Learn how to add charm and beauty to your letters through flourishing!
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You’ve admired all the beautiful flourished words/pieces on Instagram, and if you are anything like me 6 years ago, you are ITCHING to try, but don’t know where to start! Good news – there is a method to the madness and I’m here to walk you through the entire process. If done correctly, flourishing can instantly add elegance and elevate your lettering.
Now is your chance to learn! After years of practicing, playing with how lines intersect, teaching hundreds of students in person & thousands online, I’m excited to pass on my love for flourishing. Through this Fearless Flourishing online course, I will walk you through all the basic concepts, demonstrate various letter flourishes, show you the beauty of seeing ovals & more so that you will leave with a trained eye and be inspired to start flourishing with confidence!
I get that life can be unpredictable. We will all start together, but there is no end date to the course. Follow along with the recommended schedule or go at your own pace! With lifetime access, you can revisit the course videos as much as you wish.
Move from being a passive to an active learner by implementing what you learned. After each Module, I will be releasing fun prompts via homework exercises for you to put your pen onto paper. Though it is suggested, students have the most success by completing the exercises.
In addition to learning how to flourish letters, I also love ornamental flourishing and adding florals/leaves! In the bonus lessons, we will go over how to incorporate basic florals and leaves into your letters and I’ll also share tips on composition when it comes to longer pieces.
The course is made up of 4 teaching modules, with individual lessons within each module. The structure is set up so that you can easily move along the lessons and pick up where you left off. Including all the bonus videos, there are over 20 video lessons provided for you!
MODULE 1 – Introduction to Flourishing
Lesson 1.1 – What is a Flourish?
Lesson 1.2 – Basic Rules to Flourishing
Lesson 1.3 – Warm Up Drills
Lesson 1.4 – Four Types of Flourishes
MODULE 2 – Lowercase Letter Flourishes
Lesson 2.1 – Ascending Stem Loops (b,d,f,h,k,l)
Lesson 2.2 – Descending Stem Loops ( (f, g, j, p, q, y, z)
Lesson 2.3 – End Flourishes
Lesson 2.4 – Letters without Loops & Understanding Negative Space
Lesson 2.5 – Connecting letters with a flourish/crossbar
MODULE 3 – Uppercase Letter Flourishes
Lesson 3.1 – Capital Stem Variations
Lesson 3.2 – Entrance Stroke Variations
Lesson 3.3 – DEMO: Group 1A – Letters that start with a Capital Stem (A, M, N, I, J)
Lesson 3.4 – DEMO: Group 1B – Letters that start with a Capital Stem (P, B, R, I ,F, D)
Lesson 3.5 – DEMO: Group 2 – Letters that start with a Horizontal Oval Entrance Stroke (S, L, G, C, E, O)
Lesson 3.6 – DEMO: Group 3 – Letters that start with a Vertical Oval Entrance Stroke (Z, U, X, Y, Q)
Lesson 3.7 – DEMO: Group 4 – Letters that start with Compound Curve Entrance Stroke (V, W, H, K)
Lesson 3.8 – Combining Uppercase/Lowercase flourishes. Feedback on Student Examples
MODULE 4 – Ornamental Design
Lesson 4.1 – What is ornamental design?
Lesson 4.2 – Drawing florals, wheat, leaves
Lesson 4.3 – Adding simple ornamental design to names
MODULE 5 – FINAL WORDS
Introduction to Flourishing. We will cover the basic rules of flourishing, move onto warm up exercises, and learn 4 essential flourish shapes.
Lowercase Letter Flourishes. We will look at four subcategories within lowercase letters – ascenders, descenders, entry, end. I will also share tips on how to flourish off letters without stem loops.
Double Letter Flourishes. What do we do when we have the same letter next to each other? I will share my personal strategies and techniques for tackling double letters.
Uppercase Letters. This module is jam packed (over 2.5 hours!) with demo, tips, and instruction so that you will know how to flourish the majuscules with grace.
Ornamental Design. It’s time to learn some embellishments! We will go over how to draw basic florals, leaves, wheats, etc to use as a stand-alone or adorn our calligraphy.
Now we will put together those individual elements to make a beautiful floral border. I will also show you how to incorporate them into your calligraphy.
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