Impress yourself and your friends with your creativity in Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy! Add a personal touch to cards, invitations, posters, and more with this guide to hand-lettering. Whether you're a graphic artist or just looking for gift ideas, a hobby, or craft creation, mastering copperplate calligraphy allows you to add your own personal touch!
In this practical manual, a noted calligraphy teacher offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for the student. Beginning with a brief but fascinating history of copperplate, she moves quickly to an in-depth examination of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation. Each letter is demonstrated stroke by stroke with a clear explanation.
Students will learn the fundamentals of copperplate–its minuscule and capital letters, from basic strokes to elaborate variations.
Includes a calligraphic glossary of terms.
A detailed discussion of the essential tools, their advantages, and disadvantages: pen (quills, nibs, etc.), ink (dense vs thin, colored, etc.), paper (smoothness, weights), markers, pencils, and more.
Learn how to retouch, correct, and crop.
Product details
ASIN : 0486409511
Publisher : Dover Publications; Illustrated edition (May 8 2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780486409511
ISBN-13 : 978-0486409511
Item weight : 1.05 kg
Dimensions : 20.96 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm
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