Hello! Welcome to my channel if you're new here. Welcome back if you're not. Happy Easter for
those of you watching this when it goes up on Sunday. This week I decided that I
wanted to make somewhat of a continuation of a video that I made a
couple years ago. Almost two years ago, I made a video showing you guys how to do
calligraphy with Crayola markers, and when I uploaded that video, I got a ton
of requests asking me if I could do a video showing you how to do nib and
ink calligraphy, which at the time that I uploaded that video, I had never even
tried that before, and I obviously did not want to upload a tutorial showing
you how to do something when I had no idea how to do it either.
So, after two years of practicing nib and ink calligraphy, here we are.
This type of calligraphy is probably some of my favorite calligraphy to do.
Once you get it down, it's incredibly simple and honestly the concept of
it is really simple anyway if you can get two basic things down. This is
exactly what I talked about in my last calligraphy video: just the two main
types of strokes that you need to get down, and then you'll be able to do this
flawlessly. So the two main components of anything calligraphy is that whenever
you do a stroke up, so whenever you're drawing up, it's a very thin line that
you don't want to put a lot of pressure onto, and then when you go back down, you
put more pressure on the pen to release more ink to make the line thicker, and
that's how you get calligraphy lettering. It's just making sure on your up strokes,
it's a thin line, and then on your down strokes, you put more pressure on the pen
to create thicker lines. That's really all calligraphy is. If you
can remember those two things while you're doing your calligraphy and while
you're practicing, you're good to go. A great exercise that I like to do to help
get the pattern and the feel of the strokes down is just to make little
bitty hills using that technique: thin up, thick down, thin up, thick down, thin up,
thick down. If you keep practicing that and you finally get the feel down of how
it should feel when releasing pressure and then adding more
pressure, then you can go on into starting to incorporate that into making
letters. Some people like to add a lot of flourishes to their letters to make it
look really really fancy like they're designing a wedding invitation or
something. I like a more simplistic look to it, almost kind of a mixture of
cursive and just print lettering, depending on what the letter is. So my
calligraphy is a little bit quirkier and a little bit more simple. That's just my
preference. I'm sure you can find plenty of people on Instagram - I'll link
some people below on Instagram that have really cool - lots of flourishes,
lots of really fancy lettering, but if you like my style of lettering, I'll have
my calligraphy Instagram linked below that you can follow for updates, and
videos, and more mini tutorials on all things calligraphy. The tools that I use
for this - I will have everything that I'm using in this video linked below. I can't
remember the exact model off the top of my head of the nib, the pen, and the ink
that I use. I know that all three of them are Speedball brand, which is great if
you're just starting out. They're super inexpensive, you can get them at Hobby
Lobby, and if you buy in store or online, there's a 40% off coupon at Hobby Lobby
that you can use, which will save you some money. I did get all of my
supplies at Hobby Lobby. And for the paper, I just use regular heavy
drawing paper, that way the ink doesn't bleed through, and you still get the ink
flow that you need. Some paper is too thin and it bleeds and it just it
doesn't look good. As far as using the nib, whenever you go to dip it in the ink
don't completely drown it in the ink. You want to fill it up - at least fill up the
well. The well is where it starts to come to a point after it's
rounded off. You want to fill that up so that way you can get as much ink flow as
possible whenever you write that way you won't have to
continually dip into the ink. It also helps after you dip if you kind of tap
the excess off of the very tip of the pen, that way you don't get a really big
pool of ink when you first touch down. And then you can start writing. Just
remember the thin up + thick down trick, and you're really good to go. It took me
a little while to get the feel down. It's a lot different than a brush pen or
a marker because you're taking metal and scratching paper with it. When I very
first started with this kind of modern calligraphy,
I took the heavy drawing paper and I just wrote (A)s all in a line, B(s) all
in a line, (C)s all in line, all throughout the entire alphabet on about four pages,
and then started practicing making words and connecting letters that
way. It's all personal preference - however you want to practice. I'm a very visual
learner, so if I just watch somebody else do it, I can kind of pick it up a little
bit easier, and try it myself. And really all of this was just trial and error. A
lot of my art is trial and error. I just practice until I think it looks good and
practice until I'm happy with it, and that's exactly how I've learned. And
that's pretty much it. Again, I will have people that I've learned from on
Instagram as well as my Instagrams linked down below. There's a lot of things in
the description for you to check out. If you want to sign it for my email list,
and all of that good stuff. I have a new blog post up, so yeah. That's pretty much
it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If there are any other
calligraphy videos that you want me to do, any other tutorials that you want me
to do, any more paint with me type things that you want me
to do, just let me know in the comments and I will do my best to make those, and yeah. I
will see you guys next week with a new video! Bye!
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