This online class comes with helpful, downloadable and printable sample and practice sheets. You'll also be given access to high quality instructional videos that will allow you to watch (again and again) everything in detail from close by and
from an ideal vantage point.

​
Here's a short appetizer video for this class. 
​

Built-up Capitals - write up

This class exclusively focuses on capitals, more precisely the wealth of capitals that is at our disposal when we choose to draw or build up our letters rather than to write them. 
 
That wealth is literally infinite, so we have to restrict ourselves. Like in the gestural class, it’s not as much my aim to acquaint you with a handful of alphabets but rather to show you how you can make your own variations. 
 
We start from scratch with a basic skeleton alphabet in pencil and step by step we blow life into our letters, making them more dynamic. We learn how to build up our strokes subtly, how to grace the letterforms with elegance, how to be precise and consistent in style... Our tool will be the humble pencil at first, but we’ll switch to a fineliner and later on to a nib as well. 
 
Once we’re equipped with that basic knowledge and skill, we can start exploring.  Size, slope, proportions, rhythm, quality of line, serifs and endings, weight… all these variables can be modified to our liking in order to create highly unique letters and scripts.  Also here, we build up skill and experience with a pencil and then, once emboldened, we take up a fineliner or a nib and towards the end of the class even a flat brush to translate what we learned into something more powerful, colorful and permanent.
 
This class is not only about individual letters and its many variations, but since we’re going to use them in texts, we’ll also discuss rhythm, movement, consistency and layout. 
 
The course is open to all levels. You don’t need to have years of experience or even a foundation in formal calligraphy, but, needless to say, it wouldn’t hurt if you have all that under your belt. Like with my other online courses, I aim to serve to a wide variety of levels. When students are prepared to spend time and energy on it, each one can make considerable progress.

​This class, first presented in May-July 2020, met with the approval of many students worldwide. You can read some of their testimonials and view a large collection of their amazing work on Instagram (#builtupcapsonline).