How to Do Crayola Calligraphy | My Tips, Tricks & Hacks for Beginners

Hey YouTube! Thanks for watching. It's Shelly with The Lemonade Store and I wanted to take a minute and go over some of my lettering tips and tricks for using the Crayola Broadline Markers and you can do the same thing with, you can do the same thing with the Super Tips as well because they all have, any of them that have like that cone shape can kind of, like they're different. It's not like a normal brush tip pen so if you're trying to figure out how to do it I thought this would be a good time to kind of go over some of the very basics and things to help you out. So let's get started with the number one thing that helped me learn how to use Crayolas to do the lettering was it's, it's all about the pressure. With a brush tip pen, let's use this one right here I have this Memento pen, with a brush tip pen it's got a brush tip so as soon as you push down you get a thicker stroke. You don't have to press down super hard to get the brush tip to work the way you want it to work. With the Crayola if you want to get the thicker line you need to do a couple of things. The first is you need to really put down a lot of pressure and the second thing is you need to hold your pen more at a slant so sometimes when you write you'll write up and down like this like normal writing right but when you're lettering you in order to get like probably a better grip on your pen and to get more of the thicker line with the brush tips or with the Crayolas it's more like this and fine you can hold it any way you want I see people hold it like this I see people hold it like this just do it's whatever is comfortable. Here is the key for me so you're gonna hold it at an angle and when you push down hard as hard as you can push down look at that beautiful thick line now the trick is can you kind of keep getting it straight so if you watch when I'm moving I'm not going like this with my wrist I try I'm not always successful but I try as often as I can to move my whole arm look at how much straighter it can be if I do that but I'm just using my wrist it gets wonky right away so let's just kind of go over some basics down strokes thick up strokes thin and if it helps move because it's a different tip you know you can move it a little bit so you can get a thinner a thinner stroke so what do you do when you're writing you go really slow so like there's on my Skillshare class which I totally encourage you guys to sign up if you have it I have I go over all of the basics on Skillshare what pens I like for just starting out what paper I like for just starting out and because I'm a Skillshare teacher I can give you guys a link below for I think it's like two months for 99 cents and then there's no obligation to stay with it so in that Skillshare class I have my drills worksheet and an alphabet worksheet but like for example one of the drills is just going you know just doing straight lines across and then you know try doing like use and things like that but look just if you go slow and you practice you get you get more control when you see like if you're when you see people writing really fast like myself or anybody else those are usually sped up videos it really takes a long time just to write one word out so I may just give you a couple of tips I like using this is thicker paper you can totally use to practice regular copy paper it could be the cheapy stuff but if you want to kind of get it to glide a little bit better I like this 32 pound premium choice laser jet paper I think is what it's called so I'll also link to that below but like it just kind of seems like it glides really good so take your time heavy pressure going down and we did faux calligraphy on the last video so I will link to that above and that really is going to help you know where does your down stroke go and where does your up stroke go so that's why I like to start with the faux calligraphy first and then you start to learn how to where do you put your your your down strokes it took me a long time here's my here are my words of encouragement it actually took me a long time for the Crayola markers to click but I loved the look so much and they were so inexpensive you can get like a huge 40 pack or a hunt like even more than that I think for like $10 and the colors are so vibrant there's so many different things that you could do with them and I'm gonna show you one of the things that one of my favorite things to do so using a watercolor piece of paper let's pick a name from the jar and we're gonna do one blending option Julia okay so I'm gonna show you one of my favorite ways to blend with the Crayolas as we go through the different process all right let's do let's do two different greens and I'm going to use watercolor paper dirty water because that's what I got here and I'm gonna grab a paintbrush so we got two greens a paintbrush some water watercolor paper here we go I'm gonna write Julia and I'm gonna start with my lighter color and we're gonna go through the process of light look at how I'm holding my pen light pressure going up heavy pressure going down so let's do Julia light pressure heavy pressure and turning and going back to light heavy pressure on down heavy pressure going down and I have a tendency to just kind of flick my pen and you don't have to do any of the you don't have to do any of the things that I do but it's just kind of what makes me me and makes you you okay so then we're gonna take our darker color and I didn't test these out ahead of time but I'm sure I'll be fine so we're gonna go in with our darker color and add some pigment I'm gonna do it on the bottom and the top and since this is a water-based ink we're gonna get a little bit of water on our brush we're gonna blend those two in we're just gonna start here and drag them down or in this case drag it up until we don't really see too heavy of a line and I sometimes go all the way back and I'll just do the whole section because sometimes if you're not careful you'll get that bleed mark like you'll get a line from your where your water was so I usually will put water on the whole thing and this is kind of like an endless you can do any colors you can go all over the place with it you can do so many cool things with this and it doesn't have to be just letters you can do this with designs as well if you would like to get your name lettered all you need to do is leave a comment below and tell me your name and I'll add you to the jar and I randomly like will pick you guys as I'm doing different tutorials and stuff to try to get names lettered for you yeah so thanks for watching I 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