Avoiding Common Calligraphy Layout Mistakes

Craft layouts that make your calligraphy shine. In this video, you'll learn how to set up the page before you even pick up your pen. You'll see basic techniques for drafting and planning your calligraphy compositions. This video is appropriate for both beginning and intermediate calligraphers. See the Chapters below to skip around in the video!
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:47 Materials for Drafting Your Calligraphy Layout
2:14 Start Your Calligraphy with a Sketch
3:50 Planning for a Block of Text
7:53 Calculating Your Margins
11:59 Finding the Optical Center of Your Calligraphy Layout
13:32 My Calligraphy Layout Mistakes
15:18 Hierarchy of Text
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[@kurtisgrant4083]

As a Typographer and Graphic Designer, I enjoyed your video. I would of liked to see a little more about the Kerning of the letters and word balance in regard to layout but overall I really liked it.

[@crossroadscalligraphy]

Hi Kurtis, thanks for your comment, and you make a great point! Letter and word spacing rules vary between calligraphy scripts, so I address this when teaching a specific calligraphy hand. Page layout kind of falls by the wayside though, so I wanted to stick to that in this video.

[@DesertPlume]

Such an informative layout video! Thanks for this Renee!

[@crossroadscalligraphy]

Thank you so much Jodean, glad it was helpful!

[@judihopewell2499]

Excellent lesson…

[@crossroadscalligraphy]

So glad it was helpful!

[@peteresher4580]

Totally pointless information about your pronouns. I turned off after hearing that.