Appendix

Practice Pages
In This Appendix
 Practicing Italic
 Boning up on the Blackletter alphabet
 Making letters with Manuscript
 Unleashing your Celtic self with Uncial
 Creating letters with Copperplate

T hroughout this book, I’ve provided you with opportunities to practice the strokes, the
letters, and combining of letters for all of the alphabets, but a little more practice hones
your skill and perfects your technique. So, in this appendix, I provide you with ample space
to trace and copy basic strokes, lowercase letters, and capital letters, as well as trace and
copy words for all of the alphabets covered in this book. The more practice you do the
better your technique!

Of course, although I don’t recommend it, you can write directly in the book — I’ve put
all the practice on just one side of the page to minimize bleed through. Enough practice
for one of you may not be enough practice for another, so I suggest photocopying these
pages so you can practice as much as you like, downloading the practice pages from
www.dummies.com/go/calligraphy, or paperclip paper over each page to get in all the
practice you can. Regardless of which route you choose, the word of the day is practice,
practice, practice!

For the most effective practice:

1. Trace over the letters that are gray.

2. Draw the letters freehand in the blank lines that follow each line of gray letters.
3. Compare your freehand practice to the models in the appropriate chapters.
Be sure you check back to Chapter 4 for the Italic alphabet, Chapter 8 for Blackletter, Chap-
ter 9 for Classical Roman, Chapter 10 for Manuscript, Chapter 11 for Uncial and Celtic letters,
and Chapter 13 for Copperplate. These chapters will give you the measurements you need to
follow when using your basic tools for calligraphy:

 Calligraphy pen
 Nib width
 Pen angle
 Height
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Italic
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Blackletter
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Classical Roman
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Manuscript
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Uncial
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Copperplate
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