Hello, I'm Julian Wasserman, and my studio is Wasserman Design, and today we are learning chancery cursive script. We have finished all the small letters, we are already writing sentences with them. But, the capital letters will allow us to write sentences in good English grammar form.
So the first thing to learn in the capital letters is to rule our lines four of the capital letters. The only difference between the lines for the small letters and the capital letters is just one extra line.
So you'll find this really familiar from what we did at the beginning of this lesson. First we take our pen because we are going to make the letters. The widths are proportional to the width of our pen.
So I've taped my paper down. I have my t-square, and I am going to make the five marks for my small letters as I did before by just making little blocks with my pen touching one edge to another. So that's five, and so that's enough with the pen.
Then, I'll count from the top, one, two squares, and two-and-a-half, and I'll just make a little mark. Then just as I did before, I will take up a scrap piece of paper, and just mark down the top of that first of the five squares and the middle mark I just made for two-and-a-half distance and then at the end five. Then, I'll move up, and I moved up my paper, and now I don't need that middle mark anymore. I just need to hit the five of bottom.
So this space is five, and I am going to put a little x on my scrap paper to mark that space as five pen widths wide. Then, I am going to make one more mark, and it also will be five pen widths wide. I don't need to mark that middle two-and-a-half distance anymore, I did it once. So now I have instead of four marks, I have five, one, two, three, four, five.
So from here we've already got the middle mark for the two-and-a-half distance. I want to go down, and start, and I want to make my next mark where I have that x on my scrap paper. I am going to put the x right on the paper, and then I am going to mark that last line and just leave it blank.
Then, I just move my whole scrap piece down to that first mark, and now I am going to mark that two-and-a-half distance, and then pick up five. Then, here where my x is. I am going to mark that line and put in x to remind myself that, that's where I am writing my small letters.
Then make that next line and go down, and keep going down the page marking. So I'm done with the paper. I've got my marks, and I'll take my T-square. And with my pencil, I will just rule these lines all the way down and they are all parallel to one another.
Then with the t-square lining up against the edge of the table, it goes very quickly, there. We have now one, two, three, four, five, six lines in which we can write all the letters of the capital alphabet, which are called Majuscules. It's a Latin term for the large letters.
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