
Explore three groups of brush letter pens—sponge tip, nylon tip, and synthetic hair—and how tip size shapes line width for different lettering scales. Get beginner-friendly guidance and practice with these pens.
Learn when to set down the pencil to create a fluid typeface by placing the pen after an up stroke, a down stroke, or rounding, and avoiding smears.
Explore uppercase letters K–Z in hand lettering for beginners. Use modern brush pen calligraphy to practice letterforms with confidence.
Advance from block letters to cursive lowercase letters a-j, using directional arrows as guides to reduce hand movement, and grab your pencil to begin.
This course is designed for hand lettering beginners with no previous experience or knowledge about brush pen calligraphy. By the end of the course, you will have developed your own lettering and mastered brush lettering to the point where you can create your own lettering.
In one of the first lessons you will get my recommendation which pen is best to start with and what you should look for in paper. So if you don't have a pen yet, take a look at this lesson first. Together we will work step by step on brush lettering and you will learn everything you need to know about brush pen calligraphy. We'll work with different materials, I'll introduce you to my favorite brush pens, we'll work on the technique together and practice both print and script alphabets as well as numbers. Of course, you will also find practice materials for download. Tips for getting started and mistakes that I have made, but that you can avoid, are also summarized each in a lesson. Before you start, you should download and print the exercise materials so that we can work on brush lettering together.
I'm looking forward to teach you brush pen calligraphy!
See you soon,
Ela