How to Do Left-Handed Blackletter Calligraphy with Pencils (Tutorial for Beginners)

Hello everyone, glad you could make it. Welcome back to another Clue Studio tutorial, and today we'll be doing left-handed black letter play. now Getting a lot of comments saying hey, you should like make a left-handed video, and I want to make sure make this very clear I'm a righty But I'm gonna try to mimic what a left-handed person would do so you get to laugh along How bad my left hand it is and if you're new to this and left-handed you'll probably do better, so I have practice sheets made up before These are the free version that you can get online if you subscribe to the email list which sends Freebies and ideas and email if you're into that you can unsubscribe at any time And let's go into it. Okay, so lefties now Once you get your pencil at an even Length you can hold it at 45 degrees now that means Not like this you want to have them parallel like this so you can see them And you want to Hold it at 45 which means 45 from the baseline so whatever your line you're writing on you want to be able to go out away from it at a 45 You're gonna be holding it at that 45 no twisting it at any time the whole time And if you maintain that you can have different sorts of shapes based on which direction you're going so if I go up Or if I go left And like a medium thickness stroke now if I go down to the And if you go down to the right You at 45 you get your stick So depending on the direction you go You'll get a different stroke, and that's what black letters based on so what we're gonna. Do is So what we're gonna. Do is do one letter from each family as I call it of letters Starting with a which is a basic letter So you want to start at the bottom at your 45? You want to do your thickest stroke so at the 45? I'm gonna go up most of the way you want to go over at your thinnest stroke up to the top line Down straight Down to the right And that's approximately what your a should look like now if I was to do the right It's easier for me That's kind of what you want it to look like But that's how you or you do it for a lefty So next one is the next family is the ascender the ascender is any letter that goes Above Your face Less an F is one of them L is simpler, but we're gonna try to do a more complex way, so You want to start at the bottom Down actually down to the baseline over at your thickest Pretty much stop about one Down to the right Connect that one one side of the pencil and then for your crossbar That's your F Next and next family is the descenders, which is Gj anything that goes below that line ascender descender Now basically just an a with a really long down And See if you get anything like this that means your pencils are Missing a lot, so you want to make sure just to kind of fix it a little bit sure Press against the table so that you know they're relatively straight. I'm gonna try that again Down Gee Now the fourth family is the oddballs, this is s K X the ones that don't really They don't really follow many of the rules they just kind of and they're more complex generally I find s is the hardest letter with this alphabet, so I'm gonna try to demonstrate that Practice You want to start below the middle I Don't like fracture right now I'm gonna try to go in the direction of the lefty, but as a righty just so you can get a better You It's also handy that we're using a pencil here because as a lefty I don't know exactly how you would not smudge it if you're using it. I think you actually hold it off the table a little bit Which would be very even more difficult. I don't know I can do it And that's it so with your practice sheets that you can get online Download them try it out And let me know how it goes if this was sufficient as a lefty video let me know I'm always open to Chris Thanks for watching