Print your serif lettering.

a) Print your capital letters as you normally would, but add generous spaces between each letter and each word. This space will be lled in by step 2.

(a)

b) Add your serifs. If you are unfamiliar with where the “feet” go on the letters, a good place to start is at the unconnected ends of strokes (a) and at the top and bottom of the main vertical stroke of a letter (b). To see the full alphabet, please refer to Appendix B (pg 42) for all alphabets.

(b) 2. Thicken your letters. (d) To thicken your letters, nd the left-most vertical (or slanted) stroke of a letter and draw a horizontal line out from the centre of the stroke (c). Draw a parallel line to the left-stroke from top to bottom. It is important to ensure that your letters have been thickened the same length, otherwise, the letters will look very (c) lopsided. Remember to redraw the serifs if they are covered by parallel lines (d).

3. Fill in your outline.

There are many ways to ll in your letters, try dierent textures, colours, designs inside your rectangles.

You can also add slight curves to the serifs to smooth the transition between strokes.

Open Practice

© 2021 Copyright Calligrascape. Page 37 of 40 Calligraphy Composition: Guidelines Now that you’ve had some practice with all the scripts in these practice sheets, it’s time to also practice how to arrange a calligraphy/lettering composition.

1. First, pick a short quote to start with (”Home sweet home”, “I Love You, “Learn new things”...etc). Longer quotes work but get harder and harder to arrange nicely. Start small and work up to it.

2. Layout: Draw some shapes to come up with a general layout of your composition. Your words can change shape to t the shape you drew. The 3 below are for 3 word quotes due to the three distinct spaces.

3. Scripts: Pick what scripts each word will be written in and try dierent combinations

4. Flourishes: Add appropriate amounts of ourishes to round out your composition.

5. Repeat: If you are not sold on the design start from scratch until you are happy with it.

On the next page you can sketch some ideas for your composition with the guidelines and scripts you have learned. On Page 40 you will make your good copy!

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Faux Calligraphy

Appendix A: Monoline Alphabets Serif Print Alphabet Uppercase

Lowercase

Serif Lettering

Serif Lettering Variant

Appendix B: Lettering Alphabets