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Summary: Learn how to improve your calligraphy drafts in this free video series that will teach you everything you need to know about writing in this sophisticated penmanship style.

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joanna Joseph Joanna Joseph has lived in Canyon Country since 1974. She has been leading hikes in the southwest for the last five years, mostly with Elder Hostel, which inc... read more

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How to Improve Calligraphy Drafts

Joanna Joseph for Expert Village. Now I'm going to get, I'm going to work some more on these two and try to improve the spacing, so I'm going to lay another sheet of graph paper down over the top of this, but before I do I noticed I got a big blob of wet ink here. So here's a little trick: take a piece of Kleenex, twirl the end, and just touch it to that blob, and let capillary action suck that up. I don't care if it looks bad. I might even blot it like that. I don't care if it gets smudged; I just want it to go away. All right, second sheet of graph paper. I used to use masking tape. I'm glad they've come out with this less sticky tape now. Now I'm going to turn on my light on my light table, and actually make sure that these are lined up. And you see me knocking my pen on this rag to dry it and clean it and get it ready for another go. Okay, that just has too much space in it. So, I'm not trying to slavishly copy what's underneath. I'm actually trying to improve upon it. And now I see a something I would correct. This letter and that, they're not parallel. I'd improve that. You can do this over and over again until you're satisfied with it. There is also an exercise I was talking about the spacing, where you can take colored pencils or I think I've got a highlighter here, and you can actually color in between these letters and it helps you perceive that negative space, and see if it feels about the same volume. In fact, medieval manuscripts were illuminated like that.

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