Oval Drills for Brush Lettering

Loosen up your hand with pencil and monoline warm-ups, then move on to rhythmic broad-edge pen patterns. Each page explains the exercise and gives you guidelines to trace and repeat.

Sharon Shaw

A complete warm-up routine for pointed pen calligraphy, with pencil and nib exercises followed by stroke drills on 55 degree guidelines. Each drill shows stroke order and direction so you can trace first and then write on your own.

Flourished Hope

Clean, traceable sheets for the basic calligraphy strokes, with separate pages for upstrokes, downstrokes, overturns and underturns. Versions for small and large brush pens let you practice with whatever tip you have.

UPrinting

Printable blank guide sheets with 55 degree slant lines for copperplate practice, in several x-heights. Slip one under your paper or print directly and keep every stroke at a consistent angle.

Nina Tran