Calligraphy for Beginners on iPad

1. 01 Intro Skillshare: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the calligrapher beginners course to summarize this curse in just a few words. Here, you will learn calligraphy from scratch on the iPad. You're receiving an exclusive calligraphy brush to help you throughout the curse. And what you learn here can also be used for calligraphy off the iPad with paper and pen. Ready? Well, so as not to be unpolite, if you don't know me yet, let me give you a brief introduction. I'm a Jackson Ovie, a Brazilian designer, lettering artist, and teacher, currently based here in Orlando, Florida, in the United States. I graduated in graphic design in 2003, and since 2012, I have worked exclusively on calligraphy lettering and type design projects for clients around the world, such as Apple, Montblanc, Coca cola, and many others. Anyway, I will leave the link to my portfolio below in case you want to learn more about me. But for now, let's talk about the curse. Actually, I've had a curse colored calligrapher beginners on Skillshare since 2015. But now, celebrating ten years since my first online curse, I decided twice the time to require this new introductory calligraphy curse, but this time for calligraphy on the iPad. If you are thinking like, Oh, Jack, I don't have an iPad. I'd like to learn calligraphy with pen and ink on paper. Don't worry. You can explore other courses I offer here on Skillshare. Where I teach other styles with pens and paper. From the first one, which teaches you how to do calligraphy, use a handmade pen that you learn to create yourself to other styles such as italics, brush script, and got ki letter. Just click on Mine and below the video and you'll be able to see my other classes. You can also check it out my calligraphy content on my YouTube channel at youtube.com slash JCSOOLVS. And maybe we'll ask why calligraphy on the iPad JAG? So because Apple has been refining both the iPad and Apple Pencil, and Procreate has also been improving its tool. And now, with the launch of the latest iPad and the new Apple Pencil Pro, the experience is even more impressive. By the way, did you know that there was one of the artists who created the logo for the Apple event that launched the Apple Pencil Pro? Everything was created with 100% calligraphic strokes on the iPad. Check it out. Way, getting back to the main topic. Tell you the truth, I must admit I used to have a certain prejudice against doing calligraph on iPad. But now the experience is really good. I have been creating my own calligraphic brushes for Procreate, and we will actually get one of them choose for this course. I'll talk more about that in a moment. So what are you going to learn here, Jack? Well, calligraph is an art of persistence that requires dedication and practice. There's no point in me coming here and teaching the most beautiful styles to those who have no experience whatsover. So in this course, you are going to learn an introductory style called foundational hand. It's a wonderful style because it teaches the basic but essential movements of this art. And as you improve in this style, you have an easier time learning others, such as Gotki letters, italic letters, and even Roman capital. I believe the great thing about calligraphy is that I can offer tips, but there's no magic formula. To develop our skills, you need to spend time practicing. But what's fun about calligraphy is precisely the process. Practice ends up being a sort of therapy. You enjoy the process, and it's very rewarding when you start wrapping the rewards of every little stroke you make. So let's go. Let's begin our journey into this ancient and amazing art. Come with me. 2. 02 History: I don't want to drag this out and I would like you to start getting hands on as soon as possible. However, as a teacher, I can skip giving you a brief summary of the history of letters, so you can have an understanding of where and when the style you are stood in originated. Let's start with the first century during the Rome Empire, when Imperial Capios and the Ruski aparos were in use. Skipping ahead of the fourth century, we see the emergence of quadrata Capios and the InshScript. By the eighth century, the Carnolingan minuscule became prominent. In the 12th century, the early Gotk style was introduced. Moving through the 14th century, we have the GotkTtura quadraa style. In the 15th century, styles like Rotunda, Humanist script, and the Italic script emerged. In the 16th century, one of my favorite styles appeared the GotkFract by the 18th century, with the introduction of the point and nip pen, we see the rise of the elegant copper plate script. Finally, in the 20th century, we have the foundational hand, a style created specifically to teach calligraphy and last but not least the famous Bruh script. Wow, that was a really quick journey through the centuries and a super condensed summary of the history of the calligraphy. But that's okay. You can learn more by doing your own research online or by reading books like the Art of calligraphy by David Harris or calligraphy, a complete guide by Julian Chaso. You don't have to write down the titles. I have included the links to these books below the video. Next up, let's talk about the workspace and tools we use. 3. 03 Workspace: Though we'll be doing everything on the iPad, which simplifies things since we don't need to think about pain brands, types of ink or paper, it is too important to talk a bit about our tools, the iPad and procreate and the best ways to use them for calligraphy. Of course, you don't need to buy this for the skirts, but I'd like to show this. I bought this iPad send that I think it's amazing. It's called skateboard P. It's fantastic because it provides support for our hands on the sides and allows you to work with the iPad at an angle, improving posture. I will leave the link for it and other materials in the description below the video I believe you have at least a basic case for your iPad. That way, you protect it and also keep it from sliding around on the table while you are using it. With a basic case like this, you can use a little bit of this angle. I think that already help. The most important thing to mention here is how you should position your iPad in front of you. Take a look. You should position the iPad in front of you like that. Because when I write on a paper, a lot of people write like that. Some people write like that, put the hand like this. But for calligraphy is better, especially for this calligraphy because we have a lot of step by step to write each letter. It's better put the iPad in front of you because you can notice if you put the iPad like that, when you try to write a vertical line, it's possible that instead of write a vertical, you probably do something like that. And when you see that, it's italic, it's not a vertical line. And that's why in calligraphy, we prefer to keep the paper or in this case, the iPad in front of you. It's better because if you see the lines in front of you, it's easier to understand if this is a vertical or a slant line italic. The best way is put your iPad like that. When you do calligraphy on the paper, for example, if you use a big paper like that, you start to notice each stroke from the left probably because you try to pull the line for your direction like that. Because of the angle of your arm, it's possible when you go from this right side, it's possible you write the lines like that with this angle and through the left side of the paper, it's possible you write line like that. That's why in a big paper, for example, I try to keep moving my chair every time I go into the right side of the paper. In the iPad, it's a small space, it's not a problem. But the only thing I think is important is to try to keep the pad in front of you and on this horizontal style like that. If you keep it like that, you see it will be better for your practice. In the next lesson, we'll talking about procreate, S you there. 4. 04 Procreate: Okay, since this is an aprocriate curse, I will only cover the tools we use for calligraphy, especially the custom calligraphy brush I created, which you receive to use on this curse. Let's start by talking about this brush, how to load it, and how to stall it on your pad and your procreate. So first of all, you need to have the procreate sall in your iPad. You can find it on the app store. For only $12.99. After you style this, we will download our files. To get your freebies, your free brush, follow the link below the video or use this queer code on your screen. You can take a screenshot and follow the link after or use your camera on your cellphone and take a picture of that. You will receive the files on your email. So in that case, you didn't get that on your inbox. Don't forget to check your Spen folder. Maybe Trash folder, probably span folder, and here we are the CaligrahF beginners freebies. Click on Report No span, come back to your inbox, and then we have them with the link. You can also add me for your contacts, and this way, you can avoid this happening again. You just click and Download link. If you don't have Dropbox, is not a problem because you can open on a browser and you just need to click here and then click on Save T device. Then you click on Save through Files, and then you can create a folder just for that. Here. Then I name this folder, I don't know, as Caligra for example, then save. After that, you go to the files here on this icon, and then you need to check this on my iPad and then you probably have this folder just create Caligrah here we are our freebies, our files. You click here, then your iPad will unzip the file and you click here on this folder, and here you have your free brush and our file through practice. You can see here in Procreate, when, for example, create a new file, I don't know, screen size, for example, and here you have the brush, and here you have the style of the brush, for example, for sketching, you can see here the pencil brush or inking brush or drawing brush and everything. You will not have this because it's all the brush I create. But you have something common like this sketching, drawing, calligraphy, basic calligraphy example like that. When you click in your files and when you click here, JA free flat brush, the procreate already, we will impart this and then this will appear here on the top. Jackson Obvious free flat brush. Here, the alegree brush we use on discourse. Back to the files, you can click here on foundation on hand. That is our file to practicing. Click here and then we'll open here in the gallery. Here we go. Foundational hand, 300. You click here and then this is our file through our class. In this file, you can see here are the layers, and then you can see, for example, this layer is a layer just with the texture. You can see the texture of the paper here. Just like you have the paper. Here, if you click here and expand this folder, this group, you can see, for example, here is the step by step. You can see, for example, the lines and then in this pink is the step one and then blue, step two, and then for example, letter D is the step one and then two and then three and then four. As you have the miniscues, the capitals, the numbers, and then here the practicing sheets, practicing modules because we write over this skeleton because it's easier to do this way. You have the minuscues again, the capitals again, the numbers again. And then just the guides. We use that for the project. We start clicking here for the miniskus and then you don't forget to create a new layer and this way, you avoid to write on the layer that contains the model. So just click two in the plus here and you can create a layer over that model. Then you can start practicing. You can start, for example, just the guides, create a new layer, and then click in the brush, you click in here and jacks flat brush. There is only this brush here, you click here and you can check the size. We have a mark here that's exactly the size we need for this guides. You can see here. For example, we have the pen width in Caligra measure letters in pen width. For these guides here, this is the exact size and this is the little square you can see here. For for this style, we have one, two, three, 4.5 pen width. And this will allow us to have the perfect size for this style with this pen. For example, if you'd like to create a bigger letter, we need to change the size because otherwise, the letter will start to look more like a a light version, or if you do a small version, the letter will start to look like a bold. The right size for this style is four nib suits and a half. For example, if you'd like to create a big letter like this, you need to create the size of the brush and then need to click here and count how many how many pen width 4.5. These would be the size of the letter for this size of the brush. See now we have the same proportion. We don't need to care about this. You just need to keep putting here in this mark and then you can design over over this guide. For this curse, we don't use rotation of the pen. You just need to find the angle here and repeat for the models, we use the 30 degree angle and with 30 degree angle, we start to design our letters. But let me show first how to use your Apple pencil with this brush to reach this angle. In the case, for example, have old iPad module. Let me show. Okay, so this is an old iPad Pro. This is the second generation of iPad Pro. It's 12.9 inch. It's from 2017, and this is the first generation of the Apple pencil. And you can use the brushes here. But the difference is like when you take the brush, and, when you try to find the angle to use it, you can see that there is no pencil hover. You can't see the preview on the screen, it doesn't matter if you put the pencil over the screen like that. The only way to know if you use the right angle, for example, I'd like to use 45 degree. You need first to touch the screen like this. I was in four or five degree. But I don't know, try to 30 degrees, it's not 30 degrees, so I need to rotate your hand like this. You can't rotate the pencil because this is not the Apple pencil P. You need to hold the pen like this and rotate your hand. The angle depend on this little tilt of the pen and the angle change your hand like that. For example, if I try to use, I don't know, 90 degrees, so I need to rotate my hand like this and click on the screen to see. I have this nine degree and to have the zero degree, I need to rotate my hand like this. Like this. Here is something like zero degree. That's the only problem with this model. You can see the preview, so you need to touch the screen, four or five degree. Yeah, like that. I keep this angle and then I can come here and so for example, design my ladder. Also, it's possible to rotate the angle while you are grade stroke, but you need to rotate your hand. For example, if I like to start angle like that, Then in the final part of the stroke, I'd like to rotate start here and I need to rotate the pen to finish like that. So if you start like that, then when you're going down, you keep rotating your hand like that. This way, you can start angle like that and finish in another angle like that. Like the letter F and factor, for example, you start something like this, and then rotate your hand like this and the finger stroke and you come back your hand like that. Also, it's harder than rotating inside your fingers, but it's possible. Rotate your hand like that. It's possible, but you need to understand that to reach the rotation feature, you need to rotate your hand, not your pen. That's the difference. Actually, this is the latest model of the iPad Pro. This is Ipad P on 13 from 2024 and this is the latest model of the Apple Pencil, the Apple Pencil Pro. But before this model, I had 2022 iPad Pro, the 60 generation, and the second generation of the Apple Pencil from the different from this latest model, the Apple Pencil P to the second generation of the Apple pencil, is that for example, from another iPad, the old model and this first generation of the Apple pencil, remember, we don't have the preview on screen, but on the second generation of the Apple pencil, you already have this preview here. You can see on the screen, for example, the knee of your pen of your brush. But on the second generation of the apopensa you don't have the rotation, like a it doesn't matter if you rotate your pen inside your fingers. That works like another model. You need to rotate your hand like this to reach the angles. But the best part of this model of the second generation of the Apo pencil is that you can see the preview, so it's easier to reach the angle. For example, I'd like to read this four, five, I put here, and then I take my hand like this. And then this is the angle of four or five degrees. Now I can start. This is the angle I'd like to use, and then I can create my letters. Also, I already show on the old model, I also can rotate like this, but you need to remember that you rotate your hand like that. You know treat this effect of the rotation of the pen of the brush and reach rotate your hand. Can start like that and then it can rotate your hand and fins like that. For the latest model, using the latest features of the epopenup for example, you can enable the bearable feature and then you also have the preview, but now you can rotate your pen inside your fingers like that. In this case, with the latest model of the iPad Pro and also with the Apple Pencil Pro, you can see the preview and you can rotate your pen inside your hand. You don't need to keep rotating your hand like that. You can rotate your pen like that. I can take the angle here. Then I can create my letters. It's very close to the real pen because with this possibility of rotator or pen, you can do all the stroke you want. For example, start like that by going down and start to rotate my pen inside my fingers and this way I can reach this effect of rotating. Is better, is easier. For example, if you like to create serifs like that, that's way to use the latest model of the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil Pro. The main points of the procreate is here you go to the gallery. If you click on the file like that, open the file, here you have some configuration for general settings. We don't use that now for the curse, but just to see that, here's the adjustment, here's the selection, here's the died two. And when you start to design, you have here the size of the brush, as I show you, in the mark is the size you need to use for the curse, and then this opacity of the brush. You keep this on 100%. Here's the layers as you already know. The next lesson will be the warming up exercise. Let's go. 5. 05 Warming up: Now I'm going to teach you some warming up exercise and how to use the Apple pencil. I've also got a few special tips for left handers. Alright, let's get started. Okay, for this part of the warming up exercise, keep these layer guides enable and other one disable. And then over this layer, you create a new one, click on the plus here, and then on this layer. The new layer just created, you can use my brush, the Jackson flat brush, this one. Here we start to create the strokes, the warm up exercise. The first stroke, you can see closer like that and first stroke will be just straight lines, vertical lines. Try to use this 30 degree angle, so we can cop here the 30 degree angle and come here and try to keep vertical lines like this. Keep it doing like that. What we are looking for is this line start like this and finish like this. It's not lines like that. And even like that. You need to keep this 30 degree angle and with that 30 degree angle, start and finish the line. You can see that as you are writing, you have a little bit of correction of the line. I configure this brush to make a slight correction to the stroke. You can do something like this because the brush will try to fix that line. That's because this is a curse for beginners. I think it's better and easier if the brush made a little bit of correction as you're writing, okay? But in case you don't like that, Jack, I don't like this kind of correction on my stroke. I need to feel more a real brush and paper, real pen on paper. You can just change here and the settings. You click here and brush and over this brush, basically brought that pen. Here you go into stabilization and just need to reduce this amount of the stream line. The smaller the number, more close to a reopen. Here, start to keep more similar to reopen. But if you start shake your hand, you will not have a straight line. It's up to you. You can't configure. The bigger the number, the more decorrecton. See that? I create this brush with this 70% adjustment. When I start your practicing, you can, for example, start to create your own brushes or you can get my colliy brush pack. Let me give a quick shout out to my brush pack. My brush pack is you have the flat brushes and the basic set. Basic set for example, this is the basic parallel pen, I the same brush we are using our curves, but to have loaded parallel pen, unloaded parallel pen, you have this effect like the ink is running out. So we have this double line. We have this one with automatically rotation. So guides to create calligraph. We have the flat brushes with real brush texture like this, for example. Or big brushes like this one. This is my colleague for brush pack. If you want to try this one, you can check it out the link just below the video. But back through our exercise, let me clean this up. With our free brush, start to take this third degree and do these variical lines. I recommend you to fill the entire line here. To this point. After that, second line, you do horizontal lines, you keep this 30 degree and do something like this. We are looking for these kind of lines with this angle here and here. It's not like that and it's not like that. Okay? I also recommend you to fill the entire line until this point. Then we will start to learn the basic strokes for calligraphy on this style. For that, we start with a little curve like this. Remember, keep this 30 degree. If you think it's harder to remember, you can use the same line and just create a new layer and then start again. So you use this 30 degree, you do just a little curve like that. After this point, we will draw a straight line, vertical line, stop around here, and then a new curve like that. Finish, just like that. But we don't need this white space here. We just need to take the 30 degree angle degree angle, design the first curve, came straight here on the vertical, and here, do a little curve again to finish. This is already the letter I. Keep doing this for the entire line. Remember, we are not looking for diagonals. It's not that, we also are not looking for something like that. It's not this curve. We're looking for curve, straight line and curve. I recommend you fill the entire line again until here, and then we are going to the next object. This time, we design curves. 30 degree, you start here. Make this curve until this point, and then you come back here and design this until this point. I think this is one of the most difficult elements to design. But as you keep in practice, maybe the first one looked like this or like this. You try to reach a perfect circle. This is a letter O already. In case of your left hand for iPad, it's easier than on the real paper. You just need to reach angle you need to reach here. With the Apple pencil P, you just rotate the pen. You can find the right angle. Maybe if I left hand and you don't have the Epo Pencil P, you need to adapt your hand, your brush, the way you hold the pen, similar to the real pencil. And to do this as a left hand with a real pencil. You need to change the way you hold the pen from this to something like this. I have a myotube channel. Video. I know it's Portuguese, but you can see some students of mine that are left hand, how they hold the pen with reopen. But here, in the iPad, you can use something like that, try to find the right angle like this and you can do the positive way start from the bottle going up and finish here. And for the circle, you do something like start here, 30 degree angle, go into this part, and then start here and go to this part. Okay. So depend if you left the hand, I think it's better like that. After finishing this entire page, remember, first exercise, vertical lines, second one, horizontal lines, and then we go to the basic strokes and then the circles. After the entire page, you already warming up your hands, and then we can go to the next lesson to learn how to write the letters. On the next lesson, we will learn how to write the letters, starting with the minikulls. Let's go. 6. 06 Minuscules: Okay, it's time to start to learn how to write and draw the letters, beginning with the miniscule. So to design the miniscule, we use you can do that here. You need to enable this layer, miniscule guides, and then don't forget to create a new layer over that and then we start. This is our brush. Remember to keep this on this mark to have the right size, and then we start to write the letters. You can check the step by step here if you want. The pink is the first stroke and then the blue is second and then the green in the third. But you can just follow me here. On this new layer I created, will start to design our letters, keep this 30 degree angle and start to des the letter. Here, straight line, finish here and here, I'm back here. I prefer to use my brush a little bit with less control, keep more realistic, and then I keep design my letters. If you want to see the guides below, you can click here on layer on this letter N and change it here to multiply. In this way, you can see the guides, okay? I recommend to keep the letter in big size like that, not small one. I think it's harder to understand the stroke like that. Okay guys, I'm going to remain in silence and speed this part up a bit. There's nothing special to say here, just follow step by step. H. Okay, for the last letter, letter, here I need to explain something. If you design letter Z, keeping the 30 degree angle, you see that this stroke will be a little bit thinner and then the letter doesn't look well. That's why we used to put this line in the middle. But in this one, I didn't add this line in the middle of the guides. The reason of that is because this version, we need to change the angle I from the 30 degree to something like zero degree like that. Then back to 30 degree. You can see here, we have a thicker stroke here and then we don't need the line here. That's why. For this last one, start with the 30 degree change for something like zero degree. If you have the apple pen Pro, you just need to rotate the pen like that. If you don't have it, you need to rotate your hand like that. Here, change for zero degree. And back to the third degree. If you'd like to do this fancy, you can do something like that. Okay, we just finished the mini skills. Next stop, the aperos. 7. 07 Capitals: Now that you have learned how to design the miniscus also known as lowercase letters, let's move on to learn how to write the capitals or uppercase letters. Here's a fun fact. In calligraphy, we usually use terms minisks and capitals instead of lowercase and uppercase. Do you know why? It's because lowercase and uppercase are typographic terms, and calligraphy predates typography. As you saw in the brief history of letters mentioned in the lesser one, calligraphy dates all the way back to the Roman Empire before the first century, whereas typography only emerged around the 15th century. These typographic terms, lower case, uppercase originated during the days of the manual print precess. Back then, compositors, the people who arranged the type for printing, sort the miniscues used more frequently. In the lower type case for easy access. Meanwhile, the capitals which were used less often, we started in the upper typecase. That's why we use the term lowercase to refer the minuscule and uppercase to refer the capitals in typography. Let's learn how to design these letters, the capitals. Let's go. For the capitals, I need to zab this layer and enable this layer over here. Capitals guides. Then don't forget to create a new layer over that. Let's go. For the capitals, you start to notice that as longer the stroke as harder to do it. If you have a stroke like that, is harder, of course, than a short one like that. Also because for a short one, you can do sometimes you can do this little stroke with just moving your fingers like that. But for longer strokes, you can't get that with just moving your fingers, you need to move your entire hand like that. So let's go. You keep the same 30 degree angle. We also can check a little bit finishing model here on the capital steps. Just in case, but don't forget to write on this new layer we create now. Same brush, same size, same angle. Keep this angle. Come here. A little curve here, and then you'll do this serve here, and then come back here and do a little curve again. Then the lie in the middle. And then there B just out of curiosity, for the Roman capitals have similar letter. But the serif will work like that, start here going down, rotate the brush here, take a little bit. Then come back here to sign this serif and then come back here and then here Must straight line and then here. So this is a Roman capitalist model. Should be a bit longer, a little bit higher than this one. As the letter A, you see something like and then came to the Ser This is how you should sign these as Roman capitals. But our class is not about homo capitals, it's about foundional hand. Let's see. I can also change the appearance to multiply and you can see this way we can see the guides below. This part you just need to keep following the stroke with the 30 angle and sign out the letters. I will speed up this part a little bit to avoid have this video too long. Now I will keep in silence and you can keep in practice part put in your favorite song and just follow me on this step by step. No. The last one is not a letter anymore, but this character, the name is E person. You can even add another stroke here. It's up to you. So, that's it. We have here all the chap rows. On the next lesson, we'll learn how to design the numbers. See you there. 8. 08 Numbers: Okay, I don't write numbers very often, but now and then, you might need them. So let's learn how to design the numbers. So for the numbers, we are going to Zable this layer and Zable this layer and enable this number guide. And then don't forget to create a new layer, and let's having fun. You can see here that below, I made these guides for numbers that is not aligning like the above. In typography, we call this one tidaling figures, and then this one we call text figures. That's because in typography, you should actually, not everybody used, but we recommend to use this type of numbers inside a great text, to keep the texture in the page. This one use more for numbers not inside of the text. Let's design these text figures. That's it. Our numbers. Now, let's start writing words. 9. 09 Words: Now that we have already learned how to write and design each letter of the alphabet, it's time to put those letters together and start writing words. Let's get started. So to start writing words, we need to able this layer and enable this layer, only the guides, okay? And don't forget to repeat a new layer over that. And that's having fun. I'll start writing this word minimum because it's a great word to understand the space between the letters. But I writing the way that keep the letter space not exactly right. We were able to fix that and explain for you guys what we need to fix it. Okay, so it's very normal that people start to write words after you finish the first letter, you try to keep the next letter as close as possible to the first one. So in this case, last part of letter M, I just did like that, very close. But it is not the best way to letter space the word because we have so we need to have more space between the letters, think this way. The empty space inside the letters like this one should be similar outside the letters, you can see here, for example, if I fill this part with water, for example, the same amount of water here should be here and should be here, but you can see, it's not the same here. Maybe here, we have half the amount of this part. That is what is wrong here. I need to increase the space to try to keep the same amount of space here and here. For example, if I cop this part here, to put here, that should bed space for the next letter and then again for the next one and for the next one. It would be better for this word if you add more space between the letter M and letter I. Again, the same for the next one, of course, you don't need to design all these lines. I just try to illustrate for you guys, how should bed space, something like that. As you start practicing, you don't need to see this. You can start to notice that this is too close, this is okay. Are you keep adding more space between try to keep a similar space and here again, and here again and again. This word here have a better letter space than this one here. We need to try to keep this space and that will apply for another letter. For example, if we have here a letter V, we would try to keep the same space, but because a letter V have the shape of a triangle, you cannot start here. Otherwise, you can see there are more white space here. Also with the letter O, for example, you can't keep the same space here. Is not about the extremity perfect space here. I need to understand this volume, this density, and try to repeat here. This ask for in this case of the letter V, something like that. We don't need to use that, something like that, maybe the letter O, a little bit closer. Letter a little bit closer because it's a rounded letter. This is a great letter space. Now, try to write two words, for example, I write my name here, Jackson Alvis, and then we try to keep this letter space great. I will split this part up again. Because you're still learning, if you don't remember how to design the letters, you can do something like that. I dig the capitals, and then I will create a new letter, a new layer, and then I copy my letter J, for example, to write Jackson with 30 degree angle. And letter A, but in a new layer. Okay, now, the miniscus I'll take these letters. The last part, I write on the regular way on the traditional way, write over the guides. So I'm taking note here some parts that we can improve the space because to keep the constance, I have too much space here, but we can't take these letters to close of this one. Okay? So now it's kind of letter D here. So we need to keep this minimum space here. And because of this space here, I need to increase another space here. Makes sense? Yeah, just like that. Now just keep writing words because for the next class for next lesson, we start to create compositions and we need words to create these compositions, okay? On the next lesson, we learn how to create compositions, S there. 10. 10 Compositions: Composition can be a bit more work when done on paper because we need to create layers on multiple sheets of cutout paper or on tracing paper. But here's the beauty of creating something digitally. This process is much easier. Let's go. So the most important thing here is better when you write each word in a new layer. So this way, it's easier too. Just use this tool here and then you start to move in other words, to fit the best space, the best distance like this. You can also disable this guides and then use just the white paper like that. And you see this on white paper, maybe we'd like to put more in the center. Maybe it's good maybe I can try something like move this a little closer like that. It's possible. That's one of the good parts, good thing about doing calligraphy on an iPad because it's already digital. Since you write each word in separate layers like that, it's easy. I write these three words here. Also these three words here to try to think about this composition. For example, this one. Let me try I do this maybe center. This one in the center. We can try this one. But you can see here if you try to put in center, we start to have this problem here. We need to try to avoid this, this or maybe increasing the line spacing, or maybe just try moving around. Another way, you can see here, it's possible to keep and maybe need to move just the word keep. Maybe that maybe here but another way is we can try to decrease the space between the lines, and let's see without the guides what can do here. Maybe we can try something like that or that or even here. What else? If I use descendant of the letter P as this little dot of letter I. Something try, can try something like that, and then bring this calligraphy closer here. Now I think is more interesting than regular composition. You can try to move to the center of the paper, maybe bring calligrapher here or here. I prefer like that. You can try put closer to the line above, and then when you try to bring close this kip. Yeah, something like I like this one, too. Or maybe more in the center here, is something interesting. Then we can just make some correction here. For example, let me erase this part. How about if we do some connection between the two letters? Like that. You see, something different. To the last part, let's see this one, don't stop believing. Let me put these guides. The is another good question it's better keep in three lines like this one. You can see, for example, I have a long word here, but a short word here. Probably it's better if I put together don't stop in same line and then leave this alone. Let's try this don't stop and then believe. Yeah. See that. Much better. Also we can try decrease the space between the lines. I think it would be great. Something like that or maybe something like that. I like this one. Another thing you can try is change the color, for example. I try to change the color of the believing. You just need to pick a new color here and then select the layer and then move sorry, move this to this point, it's over the letter. Then if you move to the right, you start to paint more letters like that. Then let's move above and we can try to do some overlapping like that. He is good. Maybe we can do something like put here, change the opacity for Mulch ply, and then I have this overlapping with colors. I prefer something like that. That's it. Now you know how to create your compositions. On the next lesson, we're talking about the curse project. We are almost finishing the curse. 11. 11 Project: Guys, of course, you are not required to create a final project for this curse, but it's always nice to have one when you finish a curse. And if you have made it this far, congratulations. So why not put together a simple project to celebrate your achievement and style. After all, it will keep you practice. And it'll be great to look back on this project a few months or years from now and see how much you have grown. So let's do it. So for this course project, I decided to write calligraph beginners on the iPad. That's the idea to create the poster of disguise. So after I finished the piece, I was reading and I noticed that, where is the letter P here to write calligraphy and also Look. It's not a joke you guys. It's true. For some reason, instead of write iPad, I write iPad. One of the good part, we create this on the iPad because it's digital, it's really easy to fix that. Let's fix that. Start from this place. We can just select this and move to the right or you can just raise that. I decide to raise this and then write with the letter P is the right layer. Caliph calligraphy. Now, calligraphy. Maybe I can change move this a little bit to the right. Then for beginners on iPad, but it's not iPad. Now is calligraphy for beginners, on the iPad. Now, I remove these guides. I create a group of this, and then I try to put this on the center for beginners, Cigraphy on the iPad. I try to bring this more for the center, and then I believe that we could have more space around, I save this and duplicate the group, and then for this new group, I will decrease the size a little bit because I believe with more white space around, we have a more beautiful piece. Yeah, fix better. I try to reduce the space between the lines. So let me take these beginners, move closer to the calligraphy. And to make sure that I keep the same space, I create just a a quick guide here. Let me take, for example, the sketching a pencil. I size line here on the base. I duplicate here. I'll let you put this line above, but no problem. Duplicate this, put here like this. Then I click here, you merge down I duplicate again, and then I have the right space. Net align here. Then I take the on the iPad, move top, just like that. I think knows better. I don't need more these guides. See? I have less space between letters, between the lines and I think this way is better. Now we already have this new composition. I think it's better. I think it's great. Then we try change the colors, for example. We can change the color of all the letters for example duplicate here and then we can click here and ask to flatten and then for example, take another color and then move here and paint everything. Oops. I also like that. But we can try, for example, if we put different colors for each line, what do you think about that? We'll start with this blue. Let me try fine here with this harmony, you can choose here, for example, this one, and you have three colors in this composition analogous. Looks great. Let's try this. This color here, I change the calligraphy and then this blue will keep the same and then this new one, I change the iPad. I like this. Et's try a new version of this. But this time, let me see. From this color, I try to use this one, triadic, this color for calligraphy and this color on the iPad. I also like this one. We have. Check it out, have this composition or this one or this one or this one. I think I like this one. I try this. So we have cover our final project. I think it's important to sign here. I design online here and then with black, I choose from the original brushes from Procreate, sketching and let me see possible possible this one. Don't forget to create a new layer on this new layer, we write. Here we go. Let's remove this layer, and now we have this signature. Well, it looks great. I like that. I like that. Here we go. We have no final project, and that will be used for the cover of this class, the cover of this course. Okay. Now it's your time. Now that you've finished, post your project below in the project resources section to encourage other students. Let's go. 12. 12 Next Steps: Very well, you did it. You successfully completed the curse. I hope your reaction now is something like, Oh, no, man, it's over already. I wish I could keep it studying. If that's how you feel, I'm very happy and grateful. No, you just need to keep it practicing and it will nourish your progress. If you want to explore more possibilities with various textures and brush size, you create even more beautiful pieces and also practice other styles, you can get my calligraphy brush pack for procreate through the Link or by going directly to Jackson Alvis dot shop. This brush pack that I created includes four and five calligraphy brushes and the practice sheets for two other style of calligraph italics, and got kill letters. I'm sure you love it, and it also helps support your teacher here. I'd also like to invite you to learn other style through my curses on Skillshare. You can also sign up to my mailing list via the link below to stay update to my latest news. That way, if I release new brush packs or curse, I will send an email to everyone on the list, and you'll not miss that. Well, that's it. Thank you so much for joining me in this introduction to Calligraphy Curse. I hope to see you soon in other content that I publish. Keep a practicing. Peace.