Learn Beautiful Letterforms Step by Step
The basic strokes behind every letter: thin upstrokes, thick downstrokes, ovals, and warm-up drills to repeat before whole letters.
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Seven short warm-up drills, what each one trains, how long to spend on them, and how to use the same sheet to check your pen, ink and paper before you start writing.
The oval is the base of seven lowercase letters and the hardest basic stroke. Learn where to start, where the pressure builds and releases, three drills, and how to fix common faults.
Light pressure going up, more pressure coming down: the one rule behind thick and thin lines, with four practice stages and advice on where the pressure should change.
Meet the eight basic strokes of pressure-based calligraphy: what each one is, how the pressure changes inside it, which letters use it, and how to practice a row of each between guidelines.
