I’m often asked how I add the ‘bounciness’ to letterforms as I’m drawing them out. I do this a lot with my non traditional calligraphy styles, too and this week I want to share how I taught myself to create the full non traditional calligraphy style using only my favorite pens (no calligraphy utensils!) and a little method I call the Skeleton Method. For more lettering time lapses and examples, take a peek at my Instagram 🙂 Read on to see it all!
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How to Create Non Traditional Calligraphy
Links from the video:
– Micron pens
– Lightbox
– the word ‘Calligraphy’ was set in Glamour Brush – no longer available online (that I could find) – here are other fonts by the same designer.
– ‘2016’ was set in Euphoria Script (free)
For more on adding bounciness to your lettering, check out my course, Bounce Lettering!
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Jenn Coyle | December 29, 2015
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This is an awesome tutorial, Teela! I definitely struggle with bouncier letters, and I think tracing will help me out to develop that muscle memory. Thanks!
Teela | Author | December 30, 2015
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Thanks so much for checking it out! 🙂
Marie | December 29, 2015
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This is an unbelievably awesome tutorial!!!
Happy New Year Teela!
Teela | Author | December 30, 2015
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Happy New Year, Marie! 🙂
Kayli Kunkel | December 30, 2015
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So helpful; lovely tutorial! Thank you for sharing!
Teela | Author | December 30, 2015
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Thanks for watching!
Suliman Khan | December 30, 2015
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2:06am here (UK) and watching your tutorials, can never get enough of them! Happy new year!
Teela | Author | January 6, 2016
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Aww, I’m so flattered! Happy New Year! 🙂
Olivia | January 4, 2016
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Wow really great tutorial! U are awesome
Teela | Author | January 6, 2016
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Thanks for watching!
Dartlene Seale | February 25, 2016
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These videos are so generous and educational! Thanks so much for creating them, and making them available!
Teela | Author | February 26, 2016
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Thanks so much for checking em out! 🙂
Nathan S | August 23, 2016
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Hi Teela,
This is a wonderful tutorial! Nice job.
I was wondering if there was a font for the computer for this?
Thanks!
Teela | Author | August 23, 2016
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Hey, I haven’t made one yet that’s directly in line with what you see here, but my font Tuesday Script and Hawthorne Script are probably the closest.
Lillian | January 3, 2017
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ingenious tutorial! Very helpful! It is nice to be provided with more detailed direction besides just the up-stroke-down-stroke business that EVERYBODY covers. Thanks for sharing!
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