The Ultimate Warm-Ups and Drills Worksheets

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

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

A one-page drill of large and small ovals with stroke arrows, the shape behind most script letters. Repeat it as a daily warm-up with a large or small brush pen.

Kelly Klapstein

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