WEBVTT FILE STYLE ::cue {font-size: 60%;} 00:00:01.390 --> 00:00:17.329 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Hello friends. I'm so honored that you guys have spent or have chosen to spend some time with us this afternoon or this morning or this evening, wherever you are. My name is Chantelle Hoffman and I am honoured to be one of the instructors for the Mont Blanc Inspire Writing series. And today I get to 00:00:17.329 --> 00:00:33.270 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% introduce you or reintroduce you to one of my heart's dearest friends when it comes to calligraphy. And that is the Copper Plate script. This particular script is the one that started my entire journey and delve into calligraphy when I was 14 and so. 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:39.960 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It is very, very, very close to my heart and I'm so excited that we get to spend some time today looking at what. 00:00:40.550 --> 00:00:55.850 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% This what makes this script so beautiful and hopefully sending you guys up for success in creating some really gorgeous letters of your own before we get going. And I will be probably clicking pretty fast today because we've got a lot to cover. But I want to first make sure that we are really investing 00:00:55.850 --> 00:01:11.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% into this community. So please, if you have not already found the chat, go ahead and introduce yourselves. Hello everyone. I'm seeing names Porin, Dave, Giselle, Kathy. Great to see you guys. Feel free to let us know where you're joining us from. 00:01:11.750 --> 00:01:24.469 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The chat is there for you guys throughout this whole class today to communicate with one another, share your favorite aspects of what you're learning or pens or tools or ask each other questions. So I really, really love the chat feature for you guys. We also have the Q&A up there and that is where if 00:01:24.469 --> 00:01:37.189 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% you have any questions while I'm teaching, you can go ahead up into that Q&A box and put a question for me. And the amazing Mont Blanc team who's working hard behind the scenes will filter that so that when I stop for Q&A, I'll be able to see those questions 'cause I won't be able to scroll through the 00:01:37.189 --> 00:01:49.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% chat. So if you have a question for me throughout the class, make sure it goes in the Q&A box. 00:01:50.750 --> 00:02:05.230 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And I will get to as many of those as I can. I will probably leave a chunk of the questions for the end of class today, although I'll try to get to as many as I can during the class. But I often extend our hour just a little bit at the end to get to some additional questions so we can make sure you guys 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:19.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% are off and ready to go. The other thing that I want to mention is we've got the handouts and the handouts really are going to be super helpful for you guys today. If you've not already printed them, you can find them up there in the corner where it says handouts. 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:21.960 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Or if you're watching this as a replay. 00:02:22.790 --> 00:02:39.230 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You can actually go to my website which is listed on this page here. If you go to bespokestrokes.com/mont Blanc, that is where you'll be able to get those handouts if you're watching this as a replay. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:47.760 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So thank you again to everyone who's joining us. I'm going to go ahead and launch our first poll to see who is joining us for the first time. 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:54.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And while you guys answer that, I want to again share a little bit of my journey with this script. 00:02:54.750 --> 00:03:09.525 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% As I mentioned, I was 14, not artsy, liked the model airplanes, So I like to create things, but I just felt like art was not for me. And then my mom signed me up for a series of calligraphy classes, and I actually got to learn a few different scripts during that series. But copper plate, when I learned 00:03:09.525 --> 00:03:24.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% it was a pencil or a ballpoint pen, I could make these like thin and thick strokes, and it made my even like normal everyday handwriting look fancy and cool. My mind just lit up. And then on top of that, I learned. 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:35.840 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That like, I didn't have to be super creative because copper plate had some really basic rules, like, hey, everything's gonna be on the same slant and they're gonna be the same height and we're gonna just work with these basic shapes. So it gave me a framework. 00:03:36.790 --> 00:03:51.729 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That allowed me to be creative. So that's the framework that I want to set for you guys today. And if you've not joined us for any of your these classes, we've got a number of you, a good percentage of you here. I'm gonna end the poll here and you guys can see how many of you are here for the first time. 00:03:51.729 --> 00:04:06.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I think this shares it with you guys. And so if you've not taken a class before, I really want to set this great groundwork for you guys today for copper plate, which is something you can continue learning for 25 years. 00:04:07.480 --> 00:04:11.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% As I have, but it won't take 25 years to feel like you've got some confidence. 00:04:11.630 --> 00:04:19.190 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And also a huge thank you to those of you who are joining us as our regulars. I just absolutely love our community and getting to connect with you all. 00:04:20.760 --> 00:04:32.599 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Let's dive in. Charlotte, We've got a lot to cover today and I want to make sure that we set you up for success. This is a three-part series, so this first class today is going to be our introduction. We're going to talk about some of the basic strokes, primarily focusing on the lower case. Part 2 Next 00:04:32.599 --> 00:04:44.440 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% month we're going to be doing the Capitals. And part three, I'm going to change up a little bit if you've taken the class that we last offered in 2022. It's been a while, but maybe you've watched the replay. 00:04:45.470 --> 00:04:58.729 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Part three, we are going to do some more embellishments. So I really want to work on some of the tough connections because some of the letters are a little harder to connect. We'll do some flourishing in there as well. And in Part 2, I've already incorporated a number of the words that some of you from 00:04:58.729 --> 00:05:11.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% our community share with me of your words for inspiration. So we're going to spend time creating those as well. OK, I'm going to switch over your view here to our handouts and we're going to give a little preview of where we are going. 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:19.640 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Here this poem here is written in copper plate. This is a little bit more embellished copper plate. 00:05:20.470 --> 00:05:21.870 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Zoom in a little bit for you guys. 00:05:22.870 --> 00:05:32.284 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Where I've done some flourishing in there, but this is still the basic structure. All these lowercase letters are still the basic structure of what we're going to learn today. And hopefully your eye automatically just sees the elegance and the grace and the dance that this really beautiful traditional 00:05:32.284 --> 00:05:41.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% script. 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:49.280 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Has to it really love these characteristics. I won't go into a lot of the history of this script for those of you who are curious. 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.840 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I did share very, very briefly down here about the name copper plate. 00:05:55.350 --> 00:06:10.629 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And somebody asked me about this book here. This is the Universal Penman and is a great reference for a little bit of it speaks to the history slightly of how copper plate went from being a round hand was written with a feather. And then the engravers started recreating that look of the script that was 00:06:10.629 --> 00:06:25.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% written with the feather. And then with the invention of a steel nib, we ended up with something that we now refer to as copper plate script. Let's talk a little bit about the tools that you need to have for today's class. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:38.586 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Typically this script, when I work professionally, is written with a flex nib. Now I'm gonna pause real quickly, 'cause I don't know if we've made this real clear distinction in the past with calligraphy styles. If you go to a craft hobby store and you pick up a calligraphy pen, often times they have 00:06:38.586 --> 00:07:01.520 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% a flat top to them. Some of the modern kits have appointed pen in there as well. But there are basically two different families of calligraphy styles. You will have some calligraphy styles that are made with a pen that has a flat top, and you have different clickafe styles that are made with a pointed. 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:14.600 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Pen. So the nib itself is pointed. Copper plate calligraphy falls into that pointed pen category. Today we are not gonna be using a flex snib because I want to show that we can really create this with quite a few different tools that we have at home. 00:07:15.150 --> 00:07:31.069 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Including a pencil, a ballpoint pen. And today we're going to use a monoline fountain pen. So I'm going to be using a medium nib primarily and I'll show you how we can kind of add that faux effect of the thick swells at this graceful script has. But you do not want to be using if you have a broad or 00:07:31.069 --> 00:07:46.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% a double B nib, something that has like a flat top or really broad tip to it, you don't want to use that for today's class because you'll be really frustrated that the thick strokes are not landing where you want them to. So that's a good thing to save for something like anshul which. 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.760 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Mike taught or Italic, which will teach later this summer. 00:07:51.470 --> 00:08:06.850 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So those are great for other styles of calligraphy, but we're talking about a pointed pen style today. So like I said, historically this would have been written with a flex nib. If you happen to have a flex nib at home, great, I'll make points for both. But we're going to be teaching with a monoline 00:08:06.850 --> 00:08:22.230 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% nib today. So just a quick note on the tools and what to have on hand for you today In Part 2, I'm going to just briefly talk about some of the different ways that you can use this script in your everyday life, but just start noticing it. You'll see it in advertisements or wine labels. 00:08:22.670 --> 00:08:37.170 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All over the place. OK, let's look at this quickly. This is our exemplar, which is our calligraphy word for this is the way an alphabet looks. And I want to quickly point out a few of the beautiful characteristics that our eyes are really going to going to learn to look for with copper plate. OK. And 00:08:37.170 --> 00:08:51.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I actually, because we're focusing on the lower case, I went ahead and used my Mont Blanc nib to script these letters for you. Let me zoom in again. 00:08:53.370 --> 00:09:06.129 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And I want to show you what makes this different from something like modern calligraphy, which is also written with a pointed pen nib. The key to copper plate is the word consistency. OK, so we as we make our letters, we are going to aim for a few different things to be consistent. The first thing to 00:09:06.129 --> 00:09:18.890 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% notice is the height of our letters, so there's a baseline. 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:21.600 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That these letters are all. 00:09:22.510 --> 00:09:38.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Resting on OK and the majority of the letters, other than the ones that are tall letters are all the same consistent height to them. OK, this is called our X height. From the baseline to this waistline or header. See how they all fall in that space so they're not bouncing up and down. Modern click if 00:09:38.310 --> 00:09:54.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% he likes to dance and it's going to be going up and down above those. But these were really gonna aim for that consistent height. The other consistency that we'll see across our letters is. 00:09:54.710 --> 00:09:58.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A consistent slant. They are all going to slant. 00:10:00.190 --> 00:10:03.550 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The same if I've done this correctly. 00:10:04.830 --> 00:10:19.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, so copper plate is written with anywhere between 5255° LANT. At this point. My hand is pretty used to doing for a while, but chances are you may like your everyday printing might not be slanted and so a quick tip for you guys. If you are right-handed I'm gonna have you guys. When we get to writing 00:10:19.630 --> 00:10:34.430 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% on the handouts, you're gonna turn the paper so that the slant lines are coming right towards your body and that will help you. 00:10:34.950 --> 00:10:44.125 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Just as you're riding the same way you would if you're riding up and down, your hands still making the exact same motion, but now your hand will be pulling on that slant line. So that's if you're right-handed. You're going to be turning your paper counterclockwise, so those landlines are coming towards 00:10:44.125 --> 00:10:53.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% you if you are left-handed. 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:07.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You too can write in a beautiful slant. And you're actually at a slight advantage here if you are an underwriter, because your arm is already at that correct slant. So you if you're an underwriter, meaning you write under the letters. 00:11:07.870 --> 00:11:22.989 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% We'll just slightly tilt your page clockwise and then you can make the strokes like that. If you are a side rider, you can kind of play your chances are you might have to turn your page as much as 90° to the right so that you can write this way. And there's our hook writers where your wrist is hooked 00:11:22.989 --> 00:11:38.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% like this for left-handed. This is going to be a more difficult style for someone who's riding with a hook, because there's going to be you're going to be working against. 00:11:38.630 --> 00:11:53.130 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Where we would typically add the thick and thin strokes. So I'll try to speak to that if I remember as we're going through. But my high recommendation if you want to really get good at copper plate calligraphy as a left hand is to practice underwriting, OK. So back to our characteristics here, we've 00:11:53.130 --> 00:12:07.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% got a consistent slant, a consistent height and then if you look at like all these loops, they all kind of look the same and the distance between these strokes. 00:12:08.350 --> 00:12:23.324 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All looks the same. So we're going to be working on consistent size of the letters as far as these basic strokes work together. And when I say basic strokes, this is one of the other things that I love about copper plate is it looks really impressive and like wow, you know, someone will say oh it looks 00:12:23.324 --> 00:12:38.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% like a computer did it, which is not a calligrapher's favorite compliment but that's OK. The way that we get that consistent looks like a computer did it is we are going to break apart these little letters into very simple basic strokes. 00:12:38.750 --> 00:12:55.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And those basic strokes are on this page. Now this is we will have some basic strokes for the cop for the capitals, but it is going to be particularly beneficial with the lower case letters. And I will be teaching you what I call my artsy arithmetic. Let me zoom out just a little bit. 00:12:57.920 --> 00:13:04.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% But basically, we're going to take these basic strokes and we literally just add them together like you'll see down here this. 00:13:06.270 --> 00:13:19.689 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Entry stroke here plus an Oval plus the underturn, if we magnetize those together is going to give us the A. And if all of our ovals are the same and all of our these ascender loops are the same, it's going to give us that consistency as we write. So we're not thinking, oh, I need to write an M we're 00:13:19.689 --> 00:13:33.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% thinking I need to do an overturn, another overturn, and now that compound. 00:13:34.190 --> 00:13:49.170 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Curve and that will give you that consistency that we are aiming for with copper plate. Hopefully I've got you excited. Let's keep going real quickly and I will be pausing for a question here at the bottom of this page. So basic strokes we're going to go over on the next page, so I'm not gonna camp out 00:13:49.170 --> 00:14:04.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% too much. But what I do want you to pay attention to is I've got these little arrows in there and the arrows are going to be important when we make these basic strokes because of this next rule here, this shading rule. 00:14:05.300 --> 00:14:21.284 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% If you look back here at this, obviously one of the first things that our eye notices is that it looks great still and cool because we've got thin strokes and some thicker strokes. And if you're learning the script you want to like, hey, how and when do I put that thicker stroke? Here's our rule. When 00:14:21.284 --> 00:14:37.270 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% our pen or the nib of our pen is moving in an upward motion, it will be a thin line. And when we start to move in a downward motion is when we're going to add that thickness. If you don't necessarily slam this thickness on right away. But that's where we're going to think thick down, OK. 00:14:38.230 --> 00:14:53.265 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Now if you're using a flexible nib, which I'm not right now, but if you are using a flexible nib or a pencil or a ballpoint pen, then the way to get that thickness is you're going to just push harder on your pen. So when you're let's do this L here you would go, we're going to do our basic strokes, which 00:14:53.265 --> 00:15:08.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I will teach you in a moment, but we're going, I'm going in upward motion, I'm going in upward motion. Now I would push harder on my pen, which I'm not doing right now with this noob, and then I'm going upward, that would be. 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.440 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Light pressure. OK, so that's only if you're using. 00:15:12.510 --> 00:15:13.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A flexible nib. 00:15:15.300 --> 00:15:29.505 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% What if you are using a monoline nib? Or this wonderful This is an extra fine here. I do not want to trash this nib. I want to keep it safe for generations, and so I'm going to protect it by not pushing really ******* this nib. But I still want this beautiful copper plate look. How do I get that? So 00:15:29.505 --> 00:15:43.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% for me, especially when I'm writing relatively small, the best way for me to get this thick line is to just retrace. So I'm going to think about when I'm making my strokes. 00:15:44.310 --> 00:15:52.950 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Anytime my pen is going in a downward motion, I will go back through and I will just retrace where my pen was moving in a downward motion. 00:15:54.760 --> 00:15:58.560 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Up, down, up. This would have been down, up. 00:15:59.670 --> 00:16:10.650 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Down, up, so you get the idea. Anywhere my pen was moving in a downward motion, I can add in that thickness just by retracing it. If you are writing larger, there's another trick here. I just leave a little bit of a space between my strokes and then I can fill them and I'll do this a larger example for 00:16:10.650 --> 00:16:21.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% you and go back to my medium nib. 00:16:24.470 --> 00:16:30.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And I'll do this. Letter UI would just leave spaces between. This would be my entry stroke. 00:16:31.110 --> 00:16:33.190 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And underturn. 00:16:34.760 --> 00:16:40.720 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And another underturn and see how I left these gaps so they're not really magnetized together. Then I could go in. 00:16:41.910 --> 00:16:43.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And add. 00:16:44.510 --> 00:16:50.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Those strokes together and fill it in to give it a faux calligraphy effect. 00:16:51.760 --> 00:17:06.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I feel like folk calligraphy is never usually going to look quite as graceful. It's a little bit harder to get that done really, really well, especially when you're adding these thickened lines like that. So that's where I like to personally just retrace, especially with fountain pen ink, it adds that 00:17:06.260 --> 00:17:20.760 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% darker color and that does you can make that look really, really elegant. OK, let me pause quickly for a couple questions. If you got questions about Pengrip, things like that, we will address that quickly and then we're going to. 00:17:21.430 --> 00:17:35.350 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Move on to those basic strokes, which are which are our ingredients for beautiful letters. All right, so there's a few in there for me. OK, Todd is asking, would you recommend getting a curved nib or flex nib first? 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:37.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Very different. 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:50.560 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Pens. If you are going to be between those two for copper plates, I would choose the flex nib. The curb nib is really cool because with one nib you can basically get three different line thicknesses. 00:17:51.390 --> 00:18:02.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% But you would have to turn the pen. So much for copper plate. It wouldn't be my recommended nib for copper plate. Greg is asking are there any iPad apps that can assist with practicing learning calligraphy or handwriting? Procreate actually is great. It doesn't teach you, but you can get that thick and 00:18:02.110 --> 00:18:12.830 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% thin pressure. No pressure. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:23.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I don't know as far as I haven't looked for an iPad or Calligraphy course on the iPad, so I'm not a great right resource for that. Sorry, but Procreate is a great app to practice. 00:18:23.990 --> 00:18:31.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Donald is asking what is the best way to practice and get started. Best practice method and time should a lot. Oh OK. 00:18:32.550 --> 00:18:48.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, that goes into it. Like, there's different ways that people learn. And for me, the key thing is to not you don't want to be practicing bad habits, right? So one, I love to get a really good book or a class so someone's gonna teach me correctly from the beginning. So I'm not gonna be learning bad 00:18:48.110 --> 00:19:03.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% habits. But #2 is really training your eye. And so that's what my goal is for today, is to help us. Even if our hands are still shaking, we don't have that muscle memory quite yet. Her eye knows what we're supposed to be looking for. 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:18.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Then as we practice, we know what we are aiming for as far as time. If you have that extra hour in your day, I'm jealous. But that would be great, right? If you had an hour a day I personally aim for. 00:19:20.840 --> 00:19:34.480 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Maybe 15 minutes of intentional practice at the end of the day. I can maybe watch something, but I'm usually doing that upstairs where I'm like watching a course, but as far as like sitting down at my desk, it's 15 minutes of intentional practice. 00:19:35.510 --> 00:19:46.430 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And then throughout the day I find ways that I can incorporate my practice into what I'm doing. So for again, I'm just trying to be real practical here. For me, it's things like to do lists. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:20:00.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Just notes to self journaling. I try to incorporate whatever style of lettering I'm using into my everyday use. So then I'm coming up with questions and I'm honing those skills throughout the day and it keeps it fun. 00:20:02.270 --> 00:20:08.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All right. I am going to move on to our basic strokes here, but I will come back to the Q&A. Thank you guys for those questions. 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:18.600 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All right, on to the basic strokes. I'm going to camp out on this page for a bit because these are if we get these down, then the letters themselves are easy. 00:20:19.710 --> 00:20:33.270 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So again, I'm going to point you to the Red Arrows that we have up on this page because that's going to help. That's going to be our key for hey, is this a fixed stroke or where do I add the thickness? Which direction is my pen nib moving in? 00:20:34.470 --> 00:20:37.790 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, let me grab the medium nib again. 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:40.440 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Alright. 00:20:41.350 --> 00:20:54.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'm also going to point you to these names here. We don't need to get super technical, but for those who want to know the names of the different lines, those are there for you. The most important for today are gonna be this baseline and the header. 00:20:56.560 --> 00:21:11.640 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I most often when I'm writing I keep the distance between each one of these lines the same and with pointed pen you could write however big or however small you want with the same pen, which is not the case with broad edge flat topped pen calligraphy. 00:21:12.590 --> 00:21:22.550 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% But for this case, these could be thick lines really spaced apart or pretty close together. But if they're evenly spaced, between each of these lines, so between this line, this line. 00:21:23.670 --> 00:21:25.830 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And here they're all equally spaced. 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:42.280 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All right, full pressure stroke, you won't see too often, but I did include it in there. Some people like to include that as a basic stroke, but we're going to focus on this entry Exit stroke, which is just a gentle up curve. You guys can trace that. 00:21:43.750 --> 00:21:54.470 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It just gently kind of scoops up as if it was then going to go point on our slants. I'm not tilting my page until my body instead just so it doesn't make you guys dizzy, but remember to be turning your page in front of you so you can write on that nice landline. OK, the full pressure stroke. This is 00:21:54.470 --> 00:22:05.190 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% great dose to practice having parallel lines. 00:22:06.760 --> 00:22:07.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Along that slant line. 00:22:08.990 --> 00:22:24.870 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, and because this does start at the top and come down as a downward stroke, this would be one that if I was doing photography that I would retrace and thicken. OK. The entry stroke is a thin stroke 'cause it's an upward stroke. 00:22:25.990 --> 00:22:28.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Then we have this overturn. 00:22:29.790 --> 00:22:39.470 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And they seem so simple. And yet when you look at when I evaluate other people's letters, what I often see these guys look like is. 00:22:40.550 --> 00:22:52.130 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Hills that are going straight up towards the sky or sometimes they're really, really, really narrow or really, really, really wide. So as you practice these guys, we are going to think about really trying to make them all exactly the same width, OK? And the width that we're going for is whatever the 00:22:52.130 --> 00:23:03.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% width that we are using for our ovals, that's about as wide as we want all these other. 00:23:05.280 --> 00:23:08.160 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Spaces to be now when I talk about training your eyes. 00:23:09.470 --> 00:23:22.390 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Here's one of the key things that if you are a beginner calligrapher or relatively experienced, but your calligraphy just doesn't look quite like you want it to, OK, pay attention. This is a really, really important note. 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:34.120 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The space that we create with the ink, that empty void counter space is every bit as important as the shape that we are creating with the ink. Here's what I mean by that. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:40.280 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% This space in here, let's see if I can got some green. I'll color it in here. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:43.920 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% This space in here. 00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:52.470 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Our eyes are noticing whether we realize it or not, and when it comes to creating our letters, I'm going to do a really large letter A. 00:23:53.750 --> 00:23:54.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Let's say. 00:23:56.190 --> 00:24:08.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I created it. Sorry, I kind of did this in the wrong order. But let's say I made this large letter and then I thought, oh, I want to make folk calligraphy. And I come in here and I add this thick stroke and I decided to thicken this stroke. 00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:11.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Let me color that in. 00:24:12.390 --> 00:24:30.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Can anybody see what I just did to that beautiful Oval space that was supposed to be in the middle of my A? It looks like a cookie that my kids took a bite out of Right in here, right? There's no longer this beautiful Oval. So we really, really want to protect. 00:24:32.280 --> 00:24:45.520 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Those void spaces that our pen is making and that's why we're aiming for that consistent space between these. OK, so underturn this is overturn starts at the bottom until it's thin and then our thick stroke would be. 00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:48.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% This second part, that's where you can retrace. 00:24:50.600 --> 00:24:59.430 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'm going to zoom in as much as I can for the underturn. It starts at the top and it's going to be that scoop that's coming down along the slant line and then up along the slant line. So those lines are both parallel with each other and with the slant lines here. And because that's a downward stroke, 00:24:59.430 --> 00:25:08.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% this is where we would retrace that part. 00:25:09.510 --> 00:25:22.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK. And again that beautiful space in between our eyes looking for, we've got this compound curve here which is just going to go, it's going to go up along this lamp, down along this lamp, along this lamp And those spaces, the counter white space that we made are going to be the same distance apart in 00:25:22.910 --> 00:25:36.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% modern calligraphy. You might see something where it bounces up and comes around like that. 00:25:37.790 --> 00:25:47.469 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I am not slamming modern calligraphy. I think it can be really, really, really beautiful and elegant. I write it myself. I just want to train our eyes to see the difference between the copper plate strokes and the modern calligraphy strokes. So this one is a little different because we are going up, 00:25:47.469 --> 00:25:57.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% down and then back up again. So this the thick stroke there. 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:04.840 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You kind of wanted to taper it out at the end there, if I were to do that larger, let's do that here for you. 00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:11.210 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% We're kind of adding and subtracting. 00:26:12.190 --> 00:26:16.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That thick stroke there, keep it nice and elegant. 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:29.779 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, two more basic strokes and I promise we will get to the actual letters. But like I said, if you get these ingredients down, then the letters themselves are quite easy. This is our ascender loop. So letters like H&L&K have this one and the trick to this stroke is that it starts right there. So when 00:26:29.779 --> 00:26:41.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% we are doing an H, we're not going to think, oh, I'm starting at the bottom and looping it up. 00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:57.220 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% We're thinking we have an entry stroke that is its own stroke and then we're going to add in this ascender loop stroke which starts here. It's going to come out not on this landline come around. So we're creating kind of that nice. 00:26:58.760 --> 00:27:13.520 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Oval top to it and then we're coming down along the slant, OK. So if I do that here to the side, I'm coming out. I'm actually coming more out to the right than I typically would. So I'm coming out and then around finishing that. 00:27:14.110 --> 00:27:28.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Nice Oval top and now down along this landline. OK. And for focaligraphy to add in that thickness, I'm not going to start it way up at the top, right, to make it really graceful. We're gonna gradually think about gradually adding in that thickness. 00:27:29.870 --> 00:27:39.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So that you're kind of at full thickness by about there for this stroke. OK. Now often times when I see. 00:27:40.510 --> 00:27:54.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Is something like that, where it's like a tiny little loop. We don't want tiny little loops, we want big open bracelet loops. Because again, we're training our eyes to see the space between this Oval here and we could put a little Oval in there. 00:27:56.360 --> 00:27:58.320 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Our eye is seeing that same. 00:27:59.550 --> 00:28:09.729 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Shape in there. I don't mean to overcomplicate, I just want to encourage you because the tendency is almost always, if you're relatively new to copper plates, to do these little tiny loops. So really think about big open ascender loops. And the exact same thing goes for our descender loop. So here this 00:28:09.729 --> 00:28:19.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% would be like if we were going to do. 00:28:20.950 --> 00:28:27.390 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A letter Y, for example. This stroke starts up at the header. It's going to come down along the slant. 00:28:28.390 --> 00:28:42.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Curve. When you get to the bottom, a nice big open loop, OK. And this again, this space here, that width, you can imagine that little Oval sitting in there and it's going to touch just below the baseline. I'll do another one of those here. 00:28:45.800 --> 00:28:50.440 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So, and to add that thickening stroke again, you can just retrace it. 00:28:52.540 --> 00:28:56.180 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Like that? OK, so now you've got our descender strokes. 00:28:57.670 --> 00:29:12.650 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'm going to quickly show you how we're adding this artsy arithmetic together to show how these basic strokes work together to form a letter and quickly a word. But I want to ease any concern that you have that we are going to spend part three really working on. Hey, I get the idea. Like I can do the 00:29:12.650 --> 00:29:27.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% alphabet, but I can't do words. So we'll focus on that more in part three, a little bit in Part 2, but I promise we will get you comfortable with connecting these different strokes. So I'm going to have you guys follow along here. Let's do. 00:29:28.270 --> 00:29:41.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% We're gonna do these jokes that are not connected to one another, and then I'm gonna show you how we would connect them. So if we're gonna do the letter M, which I will show you the formulas for these later, but we're gonna do an overturn, go ahead and do one on your page. 00:29:43.820 --> 00:29:48.460 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Next to it we'll do another overturn, so they should look exactly the same. 00:29:49.710 --> 00:29:52.470 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Then we're going to do the compound curve that goes up. 00:29:53.470 --> 00:30:05.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Down and U OK, so that's an M that we've deconstructed into its little parts. Now we're going to pretend like they're magnets and stick them together. So we're going to do the same strokes overturn. 00:30:06.910 --> 00:30:07.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Overturn. 00:30:09.360 --> 00:30:25.460 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Compound curve and you now have a letter M So it's really, really helpful for us to see these individual parts. If you have taken a previous class with me, especially the last few that I've taught, we've been teaching handwriting the experience of handwriting cursive Palmer method and a lot of those 00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:41.560 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% are true handwriting methods, but we're moving pretty fast. It's really practical. This is a true calligraphic hand that is not fast This you will not be writing in copper plate script when you need to write. 00:30:42.800 --> 00:30:49.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A really long letter to somebody. Maybe you will, but hopefully you have a lot of time. Copper plate is wonderful because it's almost like. 00:30:49.950 --> 00:31:04.869 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Yoga, where it really does slow us down. If you've taken some of Brittany's classes, she's really great and talking about kind of the mental side of calligraphy. And so I want you to think about really slowing down as we are doing these scripts and I'll show you that even more as we are practicing some 00:31:04.869 --> 00:31:19.790 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% of the letters. So we really are slowing down enough to think overturn, overturn, compound curve. Next we're gonna do the letter I. So we're gonna do an entry stroke and an underturn magnetized to it. 00:31:21.340 --> 00:31:23.460 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And we're going to do another entry stroke. 00:31:25.0 --> 00:31:38.440 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% With a taller underturn. So just imagine it's coming up a little bit higher with a scoop like that. OK, so now we have a word that's not connected together. OK, we've got MIT. 00:31:40.300 --> 00:31:50.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Either the was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or baseball mitts. Your choice. Let's connect them together the way if you actually I'm just gonna ask I have a poll question for you. 00:31:52.320 --> 00:32:02.060 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Regarding how familiar you guys are with connected scripts now, if you're used to cursive, your hand has probably just learned how to connect those strokes. So it may be helpful for you guys to think about like your mind is already thinking about the next letter that you're going to write. But for those 00:32:02.060 --> 00:32:11.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% of you who are not as familiar with a connected script. 00:32:11.710 --> 00:32:23.010 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'm going to give you this kind of fun aha moment because when we're going slowly and it gives our mind a time to think about what these connecting strokes are. But copper plate, you actually don't have to know cursive in order for this to work. So let me show you how we're going to now magnetize, slash, 00:32:23.010 --> 00:32:34.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% like splice, and magnetize these individual letters to make a word. So I'm going to close that. 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:48.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Half of you, 50%. Exactly half of you are very familiar, and the rest of you only know either a little or not really. Which, again, you can. You're in. Good. You're in the right place today, because this isn't going to be too complicated. Let me show you. 00:32:49.230 --> 00:32:56.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% What we're going to do with copper plates? We've got these strokes usually when we think of the letter M Let me use this green here. 00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:10.960 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Our mind thinks an M looks like this. So why do we have extra bumps in this M here at the beginning? OK, so we're looking at this stroke here. What's this at the end? Copper plate has entry and exit strokes built in. So if this letter T, we've got an entry stroke and an exit stroke, the letter I entry 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:23.600 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% stroke, exit stroke. Those are how the letters are going to connect together and the exit stroke. 00:33:24.390 --> 00:33:30.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Of this letter is going to become the entry stroke of this I, so essentially I can get rid of. 00:33:32.300 --> 00:33:43.950 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Excuse me, that stroke, this exit stroke of the eye is going to become this entry stroke of the T, so I'm going to get rid of that. So now we're going to splice and reconnect. So we've got that. 00:33:45.110 --> 00:33:46.190 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Overturn. 00:33:47.760 --> 00:33:47.960 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Overturn. 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:56.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Compound curve. So that's the entry stroke to our eye. So the next stroke for the eye would be an underturn. 00:33:57.390 --> 00:34:08.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That exit stroke of the eye is the entry stroke to the T So now I'm just going to do the next stroke, which is that taller underturn. And now we have a beautiful copper plate script. 00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:19.660 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Where our eye is appreciating this beautiful, even space between all of these strokes. You could add those thick strokes in there later if you wanted as well. But OK, there is a very, very fast crash course in how we connect these letters. And there are some more complicated connections, which again, 00:34:19.660 --> 00:34:28.960 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% we'll talk about in Part 3. 00:34:29.510 --> 00:34:41.570 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Shall we dive into the actual artsy arithmetic? Let me if you guys. I'm gonna let you guys look at the next pages while I pause for questions briefly. Hopefully you guys are not, you know, lost already, but are excited to see how these basic, simple strokes can be added together to create one of the 00:34:41.570 --> 00:34:53.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% coolest alphabets I think there is. Let me look in the Q&A here and see what captions we have. All right. 00:34:55.200 --> 00:34:59.840 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Greg is asking any additional PDFs we can print to practice letters in writing. 00:35:01.710 --> 00:35:13.510 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I wish I had more of those up there for you guys on that bespokestrokes.com/mont Blanc page. I do have some additional resources on my blog. There's one for very flourished capitals. 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:21.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'll see what I can do in the future. I cannot promise that it will happen this month, but I love that is a question. 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:27.520 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'm actually trying to well, I'm not gonna over promise right now, but thank you for asking. 00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:30.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I don't have any right now to offer. 00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:46.690 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A rendezvous Hopefully you have a beautiful name and I'm probably watching it. Sorry. I practice traditional calligraphy with the dip pen, mainly broad edge letter styles that I can practice with a fashion pen. I'm learning copper plate now. Yay. Is there a fountain pen with a real flexible nib to practice? 00:35:46.690 --> 00:36:00.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The style Mont Blanc creates has a flexible nib. They are harder to source right now, so you might have to contact specific boutiques, but it is fantastic. I love it. 00:36:03.110 --> 00:36:13.404 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So I'll leave it at that because I know some of you have had a hard time sourcing one, but it is a really fantastic flex nib. Greg is asking, can you determine terms like monoline etcetera for us newbies? Yes, thank you. So a flexible nib would be one that when you push on the nib, the nib itself opens 00:36:13.404 --> 00:36:23.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% and it puts makes a thicker line. I can actually demonstrate this. 00:36:26.700 --> 00:36:29.470 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% If I can find the flex name that I have here, tucked it away. 00:36:30.750 --> 00:36:46.689 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A flexible nib, like a dip pen, pointed pen. When you press, if I don't put any pressure, it's gonna be a thin line and when I press on it, the nib itself is going to open and lay down more ink. OK, so that is a flexible nib. A monoline is anything like we are kinda used to with a ballpoint pen, that 00:36:46.689 --> 00:37:02.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% you're gonna get kind of the same line thickness. This here is an extra fine. It doesn't. I wouldn't want to press on these nibs because it doesn't make any difference. 00:37:03.150 --> 00:37:20.470 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% But it means you're getting the same amount of ink that comes out at any given time. There's no variation with that. So that's what I mean by monoline. OK, good question. And there is no embarrassing questions for newbies because I asked all those questions myself. 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Did I? OK, there we go. I'm sorry. 00:37:26.0 --> 00:37:36.720 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Good question Arthur. Do the same pressure rules apply to lefties? Yes they do and that is why for this I'm going to recommend the underwriting because if you are hook writing. 00:37:37.190 --> 00:37:43.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Then you cannot push, especially if you're using a flex nib or even like a ballpoint to be really hard to push. 00:37:45.230 --> 00:37:58.950 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% On those down strokes, push and pull, it's gonna feel opposite to you. So side writing still be difficult. Underwriting will allow you to have that same light on the up put pressure thick on the down. So that does apply for lefties as well. I have spent time sitting behind my left-handed calligraphy 00:37:58.950 --> 00:38:12.670 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% friends when we go to conferences to watch, make sure this is actually what they do and not just what I'm trying to you know, change someone to create, change their writing style and this really is what. 00:38:14.240 --> 00:38:17.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Lefty calligraphers do who are talented. 00:38:18.510 --> 00:38:27.609 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All right, let's move on to this and I will for sure return back to that chat. So thank you for those questions. All right, here's our artsy arithmetic, and you'll see I don't have them in alphabetical order, but I've got them grouped by similar strokes. I will not be able to get to all of the question 00:38:27.609 --> 00:38:36.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% or all of the letters. In fact, I'm probably going to skip quite a few of them. 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:40.120 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% But you'll you're going to see how these. 00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:51.880 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Rules apply. Make sure they're right down here. OK, so the letter I we did on the last page, but here's this part. Right here is our equation our Hopefully you guys like math like I do. 00:38:53.110 --> 00:39:05.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% We've got the equation of an entry stroke and an underturn and then we're dotting that. I OK, let's go to one that's a little bit more complicated that we haven't done yet and that is the West. Or at least write what the letters are because if your eye isn't used to seeing. 00:39:05.990 --> 00:39:17.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% These forms we've got the I, EU and the West. The West has this other little form here. So if we look at our ingredients or our equation, we're going to go and tree stroke. 00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:30.349 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Plus an underturn, plus an underturn. And then we've got this small little underturn that is going to go on the inside of the letter here. OK. So it's going to go on the inside and then return with the West. This is still the exit stroke that would connect onto the next letter. So for instance, if I 00:39:30.349 --> 00:39:41.950 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% was going to write the word win. 00:39:43.390 --> 00:39:56.770 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That letter I, this exit stroke still connects as the entry stroke for the letter I, So we'll talk about that when we get to kind of tricky connections, but that's what this little smaller connection stroke is up there, The letter V and the letter X we've got. You guys can trace these, but I'm going 00:39:56.770 --> 00:40:10.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% to just demonstrate them quickly so I can get to some of the trickier ones. It's that same compound curve. 00:40:11.620 --> 00:40:24.420 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK. And just like with that W, we've got an upper exit stroke. So it's going to come up, but just think of it as a small underturn and we're going to add that retrace in here for that. 00:40:25.500 --> 00:40:38.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That thick and thin stroke? OK, if you are practicing with a flexible nib or a traditional dip pen is sorry I forgot your name, then you'll I want you to think light up. 00:40:39.220 --> 00:40:44.500 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Add the pressure, release the pressure light up. OK, now I'm not using. 00:40:46.700 --> 00:40:57.924 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% A flexible nib. So I'll just add that in with the retrace K, there's the VX is a little bit tricky, so I will show you this one. This. I want you to think about taking that same compound curve stroke, and we're just gonna grab these two entry and exit strokes and we're gonna stretch them out just a little 00:40:57.924 --> 00:41:09.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% bit. So up along the slant line. Down along the slant line. Up along the slant line. 00:41:10.600 --> 00:41:14.380 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So it's our slightly stretched out compound curve and then. 00:41:15.580 --> 00:41:32.620 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I tend to go from the bottom, so I like to cross it like so. That's our ex. There's a few different ways to do the letter X, but I find I prefer the compound curve version myself. There's one of the other XS, OK. 00:41:34.190 --> 00:41:43.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And M, So let me quickly do we did the M already. The N is very similar. We're just taking out one of those overturns. But we're gonna camp out on the R here for a second. 00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:51.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% We have two variations of the letter R This is probably one that you are not as familiar with seeing. 00:41:52.260 --> 00:41:59.140 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So I'll put those on the side there for you, but I think it's so elegant and pretty, so we're going to do this one real fast. It's an overturn. 00:42:00.100 --> 00:42:14.340 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And then we've got this little extra stroke which I haven't taught you and it basically is just a straight line up along the slant line and then our little underturn like we did with the V and the West. OK, If you would add this into a word like the word run. 00:42:16.150 --> 00:42:22.590 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Our eyes would know from context what the letter is, and it just it has that like old fashioned. 00:42:23.420 --> 00:42:31.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Look to it. I really, really like this R But here's another R There's also really ours are just graceful, but this one it doesn't follow our normal. 00:42:32.830 --> 00:42:43.350 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Basic strokes here, so I'm gonna show this one to you. It's gonna be an entry stroke that goes a little bit higher above the line. You're gonna retrace a little bit and give it a little roof. 00:42:44.700 --> 00:42:46.420 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And then a small underturn. 00:42:48.200 --> 00:43:02.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, now this is a perfect example of how our eyes really want to look at the beautiful void spaces that are in these letters. The reason why we take this entry stroke up higher. 00:43:03.670 --> 00:43:07.830 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It's gonna you'll see it in the R and the letter S is because if we didn't. 00:43:09.200 --> 00:43:12.220 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And we made it like this. And then we write the word run. 00:43:14.300 --> 00:43:30.620 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Does anybody else notice that the R looks a little small? It doesn't quite look the same size because we've shrunk that void space in there. So we want to let it have its nice big, just as large as the others white space in there. So we take that entry stroke above the line. 00:43:32.140 --> 00:43:42.820 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Like that. And now it looks proportionate to the other lowercase letters. So we don't want that. We do want it to go above the line. OK, that's our letter. 00:43:44.590 --> 00:43:48.590 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% R and we will just go over a couple of these here. 00:43:50.830 --> 00:44:09.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I showed you quickly the letter A, but let me demonstrate that one again because it is one that tends to get messed up a little bit. These here are based on this Oval shape here. OK, a lot of these letters have, whoops, helpful if you could see it have an Oval in them, including the O which is entry. 00:43:50.830 --> 00:44:09.710 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I showed you quickly the letter A, but let me demonstrate that one again because it is one that tends to get messed up a little bit. These here are based on this Oval shape here. OK, a lot of these letters have, whoops, helpful if you could see it have an Oval in them, including the O which is entry. 00:44:11.240 --> 00:44:26.040 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Oval and an exit stroke. With these shapes, with the exception of the S, our little entry stroke is going to be shortened. Usually our entry stroke goes all the way up to that header line, but for this stroke we're gonna shorten it slightly and I'll show you with the A so that when we add magnetize that 00:44:26.040 --> 00:44:40.840 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Oval next to it looks like that really smooth ski jump that just glides right up onto that Oval. Otherwise it would probably go up and be sticking out the top, which we don't want. 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:54.360 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So shorten entry stroke, add in that Oval and then an underturn that is going to brush just along the side of that Oval. So now we've got those void spaces that are not cookies that have bites taken out of the side of them, OK, Really protecting those shapes in there. The E is a little bit different 00:44:54.360 --> 00:45:07.420 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% as well. So that's shortened entry stroke and we're going to come out here and do a little loop. 00:45:09.300 --> 00:45:18.940 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So, and I leave a little bit of a gap between the entry stroke and this very, very little. We see that small little gap there. So when I do the loop. 00:45:20.340 --> 00:45:25.820 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% This stroke comes in between it, and if we're adding that pressure stroke, it's filled in just like that. 00:45:27.390 --> 00:45:32.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, the S like I mentioned with the R is another one where our entry stroke is going to go just above. 00:45:33.790 --> 00:45:45.230 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The header there and then think about if you had a letter C or that. You can imagine that Oval in here. We're tracing along that side of the Oval and this little dot can go on the inside. 00:45:46.340 --> 00:45:54.860 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You got an exit stroke or it can rest right on top. It's actually my preferred method. I like to rest it on the top of that entry stroke. 00:45:55.860 --> 00:46:05.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The exit there. OK, let me show you that we did the T already, so I'm going to show you AD. So it's basically like the A we got that shortened entry stroke. 00:46:06.260 --> 00:46:07.740 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Plus an Oval. 00:46:09.140 --> 00:46:17.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Now the tricky part with the D is knowing where to start. This under turn OK if I start it too far over to the left. 00:46:18.620 --> 00:46:24.220 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% In order I want it to touch right here, I want it to touch right there and if I start too far over. 00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:43.119 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Now I've got a line that isn't on that correct slant line. It's too straight up. OK. So the way to get that one to line up correctly is I touch here and then I just pick up my pen. But I'm going up along the slant, just going to trace where I want it to go. So when I do that under turn, it just kisses 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:59.840 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% real nicely right there along the side. OK, we've got a couple variations for peas. This is the traditional form where we've got this stroke here, which is a little bit different. It's basically like that full pressure stroke. In fact, you can do it as a full pressure stroke. 00:47:00.620 --> 00:47:07.140 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That's this P right here. I did a full pressure stroke all the way down. Or you can gradually. 00:47:08.710 --> 00:47:08.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Do a. 00:47:10.340 --> 00:47:15.180 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Here, with the folk calligraphy, we're going to just do our line and then we can trace. 00:47:16.220 --> 00:47:21.860 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That lower portion there to add the thickness and then you would be adding that compound curve. 00:47:23.200 --> 00:47:34.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Next to it. OK, so that's the traditional version. Or if your eye likes to see that closed bowl to AP, let me do it down here. Entry stroke. 00:47:35.260 --> 00:47:43.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Full pressure stroke coming down and I just keep bringing that around until it kind of closes or you can put a little dot there, OK. 00:47:46.300 --> 00:47:56.739 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I probably do this one more often than the traditional one just because I feel like a lot of people, unless they are experienced calligraphers, don't recognize that as AP. All right, let me pause just briefly while you guys trace a little bit. I'll take a few more questions, and then we've got that last 00:47:56.739 --> 00:48:07.180 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% page to cover here. All right? 00:48:08.750 --> 00:48:24.110 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Christine is asking how about any remarkable apps? So that's a great thing that let's go to our chat. If you guys are familiar with any remarkable apps that might be helpful for calligraphy, feel free to share that in the chat because I'm not familiar with remarkable, I don't use it myself so. 00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:35.553 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Feel free to share that one. John is asking can you show me how to do the why? Again, I was confused. Yep, we're gonna do why here on the next page. I was just kind of showing that as an example of how we'd use the lower case. So we'll do Y here in a moment. And Neil is asking for copper plate. Should 00:48:35.553 --> 00:48:45.906 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% we lift the nib from the page as we connect rather than like handwriting where the OK where the nib stays on the page? OK, really good point. Let me point that out. Let me show you what he's talking about here. I'm gonna use the blank page in the back here. So with handwriting, our goal is to be able 00:48:45.906 --> 00:48:56.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% to write quickly, legibly. 00:48:57.100 --> 00:49:11.850 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And so our hand doesn't fatigue, right? We don't want to cramp up, so we want to write for a long period of time pretty quickly. With calligraphy forms, usually the form itself is more important than the speed of writing. So with something like palm recursive, we can write across the entire page without 00:49:11.850 --> 00:49:26.600 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% lifting our hands. With copper plates. As Anil is asking here, we are lifting our pen between each stroke really, and it's different. When I'm using a dip pen, I'm lifting my pen all the time. Let me zoom in. 00:49:27.260 --> 00:49:43.940 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, so let's do that letter M here, for example. I'm gonna do it larger than my guidelines here, just so you can see. So I'm gonna do that overturn, get to the bottom. I would lift my pen, then I would do another overturn. 00:49:45.420 --> 00:50:02.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Lift my pen. Then I would do a compound curve. Now, if I was doing this with a dip pen, I would actually lift at the bottom there so that I would get all that thick swell of ink to stop right there. And then I would do a thin stroke up. I'm going to demonstrate that one with a flex nib, because. 00:50:04.230 --> 00:50:05.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It will make more sense. 00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:11.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% With the lifting, OK, so let me do with an Oval. 00:50:12.460 --> 00:50:26.580 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Adding the pressure, releasing, you can lift right there so that any of that thick ink stops, and then I can complete that thin line of an Oval. So there's a lot of pen lifts when you're doing this. 00:50:27.780 --> 00:50:32.500 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% With a flexible bib. So lift lift. 00:50:34.970 --> 00:50:39.330 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Down lift and U you get into a rhythm. 00:50:40.870 --> 00:50:51.750 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% With writing. And so you're basically dividing into those basic components and you're lifting the pen to control where the ink flows. So that's a really great question, Aneel. Thank you for asking that. 00:50:53.180 --> 00:51:02.580 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% John is asking how do you connect an O and an E and an O to an R? All right, just because I'm I have the pen right here. Let's show you quickly. But I will show you more connections. 00:51:04.310 --> 00:51:11.350 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% On the future, so remember that O. This is our exit stroke. And so we've gotten this real fast. We've got an O. 00:51:13.490 --> 00:51:14.810 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And we've got this R. 00:51:16.670 --> 00:51:22.910 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% This is our entry stroke for the R, so that's going to get spliced off and we've got this O that goes. 00:51:24.470 --> 00:51:28.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And here's the exit stroke of the O that becomes the entry stroke of the R. 00:51:30.100 --> 00:51:30.900 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Like that. 00:51:32.470 --> 00:51:33.510 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And the same with the E. 00:51:34.660 --> 00:51:37.980 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That exit stroke of the O becomes the entry stroke. 00:51:39.180 --> 00:51:53.719 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Of the EI like that. You're thinking ahead with some of those tricky connections. All right, I got to get you to the last few groups letters here, and I will, I promise I will stay a little bit longer to answer some additional questions. But we don't want to leave out the gorgeous and graceful ascenders 00:51:53.719 --> 00:52:08.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% and descenders, so let's take a closer look at that. So these here are sender letters that are basically going to be using that ascender loop. Sometimes that ascender loop turns into an underturn at the bottom. 00:52:09.100 --> 00:52:17.900 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And sometimes at a center loop will truncate like we practice on that last page where it just comes straight down on this landline and stops. Let's practice. 00:52:19.750 --> 00:52:27.630 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The H So we're gonna do entry, stroke, leave a little bit of a gap, and now we're doing that ascender loop. 00:52:28.820 --> 00:52:40.660 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It comes down along the slant line and stops at the bottom and then the next ingredient here is that compound curves. That's going up along the slant, down along the slant. 00:52:41.740 --> 00:52:44.740 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Up along this land and I would add in that. 00:52:45.580 --> 00:52:50.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Thickening stroke here. My pen was going up, my pen was going down. 00:52:51.660 --> 00:53:00.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And there we have that beautiful H. Let me show you the K and the F quickly so that K is going to be that same. 00:53:01.820 --> 00:53:17.400 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Entry stroke with the ascender loop and then we've got this little stroke here, which is a little different. So it's going to start here at the bottom and come as if it was going to be an overturn. And then it's like, oh, just kidding, we're going to stop right there with a little fist. OK And then we 00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:32.980 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% add as if then decide, oh, I do want to be a compound curve instead. So I think about this being a the up, down, up of a compound curve. OK. So it's kind of like we've cut apart the overturn in a compound curve and made them work together. 00:53:34.200 --> 00:53:36.540 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The F is an entry stroke. 00:53:38.110 --> 00:53:46.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% With that ascender loop, that's going to come down a bit further to that mid descender line, so it's not all the way down to the bottom. 00:53:47.670 --> 00:53:57.270 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% With the mid to sender line. Wow, that's the thing stroke here. And then it's got that exit stroke that would connect onto other letters, OK. 00:53:58.870 --> 00:54:04.510 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Then we've got our descending letters in here. To your question, I will talk about the letter Y. 00:54:06.150 --> 00:54:20.150 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So AJ, you can see the components entry, stroke, descender, exit, stroke pretty easy at the dot there. Same with the G Hopefully that makes sense, but let's look at the Y more closely. So we're going to do our compound curve. 00:54:21.460 --> 00:54:29.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And that descender loop. OK, so let's do them together. So we're going to do up along the slant. 00:54:30.820 --> 00:54:32.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Down along the slant. 00:54:33.980 --> 00:54:43.800 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Belong with Lance. We've got that compound curve. We can add that thicker line where our pen was going to in the downward motion. Now we're going to add that descender loop. The descender loops go all the way down or just about all the way down to that descender line. So we're going to go see, I want 00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:53.620 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% you to imagine these. 00:54:54.940 --> 00:55:04.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The slant line that we're trying to keep in mind, right? So we're going to write parallel to that slant line and come right down along the slant. 00:55:05.180 --> 00:55:10.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And have a nice big curve that's going to touch just below that baseline. 00:55:11.590 --> 00:55:13.430 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, and then it gets an exit stroke. 00:55:15.150 --> 00:55:18.310 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% So I can add that thickening stroke where my pen was going to downward motion. 00:55:19.980 --> 00:55:34.620 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And that would be the letter Y. OK, the Z is a little bit different as well. It's got its own idea. So what is going on? This descender loop is not like the other descender loops. It's actually more like a teardrop shape. But this one curves out. It's doing its own thing. And then we've got this own 00:55:34.620 --> 00:55:49.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% little who knows what, but they're so pretty that we don't give ZS a hard time. So let's go to the zoo, and we're going to do basically like an overturn that just kind of keeps coming around. 00:55:49.980 --> 00:55:55.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And it gets a little flat Oval right there on the baseline and that's going to curve out. 00:55:56.100 --> 00:56:06.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Still touches just below the baseline, so it's obeying the rules there. So that we've there, we've got the Z and we're going to add that thick stroke where we're going in a downward motion. 00:56:07.740 --> 00:56:13.820 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Like that. OK, it would be zoo so I made that exit stroke too high for zoo but. 00:56:14.740 --> 00:56:15.460 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% There we go. 00:56:17.250 --> 00:56:18.410 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Now we can go to the zoo. 00:56:20.110 --> 00:56:33.149 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Alright, this is an absolute crash course in the lowercase letters, but I hope that you have picked up the idea of really those basic strokes are the key to having these letters look like they belong together and they're consistent. The trickiest shapes that I find for people are those ovals, because 00:56:33.149 --> 00:56:46.190 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% oftentimes people want to make circles instead of ovals. So really think about that Jelly Bean that's leaning. 00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:49.220 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Let me show you that real fast what I mean by that. 00:56:51.740 --> 00:56:55.460 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% These ovals that we did, if I were to cut them right in half. 00:56:56.820 --> 00:57:03.180 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% That line that bisects that should be right on the same line, So if you find that your lows are looking. 00:57:04.260 --> 00:57:17.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Pretty round, so if you were to cut that in half, it's not at all along this landline, really. Remember to turn your page So we're getting that nice Jelly Bean and I will demonstrate as a lefty as well. 00:57:18.670 --> 00:57:25.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You are welcome to laugh at me because I do not have the same muscles formed in my left hand, but as an underwriter. 00:57:28.600 --> 00:57:43.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I'm still sort of able to get that shape in there. So that does speak to muscle memory as well. The more you practice, you're going to build those muscles. I will be returning to the Q&A here in just a moment, but I want to make sure before we get to the top of the hour to say thank you again for joining 00:57:43.990 --> 00:57:59.380 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% us. And I really hope that you do join us for Part 2 and three because the capitals really show off and when you get to write somebody's name in copper plate script and see them sit there and stare and can't believe that a human hand wrote it. 00:58:00.100 --> 00:58:16.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You will hopefully have that same sense of joy and satisfaction that yes I did this and it really wasn't as complicated when I learned to break it down into those basic components. So thank you, thank you for that, for joining us for part one. Love to see you for Part 2 and if you guys want to share 00:58:16.700 --> 00:58:33.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% what you have worked on today, you can tag Mont Blanc. You can use the hashtag inspire writing if you want to tag me as well. I am at the spokes strokes and would love to see the work that you guys created. Today I'm going to return to the Q&A and hang in there for another 5-7 minutes. 00:58:33.780 --> 00:58:49.080 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% To get to as many of those questions as I can, and if I don't get to your question, I always leave a place on my Instagram for questions that I can do some more demoing after class today. Because an hour is a very short time to cover some of the complexities. But I love that we get to have this time 00:58:49.080 --> 00:59:04.380 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% together. All right, let's go to the Q&A. Hilary, hello, fellow Seattleite and friends. How often do you use traditional pointed pen with an ink pot versus a pen like a food, mizuki, tombo or flexible ink pen for practice? 00:59:05.220 --> 00:59:12.420 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% OK, that last part for practice is the kicker. If I really, am truly practicing, I will. 00:59:14.470 --> 00:59:22.590 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Almost always be using a dip pen unless I'm specifically trying to work on. I want to get better at brush calligraphy that I would use something like. 00:59:24.190 --> 00:59:34.990 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The markers she mentioned are a fiber tipped marker, so I don't use those typically for practice work. I would use the most ideal tool for the script. 00:59:35.660 --> 00:59:49.460 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Which for me is a flexible nib. I do practice with the fountain pen flexible nibs sometimes, but what I find the markers and the fountain pens really shine is. 00:59:50.340 --> 01:00:05.320 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It's so much easier to have it ready and on hand to use to create something quickly without without having to get my full calligraphy set up and ready to go. So And sometimes the markers you can write really big and playful and fun and in different colors. They're fun as well. D'Angelo, I'm writing this 01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:20.300 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% with a 146 Legrand medium nib. Do you think I should switch to a fine nib because my lines are thick? I am using a medium to demonstrate because it's easier for you guys to see on the camera if I were to be doing this at home. 01:00:20.570 --> 01:00:35.130 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Depending on the size that I'm writing, I would probably be using an extra fine to get the most crisp, thin lines. Those upstrokes in copper plate are called hairlines actually for pointed pens, calligraphy scripts. In general, they're called hairlines because we like them to be wispy then like barely 01:00:35.130 --> 01:00:49.690 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% there. So the thinner the line the better and you will have more control over it. Kim Hi Kim. This is a fantastic class. 01:00:50.450 --> 01:01:01.600 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I would like to if I would like to learn about copper plate in more detail. Are there any resources you could suggest? What if I have children interested in calligraphy? Thank you for asking him, I appreciate that. I do have a full length course where people can learn a little bit more if they want to 01:01:01.600 --> 01:01:23.900 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% go really in depth with copper plate. And for the kiddos on one of the pages of the handouts here, I did actually add a new website that I have up for kiddos for the script kids boxes. Thank you for asking Kim, I appreciate that. So there are some resources on my website if they want to learn more. 01:01:23.900 --> 01:01:35.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Erin Erin Erandira is asking the compound curve for the X is wider than the curve and the other letters. Correct. Yep, great. I that is correct. So we're kind of stretching it out otherwise. 01:01:36.370 --> 01:01:47.290 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Remember, our eye wants to see those void spaces, and the crossbar of the X would make those spaces seem a little bit tighter and smaller, so we stretch it out a little bit to give a little bit more. 01:01:49.140 --> 01:01:51.180 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Void for our eyes to see with that X. 01:01:52.820 --> 01:01:54.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All right, Janet. 01:01:55.740 --> 01:02:01.180 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Hi, would you please write the letter R with your flexible nib? The R that goes above the header? We bet. You bet. 01:02:05.100 --> 01:02:14.799 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Sorry, I got my pens all mixed up here on the desk. I should have had them leave a little better. OK, here is the R that she's asking again. I can do it real small here, but I'm gonna do it larger so you can see. So imagine this is my baseline and this is my waistline header. So I'm gonna do that entry 01:02:14.799 --> 01:02:24.500 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% stroke that goes above. 01:02:25.650 --> 01:02:28.650 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% You retrace do that little. 01:02:30.220 --> 01:02:35.900 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Think of a slanted rooftop to it. And then I'm doing that under turn, so I'm going to add the pressure. 01:02:37.620 --> 01:02:43.700 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Release the pressure. There's a slight curve to it and I'm envisioning that under turn right. So that's got that scoop to it. So I'm going to. 01:02:44.890 --> 01:02:46.170 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% No pressure. 01:02:47.900 --> 01:02:51.930 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% On the upstroke, OK if I did it smaller, teeny tiny. 01:02:54.760 --> 01:03:03.480 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It would look like that. It's one thing that is really fun about writing with pointed pens. You can write different sizes with the same pen. 01:03:05.200 --> 01:03:05.100 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% All right. 01:03:06.660 --> 01:03:19.499 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Kim at Chantal Hoffman This is my second time taking this class. I love it inspiring me to search for Mont Blanc, Burgundy Solitaire, calligraphy pen. It's a dream which I have enjoyed so much. Can you recommend any classes for more? OK, Yep. I think we got to that question for the more in depth classes. 01:03:19.499 --> 01:03:32.340 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Appreciate it. Sarah is asking what practice pad are you using the one with the blue lines. Good question. So this one that I showed you. 01:03:33.530 --> 01:03:50.650 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% The sample. I'll show you the paper. This is a pad that I love to practice on. It basically already has the slant lines in there for you, and the grids are 1/8 of an inch high, so I can practice writing big or little. This pad in particular is called a copper plate graph pad. 01:03:52.220 --> 01:03:58.260 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Made by Paper and Ink Arts or John Neil johnnealbooks.com or Paper Inc arts.com. 01:03:59.620 --> 01:04:01.500 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% It's really great for practicing. 01:04:02.290 --> 01:04:11.900 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% And for layout work, it's a really great resource. All right. I believe I got to the questions there. Thank you again so much for joining us everybody. 01:04:12.660 --> 01:04:20.429 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% I truly love the script and I really love this community. Thank you for sharing your day with me. I look forward to seeing you all next month and happy spring. I forgot to say that at the beginning, but Hooray, spring is here. Hopefully you guys enjoy this sunshine and flowers that are coming our way. 01:04:20.429 --> 01:04:28.200 line:-4 position:50% align:center size:85% Bye guys.