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1. Hello and welcome!: Hello and welcome to my
lettering breakthrough cos, I'm Alaina from creative
field designs and I'm so happy to be here
and teach you. And I hope you enjoyed this short little practice sessions. I recommend spending ten minutes a day for each worksheet. It shouldn't take too
long to trace it. And you can always come
back to some letters that sort of Theta bit more
attention in this course will be joining up lowercase letters, and we'll do each
letter individually and join it to all the other
letters of the alphabet. So it's gonna be a lot of rock, but they're going to
make it manageable by these very short bite-size
videos so you can practice every day
for ten minutes. I really hope you enjoy
it and I'm sure it's going to help the progress
you're lecturing. And I can't wait to
see your results. Grab your brush pen to
get your log book ready. And let's get practicing.
2. Letter 'a': Let's get started
with the letter a. For today. We're going
to follow this example. So we're going to try and divide each letter a into two parts. And I'll just show
you the first one. You get the idea. So you can see that
it consists of this C-shape and
this downstroke, upstroke joined together. So let's begin here. We have a double, a C-shape. I've lifted up my pen, so try to do the same. Then. Just finishing
The second part of the lactose and don't lift up your pen after you
finish the first laptop, it'll just give you
a bit more time to refocus and it's a really,
really good habit. So that's what we'll try and do throughout this worksheet. So always lift up once
you finish the letter a. Again, C-shape. The second part of this letter. So try to do it slowly. I know it's quite
tempting to really rush. It just happens
naturally. Sometimes. Really try to slow down and really focus on
every single letter. Again, starting the next one. C-shape, lifting up our pen. We finished this laptop. Again. Try to lift up your pen before you
start the letter B. We're going to
start it from here. So this upstroke
is our first move. Again, trying to lift up. We are going to cover each
laptop later on to your line. The shapes each letter consists
of become much easier. But for now, just
focus on the letter a. We're trying to get
this right fast. You might be
wondering whether you would always have
to lift up your pen after you do the C shape before you start the second
part of this laptop. So usually this is really, really handy and will
just help you to develop the rhythm and flow
in your lettering. So keep going very slowly. Notice how the letter D
also has a C shape in it. So you will find so many letters are
actually quite similar. Nice and slow. Try to have nice and
smooth transition here. C-shape start and then it
becomes thick part right away. It can be quite tricky. So imagine that you
are pushing your pen, not just down, but also a
little bit to the left. That will help you to create
this nice thick stroke. A transitioned from the
thin bone into thick. So I'm sort of going down, but I'm also sort of pushing my pen to the left a little bit. Just allowing the side of this brush, filling
this down-stroke. Do remember to stop before
you start the second laptop. Who is pick up your pen here? The letter G also starts
with the same shape. Again, try to notice
the similarities. Tried to really focus on
this little bit here, this transition
from thin to thick. Maybe try to think of your
downstroke in advance. Repairing your hand
to apply pressure. Adding a bit of bounds here. So I'm making these letters
a bit more interesting. You can see that I brought my down-stroke with the
letter H below the baseline. So quite loud down, it just creates a
really nice, playful. You can also start to see shape from all the
way down here. If that's a bit easier for you, that might give you
a bit more time to prepare for this
thick downstroke. Actually sort of becomes
like an O shape. Instead. Try to let it the
way you normally do. Just try to divide this
lecture into two parts. The most important
task for today. Then try to do the
second letter just the way you would usually let tau. We're going to focus on
one letter at a time. Just so it doesn't
become overwhelming. So today's lecture
is the letter a. You get a nice C-shape. Pushing that pen down, trying to use the
side of our brush, lifting up our pen again, starting this downstroke and bring it all the way down
and again to the auditing, a bit of bouncy. Look here. The NRA, if you go on
this line to limit bet, you don't have to trace
perfectly, resembling my style. You can also experiment a
bad car over the lines. Nice and slow. If you feel like you're
going faster than this, than try to really,
really slow it down. It's really important to just
take it all in very slowly, give you the best results. Another thing I
know, retracing now, but when you do this free hand, try not to make this little
C-shaped too narrow. So that's again, a very,
very common mistake. To relax as well. Try to relax your arm. Again, try to now to dielectric. You also starts
with the C-shape. Try to focus on all
the C shapes you can find in other letters
today as well. Horse would like dielectric
G letter D, letter a, obviously, because we're attaching this C-shape to this
next shape here. So you will now tell us
that you are actually overlapping a little bit
with your downstroke. So you're actually going over these lines and that's okay. Quick movement for the
letter T for the cross line. So wherever you are
for the rest of the lattice tried to
focus on the shape. And now this how it sort
of looks like a U-shape. We want this bottom part
to be quite open as well. So it's quite easy
to make it a bit too angled or a bit too narrow. You will depend on your style, of course as well. Maybe your style naturally
is quite edgy and angled. I'm doing this shape
and I'm trying to focus on part making it nice
and soft locking. And there we go.
The last left-tail connecting to the letters said, this is a tricky one. I didn't actually lift up
my pen when I finished this letter a because it's sort of slow
since the left of Z. So my stopping point is here. So it's the same stroke
that finishes the letter a and star selected.
This one here. I didn't lift up my pen. Well, I found some
time to do it here. So you can do the same. We got done with the first page. Well done. And I'll
see you tomorrow.
3. Letter 'b': Hi guys. Happy Tuesday. I hope you're having
a nice starter today. Today we'll be focusing
on the letter B. So let's get started. This left arm consists
of two shapes. So we have this
little shape here, which again is very common
in quite a few lactate is, you'll get quite
familiar with this. So we have our upstroke
and downstroke. Then we have this little
strange bit at the end. So it will start here
at the bottom of this downstroke and sort
of loop around like this. What we want to focus
on here is making this transition between thin
and thick, nice and smooth. So this upstroke is quite long, So it gives you enough
time to think and prepare for the next downstroke. So as soon as you sort
of get to this point, start pressing down your brush. Try focusing on the side of your brush to achieve
very nice thickness. Then we're going to
create this lovely Lou, hey for each letter B. So I'll just demonstrate
this first set of lectures. So I'm starting with the shape, pressing down as soon
as I get to this point. Then lifting up my pen and
finishing the lecture. Again, we're going to lift
up before the second laptop. So every time you
finished the letter B, we're going to lift up our pen, start in the letter a. So you quite familiar
with this already. And again, lifting up
off there are C-shaped. Let's do this nice and slow, focusing on each letter. Again, lifting up here. So this is quite
interesting here. So it's not that common to
have double B in your words, but it can happen. So when we finished our fast
laptop, I'm going to pause, lift up your pen, and then we're going to start the next letter B from here. So this sort of missing
this bit for this laptop. So instead of starting
our upstroke from here, instead, this is
how it looks like. And then again, posing
k, just like before. Trying to focus on
those pressure changes. Focused on the tip of your
brush when you're going up and try to
flatten your brush. So try to press down on its
side every time you go down. So we're using the
side of the brush to achieve a lovely thick stroke. I recommend starting
your lattice with a quicker movement and then
finishing the mouth slower. So that's something that helped my lettering with them and flow. So you can also try
and give it a go. So they're going to connect this letter P to the letter E, which is quite an interesting
combination again, in very similar to what we've
done here for the letter B. We're going to start
our letter e from here. So we finished our mat
to be picked up our pen. Let me start with
the letter E here, which would have created a gap in-between these
upstrokes and we filled in that gap with
this thick downstroke. Notice how the letter
B always start with a nice long entry stroke. That's also something
to remember. If you ever start your
word, this letter. It's always nice to sort of
stretch it out a bit longer. Keep tracing very slowly. And wherever you are in
your journey, again, try not to borrow
a upstrokes are quite shaky or you're still learning to apply the
pressure correctly, you're at the right place. So this is for learning. And it really doesn't matter how long you've been
practicing fall. Again, dividing this
letter B into two parts. Lifting up off pan
every time we finish. As fast, let tau. And it's up to you how long
you want your pose to be. So you can rest here for a bit. We can have very quick whose before you carry
on with the next laptop. So it all depends on your own
individual electron flow. You get an electric j, then sort of blending this
stroke into the lactic j, but sort of becomes
the connection stroud also a part of the letter J. It's fast stroke. I actually recommend doing is connecting them both in one go. So you don't necessarily
need to make a pause in between these two. And as you start lecturing longer buds and when you
combine everything we're going to learn together at the end of the course and
try electric phrases. It will become sort
of unnoticeable. You do lift up your pen. You'll just become so
natural that it will just become quite quick. So whilst it might feel
like it takes ages now, it will just become a part
of your reader. Later on. We do want to get q. So these pauses,
because once again, that's what makes brush lettering different
from handwriting. Rabbit join everything off. When we do calligraphy, we want to separate each
lead time into shapes. You can get to the letter
R. What we want to do. We want to stretch out the
end of the Latin be all the way up here and
how our poles here. So we do want to join
this connection stroke, which again becomes
part of the lecture, are sometimes some of these letters sort
of merge together. The same thing happens
here with the letter S. We're just
extending this stroke, which then becomes
part of the letter S. I. Quick and thin
stroke care for the crossline. The letter T. Same goes for the letter x. You will get used to this. The more lactose big practice, this will just
become more natural. But again, we want to
extend this loss track with the letter B because it just becomes the vast job of the
letter x, just like that. And then you can lift up your
pen and do this downstroke. Kay? Again, the letter Z is one of the
lectures where we're going to do the same thing. So don't use the same technique. So the first part of
the lecture here, stretching it out for
the letters said, stopping here in the middle. Before finishing the job. Well done. This is quite
difficult, lactose, so well done for doing this. I'm sure you've done very well. Well done everyone,
and see you tomorrow.
4. Letter 'c': Hi everyone. Hope you're
having a lovely day so far and are ready to practice. Today we'll be focusing on
the letter C. And you can see here that we're going to
do it in a single stroke. We're not dividing this letter. There isn't much going on, although there are quite
a few pressure changes. So we're starting with a
thin upstroke, going down, applying heavy
pressure, and then again transitioning
into thin stroke. Which can be a bit tricky, but we'll try and do it
in one single movement. So let's begin with
the first one here. Same stroke. Downstroke, thin again. Then we're going to
lift up our pen after we finish every single letter C. So I've lifted up my pen and start in the letter
a with a C-shape. Dividing it into two parts, as we know already. Starting the next one. Again lifting up and we're starting the
letter B from here. Filling in this gap in-between. Just like we
practiced previously, to be already familiar
with these two. And now we've got
the letter C here. Picking up the pen again before we start the second letter. Carry on. Try to pay attention on these tricky
pressure changes. So again, as soon as you reach this point
here on the top, start pressing down
on your brush, focusing on the
side of your brush. And kind of sort of pushing
a bit to the left again. So not all the way down. We want to have a
little tab here. Again, we're going to start
the letter e from here. Again, we're going to leave
a little gap in between, just like we did here, for the left to be some
starting from here. Then filling in this
gap with a downstroke, doing the same here. So starting from here, where the little
loop starts with an upstroke and then
failing in this gap, carrying on tricky lactose. So take your time starting the Latin
G with a C shape. What you're doing here is so, so good for your lettering. So this literally
will help you to understand how each
letter is built, which is fundamental to
having good lettering skills. See in Haiti, so on. Again, I'm picking up a span. So you might have noticed
that all the letters that start with this shape
upstroke and downstroke, like letter B, letter D, letter E as well. What we're doing,
we always start this laptop with
this upstroke here. So if you are connecting
it to any other lattice, so you would usually
pick up your pen and then started from here. You can see it forms
a little gap here. And then we're just filling
Dakota with our downstroke. Try to get use to that. Remember the electric freehand. This last stroke of the letter C acts the connection stroke. So the longer it is, the bigger gap you'll have
between your lactase. That's something to remember. You can stop here at the top when you're
doing electric J, or you can just make
one flowing movement connecting these
letters together. The electric k, Again, we can see this shape in it,
upstroke and downstroke. So you're going to start this laptop with this
little loop from here. Going backwards, almost takes a bit of
time to get used to that. But once you do, it will
become natural and really help you in your letter
words. Same thing. We can see the same shape here. Upstroke, unbalanced job
for the little loop, just like in all
of these letters. And again, starting
it from here. Hope that makes sense
by now Dunbar way, if it takes a bit of time to grasp yet, it
did for me as well. Letter M, we're going to
make it nice and bouncy. So I'm going to bring
this down stroke all the way down here and then use this last upstroke to
come back up to this level. You're going to do
the same thing with the letter N. Nice downstroke. I'm bouncing it all
the way back up. Oh, so pick up your pen
again before you started. Hello poles and
then finish it off. Let P started nice
thick, long downstroke. Lead to Q, again in about Penn starting the
letter Q with a C-shape. Lifting up our pen here. Our stopping point
is going to be here. Before we do this downstroke. The letter S. Again, we're going to do
this single moment. Just because both of these letters are singles,
chocolate tastes. Not picking up a pen here. The letter T. You can express your style
a little bit more. With this cross line. You can always flourish. When you're battering freehand. Going to do the left to you. As soon as I start
rushing a little bit, I can see as well in
my own lettering that this transition just
becomes a little bit shaky. Could be a bit smoother.
So try to really, really focus on this lattice. See now, starting with
a very light pressure and then pressing down and
releasing at the bottom. This little transition
is just on point. And the letter X. So we are
going to flow into the letter x with this upstroke
of the lead to stay. So let's give it a go. Just like this. And then we're going to lift our pen before we do
this downstroke here. And back up to more
lactase. You can do this. Why? The letters that again is flowing into it. Then our stopping point is
sort of here in the middle. You've done it. Well done. I hope you enjoyed this letter. I know it looks easy, but it's actually one of the
most complicated lattice and brush lettering. Just because we are trying
to do it in one dow, but there are so many
transition points. So yes, don't worry if you still need to
practice a bit more. We have plenty of letters to go, so I'm sure you'll get
more natural for you. Well done, and I'll
see you tomorrow.
5. Letter 'd': Hi everyone. We're more than
halfway through this week. Well done. Today we'll be
focusing on the lecture day. So this led to start
with a C shape, just like the letter a. Then we're going to lift
the ball pen and required familiar with this shape already because we use
it in the letter B. So it's just the same shape. And we're going to connect
both of these to create this letter D. We're going to start with the
first one here, starting with the C-shape
thing about Penn. And then again, I can
just start from here. Remember, every time
we have this shape, we're focusing on
this loop first, creating a little gap
in-between these two strokes. Most of the time,
you wouldn't want to pick up your pen when you finish the letter D. Select a starting exactly the same way is letter D, which
is interesting. I hope you can start noticing these shapes and
hopefully by now you realize that so many letters
consist of this shape. Starting the next one. All the big jazzy of
imbalancing here. So some letters are
bigger, some are smaller. So this is great if you want to practice that bouncy lettering, look again, starting
light to be from here. C-shape again. Picking up and doing the
lead to stay in long ago. When do a double day, which is quite common, actually. See shape picking up, picking up a pen here and just doing the same thing
again, C-shaped. Carrying on with the letter D, Starting with the C-shape. And the letter E
starts from here. And again, upstroke, downstroke. Carry on at your own pace. Try not to rush it to match. The letter F. Again, start with a similar shapes. So we're going to
start it from here. Notice how Latin D and G
start in the same way. Both start with this C-shape. Extending this
connection stroke, lifting up our pen. And starting letter H
from this upstroke, transitioning into a
very thick downstroke here and bouncing this latter, Hey, age all the way down. Try to focus on the
pressure changes, especially for this little loop. So going up very thin, as soon as you reach the
top, start pressing down. Connecting D and J. In Mongo like this, you can lift up your pen
here if you like. This. Abstract is quite long, so you might want to
divide it into two parts. The letter d is one
of those letters that also adds to the bouncy
lettering styles. So notice how our yam sort
of bringing it down as well in the same way as we did for the let hate
for this downstroke. It went all the way
down and backup. We're doing the same thing
for the letter D as well. Take your time with the
letter K. Nice and slow. What's important for these loops is to remember to try and keep them fairly open so they're
not squished together. We always had a gardening of pen a little bit
more to the left. So it creates this
nice oval shape. Within each loop. You're going to add a lot of bounds for the letter M here. We're doing the last downstroke. Feel free to just stretch
it all the way down. Notice how it does go below the baseline
while you trace it. When you're finishing
each letter off. Try to do it slower
and also try to always extend each exit
stroke of the lactose. So as you trace, try to notice how every set of lattice trip ends with
the longest stroke. That's quite good to remember for when you're lettering white. So when you finish
your why'd you do want to try and extend
the law stroke? The last letter. Always looks better. Dielectric q, very similar to the letter D. So we're
starting with the same shape. But instead of going
up or going down, sort of in reverse. Stopping here for the
letter R. Noise downstroke. And finishing with
a long stroke. The letter S in one go. So just connecting these
two in one moment. Another tricky bit is
here, this bottom part, because we do want to
transition from thick to thin very smoothly. So we want to have that transition point right
here by default happens. So try your best controlling
the pressure of your pen. You want to physically press
down very hard and then lift up very gently and focused
on the tip of the brush. For every single upstroke. Try not to rush towards the end. Nearly bad. So the W is sort of like
to let the bees together. So imagine that you
all that trend like to be the letter X. Again, quite a
tricky combination. So we're going to slide
into the letter x with disconnection stroke
again, my C-shape. And there we go. And this now forms a
part of the letter X. And we're going to finish
it here. Like this. Stretch out that lead to why. All the way to the
right, we go again, the letter Z, we're going
to stop here because this connection stroke becomes
part of the lattice Zed. Again. Probably noticed by now because this
is what we do with every single letter when it
does connect to the letter Z. So try to get used to this. And again, if you want to divide this upstroke into two
parts, that's fine. You can have a
stopping point here. Then star, right? You
finished and you stretch it out a bit more.
Just like this. Well done. And this is letter D. I would love to
hear how you're doing. Feel free to add a comment
in our Facebook group. Just let us know how
you're getting on. If you're struggling
with anything. You can also post a photo. So I can say, I'm giving
you some more feedback. I know you're tracing here, but I'll still be able to
see your transition points, the thickness of your
downstrokes, upstrokes. So I might be able to help more. Have a good day and
I'll see you tomorrow.
6. Letter 'e': Hi everybody. Today
we're going to be practicing the letter
e. Let me tell you, this was one of my least favorite letters when
I was learning lecturing. So if you're struggling with it, to just know that it's
very, very common. So we're going to try our best. Let's have a look what
we have going on here. So we can see that this letter consist of these two strokes. So they're always going
to do this upstroke fast. And I highly recommend
lifting up your pen before you finish the
second part, this letter. If you remember,
we've been doing this already where we do this little upstroke pen and then start this loop
shape from here, leaving a little gap in-between. So let's just do
the fast one very, very slowly together. So I'm starting. This letter is just
an upstroke here. And now I lifted
up my pen and I'm going to go in from here. So an odd little dots you
might be able to see. So it will leave a
little gap here. So starting here. And then doing this downstroke, which goes in-between
these two upstrokes. And when you finish
your letter E, pick up your pen
before you start the letter a with a C shape. There we go. Let's
try this again. So doing half of this upstroke, lifting up our pen, then starting the letter
e from here again. Going through
without downstroke. Let me finish the lecture. Have a loop pools. And then in the same way actually we're going
to start the left to be very similar shape here. Starting from here. Going down, lifting up again. There we go. One more time. Half of this upstroke
making up our pen, starting the loop
here in one though, then pressing down hard. To achieve thick downstroke. By doing this, you'll also
always make sure that your letter E looks complete. Sometimes it's
quite easy to make this fast stroke to show, to sell, to ensure
that it's nice alone. We're sort of starting with it. Beforehand. D, we
just practiced. And we're going to
add a little twist for the letter D here. We're going to add
a little flourish. So we're going to
start it from here. Like this. Don't worry if you do go over the lines when
you're flourishing, It's quite difficult to trace. Next, we're going to
do this double E, which isn't an easy thing to do. So let's take it slow. Entry stroke,
lifting up our pen. Before you start a second one, just stop for a second. And notice what's happened here. So we already have this Connections Child
Care which sort of act as this little strokes so we don't have
to let her read. So all we're gonna do
is start from here. Let's go and start in the letter F with the
little lobe from here again. I promise the moon will you
do destiny and more natural, it will become Danbury. F s feels very
confusing right now. Well, maybe just feels
very natural already. So wherever you are doing
a bit more extra practice, it'll be really,
really good for you. Is an excellent exercise. Connecting that to eat every single letter
of the alphabet. If you ever need to
refer to the shade, will always be here for you. The electric j. So let's see what happens
here because if you remember, the letter J was
running out of letters, which we do in the
single stroke. Started my letter E,
picked up my pen. And then we're just
going to connect the letter J straight
away like this. Again, leaving a gap here for the downstroke and starting
the electric k from here. Always pick up
your pen after you finish a single laptop
whenever you can. Unless you're connecting
it to the letter like J or merge them both together. There might be times
where you're going to do your letter E in
one go like this. And you can of course. But once again, it's just
really good to land pores in every single letter just to know where you could lift up your
pen if you'd have to go bad. Especially if you're
struggling with pressure. Making sure that your
strokes are thick and thin. Base is like the best thing
you can do to help you. Just practicing the shapes
over and over again. Kinetic Q, C shape. Soon as you finish
this downstroke lift up because there's quite a lot of thin
lettering going on here. All of this is thin. So we are connecting this, upstroke the letter R, and then finding a little
time to stop and pause here. Now this requires patience and obviously some cheesy
just do this via connecting both of these
letters in one go. But trust me, this
is going to help you in the long term for show. Letting you is interesting. I know we're focusing
on the letter E, So we will get to the letter U, but try to notice
what's going on here. So we have this U-shape and then another U-shape
connecting to it. Nearly. One ligand bound
taste or may not lead to a bit bigger
than the letter W. It's absolutely fine to change the height and
size of your letters. Just always looks more
playful and interesting. And again, we use this upstroke to start
or lead to x as well. So it's quite a big movement
here, all the way up. Some big loop for the lead to more merging into the
lattice Zed here. Speaking about Penn
halfway through this left. Before we finish off. Well done, I hope
this made sense. New feeling a bit more
confident about this loop. Shapes. Don't worry if you know, we have plenty of time to
practice. Still. You will get that. You have a good rest of the day well done for practicing today, and I'll see you tomorrow.
7. Letter 'f': Hi guys. Happy Saturday. Today is the last day of the first week and we'll
be practicing the letter F i now it's probably one of the most complicated lactase and you might be struggling
with it already. That okay, So hopefully by the end of this practice you'll feel a bit
more confident. So once again, we'll be
connecting the letter F to all the letters
of the alphabet. And let's just have a look. So we have two shapes here. Required familiar with
this shape already. We use it in the letter B. The letter D, the same shape. So all of these letters
start with the same shape. Then we have this
little fin shape. So we'll be very slowly guiding our pen up,
looping it here, and then stretching the stroke
all the way to derive it, will try to do it very slowly. So as I finish each letter off, you're going to start down, apply very light pressure and connect it to
the next laptop. So let's give it
a go to start in the making up our pen here. And then very slowly, very gently, going to connect
it to the letter a and then pick up a pen again. And we're going to do it. It led to a, as we practiced before. Well done. Noticed how
fast childhood lead to F is quite long. So we do want to get used to
these longer entry strokes. Get up and down. Making a bot pen here. And then very carefully
with a lot of focus, we're going to connect
this letter to the left of B and then start in the left-hand be the
same shape again. Again stretching
out the letter B. So making this exit stroke
quite long as well. And keep going at your own pace. Do try to pick up
your pen after you finish this first stroke. Very careful to try and
stop is downstroke right in the middle here where
the little fold happens. So right here, this is where out thin strokes
starts to go up. We do want to have the pressure
change very, very clear. It should be right
in the middle where the thick stroke ends
and thin strokes starts. In town. Paying attention
on the pressure change. You can also try doing it in one go and just
see how it feels. But once again,
we're just learning these separate shapes just
because if you do need to stop when your lateral
end of the letter f, So you know where you can have that pose connecting the letter E. And as we practiced before, we're going to leave
a gap here and then filling that gap
with our downstroke. Then we've got this double
F. So this is probably the trickiest combination that you come across in vectoring. I did find this very
difficult at fast as well. And it's actually very, very common to have
this combination. So let's just try
and take it slow. Going to divide it into shapes. So this is our first
moved here. About Penn. Them very slowly, connecting it to the next one. There we go. So that's how fast
laughter finished. And then we're going to start the next letter F
from this loop again. So starting with this
upstroke and down, having a pause again
and looping it around. There we go. You
can vary the size. Sometimes it's quite nice when you do the first
letter F a bit bigger. And then you can
do the next one of the hierarchy and a bit smaller. So that might look quite interesting and add
a lot of character. Style. Add a bit of bounds for the letter H. So let the hedge is a
really good life towel. To bounce. You can always bring
the downstroke all the way down
and then back up to try to start this letter F with quadratic, cubic thin strokes. I'm going a bit quicker here, and then I'm slowing down for this downstroke and
then pausing here. Remember to extend
this last stroke. So if you want to space your
letters very, very well. If you want to have
fairly big gaps in between your letters. So you can stretch this
exit stroke of the letter F that will make this
connection a bit wider. So you can see here, the stroke here was quite short. So these lattice look
closer together. But here I've stretched it
all the way to the right, make it a bit longer. Now, these two letters are very, very well spaced out. So it's good to be able
to control the spacing. You're going to flow
into the letter J. We're going to do this shape together with the
letter J in one go. Quite a lot of focus here. The letter K Start with
the same shape as well. Just try to notice the
similarities with other leftist. Well done for finding
time to practice. Notice how the letter M star t, and then instead of
climbs up a little bit. So again, this just hard, a bit of extra bounds. Stretching this leg all the
way to decide quite long, just getting used to
extending those lost strokes. Strokes of each rectangle. Charge, observe
every single letter. You're going to stop
here for the letter R. Hopefully this starts to
become a bit more natural. The more we do it. And we're going to do
the letter S in one go. This is an excellent
exercise to help you improve the letter T. Exaggerating this cross line. We have this lovely
loop at the top, trying to keep it nice and oval. And also we have this
little loop at the bottom, as well as this loop
on this downstroke. So always try to make all
the loops look quiet. Albo. It will make your
lettering looks softer. Overall. Hopefully your pen has gotten a bit
softer by now as well. Sometimes when
they're brand new, they can be a bit hard. It's like new shoes. Just takes a bit of time
before it gets comfortable. So I'm doing my upstroke
and downstroke here. Now I need to make sure that this upstroke is nice and thin. So I'm going to give myself a bit more time and I'm going to start this abstract from here. I'm going to go down, but I'm going to
apply light pressure just so it looks a bit smoother. Once it transitions
into thin stroke. Let X is a tricky one. The merge these
two together with this long connection
stroke here. Only two lattice to go. The letter B go. Well done. You've been practicing
for six days in a row. I hope that feels good. You should be very proud
of yourself and have a lovely break tomorrow before
we start the second week.
8. Letter 'g': We'll start this
week with the letter G to make sure your
arm is nicely relaxed. You're in the mood for a relaxing practice session
and bigger to begin. So you're going
to have a look at which shapes form this lactic j. We have a C-shape here. This little shape, which we
are also quite familiar with, but it's sort of in reverse. So it's very similar to this
loop shape or it goes down. Instead. What we want to focus on here, trying to keep the
C-shape round. And also will try and focus
on this transition point. So it goes down
very thick and then we'll transition
into a thin stroke and then guide you to the right. And also try to make this
loop fairly oval as well. Let's begin with the first set. So this is quite interesting, is we're going to start
both of these letters with the same shape.
Let's give it a go. This is the first
shape we've lifted up a pen and we're
going to go down. And then pick up your pen once you finish
the first lag tau. And we're going to
start the lecture a bit the same shape. Just like well done, I'm going to do the
second set here. So this is becoming a bit more
interesting because you've practiced so many of
these lattice already. So you know, six
of the ase so far. So try to focus on
these very, very well, just remembering everything
we've learned last week. Picking up our pen again, extending this lost
out to the side. This is an interesting
combination again because let us say this, isn't it, the shape itself. So again, we're starting these two in exactly the same way. Notice what I'm doing here. So when I do the shape, I don't necessarily call it my hand down in a straight line. So you can exaggerate
a bit and just sort of push your pen a bit
more to the right. This will also allow you
to create a bigger loop, which always looks a bit
softer in lettering. So once you do your
C-shape, here, you're pushing your pen to the left to allow
for this oval shape. And then when you go down, just guard your pen and bit to the right instead
of straight down. A bit to the right, back to center and then
looping it around the bottom. And there's nothing wrong with correcting your
letters a little bit. So maybe your downstroke
wasn't looking very full. You can always go
back just slightly. Column ten. Tried to slow down before
this pressure change happens here at the bottom. That will help a lot. Careful with this connection
stroke in particular. Make sure it's nice and thin. Here's a double G,
quite common in Ghana. So good to practice this
combination for sure. The letter H from here. Going to connect these two. So this trout and
electric j in one go. So I've picked up my pen here. Now. This is all one moment. Even need a little pause. You can stop here. If this is a bit too much in
your hands, start to shake. You can't pick up your pen here, then finish this
upstroke to the right. G and K. Something we probably
won't see very often. But it's good to practice
these tricky combinations. Notice how I'm stretching the last stroke
with the letter K. Or do I up into the right imagining that is connecting
to another laptop, coming down and then transitioning to a
very light pressure. It can be connected
these two in one go. So it's quite an
interesting shape here. Almost looks like
an infinity sign here between these two loops. Once again, forget
everything you know about handwriting and sort
of regular writing. And try now to seeing all of these shapes that
form each letter. Your hand might start to tense little bit
towards the end. Just make sure maybe you
shake it out or relaxed. If you've just recently
picked up practicing again, it's quite common that you
hand might feel a bit tired. Even though we're having these
short practice sessions. It's still quite a
lot to do in a week. I guess. It does
add up, doesn't it? So always make sure you
maybe do some exercises. So usually shaking out
your hand is a good one, or tensing your fingers
for few seconds. Then relaxing is another
one you can try. And just sort of stretching
your back and shoulders. It's like going to the gym. The more you do this, the less tired your
hand is going to feel. In a long run is a lovely
letter to practice. Remember that you are doing
great by showing up here every day and doing
this little exercise. That's the only way to get back to showing up
being consistent. Notice how some of these
loops are really big. So if you like your lettering
to be more playful looking, you can always increase
the size of the slopes. If you want, you're going to
look more classic. Instead. You can make these sort of see shapes and loops a
bit more narrow. Your lettering
looks a bit taller. It's nice to be able to
do different styles. And by tweaking
these little things, That's how you adapt and
change in-between the styles. So let's say if you wanted
to do wedding stationary, you would probably
want it to be more classic and less playful. Locking. The last letter G and said, flowing into this letter Z, you can stop here or just make this one movement to
connect this letter. Well done everybody, I hope
you have a good start of the week rather
than for practicing today and I'll see you tomorrow.
9. Letter 'h': Hi everyone. Today we'll
be practicing the letter. Hey, if you're here and
you're thinking, oh, now I've been
dreading this one in particular because I
find it really hard. Just know that probably
everyone does. This was a really,
really hard letter for me to learn as well. But by breaking it down and
sort of noticing what's going on here in terms of
shapes really help us. So we can see here
that we will start this letter H with
this upstroke and downstroke, which
is nothing new. We have practiced this before. So once you get this base down, then we'll just have to
add on this upstroke, downstroke, on another upstroke. And the latter hedge is one of those lattice that is
really nice to bounds. So if you notice here, I've extended this downstroke
all the way down for all of these letters and
then brought it back up. If you'd like to arrive
with the letter H in it, you can always use this to add a bit of movement
to your lettering. So let's begin with
this first one here is starting
with this shape. Well done and we're
going to pick up a pen here and then start
this next shape. Going up, down, up again
and picking up my pen here. Let's do the next one. I suppose this shape is quite familiar as well because we are using it in the letter M. So you should do
two days at a time. You will get the letter
m. Just like this. Just now to saying
where we can find the shape in the alphabet. Starting the next one here. No mice along entry stroke. Before we pick up a
pen and carry on, we sort of get like
a U-shape here. So try to keep it nice
and balanced when you trace all the way
down and back up. So we can start the
next letter hierarchy at this level here. So really, really good trick
for bouncy and lecturing. If that's something you want
to practice a bit more. Always starting with
this long, long stroke. And it's not easy
to start very thin and then golf very
thick, straight away. So do it very
slowly to help you. It's all about just
learning to control the pressure so you
can switch quickly. It's doing, it's slower,
it's fast will really help. I know that I make it look
easy, but just remember, I have been practicing
for so long, probably around seven
years at this point. While it doesn't mean
that it will take you to get to this
stage that long. But it does require
your regular practice. Have a look at this W H here. So it's quite interesting
because we're starting the next letter H
with the same shape, usually start the letter B. So just notice how
it's sort of mixing this entry stroke and this connection strokes acts as an entry stroke
for this laptop. It's nice combination.
It just says, hi, hey Joe and I. The next one you do try
to make your downstrokes even thicker and
your upstrokes even. They now see how far
you can go with that. Trying to make the
most of your pen, flexing it to achieve
very nice thickness. And then using It's very
fine tip to achieve very, very thin hairline strokes. Well done, keep going. This is a very bouncy
combination here. So we got the letter H, which we are bouncing
down and back up. And then we got the
letter M. Web is sort of making this shape a bit higher up and then going all
the way down again, sort of in a similar way. So it creates a really
nice transition here between high and low. You want to try and feel
confident when you're lecturing. So just prepare your
hand for what's to come. Maybe observe these two letters fast before you start them. Because we're trying to learn
adjusting the pressure. I would say 80 per cent. It's your mind,
it's doing the job. So sort of sending a signal to your hand to apply heavy
pressure, light pressure. So trying to send
that signal before it actually needs to happen,
they'll really help. So when I'm starting
my ofs Tau here, I'm already thinking about downstrokes are always
thinking ahead. Trying to focus. It's amazing how you can only think about lettering
when you're practicing. Hence, it's our therapeutic, lovely thing to do just to sort of help you switch
off your mind. Again, slowing down towards
the end of each letter. Slower just means more careful. So all the tricky parts you want to do a little bit slower. Picking up a pen here, dividing this letter
R into two shapes. So this is our first
shape being a black pen. Finishing here. Now this which strokes
you tend to do quick. Usually, a beginner would just do everything
at the same pace, if that makes sense. But if you've been practicing
for a while now and you can start making your rhythm
a bit more dynamic. So doing your upstrokes
faster and then slowing down your downstrokes and finishing each letter with a bit
more casts or very slowly. Having that rhythm will
help your lecturing. Slow. Well done. I hope you're really starting
to master this fast shape. It's a very common shape
in lowercase letters. So the more we
practice the bathtub. Again, notice how I started this upstroke really,
really quickly. And then sort of slowed
down as soon as I reached this down-stroke
to try to do the same. Whenever you see this
shape upstroke and downstroke started
with a quick moment and then slow down. For this downstroke. And two more letters. The letter Y is quite similar
to dielectric g. So again, instead of pushing our
pen to the right a bit, allowing more room
for this loop. Stopping here for the lenders. There we go. You're doing an amazing job, well done for completing
day to the second week. And I'll see you tomorrow
for the lecture.
10. Letter 'i': Hi guys. I hope you're all ready for a lovely midweek practice. And let me tell you
some good news. So this laptop is probably
one of the easiest letters. They'll practice
in the alphabet. So let's take it easy. And I hope you enjoyed
today's practice. We can say that this is
a single stroke letter. And I mean that it has
just one movement, although there are
two strokes in here, so there's a
downstroke, upstroke. But we're going to do it
in one single motion. So that's what I mean
by a single stroke. Let's give it a
go. We're going to start from this fast phone. And I'm going down and up. And again, we're going to pause here after we've finished
the SaaS lecture. And what I find
helps me at least, is not worrying about the
dot on the eye until you finish the whole word or the whole set of
lactase in this case. So once you do, you'll lead to, I try not to get distracted. Just carry on with your phrase
or the second letter here. And only then when
you finish off, go back and then odd little
dot on top with electric eye. And instead of drawing
a little circle, you can just dab
your brush pen and apply a bit of pressure like this now creates
a natural looking. If you're using a nib
is the same thing. So just place your
neighbor paper and then apply tiny bit of pressure and a bit
more ink leak out. So it will just create a
natural little circle. Let's carry on
with the next one. Pen before we start
the next lab. And again with a very, very focused and slow movement, we're going to finish
off every single letter, so please, please, please
try to get used to it. It's so important to
slow down towards the end because naturally
we would usually speedup. So to break that habit, which is being very
mindful of us practicing these lactase to really allow yourself to make
this last upstroke of each letter a bit slower. And notice what's
interesting here. Every time we finishing
off this letter, the last row becomes
a connection strap to the next letter,
literally a half. This laptop is
connection stroke. And that's always going to
be the case when you are connecting the letter
I to another lecture. So if you want to
look at it this way, then there's actually just
one stroke in the letter I. If you're not counting this upstroke down and up. So again, be very careful
with this transition point. You want to finish it off and then transition into
a thin straight away. It's very important to have this transition as
smooth as possible. And if you're going to divide
the shape into two parts, far to center, you
will clearly wants to see that one side is thick
and another side is thin. Before you start the
next set of lattice, try to relax your hand
a little bit more. So just let it feel quite loose, quite free and then just
grip your pen view thing is and that's where you failing the most control
in your fingers. This practice so many
lactase already. So you should feel like these
are quite familiar already. Set of these eight. To try to remember everything
we've covered so far. Here's a double, which
kind of looks a bit funny, but let's give it a go. So we're going down
and up to the side, lifting up our pen again down. And the letter I and j are both single
stroke lattice, which means we would do them
both in one single stroke. But in this case you can lift up your pen after you've
finished the letter, I. Pick up your pen and
then start the letter J. And do the letter K. He tried to focus on those slow movements throughout this
whole black shade. This letter is naturally
a bit easier so we can focus on other
things to help us. Again, very slowly going up. Dividing this letter M
into shapes as well. So these are very similar to this shape, just upside down. To o is a perfect
example of where we are extending that loss
drag to the right. You start in your p.sit,
after your downstroke, you can start your upstroke from here and just stretch
it all the way up. It always helps to make
it look like you're obstructive stars very
naturally from here. This shape is a really good
one to practice going down and you can never
practice this enough. The more you do it, the better. We're going to stop. The
metro in the letter R here. And old way are
open to the side. Let S one single stroke as well. So we're just making
these to flow in one go. Very good. We're nearly there. If you're still
struggling with the way you're holding
your pen just now. That is quite individual. The rule is that you do
want to hold it up to slammed a 45-degree angle. I liked how they get
quite close to the tip. The thing is everyone's
hand is so different. And for me it's easier
to hold the pen here, although a lot of
people like holding it in between the fingers here, sometimes adjusting
the value hold your pen can be quite helpful. And if you're using a nib, you always want
to make sure that your pen holders quite nice and low and your index
finger is pointing down. If you haven't tried
lettering within them. That's something you can
also try in the future. You just keeps things
quite interesting. And it's nice being
able to do both. Searching that W, nice exit
stroke here. The latter. This is really interesting here because we are
finishing the letter I. This upstroke. And again, it acts as a
connection stroke and it also becomes part
of this letter X. Sometimes what I like to do when I'm finishing
my letter I. And I've sort of extending this last stroke a bit
more to the right, then it's fine if it's digs into the next laptop because you can then go all of you next
stroke and cover it up. As it's halfway
through this way, Let's use today and just
track our progress. So maybe take a photo of
today's wag and just let us know if you've been struggling with particular
lattice this week, I'll make a new thread
in our Facebook group so you can share and
support each other.
11. Letter 'j': Hi everyone. Hope
you're feeling good and ready to practice
Today's lecture. Today we'll be focusing
on the electric j, which we are going to do
in one single movement, just like we've done with the
letter I, if you remember. So we're not going
to be lifting up our pen much in this lecture. We will just try and do it
in one flowering movement. So we'll start with
this thin stroke. Then go thick on the downstroke, and then slow down towards the end and finish
off this upstroke. So let's begin with
the first set here. So starting with
the long upstroke in green mindful of
this transition point, pressing down very, very
hard on the next downstroke. And then we're going
to pick up a pen and finish the letter a. And I'll worry about
this dot at the end. So again, I'm just
finishing these two imagining if this is my rod, finished by rod, and now I'm
going to adopt my letters. I and that is Jay. Very good. So let's start the next one. Nice downstroke. This downstroke is
quite interesting because we're not
going straight down, which we're all used to. As in most of the
lattice, the downstroke, It's just a straight
line down in here, sort of carving it slightly
so you want to push your pen to the
right a little bit. So still try to
keep it sideways. We want to access this
side of the brush. So just push your
pen to the right. Use the side of the brush. Let's carry on. So again, I have two single
stroke lattice here, but I'm still picking up my
pen in-between these two. So once you finish electrode J, have some rest before
you start the lactose. See, we have two loops
in this lecture. So there's a little loop at the top and there's a
bigger loop at the bottom. So just be mindful of how
round and oval day are. You. Lecturing style is going to depend a lot on these lobes. The right or the softer your
lettering is going to look, the more narrow
and long they are, the more classic your
lettering is going to be. This doesn't apply
when you trace, but just be aware of that when
you're lecturing freehand. This is an excellent way
to practice your flow. So if you find that your
hand is very often tens and you sort of find
it hard to live to go. This is a Greek letter. Do over and over again. Maybe try relaxing
your hand a bit more every time you do it. So with every set of letters, just remember to relax your
hand a little bit more. And hopefully by the
end of this worksheet, you'll feel nice and
relaxed and tried to carry on that feeling onto
tomorrow session. This last upstroke is
also a little bit tricky. So visceral want to call
it a pen to the right, which can be quite hard. Make sure you're not
pressing down too hard. So try to really let go
and carry on with a very, very thin and light movement, barely touching the page. And notice what's
happening here again. So this last stroke
with the letter J connects the dielectric age. So this stroke acts as a connection stroke and also becomes part
of the letter H. So that's again quite
interesting to notice. So pick up your pen here and
then carry on the letter H. Again to single stroke letters. So I just made sure that
I picked up my pen. After I finished the letter J. Before I started later, we got double j here. So let's see what happens here. So we'll start with
the first one. And again, very interesting. So this connection strokes sort of blends into
the next slide. I stopped here. So this is what you
can do as well. And then we're going
to start the next letter j from here, from this little low, which is something we've been doing with a lot of letters, like the letter S, the
letter H, the letter B. Let's take a really
slow down here. Follow every stroke. Think about the pressure. Notice how some of these
letters are a bit more narrow. So try to bury the
style a little bit just to make it all
a bit different, a bit more stylistic. So you can try different styles. So you can see that
this one's more narrow and just naturally it looks a bit more classic if
you compare it to deaths. Here, you can see that
this is much more narrow. So that's something
you can do to control. Your lettering style. Can't stress enough how
important it tastes to go very slowly on these last upstrokes, especially if you're noticing that your upstrokes are
looking with thick. So that would be why you want to make sure you are going very, very slowly at the
end of each letter. The letter O is a good
example for that. And notice how slowly and
finishing it off here. And we're going to do
the same with the letter P. The worst thing you can do here is to
rush this process. To get the best results
from this course. Just try to be as focused
and as mindful as you can. Let's carry on
with the letter Q. Hopefully by now, your pen
has gotten a bit softer. Sometimes net brand-new, they
can feel a bit scratchy. We're going to stop
here in our latter are hopefully this starts
to become quite familiar. How am I going to do
J and S together? Notice how similar
these lectures are. They're pretty much the
same, to be honest. The letter J just has a dot and this little loop is a bit
more round and shorter. The letter S. It's quite interesting to
analyze a similar shapes. We can find all of these lactase. Bernoulli. Just refurbish yourself. Remind yourself to
relax your arm, to press down on your pen
very hard when you go down. The last couple of lectures. We're going to stop
here when it didn't. Glad you said halfway
through the EBITDA. Well done everybody. And I'll see you tomorrow
for the letter K.
12. Letter 'k': Hi everybody and happy Friday. I hope you're ready
for today's practice. Today's lecture is dielectric
k. I know it looks scary, but we're going to
draw it together. First of all, let's
just have a look at all the strokes we can
find in this left tail. So we're going to begin with this upstroke and downstroke, which we are quite
familiar with already. So this thin entry stroke, a little loop at the top
and thick downstroke. And then the second shape
is what's tricky here. So we want to start
from the middle of this downstroke and then
do these loops image, you're tying a little ribbon
around this downstroke. Guide your pan. And what we want to focus on is pressure changes
here because there are quite a few there. This upstroke, thick downstroke, this little stroke
decide which blend into a downstroke and another
abstract keyword lot. So let's take it slow. Let's begin with
the first set here. So I'm doing this fast shape and then we try to find a middle of this downstroke roughly. And then we're going to
start with this thin stroke. Then press down loop true. This downstroke and
then go down here again and do the connection
stroke to the right. Then have Pools here. You might need a little
break before we carry on. And then we're going to begin
the letter a, the C-shape. Pick up a pen and finish it up. Again, starting
the next set here. Going up and down. It's good to know that at least this stroke should feel quite familiar at this point and take your time navigating
this second shape. So again, starting
with this same stroke, pressing down for
this downstroke. Then applying more pressure
on this last downstroke before we connect it
to the next letter. And pick up your pen here. And then start the letter B
from the little loop here. Let's do another one
just very slowly. So again, starting
with the base. You can also start from the bottom of the shape
if that's easier for you. That's something I've done in
this letter in particular. So you can start from
the bottom here. It looks like this rather
than from the middle. And then go down to decide down and to decide
again. The lightest. See. Notice how slowly I'm doing this second part. Starting the letter D,
the C-shape. Again. Notice how this fast stroke of the letter K is quite long. Just remembering
that we want to keep all the entries
strokes quite long. You will sound might
be a bit different. So this is how I do it. I think it looks great
in rods and phrases. It's good to practice this, but if it doesn't speak to you, you can just stick
to your style. But it's good to challenge
yourself a little bit. Starting to like to
f from this loop. Remember you can rest here
for as long as you need. So just have a pause, re-focus. Notice why you need to point your pen to begin
your first stroke. G starts with a C shape. You're doing a brilliant job. It's not an easy laptop in nearly at the
end of this week. And that should help you and
motivate you to keep going. This k and j. Also probably not
the combination you will see often or above, but it's a good one to train
your hand and practice. This connection strokes that are blends into dielectric J. Single movement here, double K. So just remember to pick up your pen after you've
finished the first one. Here. Down the connections
charcoal, ready? So now we're just going to start the next laptop from here, from this little lobe. Just in the same way we
will start in the Latin D, the letter, Hey, age, the letter F, the vector b
over starting from here. A lot of Falco. How we'll pause before
you start the letter M. Notice the bounds. We're doing, town and maybe now just how the letter n is so
similar to the letter M. Adding a bit of bounds here as well. I think it's quite
tricky because this letter K is lowercase. K is so small and there's
so much going on. I think it just makes
things a bit difficult. I'm doing my uppercase in
a very similar way as a lowercase k. And doing a
big God definitely helps. So maybe you can just
use the corner of the page to do run it too. Vague and see if it helps you to understand how the shapes. Well, although been Bechtel, the downstroke here on
all services slanted. You're not doing them
in a straight line, which makes it extra tricky. Don't change the
position of your hand, trying to slant your hand, but just try to use the side
of your brush to price down. Going all the way up here. And my stopping point is here
between these two lactase. I'm quite tricky because the
letter S is a single stroke. Let's try to find
the stopping point. Here. I've stopped here before. I'm carrying on
with this upstroke. Connecting to the left to finish in this first shape and then going back
bottom of fat and starting this upstroke
from that Danbury, if you're at the
end of the shape, this still feels very difficult. That's okay. Some
letters are just harder. You can just pick
them out later on. Now, did That's the latter. You just need to practice a bit more x flowering right
into the letter x here without connection stroke. And then doing this
downstroke, upstroke. The boss to let taste. You can do this. Stopping here for the letter y, then finishing this
long upstroke. Well done. It was quite difficult
session for today. Only one more day
to go this way. You've got this. Tomorrow's
lactose isn't that bad. So I'll see you tomorrow
for the letter L.
13. Letter 'l': Hi guys. Hope you're having
a good start to the Weekend. Today we'll be
practicing the letter L. And it's quite a
satisfying laptop. You can practice your
lettering slow here, because we will be doing
this in one single movement. It's actually very,
very similar to the letter E. And
if you remember, we were picking up a pen. Here. We were dividing the
letter e into two parts. That's something you can do. But I find the letter
L just flows better. It's a big tool as well, so it's a bit easier
to do in a way. Let's give it a go. We'll
start in a nice entry stroke. Nice, insane. Soon as we reach to talk, we'll start pressing
down on that. It'll guard up and backup to
connect to the next let tau. We should probably feel like
you're doing a C-shape here. So we're trying to keep this loop quite big
and quite oval. So there is a little bit of
pushing to the left going on. So I'm not going in a
straight stroke down. We are creating a
little curve and does something they've done
for the lettuce sea as well. This upstroke is quite long, so you have plenty of time to prepare for this downstroke, which is also quite long. And then you can focus on
the connection stroke. Remember, always
thinking in advance. Your lettering free hand. It's quite important
to just try and keep this loop quite big. So that should be
your focus point. It's very easy to make it
very narrow and very long. But this always looks
better in rods and phrases. Thinking about Penn every
time infinity slab, tile, as it is a single stroke lactose to do make sure
you pick up your pen. At the end of it. You can
prepare for the next. Try to make your
connection style kit. Extra thing. Might look a bit shaky at
fast. Just try your best. Keep practicing. Going to stop here
for the letter S. Imagining that this
connection stroke is the fast stroke of the letter f. So we've picked
up our pen here, I'm going to start this loop. This is a good example. So now here's how this loop quite narrow and this
lives quite wide. You can vary the size
of them, of course. And I think I
slightly exaggerated this bigger loops in the
letter L here just because I wanted you to try
and learn to keep them fairly big as it's so
easy to make it sound. Now, route these two strokes
almost touched together. So we want to create
a bit more room here. Notice how slowly I'm
finishing up this letter G. That last stroke
is very, very slow. Going to finish the
letter L and start the letter H from here
against it of leaving a little gap here and filling
it tenement the downstroke. Stopping again. Try to make your downstrokes, upstrokes quite consistent
in terms of the thickness. So it doesn't matter if your upstroke is maybe
thicker than mine. That's absolutely fine. As long as there's a
contrast between both. Some people do very, very thick downstrokes and
the abstracts aren't actually a stain because they
don't have to be as long as they're contrasting roles. Some people go for very, very, very thin upstrokes,
hairline strokes. So they downstrokes don't
actually have to be that thick. Quite individual. But try to keep it consistent. Let the lactic K after
yesterday's practice, we're going to
stop here and then start the letter k from here. Again, all of these little
shapes, remember we always, always want to try and start
them with this upstroke of the loop like this. And then remembering what
we learned yesterday. Double L is focusing
on those blue. My hand is feeling
a bit shaky today. Some days, lettering just
doesn't flow as good. And that's okay to
accept and realize. I have bad days to maybe someday
she'll bit more tens. You have more things
in your mind. It is quite important
to feel quite relaxed for your
lecturing to flow nicely. K. So the letter N, having a little pause
here before we start. The second part of this lecture. To make this connection
stroke fairly long. We have nice spacing
between these lactase. Remember the longer it is, the bigger the space
between your letters is going to be. P. P is similar to the letter
k in the array because we are doing a very similar loop. It's sort of like a half or dielectric k. Nice connections, tau k, the lifting about Penn. Starting the letter
Q with a C shape. And the letter R. This is
our stopping point here. It's quite nice stroke
to start the letter L. Imagine you're starting to draw an oval
shape to the full. All will go like this. They're just doing half of it. Just a few more letters to go. Now, just how this
connection strokes it is also cost a bit
more to decide. We're not bringing
it all the way up. Most entry stroke again. And slow exits child, when you finished the set
of these two letters. Keeping this loop in the
letter W, also quite big. So we're doing the
letter L, just have ever been doing it so far. And now, once we finish it, we've already done a
half of this letter X. So that's quite handy. And then we just need to
deal with this downstroke. Upstroke. Quite a big loop in
the letter Y as well. Wow, Enjoy the rest
of your weekend and I'll see you on Monday for the
third week of this course. Well done, everybody take care.
14. Letter 'm': Hi guys, will be
starting the third week. And the base letter
is the letter M. It's one of the letters
that has caught a few shapes. So let's have a look here. There are three parts
to this laptop. So we will be picking up
a pen quite a few times. So you can see that
it starts with this upstroke and downstroke. And then we're going
to lift the pen here, this little shape up and down. Pick up a pen here again. Start with this upstroke, go all the way down and back
up for this last shape. And also notice how
bouncy this lecture a's. So if you wanted to practice
bounty lettering style, this will be one of the
lactase you can use in your backyard to achieve a
bit of movement in bounds. So let's begin with this
first set of lectures, starting with the
long entry stroke. Pressing down for
the downstroke, picking up my pen here. Doing this little part, which is this breaking
up our pen again. The notice how I'm
going to bring this downstroke all the way
down before it comes back up. So going up, very long, downstroke, slowing down before we
connect to the letter a. How we'll pause here and then start doing
your led to a with a C-shape and extending
the last exit stroke. Well done. Let's do the next one. It takes a bit of getting
used to picking up your pen quite a few times here. And also sort of try to
notice how they're always, always making this loss
downstroke along golf. And pick up your
pen again and they start in the letter B
with a little loop. Hopefully, this all starts to make a bit more sense by now. Hopefully you're starting to
feel a bit more confident. Just already half
of this course. Don't worry, if you don't feel like you achieved much just yet. We still have some time to go. Then you let it free
hand every time you have the letter M, O, N in your word, they're actually quite similar. You can use these letters
to add a bit of bounds. If you're upstrokes still
appear quite shaky. Keep practicing and try to pay a lot of focus on
controlling the pressure. So as I mentioned before, it's all about just focusing
fully at what you're doing, trying to control
your hand a new pen. So try to do this sheet. Very, very far coast. If other thoughts
pop into your mind, try to redirect yourself
to lecturing again. Instead of tracing and thinking that it's all laid out for you and you just need
to fill in these lines, try to really absorb
and Fall coast. Control the pressure. I tried to build the
muscle memory here. And the best way to do
that is just being very mindful of what you're doing and just doing it
over and over again, really, that's what we're doing. Practicing a lot. Which is don't forget to use your focus to help you build
that muscle memory quit. So notice how I'm
stopping every time I finished the letter M before
I start the next one. Pay attention on this
transition here. So between this upstroke
and downstroke, again, we want the downstroke to
start right in the middle. Maybe try pressing down your
brush a little bit earlier. The letter J, one movement. I find this log downstroke
is quite satisfying to do. As you've almost
finished up the letter. And you just need to apply Halley press out and drag
it all the way down. Very carefully
tracing dielectric k. Trying to make this
abstract, extra thin. Applying very, very
light pressure. Relaxing your hand, which feeling the control
in your fingers. The letter n is
very, very similar. They're just missing
this middle shape. Notice how that are
very, very similar. The letters O and P are
really good examples to demonstrate how important
entry and exit strokes are. Just makes your set of
letters the complete. And just more professional. Just a few more lines to go. Well-done for finding
time, practice. You're doing a great job. Remember when we
talked about ovals, when we're doing entry
strokes last week. So again, imagine that this exit stroke is a
part of a novel shape. If we were going to
draw a full oval, you would go like this. So it only doing sort
of a part of it. Always adding a little curve. The latter are we
going straight into it and then lifting
up our pen here. And then just doing this
downstroke, upstroke, which is very, very
similar to the shape. Normalize long cross
line or would let T. It's always nice to do
your crossline quite long. It's very similar to the entry and exits child to feel that is if you make your
crossline quite long, your rod is just going
to look more complete. You will have a bit
more flow to it. Really exaggerating
this last downstroke. Notice how it adds quite
a lot of character. This page, you can see
quite a lot of movement. Hey, I've added one head, doesn't have an entry stroke. You can also of course start
your letter M line this. So having those entry strokes, like a longer stroke when
you're barred or letter starts, just makes you mattering
more interesting. But if you prefer more
of a minimalistic look, you can always just start your lattes in more of
a simple way like this. The two last lattice here. Again pushing the
letter y to the right, just like we did with the
letter G, If you remember. So the downstroke was sort of going to the
right a little bit. Very good. And the letter Zed noise connection stroke blend into the lattice Zed. Long, long exit stroke here. You can even practice without
actually lettering it. So you can just use your hand and just follow this a
few times like this. Again, just to try that
muscle memory and only imagining that you are
applying light pressure. Sort of exercises
can help a lot. Well done for practicing today. I hope you're feeling good
completing this worksheet and we're going to do a very similar latitude
this tomorrow, which is the letter n.
So I'll see you then.
15. Letter 'n': Hi everyone, Hope you're having a nice day today we'll be
practicing the letter n, which should feel quite familiar after
yesterday's practice. So there's not much new data. But what we will try and do is separate these two
strokes as well. So yesterday we were
doing this one in one go. Today we will try to
lift the pen in-between, just allow us to focus on
each shape a little bit more. So let's begin with the
first set of lattice here. Picking up my pen
here after the shape. And going off, picking
up my pen again and then going down and up. This is an excellent
exercise to help you rock on this transition between
the thin and thick. So try to stop your upstroke
right in the middle here. Try not to go over
your downstrokes. You start again, I'm doing my down stroke then
going on, stopping here. Then Rocky on this transition, this tricky, tricky
pressure change. And then pressing
down very hard. And we reach this middle again, separating this Strauss
and doing it this way. So it really help you when you will be joining
them together again. Again, I'm imagining
that I'm starting this upstroke and
then reaching the top and going in with heavy
pressure straight away. Try not to forget to start
lifting up at the bottom here to transition
into this thin stroke. Again. Very good. It's coordinated laptop, so we could be starting it
with an entry stroke, just like we did
for the letter M. So this is what I mean by saying that it looks
quite simplistic, quite minimalist, where we're skipping those entries strokes straight and to the left of j. So my upstroke was
a bit shaky here, so I'm just going to go over it once again very carefully. Just slightly, slightly
correcting it. Does nothing wrong with correcting your
lecturing a little bit. It shouldn't become habit. But imagine if you just lettered a greeting card and your
upstroke just looked very shaky. You can cover it up little bit so it
looks a bit more neat. Quite handy having the
letter N and M together. And here's a double n. So I go into fully
focus on these two. Shapes. Thinking about Penn. When
we finished the first one, tried to really rag that side of the brush hair,
pressing down really, really hard, focusing on the side of it and
just dragging it down. When you're doing this
long downstroke here, notice how the lactate goes down and then just sort
of backup again. Just adds lots of natural flow. Is that last up to show that connection stroud
that's helping us to bound this laptop backup and connected to another laptop
at a different height. If you're feeling like you've practiced separating
the shapes quite a lot. By now. You can try connecting
them together again, just like we did
for the letter M. Or if your transition strokes still isn't looking very neat. Try practicing separating
them for a bit longer. Hi. Now that upstrokes
can be very, very difficult and lactoferrin. And what I find helps me is just imagining that when
I do my upstroke, I'm sort of like lifting
something up from the page. So imagining that there's some
sort of a magnetic force, and I'm trying to lift
something up from this page. We're just imagining
there is like a tiny drop of something or tiny piece
of paper or anything. And you're using your
pen to pick it up. So that's sort of a
feeling I'm getting. So when I'm dragging my pen up, sort of imagining them
lifting something up, the page is actually coming up to my pen rather than
me pressing down. Does that make sense? I hope so. Just try thinking of it in that way when you
do the next one. And see if it helps. Just a few more
lactase for today. Tragic key that focus
right on the end. A lot of movement in
this combination here. The letter N and Z together. Not a common combination at all. Just practicing. Well done every per day
for practicing today. We're nearly halfway
through this week. I'll see you tomorrow
for the letter O.
16. Letter 'o': Hi everyone. Today we'll be
practicing the letter O. So it's another single
stroke, lactose. So we're going to do
it all in one motion. And it's another
excellent chance to practice these O shapes. And it's sort of
start like a C-shape, but they're sort of mixing
this fast upstroke. So again, a really, really good shape to do some extra practice. So let's begin with
the first one. So I'm starting with
this downstroke. And there's quite a lot of
thin lettering going on. So all of this going up and
to the side, this thin. So try your best. Let's do the second one. So going down. And then we're going to go up. When a lot of Falco, so much focus hairdryer, go slowly tracing this line until you reach the
beginning of the letter B. We're going to stop here. Before we carry on. Again, going down, then
slowing down as soon as we're starting this upstroke guarding or Pentagon left very carefully. A lot of focus in our fingers. I'm really trying to have
good control of the pen. I wouldn't say I'm
squeezing it very hard, but I do tend to my fingers a bit just
to control the pen, making sure my hand
doesn't wobble. Let's try the next one. Down and again, very
slowly, very focused. Focusing on that,
great, but the pen, and guiding the pen
to the left or right. It's quite a nice lattice to practice should feel quite good. If it doesn't, if
you find it tricky, that's also absolutely normal. To start and let F this loop. Hopefully you're
starting to get Q. Today's little habits we've
been developing here. Remembering to pick up your pen, remembering to start
all this loop letters from hair with this upstroke. Let B and D, and let F sharp pen a little
bit more to the left. When you go down. Joseph, create that
nice curve for this downstroke and access
the right side of this brush. So when you press down and
push up into the left, you'll be able to flatten the
right side of your brush. And that's what's allowing us
to make a thick downstroke. Now it's tricky to get the
pressure change right? Maybe you're starting to feel good about your downstrokes. Upstrokes do take awhile. I told about just trying
different things, trying different
angles of the pen. Drawing to relax your hand, trying to buck on your graph. All of these little things will add up and eventually will make your lettering just
collect a lot of rock. Not just practicing, but also noticing what rocks
and what does N'T. Magnetically, this loop,
vague for the letter L. O has this lovely sort of
big oval here as well. So try guarding your
pen to the left and keeping the
shape quite round. You can say that these are not necessarily identical and
they don't have to be. You can always play with the
size of each of these loops. Seemed rocks for you. Blending in this
connections trout, the letter R and stopping here, it's quite nice shape we're creating here nicely to low pay. And this loop, Let's have a bit of rest
here before we carry on. And finishing it very
slowly and gently. Lead to an S is going
to flow in one go. You can also stop here and divide this upstroke
into two parts. You, that's a bit too much and
you need a stopping point. Human letters here. You can also keep this connection stroke in
a straight line like this. And then connect to
the next letter. Again, that's just going to
make your lettering look a bit more minimalistic
and simple. I'm sort of thinking into this fast down stroke of the letter W and then covering it up
with this thick stroke. It's very easy for this part of the lucked
out to be shaky. If that's happening to you. Just keep practicing. You can always do a few of
these freehand as well. Even this is quite
a lot of practice. Noise. Big loop for the letter Y. Finishing the letter said, with this careful stroke, decide, guiding it slightly up. Well then every day, I hope you enjoyed this letter. Well done for your work today
and I'll see you tomorrow.
17. Letter 'p': Hi everyone. Today's lecture is the letter P. It's quite a nice
letter to practice. We've got a very long
downstroke in the shape here. Again, this is quite
familiar shape already, but this time we're
going to be stretching. This downstroke would
weigh below the baseline. So if you imagine
that your baseline is here, for example, the word stretching it all
the way down, nice and long. You'll be starting with this
upstroke and downstroke. And then you can pick up your pen and then go
back in from here, similar to the letter
k, if you remember. We start in this little
shape up and down and stretching this
long stroke to the side and connecting
it to the next letter. So once again, Nice to
loop the top, the shape. Be very mindful of
this transition here. So going up and down, so we want the fixed route to start right in the middle here. Always think in advance. And then big word mindful of this little connection stroke. So we're stretching
it to decide, but we want to keep it thin. And I find that these sites droughts
are actually trickier than the actual upstrokes because when you
do go to the side, it's very easy to apply too much pressure that you're starting to
bend your brush. And when you bend your brush, your strokes are automatically
going to be thick because you are starting to use the side of your brush
rather than the tip. So to make the size
jobs extra thing, make sure you are using
the very tip of the brush. Letter B is actually
very, very similar. The only difference
is that we are making this downstroke longer. If you notice that
actually they are the same shapes in the
letter B, the letter P. It's quite easy to
make this down-stroke to short when you're
lettering freehand. So do pay attention on making
it long enough so it does stretch below the
baseline of your wired. So letters like the letter C, for example, would be
resting on your baseline. But lattice-like P or G or q, with this long stroke
will always go below. Although feel free
to improvise an ad abounds and change the
height of your lactase. Nice thing about
brush lettering is that there aren't any
like Ready set rules. You can improvise a lot and I highly encourage you to do so, because the more
you experiment and try adding some stylistic
feature to your lettering, the more interesting your
style is going to be. So maybe you want to make
your loopy bit bigger. You can always stretch it
more to the left and loop it around this downstroke
and make it a bit bigger. All you want to make it smaller. It's also up to you to experiment at the
end of the week when you're lecturing free hand, you're doing a weekly prompt. You can express yourself. Try different styles, remember
everything we've covered. Then shamatha days,
and then maybe see what are the members of the
course come up with as well. It's always nice to
seek inspiration from other lecture is well-known for being persistent. We still have a week
and a bit to go. So don't worry, if you haven't
seen much improvement yet. I want to try and motivate
you as much as I can. And you've done so much
practicing so far, you should be very
proud of yourself. So you can see that this
joke, the letter k, is pretty much the
same as the one for the letter P. And
we can imagine that this connection stroke
is the entry stroke for the letter K. So that's
quite interesting again. I hope you're starting
to adopt your thinking a little bit more. And you're able to find some similarities
in these lattice. Notice that there are so many shapes to just
repeat themselves. So if you just practice
these shapes separately, if you're struggling with particular letters,
like the letter C, for example, you
could just practice this shape and it will
benefit other letters. For example, the letter a
starts with the C-shaped, the letter D, also the
letter Q and the letter g. When you do your vector
P, I love starting to glide my pen from the bottom. So once I do my
downstroke of it, go back to the end of it here and start my upstroke from here. Just makes the bit smoother on it just all looks
a bit more natural. Rather than starting
your upstroke from here. It just gives you
a bit more time to prepare for light pressure
so you can start it here. And a very smoothly it will go into this lovely
upstroke here. Try practicing this,
especially for the double p. So going up, down and pick up your pen and then start
your upstroke from here, from the bottom, light pressure. And by the time you
reach the actual stroke, that is, that is visible, hopefully it will
look nice and thin. And again, same thing here. Double p is quite a
common combination. You can find it in the
rod happy quite a lot. So if you're writing
Happy Birthday. So that's quite
important to practice. Remember that the longer the exit stroke of this letter P, the biggest space you will
have between your letters. So if your lettering free hand and you're struggling
with spacing, always make sure to extend the
last stock of each letter. It will just create
a bigger gap. And your lettering is going
to look more spaced out. Nearly to the letter
x. Quite tricky. So if you're flowing
into the letter x with this exit stroke, at the moment, I just traced this letter
P and it just looks like I finished the letter P.
But if you are in electric, x, sort of merges together with this letter says
quite interesting how the latter is
actually merge. That's why I started a
U-shape and then stretching, pushing up, painted right for the downstroke and then a
very, very careful upstroke. The last letter said, quite a tricky transition here. So quite an interesting shape, not really easy to do. So again, just focus very, very well on the
tip of your brush. Make sure that the side of the brush is not
touching the paper. You can stop here, divide this side stroke
into two parts. Well done. This letter might
feel like a lot of rock because there's
just quite a lot to it. But I hope you managed and
I'll see you tomorrow.
18. Letter 'q': Hi everyone. Today we'll be
practicing the letter Q. Let's call it noise
letter to practice. It's very similar to
the letter S. And you'll see why there are
two parts to this lecture. And we're going to start
it with this C shape, which you can also
make into an O shape. And then we're going to attach
this downstroke, upstroke, and then create this little loop and then stretch it all
the way to the right. Let's give it a
go. Starting here. Nice C-shape. And then make sure that you
start in your downstroke. And you're covering this
little part where there's a little gap attaching your
downstroke to this letter. So it's nice and snug together. It's very easy to
make mistake and stark you downstroke a
bit more to the right. And it will just create little gap in-between
the bulk of days. So just be careful
not to do that. And then starting letter a
in exactly the same way. So to see shapes here, do the next one. Stretching this long
downstroke all the way down. And try to pay attention on
your connection strokes here. So by now, you've probably
realized that most of the lettuce blend into disconnection strokes
for letter b, disconnection strobe is its
actual entrance stroke. So we would start the
lecture B from here. There wasn't another
lecture beforehand. So the way you position
your connection string will depend on your next letter. Basically, I want my letter B look like it's
starting from here. If we remove this letter Q, it was still a natural with
this little entry stroke. I hope that makes sense. The letter Q is one of
those letters that were stretching below the baseline. So don't be afraid to make your downstroke here very long. Just like we did
with the letter P. Want to see shapes
here to try to notice. Or the C shapes again
in every lepto. And again, so these
connections truck is now an entry stroke
for the letter E and we tried to position it so
that it looks natural for it to flow into the
letter E like this. So again, if we
removed this letter Q, it will still look nice. And proportional combination here looks really nice, but it's probably a
combination we will never see. So I love making these loops nice and round
about today's lactase. So just looks very
nice and stylized. Notice how the letter
Q and the lactate j about stretch
below the baseline. And they both have
very long downstrokes. As opposed to let
hate for example, they should have cost instead. Although we are bouncing
it down as well. So that's one of those
letters we add bound to. Remember the longer
your connections drug, the bigger gap you'll have
between your letters. If you're struggling
with space in your left to just make sure you make every loss drug for each
laptop a little bit longer. Because it then becomes
a connection stroke. You can stop here before
you flow into the letter j. In one movement here. This connection string
belongs to the letter J here, was attacked as
its entry stroke. Again, the more you understand all the shapes, the bill based lactate and
connect these lattice, the easier it will be for
you to let a free hand. The letter Q and M, Again, just looks very nicely stylized, will probably not see many
of these combinations. The letter Q, but it's just
so interesting to practice. Again, nice and round loop here. You can always make
this loop bigger or smaller depending on your style. When you let to freehand. Nice long downstroke,
pressing down really hard, tried to make it
extra chunky today. Again, we can say
that d two letters, the letter q and p is a
line here at the bottom. They would both go on the
baseline of your work. So nice and long downstrokes. So we have a double q here. So let's just use
this as a chance to practice these
lovely loops again, so nice and long to the left, back to the right. Then pick up your pen here, and let's do another one. All the way to the left
and back to the right. Nice and slow light pressure. Q10. Resting point here. And prepare yourself
for this long, long exit stroke of the
letter R. So again, with a lot of focus, be careful not to press
your brush at all. So we only want to
grab the tip of it. Just guide your hand
instead of rotating your pen or rest, sort of glide your hand and write the letter S in
one movement here. Very long cross line. Very good exercise for
mastering Yossi shapes. So be careful when you do it. The letter x, you
want to stretch out this connection
stroke all the way to the right and then
lift up your pen here. And only then start with this
second part of let tau and two lowest lattice for today. Well done for finding
time to practice today. When you do the lattice dead k, just be very careful with
this connections trout, which then blends
into the lattice Zed. You can see that it's
sort of goes all the way. And then you can have
a nice stopping point here before you carry on. Well done in this rock shape, looks like a handful. So well done for practicing
these tricky laptop. And there's only one more
lecture to go for this week. And I'll see you tomorrow
for the letter R.
19. Letter r: Hi everyone. I hope
you're having a lovely started a weekend. I hope you can use these 1015
minutes to help you relax. Just do something for yourself and well done for
getting this far. You've done a lot of work. So you should be very, very proud of
yourself this point. So today selector,
It's quite nice. I used to not like
this letter tool. But the more you practice it, the more you fall in love with that team,
that makes sense. So we will be dividing this
letter into two parts. So we'll start with
this thin loop shape. So all of this is thin. And then we're going to
attach this downstroke, upstroke to this shape. So let's give it a
go, starting with a nice entry stroke during
this big, big loop. And then we're picking up a pen, having a nice pause. Before we start this
chunky downstroke. I'm connecting this
shape with the letter a. It's quite long, upstroke
at the end that. And the reason why is
because the let R is also one of those bouncy left
is this sort of bouncing, this downstroke
all the way down, and then we need to bring
our letter back up. Hence, this upstroke
is quite long. Again, start in the next bone. It's quite nice
letter to practice. It's fairly simple. Quite familiar with
this shape already. This is quite new. So just try your best
practicing your light pressure. Hear all about that
light pressure. And again, I'm not
moving my wrist at all. So when you do your upstrokes, try to imagine that you
are sort of gliding your hand rather than
using your wrist. So we're not actually changing the position of the pen at all. We're just guiding it
wherever it needs to go. With the use of her hand. Try to make your upstroke
today extra thin. Try focusing on inside strokes. In lecturing today. Having does focus points should
really, really help you. It's really hard and
overwhelming when you start to think about
everything at the same time. Instead of picking one thing
for each day and fully focus and it is the way to go. You can of course do
this letter in one girl. And I encourage you to
try at least the bonds just sort of connecting
these two shapes together. But again, it will always
depend on your actual rod. You'll let rank freehand whether you will need to
pick up the pen or not. And just knowing that
you can always stop, that is really, really
useful to know. As I mentioned before, it all depends on the combination of
lettuce in your Word. If you had, I don't know, for single-strand
collectors together, which probably won't happen, but you would know that you
do need to stop somewhere, even though that are all
single stroke lactase. So it's all just depends
on the situation really. Being able to navigate and be ready for the stopping point in each letter is so, so useful. Nice and chunky downstrokes. Remember what we talked
about yesterday where I was explaining how the exit stroke of this letter becomes
a connection stroke and also then trace trail
of the next lattice sometimes like in this
case for the letter J. I'm finishing off the letter R. And I'm going to
do this law stroke, which in here is a
connection stroke, and also it begins the letter J. So having a cow
interesting is that. And I'm going to stop
here for the letter J. It's quite a big laptop,
quite long upstroke. So we're going to divide
it into two parts. This big loop to lead to all, look really nice in your words. Now this time starting
this entry stroke. Once again, imagining that
there's an oval shape here. And I'm just starting
it from here. Then you get a hang of it. This latter usually slows
very nicely in that terrain. It's quite a nice movement here. Going off and doing
this little loop. Try doing it quicker. So I know I've said that
you want your exit stroke to be very slow and
they're often upstrokes. You do want to focus really hard and go very, very slowly. But for all your entry
strokes very often, it's easier to make
them quick call, like in this case, we want
the shape to be fairly quick. I personally always
start my letters fairly quick and then slow
down towards the end. Double. Quite common. So let's pay a lot
of attention here. So I've done this
little loop shape and I'm going down here, stretching it all
the way up here. Light pressure,
long, long stroke. And again, fairly
quick movement. And then stop here, slow down, and then
got old way tone. Backup again very slowly. If you'd go over the lines when you're doing
this little loop, because it's a quick movement
is quite easy to just miss. You trace and that's okay. You can try and make this loop
recall making it smaller. It definitely adds a lot of
style to your lettering. Is quite a common lactose. So it's good to practice
it quite a lot. Notice how it's led
to finishes here. And then I'm starting
the letter X or just doing it second part. So the first one
is done already. I've got a very interesting, so this exit stroke
of the letter r becomes a connection stroke and also part of the letter X. So many functions. Let's do this to last
letter combinations. Slowing down here,
having this talk. Then doing this upstroke
into two parts. This exit stroke is extra long, so really good to practice. We can divide it into
two parts here as well. Have a pause, and then
just drag your pen. Let me slowly. And only when you're done, you can literally pause here and only then pick up your pen. Well done everybody. I'm so proud of you. If you've gotten this far, you're doing an amazing job. I hope enjoy your weekend, have some rest tomorrow, and I'll see you on Monday for the last week
of this course.
20. Letter 's': We're going to start this
week with the letter S. It's called the noise. Lactose will be
doing it in one go. So in one movement. And it's actually really, really similar to the letter J. If you remember,
the letter job's also a single stroke lactose, and we did it in one go. The only different, I'd say that obviously there's a dot on top and the letter
S is a bit wider, whilst electric j
is a bit longer. So hopefully it will
feel quite familiar. So the only different is
that to make it wider, we want to push the pen to the right a little
bit more and maybe make this loop a bit bigger than for dielectric j.
So let's give it a go. Going to start with
this long upstroke. Then change the pressure
or the top here, pushing the pen to
the right and down, slowing down and loop it around to connect
to the letter a. If you're not doing any warm-ups before you start
in this worksheet. The first few lectures
might be a bit shaky. You might get into more of
a routine by the end of it. So you can consider the first line to be
as a warm-up for you. Again, picking up the pen every time we
finished this laptop, starting the letter B. It's always good to notice how the lactose are positioned. The letter B would usually
go all the way up. So you can see that it's much
taller than the letter S. And a long stroke to the right. I'm pushing really hard
on this downstroke, so it does require a lot
of physical pressure. So you do want to apply a
very heavy pressure here. And now this have the letter D is still the same
height as the letter B. So it's also one of those
letters of usually stretch up. Quite a quick flowing
movement for the letter S. And you're going
to stop here and start the letter e
from this little lobe. Just like we've done before. Stretching that loss
drug very, very long. Relax your hand a big mall
when you do your upstrokes. And then have a better grip, more control, and apply more
pressure when you go down. Try starting your letter S quite swiftly and then slow
down at the top. Prepare yourself for this
pressure change going down. So I'm starting it
fairly quickly. And then slowing down
here by this loop goes around and slowing down and then pressing
down really hard. And again slowing
down at the bottom. So before the pressure
change happened, it's really, really
good to slow down. Just to give yourself a
second there. To prepare. We've got our letter S and J, so we can see that the letter j would go below the baseline. Was the letter S sort of
stays on the baseline. It's all big bounty here anyway, but they can still see
the letter J is longer. And I'm doing both of days in one bow until I
reach this point. And I'm going to stop here
and then pick up my pen and finish this last bit of
the upstroke separately. A bit of bounds
here for the letter K. Notice how it stretches
down a little bit. I'm going to stop
the letter S here because if you
have the letter L, start with this
connection stroke. So again it becomes part of
the letter L. This stroke, once again has so
many functions, is the exit stroke of the letter S. It's connecting
both of these letters, and it also acts as an entry
stroke for the letter L. Now this have the connection
stroke changes here, so it's a little bit different. Instead of starting
from the bottom and then goes all the way up. Whilst, hey, it's sort of
costs a bit more horizontal. So it all depends
on the next letter. So we can see that the next
letter here is the letter M. And I'm just trying
to imagine that I'm starting this
letter m from here. So they stroke here is an
entry stroke with the letter M. Just try to make
it look natural. Balancing the letter
n all the way down. Remembering what we
learned last week. Every time you bounce,
you will let it down. You'll want to make sure that
your next upstroke is very, very long because you do, wants to catch it
up next laptop, you'll be connecting this
letter to achieve that bounds, the next letter here
needs to be much higher. So always, always
finish your bound to the long, long upstroke. Stopping here before
starting the left PPI. Use this chance to practice doing very straight downstrokes, because very often
we are adding a bit of curve to our downstrokes. When you're doing the letter P, It's a really good
opportunity to just practice doing it
in a straight line. Nice big loops for the
letter S and Q here. Both single stroke lactase. But to make it a bit easier, we're going to stop here before
we start in the next one, imagining that this
connection Strauss did act as this fast stroke. They've got a very
long cross line for the length of t here. Feel free to go over the
lines when you do it. You can even make it longer. He got the letter S and Y here. It's always imagine how
would you let them, why look like if you were
starting your word with it. So we would want to start
with this long entry stroke. So if we remove the letter S, we will still start with
this stroke. And the Latins. Quite an interesting
transition here. We're stretching this stroke
all the way to the right. And if you want it to spread these out
a little bit more, you could just always made
this connection struggle with lava and just stretch it
horizontally a bit more. Well done for doing
the letter S today, and I'll see you tomorrow
for the laptop T.
21. Letter 't': Hi everyone. Today we'll be
practicing the letter T. And it's all about those
cross lines here too. Please don't feel like you
need to follow my lines here. Just try to express yourself. Try to make them a bit longer. You can even flourish them
a little bit if you like. We will be doing the
letter T in one go. But obviously we need to pick up our pen when we're
doing the cross line. Shape, again is quite
familiar already. So let's just practice
this a bit more. So we're going to start here, the letter T going down. And now notice how it's higher than the letter
a, for example, but also how it's at
the same height as the letter B or D or hey, I highly encourage doing
your crossline after you finish your set of
lactase in this case, or when you finish your words. So again, just try not
to get distracted, finish your bar
completely and only then go back and do your cross line. It will also help you to see how long you can
actually make it. Let's say if I had
another letter T here of the letter
a of need to be careful doing this cross lines because I don't want
them to overlap. So if our finished by wide, I can then do these
cross lines individually and make sure they
don't cross each other. And again, we need to
be careful here with the letter B because we don't want to cross line to go over. We're bouncing the light
to d old way down here. So I started the first
park bit higher. Then bounds this downstroke
all the way down. So it's quite an
extreme bounds here. This is another good
example where you can see that I need to be very careful when
doing this cross line. So I'm going to do it a
bit higher right here. Like this. Just cancel it doesn't
cross the next letter. I can be very tricky, especially if you're
doing bounty lecturing. Again, very tricky here because we've got this loop
for the letter S, then we still need
to audit cross line. You could also do
it in the hierarchy to always have starting
from the bottom, going up the gaping it
horizontal for a bit and then flicking it
up on the end here. This is quite interesting. I thought I'd odd this
combination here. So every time you got the
letter T and H together, you can always try adding this lovely stylized trick where you sort of merging
these two together. You start in your
letter H from here, and then going around and down. And then finishing it off. This looks lovely
for words like that. Or any rod that has these
two latches together. And it's quite a common
combination as well. So you can use this quite a lot. We're positioning the
crossline quite high again. So always sort of assess
how much room you have. You need to start. Your
crossline is a quite high up where your downstrokes start
or is it quite loud down? Is it more in the middle? All depends on the next letter. It's quite a simple letter, but it does add a lot of style. Oh, so it's an actual word to, so again, quite common. Very good to practice. You kind of go just make a
cross line in a straight line. So just cross it over
like this horizontally. It would again make your
lecturing more simplistic. Just see what fits your style. Got a double t hen. You can see what I've done
here is quite interesting. So another little
trick you can use, as I mentioned before,
with the letter T. So versatile you can add
so many simple tricks. So this time we're going
to manage these letters together by adding
just one crossline. These two very common, you'll see this in your
words quite a lot. So definitely something to try. Notice how the letter T so
much taller than the letter X. There's something
that's called x-height, and it's usually within
the size of the letter X. So there are many
x-height lactase, for example, the letter a, the letter C, or the letter E, dielectric, I, M, N, O. What if you lactose in
the lower-case alphabet? So all these letters
would usually stay in the middle of
your guidelines. So let's say if you
had four lines, 12, 34, you would have
your x-height here. That's called an x-height. Then lattice-like
B and D. And hate, for example, you would see
that this stretching them up. And we're touching
this top line. This is called an
ascender lacto. I just thought all lecture now a bit more about this terminology. Very, very important to know if you're a brush
lettering artist. So all of these letters
that would touch the top, the guidelines here
are called a send the lactase that also letters that go
below this baseline. So this is a baseline here
by the latch x rest based. And for example, the lactic
G stretch all the way down. And it's like dislike q and g, for example, on the J and P That would
all go all the way down. So this is just
something to remember. These letters are called
descender lattice. Always bear this in
mind when mattering. So you do want your letters
to look watch proportional. So every time there's
a loop at the top, it would usually be in a send a letter and around the letters stretches down and there is a loop at the
bottom like this. It's usually a
descendant selector. And then the rest, the
little lattice-like a and C for example. An S to be usually
stay in the middle. The lightest t is a
nice and the laptop because it will stretch
all the way to the top. And we can see that
here the letter T is much taller
than the letter a. That's just something
to bear in mind. I am covering much more of this in my intermediate course. But I thought I'll just
touch base a little bit just so you know
what's going on here. And if this is new for you, and of course you might
know this already, but if this is new for you, I would definitely
recommend paying more attention and maybe practicing within
guidelines as well. You can create
guidelines yourself. Just grab a pencil and just
draw four lines like this. And let's do these
last two lactase. So now this has the letter
Y goes below the baseline, as well as the left of z. Into this lovely
cross line here. Extend it as much as you like. There we go. Well
done for practicing the letter T. Well done guys. And I'll see you tomorrow
for the letter U.
22. Letter 'u': Hi guys. Today we'll be
practicing the letter U. It's quite a nice laptops. So we will be doing
this U-shape and then connecting it
to this downstroke, upstroke, which is a shape
we've practiced a lot so far. Let's give it a go. When
you do your U-shape, you will realize that
to do your next stroke, you'll have to go over this
upstroke a little bit. So try to get used to it. So these two are overlapping. I've done my U-shape, and now we're going to
start this downstroke. And I'm going to
press down and cover a little bit of that
upstroke so you can see how these two
became one stroke. Let's try it again. So
starting with this U-shape, picking up the pen, and then we're going to glide up and down over this upstroke. Just to hide it a little bit. If you guys are going to slow, is the shape in half? You would like one part to be thick and another
part to be thin. So try slowing down
before transitioning. You very carefully. U-shape stretching
this abstract way up. And this is where we're going to start the next downstroke. So from the top
here, pressing down, covering that upstroke, and
finishing the latter off. Once you do this shape, pick up your pen. I'm going to start the
letter e. Like this. The U-shape is a great
shape to practice. It's nice if we have a straight downstroke because for a lot of letters
that we've practiced, we have to curve the
downstroke slightly. And that's why this
combination, for example, U and C is a bit
tricky because we're doing these straight downstrokes and then we're
doing the lettuce, see where the downstroke
is slightly curved. So a lot to think about here. So just try to take this
opportunity to practice your straight downstrokes
very, very well. Electric GE for example. We are pushing the pen to
the right a little bit. So it does become quite curved. You like to freehand. Just be careful not to
overlap these two match. We still want to
have a nice U-shape once we do the downstroke. So while you're definitely
covering a part of the stroke, you don't want to go in too much the left, if
that makes sense, to always make sure that this thin part of the
bottom is still visible. During the last
week of the course, your pen might be running out. You have been practicing
quite a lot so far. Interested last year
right to the end. But just notice how
it has changed, maybe how it feels much
more flexible now. I've stretched to let you
all the way down here. So again, one of those
letters you can add bound to, it will look great
in your words. Remember to pick up your pen a lot when
you're doing the letter M. When you're doing
your upstroke here, you can make your officers
fade out towards the end. So we are applying extra
light pressure here. Even lighter than
you usually would. Going very slowly
on the letter O, this last part of letter. Bouncing that loss down
stroke all the way down. Before it comes back up, detach the letter Q. Nice big loop would let
it all before we stop. And then finish off
with this little shape, which is exactly the same
as the second shape. Here. S flow. The letter T. Nice thick down stroke. The crossline. You put a w here. Finishing off the fast one, having a little pause, and then start in the next
one in exactly the same way. Imagining it, we will connect this letter to another letter. When you finish your left is
always imagine that there is another laptop
coming off direct. So your connection strong
does one to be quite long. Notice the difference here, how the U-shape is
very nice and soft. The V-shape is very angled. Now it is. How big
is the shape here? Because we know that
we need to stretch this drug automated a
right to do the letter X. So this shape, this last shape, will vary in size depending
on the next laptop. So we can see here that
it's much smaller. Compare it to the
letter x, for example. Practicing these shapes
is such a good exercise. You're doing a great job. Hopefully it's starting
to slowly pay off. You can always compare this
sheet to your first shade and see maybe you upstrokes
are still a bit shaky. And your downstrokes do need
a bit more press shops, so you can just pick those is
focus points for tomorrow. Practice. Well done for today. And I'll see you tomorrow
for the letter V.
23. Letter 'v': Hi everyone. Today
we'll be practicing the letter V and it's definitely not one of
my favorite lactase. I do think it can
be quite difficult. So see what you think. But we're going to get
through this together. Let's have a look what's going
on here in this lactose. So lots of movement. We'll start the first stroke
with this little upstroke, and then we'll do our
downstroke nice and thick. Now this how it's slanting bits. So we will need to
maneuver or pen and create this little angled
shape between these two. So we're going to push up and to the right and use the
side of the brush. Pick up a pen, and
then going from the middle and just
stretch to another side to create this lovely upside down triangle and finish off
with very, very thin stroke. So let's give it our best. Try and do it very slowly. To start in this fast one. Pushing down, picking up a pen, and then starting this
abstract from here. We do want it to look wide, angled, so it does look
different from the letter U. It's very easy when you do this downstroke for the tip
of the brush to get an array. So do try to maneuver
it in such a way that we are accessing that side, which is allowing us to guide the pen to the right
using the side. That's quite nice. Stretch here all the way
off for the letter B. Once you do this
lovely entry lobe, just slow down a bit before you start your
downstroke here. Give yourself some
time to prepare and maybe position your brush in such a way that will achieve
this slanted downstroke. Give you a hand some time to
get used to these movements. March feels very unnatural. It's fast and might be
actually really hard. We want to practice
on repeat the shape. Many times as we need. Imagining that this
entry stroke is actually a connections
childcare so much that there is another
letter beforehand. And same goes for when you're
finishing the last lecture. Just imagine that
we are connecting it to another let
till afterwards. By the end of this course, you will have practiced all the possible
letter combinations. Quite a few lobes here. Notice how we start
in the letter k, but this loop shape as well. So transitioning from one loop
here to another loop here. For the lactic, a tricky
combination here. Take your time
with that hormone. If you find in this
downstroke very hard, it's worth just practicing it in a straight line first and then very slowly and gradually starting to slanted
a little bit. Picking up your pen, often, it can become quite
overwhelming if you don't it just because there are so
many strove to put an act, they do want to separate them. This latter canard
very playful look to your words just because
of this lovely loops. You can make them bigger. Quite an interesting shape. Sometimes you can do in
this downstroke quickly, your bank roll in a way that will make you do it with the tip of
the brush instead. If that keeps happening to you, try slumping your pen a
little bit more to the right. The more slanted it is, the easier it'll be to access the side of it.
And that's what we want. Tricky here, you can go
from this connection strokes straight into the
first shape of the next one. Nice and long entry stroke for these good letter to practice your entry
strokes for the lactase. It's a tricky transition
here from the desert. This upstroke squad verb Lei. So in a way that
it doesn't go in a straight line.
I've been doing it. Quick car is a bit easier. I'm finishing the letters and the noise exit
stroke that it out. Well done. Don't worry, if today feels
a bit more difficult, it is good to
practice this dough because the letter w is
pretty much the same, which is doing this twice. I would love to see some pure
Iraq today in the group. Please, please share. I
would love to see how you're getting on and I'll see you
tomorrow for the letter W.
24. Letter 'w': Hi guys. Today we'll be
practicing the letter W. As we've practiced
the letter V of ready, they should feel quite familiar because what
we're going to do, we're just going to
do a double V really. So we're going to
connect to lattice way to cancel to create the shape. We're going to start with this upstroke,
downstroke, upstroke. And we're going to pick up a
pen here right in the middle before we carry on
with this second way. So let's give it a go.
Starting with an entry stroke, going down, pressing down
the brush very, very hard. Creating this sort of a V-shape. So you can go a bit sharper here at the bottom if you lie. And then pick up your pen
and then go back in with this slanted down stroke. So we want to create
like a little triangle here in the middle. And then very slowly
and carefully go up and to decide before
we start the letter a. Well done, Let's try this again. Up and down. And then up again. Making this transition a little bit sharper than the U-shape. Thinking about Ben
here, calling in, starting again with a
thick downstroke on, finishing off with
a lovely lobe. Now this how, this loops
that have had lots of style here because we
are making it quite big. Also, it can vary
value positioning. It can be a bit high wrap, it can be a bit
more to the left. It's really up to you. Stop in the middle.
25. Letter 'x': Hi everyone and happy Saturday. Today we'll be
practicing the letter x. And this is the last video
you'll see in this course, but I'll see you tomorrow
for the live Zoom workshop. We'll be finishing off. This goes with the
last two letters, letters Y and Z. So we'll do them together. You can find all the
details in the next lesson. So let's get started
with this letter. It's a fairly simple lactose
in terms of its strokes, but it can be really tricky to connect it
to other lactase. We've practiced quite a lot already transitioning
into the letter x. But we haven't really
practiced starting with the letter x and then connecting
another letter to wait. So when we connected or
the lattice beforehand, it always sort of use this function to slide
them to this lecture. So this stroke usually come from the connection
strong beforehand. This stroke here
usually come from the previous lecture
as its exit stroke. But now, because we're
starting with this letter, we have to add on
this upstroke here. It's much more straight. So let's say if I was doing
the letter E, for example, I will be finishing
the letter E with a slightly curved exit stroke. So this first drug would be
a little bit more curved. But here we'll just practice
doing it in a straight line. So let's go ahead
and give it a try. We're starting with
this downstroke. I've done the connection
stroke already. Now I'm going to go
back in and very gently finesse disliked
out with this upstroke. You can also divide this upstroke into
two parts like this. So you can do this first part, then pick up your pen
and do the second box. So this is very common if
you're using a nib and ink. So usually this
downstroke would be very, very wet from the ink. So you can always divide your
upstroke like this so you don't smudge your downstroke when you go through
it with your name. That's a little trick
for those who've been using a nib in this course. This is also quite a
tricky shape in a way. So we are adding a bit
of movement to it. It's not perfectly
straight down, so we are sort of
going a little bit more to the right here. If you're finding your C
shapes quite difficult, you might find this quite tricky as well because
it's quite similar. So we have this
very short upstroke and it transitions
into downstroke. And then again we have this short stroke that sort
of connects to the next. Let's just double-check to see, and I can really see how
these can be very similar. You can, of course, make this upstroke a
bit more interesting. It does not have to
be a straight line. You can also add the
shorter half-lives to hit. That makes sense.
Slightly curving it. It's not a very common letter, so you probably won't
see much of it. But yes, it can be tricky
when you are connecting it. Decide and lactase. And it's quite hard
when it's in a word. So you want to
transition into it and also connect another
letter to it. So that can be
quite challenging. But we've covered all the
possible connections, doing all the letters
of the alphabet, and now we are practicing connecting it to every single
letter of the alphabet. So hopefully, you can always use those worksheets as a
cheat sheet for yourself. This is interesting here. I'm going to do this downstroke. And because the letter J is
a singles chocolate tell our flow right into
it with one movement. And if it's a bit too much, you can always stop here for a second and do this last
little stroke individually. The Slanted upstroke is really, really good to practice if you're still struggling
with large brush. So this is an opportunity
to just perfect does upstrokes with the
very large pressure. It might be a bit easier
than going straight up. So try focusing on
the tip of the brush. Notice how sometimes
naturally I tend to finish the second
letter on only then go back and do this
upstroke for the letter x. Only because I already know that most of the time if I have
another laptop beforehand, this stroke will be done fast. So I have a feeling that
it's been done already. And I don't do it right away. If you see what I mean. So do try to think of it
as a connection stroke. And usually this thin upstroke would be the ending of
the previous laptop, right into the left. So this long upstroke will
feel a bit difficult. Don't worry, you'll get there. But just being mindful
and prepare yourself for this long stroke. Let S be like my pen is
giving up on me slowly. Notice if yours is sort of
running out of ink as well. We've practiced so much, guys. Well done everybody. It's a lot of rock
you've put into this. And I promise it will pay off even if it doesn't
feel like it right now. Sure you have improved
your lettering technique. You can keep practicing. You don't have to stop this. So if you've gotten used
to this short session, you can always pick
one Latter Day. All right, intellect to x and x. So this is what I mean. Now notice what I've done here. So I finished this downstroke and I just went off
just to connect it to the next letter is
connection stroke has already filled in
half of my laptop. So all I need to do, just do this. Downstroke again. Hence, I always start with
this down-stroke because this upstroke is sorted data already from the
previous laptop. So I'm just going
to trace this now. The last lecture here. Interesting shape here. Notice how it starts and
ends in the same way. Here we go. Well done. Take your time to wrap
your mind around this. So this is a little bit tricky rather than
for practicing today, and I'll see you tomorrow
for a live session.
26. Letter 'y': We're nearly at the end of the course and we have
two lattice to go. In this lesson, we'll be
practicing the letter y. And let's just have a
look at these two shapes, which form this latter. So we have the U-shape and this sort of loop
shade the drops below the baseline of
looping it around here and extending this
upstroke to the side. Let's give this a go. Let's start here. We're
doing the U-shaped fast. I'm picking up the pen and
then doing this downstroke, which isn't
necessarily straight. It's curving slightly. The more you carve it, the bigger loop you'll
be able to create here. So it will depend on your style. You don't have to
loop it too much. You don't have to make it as
big if you don't want to. It's a really
personal preference. I like mine to be quite big. I think it makes the lettering
look a bit more soft. And if you are making
your loop quite vague, you might notice
that your upstroke is quite long as well. And sometimes you can divide this upstroke into two parts. So just because it's a bit too long to do in one go,
I've stopped here. I'm going to start
this next laptop with this entry stroke, which is the second part
of this abstract as well. Just keep buying
at your own pace. Hopefully you're starting
to feel much more confident about this lattice. This one's quite satisfying. Latitude practice. There we go. Then I'm going to do the letter
Y and E noise bit below. I'm going to stop here before
I start the lecture e. From this point here. There we go. Noise
exit stroke to decide. Do remember to pick up your
pen after you do the U-shape. And I'm going to
start the lab to F, very similar to the letter
e. From this upstroke. You can divide your life
to F into two parts, just make it flow in
one go at this point, see what feels better. Now this how the loop
on the left side j, a, similarly sized,
it's also quite vague. And again, that's just my style. Yours can be longer and
more narrow if you like. To start at that age
from here to form this connection stroke and
finish the letter Y as well. So again, so many functions for this little
stroke in the middle. To finish it, the
letter Y star select a page and connects both
of these letters together. The letter J usually
flouted Mongo. So I'm going to stop
here before I start, I'd like to j with this sort of entry stroke and
do it in one go. Nice big loop as well. Leave a little gap here, just like we practiced
with the letter E, and then fill in this gap with this downstroke
for the lactic kay? Noise, thin stroke to the side, try to slow down. Now these have the
loop for the lattice L is fairly small hair, so you can also make your loop, the latter bisoprolol,
similar to DES. Do try that in your
life to freehand. Maneuvering of pens
quite a lot here. To make this upstroke nicely
shaped for the lecture. Why some sort of guiding my pen up and to the side
can be a bit tricky. Maybe do it very slowly a
few times so it sinks in. I'm sure you are doing great. Keep going. You've
got the letter P. So I'm going to stop here. Big disconnections drug into the down-stroke of delight
to pay a little bit here. Then to the left to pee very, very lightly on
those exit strokes. Really try to release the pressure and
barely touch the page. You do your thin strokes. Maybe your pen starts to fray a little bit
because we're sort of, at the end of the course, you've been doing a
lot of lecturing. Or if you're using good paper, if it's nice and smooth, shouldn't actually be a problem. You don't have to go
as quickly as I am. Trying to find your own pace
and try to stick with it. And the letter x we're
flowing into it, picking up the pen and
then doing the letter X. The downstroke, an upstroke. Got the double AI here, which is probably a very
rare combination here. I'm not sure we'll ever
use this, but again, such a good combination to
practice the lattice Zed. So they're going to
flow into the lattice, then stop halfway through, and then start from
the middle again and finish this long exit stroke. Well done everybody, hope
you enjoyed this lecture. Let me show you are
doing very well. If some of these combinations
didn't go to Bow, tried to pick them
out and practice a few more times before
we do the next lactose, which will be the last
lecture of this course.
27. Letter 'z': Here we are at the
end of this course, we're going to finish
with this left his dad. So let's practice
this very thoroughly. This is supposed
to be a lowercase. You can also do your lowercase, that log S. And you might see this quite a lot in
lactone ring as well. The thing with this
is that it's really awkward to connect
to other letters. It just doesn't look too
good in a word when you are extending this last stroke and trying to connect
to the next slide. And also connecting
two-way is really tricky because there isn't
really a connection stroke. We can odd the beginning
of this laptop. So I'm doing my lattice, I'd like this usually. However, if I'm starting
my rod with letters, sometimes I'll do this version and sang gospel,
uppercase and lowercase. So you can do your
uppercase like this. Just sort of like a number free. All you can do your
uppercase like this. It really is up to you. Just save, it feels
more natural. Today we're going to
practice this version. We are doing this
letting two parts. We're going to do this fast
upstroke and downstroke. Pick up the pen and then carry
on with the second part. Noise loop at the bottom
and then extend the stroke. And big this last stroke
into the next letter. In this case is the letter a. And I'm just going over this
connection stroke slightly. Rice and doing the
next one here, stopping here before I start this loop
shape for the leg B. Again, remember when we
started with a loop, we're starting with
this inner upstroke. There are some really
silly letter combinations here like that and say, it's a good practice for sure, especially this tricky upstroke, which sort of becomes very horizontal before it
connects to the next letter. Notice how that's
quite interesting. So slow down towards
the end of the lacto. I'm usually doing
my fast ball to the latter fairly quickly. And as soon as I raised
this tricky upstroke, I'm going to slow down. And again, you can divide
it into two parts. So I've just done it here. And I'm going to start
the letter F from here. Imagining it has an
entry stroke to it. Try to find your rhythm
and just let them flow. Hopefully you're
feeling much more confident about your
lettering abilities. The electric j in one go. You got this loop shape hair. So it's starting with
this upstroke leaving a little gap and then
filling in the gap between these upstrokes, stretching or try to slow down if you notice
that you've been rushing. I know it's the end of the
course and the last letter. Let's try to set a pace ourselves and remind
ourselves to practice slowly. Just to give enough
time for our mind to absorb all this
information here. Train our muscle memory. Bake loop for the leg. Pick up your pen here. Flowing void into disliked. We can make a
stopping point here. Again. If you like. The letter V. Quite nice, long connections throughout k, you can see how extending
this loss drug, megan disconnections
drug with long god made the space between
this lactase a bit better. And same here we kind
of sort of extending it a bit longer to make the spacing quite
nice here. So very big. This can be used for shorter rods when you're
lecturing a phrase. And let's say lactose
in the rod that, or you can space your
lettuce outbreak more. So they look a bit
more imbalanced with longer words and double. Especially if you're lecturing
name easy, for example, you will need to
maneuver your pen to read the top of
the next lattice Zed. Just to show you an example. I'm doing cam just stretching
this upstroke the top, and then finishing off this way. So do practice. This is
quite a common name. I have this really often
requested is a place card and it also took me a while to figure out how to connect
these letters together. And just to show you
when I was talking about making the gaps between
your letters, big car. Let's say if I'm lettering the
rod and I'm making sure to extend this exit stroke of each letter a bit
longer to the side. Just makes the spacing
a bit more clear. I can also do it this way. It's a bit more tie together. Just now. This how you can vary the spacing by controlling the length of your
connection stroke. There we go, guys. I really hope you
enjoyed this course. Well done for sticking with it. You've done it all. You've done all of the letters. You should feel really
proud of yourself. I really hope it has
helped your lecturing. I hope you see progress. It has definitely
help you to build up your muscle memory you've been
practicing for cell lung. So if there's anything
you want to pick out this course and
just keep going. The practice sheet
are here for you to stay so you can always
print them all. Practice again. I really hope you enjoy
it and wishing you best of luck for your
future projects, for your lettering practice. And I'm always here. If you need me, good luck with
everything and take care.
Alina Snepste
