Modern Brush Calligraphy: A beginner's guide

1. Introduction: Hi, my name is yeah, Ashby. And then my class, you will learn modern brush calligraphy. I will teach you basic strokes and techniques, lactose flourishes, and how to connect the letters to form both. Modern brush calligraphy is really used for whether this to make jobs or presentations or to find a way to relax. It will help you both mentally and physically. All you would need is basically just the brush pen. So I hope you'll be joining me in my class. Thank you. 2. Requirements: In this class, you would require brush pens and the printout of the Handbook of a dash in the resources. The printout is much easier to practice with. But in case this is not possible, we can use a normal notebook and refer to the handbook online. The brush pen I would be using in this class is the Tombow Fudenosuke. And this is mainly the ones we would be working with. There are other brush pens out there to three over the hill from Tombow itself, but this has to do with them. I would recommend using the Tombow Fudenosuke, easy to follow along in this class. 3. Strokes 1: In this lesson, I will be showing you a few strokes that you should practice in order to become better at brush lettering. First of all, you should hold your brush pen at 45 degrees and you should not hold it too close to the tip. This would allow your hand to be more flexible and flow more smoothly. Brush calligraphy essentially consists of upstrokes and downstrokes. And the main idea is that whenever you move from up to down, It's a thick stroke and then he moved from down to up, a thin stroke. The size of your stroke, length, the width, or thickness. It depends on the amount of pressure you put yours a downstroke if they simply apply pressure while dragging the brush from top to bottom. It is essential to practice the downstrokes, upstrokes in order to have better control of your hand on your brush. So here I have the other brush pen to just show you the difference between both of them. And this is a more flexible brush. So now we have the upstroke, which is basically when you move your brush from down to up, it should be ten. But it's a bit hard to ensure that the lines are straight and it's harder to control the brush on the tip. So this requires a lot of practice. I myself struggled with it. Next we have an overdose. Now, this basically comprises of two strokes, which is the upstroke and downstroke, but the key is to do it in one go. So first you move upwards, that like I said before, would be ten. And then when we've done it moves downwards, the stroke would be. I'm also just going to show how the overtone would look if I use the other brush pen. Next, we have the undertone, and this is similar to the overdose, except first we would be doing the downstroke and then the upstroke. Next we have the oval. And this is very important in order to get letters such as a. Right. Now, this is also comprising of two strokes and that's the downstroke and the upstroke. Except this time, it would be cool. We should try and avoid pointed towards like the one that I ended up happening right here. But of course this can be fixed because when you complete the letter, it can be covered up. Now we'll start with the reverse of a similar nature, except the direction changes. So this was the first sheet. Now let's move on to the second. 4. Strokes 2: In today's lesson, I'll be showing a few more strokes that you can practice in order to become better at brush calligraphy. So these main loop consists of two strokes. The first job is upwards and then you pull it back downwards. If you remember, it is always when you go from down to up ten and up to down. Next we have the descending loop. This is similar to the ascending loop, except for us, we have the thick downstroke and then we move upward. Next we have the compound stroke. This looks sort of like an N, and this is good to have control over the thickness and thinness of your stroke. So he started telling because you're moving upwards, then take beauty moving downwards and then pin again. So we need to make swollen neck. And the sort of looks like an S. Again, the concept is basically the same. When you go up, it's ten and when you come down, it's thick. Next we have the wave. This has to more or less beaten. And so it's helpful when making flourishes. Next, we have to go with, this also has to be intentional. And this is also helpful in flourishes. Your are a few sheets that are very helpful for practicing these jokes. And this is mainly so that your hand gets used to the movement. And this can be done with a regular pen and does not have to be a brush pen. And I'm just showing you a few of them here. You can look at the direction that I've been given and do them on your own. 5. Flourishes: Now I'll be showing you how to make flourishes there more than just fancy to as singles at the edges of the letters, they add a legend to your calligraphy and create an opportunity for showcasing your individual style. These are just a few flourishes you can experiment and create your own. When making this flourish. In particular, you should ensure that the gap between the two loops is equidistant. Otherwise, it can look a bit shabby or untidy. 6. Letters a-l: Now let's move on to letter will be going in alphabetical order. We'll be using the techniques and strokes that we learned initially. So let's start with the oval. And you go from thin to thick to thin while coming upwards and then make a downstroke. And then used to flourish to bring the stroke back up and finish it off. I recommend lifting the brush pen after each stroke than this. We just ensure that your brush lettering looks neater in comparison to doing it at one level. For the letter B, you have to meet a downstroke. But before making the downstroke, you need to make a flourish. Now of course, these are individual letters when you're writing a word, it may not be possible to add the flourish because it will take up space and it may not look nice in terms of tidiness. Most of these letters are self-explanatory, so just look at my hand movement and tried to imitate it. Now, I'll show common mistakes made while writing the letter H. So here you can see that the flourish is not like the two loops. They are not the same distance and there's no gap between them. It's looking untidy in comparison to the previous letters we've written. In order to avoid this, it is essential to practice the flourish. 7. Letters m-z: Oh, the flourish of letter V is a bit hard to understand sometimes. So here I'm showing the mistakes that people usually make while making the flourish. 8. Connecting letters: Now I'll be showing you how to connect letters and towards. So first of all, we have the letter E and H. These can be connected in several ways. Yours, one of them, keeping it simple. Another way is to write your letter E and add a flourish to the letter H. You can also add these upward strokes before ie. Yes, To keep it simple and not to over-complicate it because too many flourishes can make your words look untidy. Here's connecting the letter H with a more simple of course, but just to give you an idea, next, we have the letters 0 and M. So far, so you write 0 and then simply connect it to M. The idea is to keep the 0 a bit more simple so that M can be flourished. Now in case we have two ends together at that can be a bit tricky. So you can do two things. One is to flourish both the ends or the others to keep it simple. Next we have p and n.