Hand Lettering and Calligraphy Practice Worksheets

What's included (528 pages)

• Start Here5 pageswelcome and what is inside, how the practice pages work (model, trace, guided, your turn), what you need, a four-week path and a before-you-begin page
• Basic Strokes33 pages33 pages of stroke drills at a 55 degree slant: upstroke, downstroke, overturn, underturn, compound curve, oval, ascending and descending loops, arches, cups, push-pull and swing strokes, each as a trace page and a guided page, plus a pressure page and pattern pages
• Modern Brush28 pages28 pages of a modern brush script with thick downstrokes and thin upstrokes (75 degree slant): lowercase and capitals (each as 2 trace pages, 2 guided pages and a blank guide page), numbers, punctuation, letter pairs and joins, words and short phrases
• Copperplate-Inspired28 pages28 pages of a copperplate-inspired script with light hairlines and shaded downstrokes (55 degree slant): lowercase and capitals (each as 2 trace pages, 2 guided pages and a blank guide page), numbers, punctuation, letter pairs and joins, words and short phrases
• Bounce Lettering31 pages31 pages of bounce lettering, a casual brush-marker hand whose letters hop above and below the baseline: lowercase and capitals (each as 2 trace pages, 2 guided pages and a blank guide page), numbers, punctuation, letter pairs and joins, words and short phrases, plus bounce word pages
• Faux Calligraphy34 pages34 pages of faux calligraphy, a thin script you thicken on the downstrokes with a second line (55 degree slant): lowercase and capitals (each as 2 trace pages, 2 guided pages and a blank guide page), numbers, punctuation, letter pairs and joins, words and short phrases, plus faux calligraphy word pages
• Monoline Script28 pages28 pages of a monoline script with one even line weight (75 degree slant): lowercase and capitals (each as 2 trace pages, 2 guided pages and a blank guide page), numbers, punctuation, letter pairs and joins, words and short phrases
• Print and Serif Lettering28 pages28 pages of print and serif lettering with upright guide lines: lowercase and capitals (each as 2 trace pages, 2 guided pages and a blank guide page), numbers, punctuation, letter pairs and joins, words and short phrases
• Big Letters78 pages78 big-letter pages, two letters a page in all six styles: model, light trace, fainter trace and outline letters
• Words by Theme53 pages53 pages of words in 18 themes (joy and kindness, garden, baking, coffee and tea, travel, nature, home, animals, music and art, virtues, food, the sea, school, celebration, romance, fantasy, studio and business, wellness): trace and guided
• Seasonal Words24 pages24 pages of seasonal words: spring, summer, fall, winter, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Mother's and Father's Day, back to school
• Quotes and Sayings57 pages57 pages: 49 public-domain quotations (Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, Austen, Alcott, Montgomery, Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau and more, each with author and work) and 32 traditional sayings
• Names, Dates and Cards22 pages22 pages: 104 first names, months and days, and 12 card phrases (Happy Birthday, Thank You, Congratulations and more)
• Flourishes and Banners24 pages24 pages: 16 flourish pages (80 different swashes) and 8 banner pages with 6 banner shapes
• Blank Practice Grids29 pages29 blank pages: slanted guide lines (45, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75 degrees and upright, in several x-heights), 3 dot grids, 3 square grids, 3 plain-line pages, 3 arc guides and a brick guide
• Progress and Certificate5 pagesalphabet tracker, 30-day practice log, weekly check-in, then-and-now page and a certificate
• Cover, "How to use this workbook" guide and contents with page numbers
• Section dividers and colored edge tabs for every section, so every section is easy to find in a binder