Introduction to Foundational Calligraphy
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Learn the basics of this style and explore the beauty behind it by creating your own calligraphy piece
Are you familiar with Foundational hand? At the beginning of the 20th century, the father of modern calligraphy, Edward Johnston, developed this new, attractive style that seamlessly combined aesthetics and functionality.
In this online course, take your first steps in Foundational letter design with graphic designer and calligrapher Leo Calderón before playing with colors, shapes, scale variations, and white spaces to prepare a professional graphic composition.
Get started by learning about Leo’s career as a calligrapher, his main influences, and his creative process. Take a closer look at how he plans out, sketches, and develops his pieces, blending classical styles like Gothic and Foundational with more gestural styles that incorporate brush pens and ruling pens.
Next, delve deeper into Foundational calligraphy, including its origins, Johnston’s legacy, and this style’s particularities and basic techniques.
Then, take a detailed look at the tools needed to work on this and other projects: nib pens and calligraphic markers, papers, calligraphic sheets, and fountain ink. In addition, Leo shows you how to make your own calligraphic tool and offers advice on how to go about completing different exercises.
After that, it’s time to get to work with the basic letters, N and O, before practicing with advanced strokes to help you create your Foundational alphabet, capital letters, numbers, signs, and symbols.
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