Hand Lettering: Foundations

Eight weeks on the broad-edge pen. Letterforms first, style much later — the order most courses get backwards.

Lessons
9
Length
2h 40m
Level
Beginner
Access
Lifetime

What you will cover

3 modules · 9 lessons · 2h 40m · 1 free to preview

The tool, and what it wants3 · 44m
  • Holding the pen at a constant angleFree preview18m
  • Pressure, and why you need less of it14m
  • Ruling up: the part nobody films12m
One hand, properly3 · 1h 5m
  • Foundational minuscule: o, c, e22m
  • Arches and the rhythm of n and m19m
  • Ascenders, descenders and spacing24m
Making something3 · 51m
  • Laying out a short piece20m
  • Correcting without starting again15m
  • Finishing and presenting work16m

About this course

You will spend the first three weeks on a single hand. This is deliberate, and it is the reason people leave this course able to letter rather than able to imitate.

Materials list sent on enrolment. Left-handed students are well catered for; say so when you book.

What learners say

★★★★★ 4.3 · 3 reviews

★★★★★

Excellent teaching, be ready for the kit list

Nobody warned me what the materials would cost before I enrolled. The teaching is genuinely first rate and I would recommend it — I would just have liked the total up front.
Amara Diallo
★★★★★

Finishing work is the point

Every course here ends with presented work. I have four finished pieces and previously had thirty unfinished ones.
Oliver Renshaw
★★★★★

Letterforms first, style much later — and they mean it

Eight weeks in and I have not been allowed near a flourish. I resented it for about a fortnight and now my basic forms are better than anything I made in two years of teaching myself.
Georgia Mbeki

Your instructor

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Ingrid Solheim

Atelier Nord