- #WHAT DOES LUCIDA CALLIGRAPHY FONT LOOK LIKE HOW TO#
- #WHAT DOES LUCIDA CALLIGRAPHY FONT LOOK LIKE FREE#
This is improving, as the big art stores recognize that modern calligraphy is catching on, but it’s still something I have to clarify for my students all. It’s still not perfect, because I didn’t build this letter properly.īut we’re getting to that (see point #3!). Notice that the thick parts are in almost the complete opposite places on the letters from the earlier “hello” example?! Now let’s do the same thing with that original word, “hello”, but this time using downstrokes instead of “shadows”. If you mimic the way you would have written this “a”, and think about where your pen was moving in a downwards direction, you’ll see that those lines are thicker. (And vice versa, moving in an upwards direction would be thinner- aka an upstroke). The “thicker” parts are actually the downstrokes.Įssentially, as you write your word, anywhere that your pen is moving in a downwards direction is going to be thicker- aka a DOWNSTROKE. Turns out, those “thicker parts” are actually, uhh, like, THE most important part to understanding how calligraphy works. I was putting the thick parts in totally the wrong place. It would have looked something like this.Īnd it’s cause those thicker parts are not supposed to be “shadows”. Like, I’d write my word out in cursive, and then think about where the light would hit, and then draw in shadows. This is embarrassing, now that I know what’s what, but when I used to attempt (what I thought was) calligraphy, I thought that the thicker parts were shadows.
#WHAT DOES LUCIDA CALLIGRAPHY FONT LOOK LIKE FREE#
(OH, and if you’re interested in learning too, come and join my free course!) 1. So I thought I’d share the top 5 game-changers I discovered. I had so many A-HA moments when I decided to stop copying and start purposefully learning the basics.
#WHAT DOES LUCIDA CALLIGRAPHY FONT LOOK LIKE HOW TO#
I never truly understood how to do them on my own without looking at a reference.įinally, I decided to take a real, in-person workshop and get the low-down. I’d find a font I liked, look at the letters, and copy them onto a page. BUT…Īlthough I had an eye for pretty letters, I could only produce them by copying. I was that kid in high school who used to spend more time emulating the fonts in the textbooks than actually reading them.Īnd in university, I was always the go-to person when there needed to be nice writing on a project. Beccahere from The Happy Ever Crafter, and today I am super excited to bring you the 5 things I wish I’d known when I got started with modern calligraphy.īefore I “formally” took a real calligraphy workshop in 2015, I had been trying to teach myself calligraphy for years.