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Printable Italic Calligraphy Practice Guidelines Sheet PDF Download – FREE

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I learn from the book: CALLIGRAPHY: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR THE CONTEMPORARY PRACTITIONER BY GAYE GODFREY-NICHOLLS (this is really the same book as Mastering Calligraphy: The Complete Guide to Hand Lettering). These guidelines are for learning with that book! Read my book review here.

I like to divide ascender and descenders practice to save paper, ink, and space. I use 100 GSM A4 paper. Do not scale when you print, use actual size. Enjoy!

Italic complete

Italic ascender and majuscules

Italic descender

Italic flat-x

Writing smaller:

Italic with 2mm pen width

P.S. Swipe some A to Z: Word Lists and Pangrams for Practising Calligraphy here! PLUS: discover search bar and categories by clicking the + plus sign at the very bottom of the page! ↓

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Questions?

Get your calligraphy questions answered!

What are the things that will make your life easier on your calligraphy journey? What you are wondering about, unsure about, want to know more about, whatever you wish someone could explain to you about learning calligraphy – ask away. Write me personally now!

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Printable Copperplate Calligraphy Practice Guidelines Sheet PDF Download – FREE

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I learn from the book: Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy by Eleanor Winters. These guides are for learning from that book! If you haven’t got it, read my review here. All with 1/4 inch x-height perfect for first-timers, like me. I like to divide ascender and descenders practice to save paper, ink, and space. Read somewhere that the green colour is good for tired eyes – plus: the black ink stands out more. I use 100 GSM A4 paper. Do not scale when you print, use actual size. Enjoy!

Copperplate complete

Copperplate ascender

Copperplate descender

Copperplate flat-x

Writing smaller:

Copperplate at 87 percent

Copperplate at 75 percent

Copperplate at 66 percent

Copperplate at 50 percent

Writing bigger:

Copperplate at 112 percent

Copperplate at 125 percent

A free option is the interactive Script in the Copperplate Style (Pointed Pen Calligraphy) by Dr. Joseph M. Vitolo on Apple Books, but you’d need different guidelines from this one.

Check out my 5-minutes-each letter practice videos on Youtube

P.S. Swipe some A to Z: Word Lists and Pangrams for Practising Calligraphy here! PLUS: discover search bar and categories by clicking the + plus sign at the very bottom of the page! ↓

S.

Questions?

Get your calligraphy questions answered!

What are the things that will make your life easier on your calligraphy journey? What you are wondering about, unsure about, want to know more about, whatever you wish someone could explain to you about learning calligraphy – ask away. Write me personally now!

printable copperplate guideline

P.S. Hi fellow calligraphers! I’m crafting a basic Copperplate calligraphy course. It will be an online video course, but I might open private additional live classes if there is interest. When I have the beginning prepared, I’m planning to open the class for free preview to get your feedback. Please fill in this form to get notified! S.

Carolingian Final Thoughts

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6 Months Later and One Hand instead of Three

I had just been on a practice frenzy last week – finishing my last Carolingian drills by doing them twice a day when I could. On my last post I planned to finish learning 3 hands in 6 months, but sadly, it didn’t happen. I only ended up finishing one, even with the drills cut in half, and only just started on the Gothic exercises.

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Skeleton Roman – M Group (Video)

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I learn from the book ‘Calligraphy: Tools and Techniques for the Contemporary Practitioner’ by Gaye Godfrey-Nicholls, really the same book as ‘Mastering Calligraphy: The Complete Guide to Hand Lettering’. This is my free, completely unofficial interpretation of the lessons. I do feel that watching something done can give us serious a-ha moments, which is why I make and share these videos, but for a deeper understanding, I recommend you read the book.

For printable guides, visit my blog http://bit.ly/2b0VAT9 . I use a 2B pencil so the letters are more visible, but you should use HB.

Music: “Easy Lemon” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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The letter M requires 4 strokes, all from top to bottom. Start an eighth in to left-bottom corner. Then jump back up and go down to the middle. Continue an eighth in back to the middle, then top to the bottom right. Do the M patiently from left to right and top to bottom.

The letter W is a couple of V together. Start from the top and connect in the middle. Then start again from the top point and repeat. W is made with 4 strokes, like the M – also from top to bottom, and left to right.

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