Am a retired teacher and decided to teach myself calligraphy as you do and ordered some books and pens and made a start it was okay-ish but your video breaking the letter down into strokes makes everything so much easier I’ve looked at other calligraphy videos but speaking as a professional teacher of 30 Years...yours is the best I’ve found for content, clarity ....just all round..

As a beginner, I can say that this is the best breakdown of calligraphy I have seen so far after watching multiple videos the last few days. This was the first time hearing that cursive and calligraphy are different because calligraphy letters are composed of strokes. So excited to have that base knowledge when I'm practicing the basics! Thank you!

@user-yt7xw5ox6k

6 жыл бұрын

Lauren Elliott me too! All this time I thought I was doing calligraphy, it's cursive tho!

@Mookielady

5 жыл бұрын

I agree! I've also watched several videos in the last few days and this is the only one that has broken it down so completely.

@patrishanotpatricia6456

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@achengster4

5 жыл бұрын

I like how she adds an extra element into writing. most tutorials focus on the lines and spacing. She adds a third element which is pressure. I really enjoyed watching this video as a better break down. Her detailed explanations of each letter is very impressive.

@melissalang6848

5 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with this above comment! I've never heard of some of the explanations you've given in this video before and I've watched a lot of calligraphy vids. Thanks so much Thehappyevercrafter for breaking it down so well!

As someone who learned to write cursive as a child, I think there are two aspects that separate cursive from calligraphy. 1) The continuation - you don't lift your pen when writing cursive, but you do with calligraphy. 2) The pressure - you keep the same pressure throughout when writing cursive, but you put more pressure on down strokes and ease it on up strokes in calligraphy.

You managed to explain in 7:39 minutes what books failed to explain clearly enough to me. Thank you!

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher, u may like my way too pls do visit my page

The breaking down of the alphabet by different colors to show the strokes is genius!!

@judichristopher4604

5 жыл бұрын

... but I do not understand why it is sped up!!!! That is the most important part of this video! ... and... the camera could have been closer... I really love the way she makes her lettering... she is truly an artist...

@mmmmlllljohn

5 жыл бұрын

It is sped up because it is an introductory video telling about her classes - not a teaching video.😍

@judichristopher4604

5 жыл бұрын

OHHH... that's tooo bad... it would have been a great teaching video.

@TheHyde8875

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't get past her up-speaking long enough to find out.

@dioluciano

5 жыл бұрын

MaryBeth Mulhall it just take too much practices

I'm pushing 70 and never had any interest in calligraphy until I watched this video and several of Becca's other video's. Now I've got Tombow brush pens and Rhodia paper ordered, and I've signed up for one of her courses. I think she hypnotized me with those darned eyes. Her well organized and precise approach to teaching really piqued my interest. Nice job Becca, and thank you.

Thank you. How generous of you to share your knowledge at no cost. It helps someone like me, who is a beginner, not to give up too soon!

@saujanyaroy4942

5 жыл бұрын

U do know that they earn money from YT?

@EmeryDee

5 жыл бұрын

@@saujanyaroy4942 thankfully creators can earn a living to support the incentive to share this no cost solution for us advertisement watching KZreadrs ;)

@abpabp8862

3 жыл бұрын

@@saujanyaroy4942 they ca earn money from yt but they will not collect money from us before making any comments please think and do

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

You can watch my channel too , I am also a Calligrapher

Easily the best calligraphy for beginners video on the internet. My calligraphy got 10x better in a matter of seconds after hearing the information she had to share. Love love love this!

Now that is what’s known as a ‘threshold concept’ - this 7 minute tutorial unlocks the fundamentals of calligraphy - brilliant!

who else is wanting to learn this during quarantine so you watching this video

@Just.Me122

3 жыл бұрын

MEEE🤣🤣🤣

@d2row96

3 жыл бұрын

I got into fountain pens.... led to this lol

This is an awesome thing to share. I've loved calligraphy my whole life! You're a good teacher. Honestly, thank you.

Wow! You have explained and demonstrated the differences in cursive and calligraphy. How could I have spent my 69 years not knowing this!!!! Brilliantly explained thank you so much!

I really like that you have explained why the basic strokes are important and how they connect together in different letters. The way you've described it all here is very easy to understand.

I’m learning calligraphy since few months, but I like to back to basics. I would love to see this video a few months ago.... It’s best video for beginners I’ve ever seen 💕🌺

After seeing so many demonstration videos without revealing any basic rules of calligraphy, I stumbled upon this gem. It TRULY is Calligraphy 101. THIS is someone that actually knows how to teach. I’m actually trying to not only improve my cursive handwriting, but started getting accustomed to using a fountain pen and also have an interest in learning calligraphy. The more skills we can learn, the better our understanding of their differences and the better our proficiency can become. Thank you, Becca, for making this video and providing such a vital understanding of the basics of calligraphy. I’ll go and check out your course now.

This is the best example of calligraphy breakdown i have ever seen. Thank you for this. Please keep breaking thinga down like thia, it really helped.

You are the first tutorial video that actually demonstrates how to begin calligraphy. Thank you so much. Very helpful. Can't wait to start practicing. ❤

I have never seen a better tutorial than this. On the internet. For free. You are doing an amazing job. Thank you. ❤

Knowing how to do something and being able to teach others how to do it is two different things. You know how to teach it! This short video is the best how-to on calligraphy. Thank you for sharing.

I think I am going to FINALLY learn calligraphy, since most of the videos I have seen have never broke it down this way. I am so excited to finally do this!

You just made my day! I have been soo struggling with the breakdown of the calligraphy letters! Thanks!

First video i've seen that breaks down the strokes. Now i know what I've been doing wrong and why i could not get it right! Still struggling with pressure but i believe it would be much easier after knowing what i just learnt. Thank you!

Thank you! I'm retired, enjoyed a calligraphy class years ago, wanting to try it again. This is great. Much appreciated.

This has been one of the best explanations between cursive and calligraphy I've ever seen!Totally easy to understand with those examples!Thank you!!

You have explained this to me in a way that it FINALLY makes sense- i keep trying to copy whole letters without understanding that it is a series of basic strokes- which of course, has not worked- Thank you sooooo much!

That was an amazingly informative class! Tbh all the other videos ive seen is basically people who just made a video about how they do it out of muscle memory without really teaching the basics to people. Youve taught me more in those mere 7 minutes than what 20-30 other youtube and skillshare videos have taught me. Much love to you 🧡🧡🧡

This is outstanding!!! I’ve been trying to learn calligraphy off and on for many years. I signed up for the course and have already accomplished more in two days than I have in all my past attempts. Thank you, Becca!

This is the only video here on youtube that has actually helped me understand how to begin with calligraphy. Thank you for making this easy. ♥️

I’m a kid and I’ve never done calligraphy only cursive and I really wanted to learn it and I am able to write words so easily and I learned under 10 minutes amazing video you earned a like and a subscriber

This tutorial was phenomenal!! Absolutely amazingly awesome & helpful!!! Ty!! 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻💓❣️ I agree with all of the comments in that this has BY FAR been the BEST tutorial for beginners on calligraphy and how to create the proper, beautiful, and perfect calligraphy writing text! Love it!

This is the best guide I’ve seen . Explains exactly where I’m going wrong . It doesn’t help being left handed . Thank you for making this video . Subscribed xx

WOW! You have opened up this entire art/skill/craft. You are a natural teacher and take that from someone with years of running technical craft education.

That is the FIRST time anyone has ever explained it in a way I understood this. (and I have taken paid workshops and classes!) Thank you!

Your description of calligraphy makes so much sense. It has just clicked everything into place for me! Thank you!

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher pls visit my channel

Seriously the best video of calligraphy on KZread! Beautiful steps and lovely tips to maintain consistency.

The first seven and a half minutes already makes this form of art very easy to follow and sound very scientific! Thank you so much for demystify this great form of art!

Excellent breakdown of tricks and strokes for a beginner. Thank you. This is the first time I am looking at calligraphy and you got me hooked on to it now.

I LITERALLY HAVE CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE IM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED! Thanks for the INSANELY simple but oh so powerful advice Becca! PS. I am starting calligraphy/brush lettering for the EXACT same reason you started back in the day - rocking it out as an Archi in an Engineering firm - lacking serious creativity in my life ... Thanks for being an inspiration!

@aaronb2181

2 жыл бұрын

Over 3 years laters, I'm assuming you won't come back but just in case you do, how is calligraphy going?

This video should have 20 million views. The most useful video on the basics of calligraphy and done so succinctly. Brilliant!

Thank you!!! This is finally a Video that REALLY explains how calligraphy works.. life changing..

I took a break from calligraphy to start learning how to draw...... but you’ve inspired me to restart show me your drills :) 🇨🇦

After a long and lot of seeking finally find the best calligraphy teacher.... thank you... very beautiful ❤️

I'm not even a beginner - yet. I've been searching around, reading & watching and trying to get a handle on a good stating place for me. This video really hit the spot for me. Thank you to posting this video.

Becca this is SO good! Congrats on the new channel!🙌🏻

Thank you so much for this video! I’ve watched many calligraphy videos but never one that broke this down into strokes!

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher pls visit my channel

THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!! This is the most helpful tutorial I've seen so far. The way you explained the breakdown really made it all click for me. I have signed for your curriculum and am so anxious to get started!

Hello.... Just wanted to say that I have seen tons of videos on KZread on so many different subjects where people pretend to teach or demonstrate this or that but, I have never seen a video as your. You are very informative. You do it in an easy to follow, and very explanatory yet, succinct way. You are very good at what you do. Your video was a real find for me. Congratulations, and thank you.

It's really beautiful! The skill of writing and the teacher both !!! Lovely

All this while I thought cursive is calligraphy. Thank you for showing the differences. I’m looking forward for more videos..

You've done a great job!! I'm happy that you exist here on KZread!! you're the calligraphy queen!!🙌🏼

Wow. You are the first person I’ve ever heard explain it this way. So glad I found your page.

I love this, it explains and gives a clear explanation on the strokes 🤩🤩🤩

Wooooow you have helped me sooooo much breaking down tha strokes. No joke this blew my mind. Thank you.!!

Nine basic calligraphy strokes, lift your pen from the page, practice, consistency, etc... Looks like it’s time for me to pick up those pens and start practicing again. This time I’ll try and remember your advice. Thanks you so much. 👍🏽

Omg! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This video is amazing! I’ve always wanted to learn calligraphy but it was always hard for me to get the letters right. In other videos, people just say, “Oh just practice the cursive alphabet!” or, “Oh just make your downstrokes thick!” That doesn’t give me much information. You show what the letter should look like and how to write them. Thank you so much!

Most elaborate & descriptive tutorial ever....thanks miss😘

this is the best basic for begginers! WOW you are a great teacher

Oh my goodness! That is the best explanation of how to do calligraphy! I've been trying to go at it by doing cursive and have been STRUGGLING with consistency! Thank you thank you Thank you!!!

Super happy I found your channel....I’ve been wanting to learn the art of calligraphy for a while now. Thanks from Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

New to your channel and I LOVE the way you explain things. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! I was making the exact mistake and was frustrated why my letter didn't look smooth. This was the most helpful video for beginners like me!

As someone who is getting ready to learn Calligraphy and I am was just marveled :O You break the basic strokes super easily and show how they're all linked. This gives me a lot of hope that even I can learn to write beautifully :) thank you!

This video made total sense the way you've broken down the basic strokes. Brilliantly well done. Thank you.

I love this video! I teach lettering in person and I start with this concept as well. Cursive is not calligraphy! I just taught a workshop for Bible journaling people who had been attempting lettering in their Bible and when I told them that it's not cursive, they screamed. haha!! I could almost see a light bulb over their heads. I love it!! Great video - your production on your videos rocks!

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher pls visit my channel

YAY! Great video. Looking forward to the course! Feel like this video was just what I needed to get motivated to give this a try. - Josh

@TheHappyEverCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome! January will be here so soon! :D

This is a REVELATION - I’ve learned more about calligraphy in your 7:39 minute video, compared to the years of searching and reading!!!!! Thank you!

This is the very first calligraphy video I've ever watched. Thanks for breaking it down for us, I appreciate it! :)

Top notch vid. At last: well explained trivia! Bravo! 👌🏻 Many thanks!

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher, pls visit my channel too

It totally made sense. It actually clears my mind and now I can easily learn it. Thanku!💗🤗

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher pls visit my channel

I am a beginner and this is the best video I have found that explains how to break the letters down and what the different names of the strokes. I bought another "beginners" program and I am totally lost and frustrated. I will look into getting your tools and pages to help me. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything for true beginners.

thank you so much i came to youtube to find the fundamentals of what actually makes it calligraphy and you were the first person to really break it down and i have watched a bunch of stuff so thanks a lot !

Second time watch this now. Am on my second week, em actually second time of practicing basic stroke, it seemed to me that I was getting a hang out of this. I will keep on doing it and see what it will turn out for me. Thanks a lot for the instruction!

Hey Becca! You are absolutely amazingg✨ however I was just wondering if you could pls post a video teaching how you formulate your letters...thanx❤

You are the best calligraphy teacher. Thank you so much! I joined your lecture and I am so excited to learn. Once again, THANK YOU QUEEN. ❤

I'm coming back to your videos so often even when I _am_ now able to do decent calligraphy strokes. All thanks to your tutorials❤. I have been learning this _like_ waaay faster than I thought; in just approximately 2 months. I too learned cursive as everybody did as a child, but even then I just loved to break down the cursive in between a word because I thought the letters would be nicer in appearance. Now that I'm learning calligraphy I'm becoming more and more obsessed with writing as slow as I can to perfect my basic strokes 😍

wow,, you just earned a new subscriber ... thanks

Born with a talent

I've attempted to learn calligraphy several times over the years but give up each and every time, not once has anyone broke it down in such a way that actually made sense like this and in less than ten minutes too. Thank you.

@TheHappyEverCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you find my tutorials helpful! :)

This video made everything click, thank you for being so detailed and honest! So glad I was able to view this tutorial!!

This is the best video I found about calligraphy... I owe you a huge thanks. but I would like to make a request. Can you make an in depth tutorial on how to do calligraphy with WATER COLOR BRUSHES not with brush pens.

You are a really good teacher and explain it really well. Thank you. I really want to learn and have beautiful writing. What's the difference with beginners pens? What you've shown me here about the strokes you use is really helpful. I will practise every day☺

Stoke of genius. Clear, clean, and decisive. Awesome

I love this!!!!! Thank u for explaining this to me, I’ve searched you tube for beginner calligraphy lessons and this was this first video I actually got some pointers from.

Hey dear.. I am glad I found your channel 😍😍😍😍😍😍 Thank you for making my dream to learn calligraphy come true ♥️♥️♥️♥️ love from India 🇮🇳😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

@eramletters5205

3 жыл бұрын

I am also a Calligrapher pls visit my channel

@drawwithshagun7949

3 жыл бұрын

@@eramletters5205 I'll visit 💟🖌️🎄🤗:)

I love your desk where's it from?

@endezeichengrimm

3 жыл бұрын

Probably Ikea.

@madzy.s1541

3 жыл бұрын

@@endezeichengrimm tbh everything is from Ikea lol

@Kaymeista

2 жыл бұрын

It's the Ikea malm! Great desk

Ahhhh...now I completely understand why all these KZreadrs I watch doing bullet journaling all write the same way!! Now I need to learn how! New subscriber here! ❤️😁

Wow!! This is by far the BEST breakdown of calligraphy I have ever seen anywhere in the Calligraphy world! I just wanted to take the time to say thank you so very much for this video. I never understood the drills I had seen on the web but by your demonstration of each drill stroke and how they incorporate into the calligraphy alphabet really opened my eyes! I will definitely be going to your shop to purchase supplies and check out the free downloads you have suggested as well. Thank you again and again!! ⭐️😊

Please tell me that which calligraphy brush pen are best

I literally had a mental breakdown just to learn the strokes-

@Jecykshaji

3 жыл бұрын

It's okay. You can do it. Practice makes perfect. 🤗 👍🌼🌻 All the best. Take your time. Be kind to yourself.

@kylachukes8969

3 жыл бұрын

90

@rickilieberman2136

2 жыл бұрын

Hi I am so proud of you! I am just a student learning right along with you! But you are not giving up! That is great!

I really don’t have words ....... very clearly explained like I watched one video of yours and I could not stop myself from watching another really you are having. Great talent !!

This was an amazing video that really showed how calligraphy is "made". Showing the basic strokes made total sense! Thank you!

Holy crow, your writing looks computer generated, how perfect.

So would you suggest a beginner should practice the strokes before learning the actual lettering? Then for paper, would it be more beneficial for a beginner to use grid paper? I am asking because my 11 yr old wants to learn Calligraphy but I am not familiar with this beautiful art form.

@jrdn.lauren

5 жыл бұрын

www.showmeyourdrills.com

This is such a great intro to calligraphy video! Totally different from what I was expecting/ all the other intro to calligraphy videos out there. Pointing out the distinction between cursive and calligraphy was very much needed.

I’m so happy I found this video!!! I’m planning on getting started in calligraphy and picking up some supplies this weekend and your video is just what I need! I’m now a subscriber and excited to learn from you!!

She’s pretty 😊

LOVE the "Crafty Bitch" sign lol Great video as well. Looking forward to exploring more of your content.

I think this is the second time I've watched this video! Great video! I just went to the website, and it has a countdown. That's awesome! Thanks again!

Thank you so much! This is the best channel KZread I find to learn hand lettering😍

I need this to show to my friends. They say OH you know calligraphy?! And im like, no its just.. cursive. OH cool! I know calligraphy too! Bruh.

@d.h.6486

4 жыл бұрын

Exolette 😂