Kickin it With T: Calligraphy Day 6

After watching my first video on calligraphy and lettering tips and learning that I could have used crayola markers all along instead of going out and buying calligraphy pens I decided to try those. So I found this video on how "easy" they are to use.

This are the markers that I chose to switch over to instead of the pens I got

I got my hopes up again to find out that although the video itself was very helpful and easy to follow, I still don't have the calligraphy hand. While some people have a led foot when driving, pressing hand on the gas, I have a led hard and cannot find any grace to my handwriting. I have gotten good at writing in cursive BUT I struggle trying to get my hand to have thin lines going up and thick lines going down. Although I am not proud of what I have attempted from watching the video this is the result that I got.

Although I accept this challenge with open arms, calligraphy is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be!

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