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Roman Lettering: ABC

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welcome we're trying to show you guys how to do Roman lettering I've already made my boxes each box is exactly the same size 4 inches tall by 3 inches wide there is space between the letters this is our guide our guide has various markings on it the first one with his big arrow is three inches from the edge and we have another one which is 3 and 3/4 which is only letters M & W how to do the first three letters to take your thick guide which is 1 in wide and you also need a half inch guy which you're going to need your going to first locate the center of your box notice the two spaces that are on the side or the same you're going to Market  okay and when you mark it that's helping you find the center at the top we're going to do the second part of the letter A which is the second stroke which is in the down Direction so you can see I'm lining up the top with a bottom in the corner and then we're just going to trace or thick we're going to to vent a card in guide and do the same thing we're going to connect this corner here with the bottom corner there and take her thin guide line up to 2 we're going to connect on both sides and you'll notice that it already has the shape of the eight is just me the horizontal stroke and that brings me to our basic rules and the lettering of Roman style lettering is that you have to make play that as you make the letter from left to right up Strokes are going to be thin downstrokes are going to be thick and sideway stroke always going to be horizontal and thin and so it works really well so that's the letter A for you there if you do the same thing upside down mine is the horizontal stroke it becomes the V going to go ahead and do the letter b as in boy we start with  are thick stroke on the left NR fix stroke on the right  revente Garden guy replace are thin Strokes at the top and at the bottom  and of course we look for the center make sure that both of these spaces appear be about the same once they do you draw your stroke in the middle now you're going to be looking for certain parts so frigg's here and here or am looking for the middle and that is the center whatever you do to one side you do to the other yeah take your guy you're going to measure that distance okay and that this is this is important that distance you're going to rotate your going to flip it over 9 degrees and you going to face your marking their the same thing here so that all these markings are exactly the same distance apart so you do the same thing because it should all be symmetrical all equal to each other another we have our markings we can go ahead and make our curves on the in sign which is going to be a half circle and then the outside with liberal practice we can go in and make our outbacker the outside is not a perfect circle is more of a half an oval the same on the bottom and this your sketching out you're never going to get a perfect on just one single line it's not a contour drawing it's more of a sketch until you get a practicing  and it should look very very even and symmetrical and that's your you can also make an hour out of it you can also make the capital p as in Peter alright last letter want to do right now is the letters so we set it up the same way you do six Strokes on both sides going to take a fin stroke at the top 10 stroke at the bottom we do the same thing we did with the bee put it. Here put it out there find a center same thing at the bottom find the center and then you're going to take that measurement here markets rotated 90 degrees and this marking that we just made would apply to any letter that looks like the letter c like the older you the D any of those would work you make it all the way around whatever you have on the inside you also want to put on the outside you can also just a line to markings Signs Now we ready to start making our curves you do the inside car which is a half a circle do it as neatly as you can then you can start working on your outside curves do the same thing on this side  I know that I make this look really fast crazy but this is after many years of practice and right here you connect these two lions and that gives you what's called the terminals which is where you and the letter the deed the you the G the C the Jake and a bunch of other letter okay thank you

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