hi guys thanks for coming to check out this video
so today I'm going to show you a pretty easy technique to get a blended sort of gradient
ombre look to your brush lettering or your calligraphy all you will need for this one
is two-colored textures or markers depending on where you're from I'm using pit artist pens from
Faber Castell and then I've also got a Tombow dual brush pen and they are really popular amongst the
lettering community out there so if you have some of those then that works perfectly for this method
so getting started the first thing you'll need to do is choose two markers that are either in the
same color family or at least next to each other on the color wheel, this is going to allow for the
smoothest gradient and the smoothest transition between the colors, so the one I'm using in this
scenario is a light blue or light turquoise and then a deeper turquoise for the first one and that
shows how it looks if you're using the same color family and just varying the shades of that color
and then I'm switching on the next line to use medium blue color and then fading into a dark
purple towards the top now these are just next to each other on the color wheel so that's why
I'm just showing you that option as well so once you have the colors you're going to be using you
want to start creating your lettering with just one color just the lightest shade you've chosen
so start with the lightest shade and create your word next decide whether you want your gradient
to be coming from dark at the top working its way down to the lighter color or vice versa
in this example like my colors to come from the top so I'll use my dark marker to color in about
a third of the lettering at the top and I tend to go just on the thicker areas I just like the effect
that it does you can go along the thinner areas as well if you like that way but for this example I'm
just going to use on the thicker downstrokes a little bit of that dark color coming down a third
and then the next key thing is to blend it in while it's still relatively wet with your
lighter color and if you go over the where it meets a few times you'll find that
it just naturally fades into each other and just blends together seamlessly something that I do is
actually, take the caps off of both the markers hold them both in your hands like I'm doing and
that way you can be pretty quick with laying down the next color if you're interested in the
actual font style that I'm using here I will let you know how I found it I actually use
an online website called dafont.com I've been using it for years for my design work and I tend to go
there if I want to try a different kind of font and I found this gorgeous one called Arabella and
what I've done is I've created a worksheet for you all to practice with if you're interested so there
will be a free pdf that you can print at home and then you can go over the top of the alphabet
in this Arabella font with your brush markers and practice the gradients if you would like to
so just check out the description box for the link to that one and now if you're doing hand lettering
for your bullet journals and you just want to make it look a little bit more special inside
I'm now going to write out the months of the year using this kind of calligraphy this ombre look and
I'm varying up my colors as well so you can see a little bit more of an example of how to use them
with different color variations and I'll just give you five little reminders that I tend to think of
all the time when I'm working on my calligraphy you want to make sure that you hold your pen at a
45-degree angle to the paper just allows you to get the right amount of pressure and it makes
it smooth then you want to make sure you're doing your upstrokes using a soft pressure
when you're doing your downstrokes make sure it's a hard pressure coming down so press a bit harder
then take the pen off between basic strokes if you're not quite sure what basic strokes are i
have made another calligraphy video on my channel which I'll link to down in the description box
and that way you can learn and practice some of the basic strokes and then the fifth tip
is to just take your time because it is absolutely useless rushing calligraphy it will guarantee fail
if you rush it I speak from experience so just take your time and enjoy and relax while you're
doing your calligraphy I hope you found this video useful if you did please give it a like
and let me know if there's anything else in particular with calligraphy that you'd like me to
make a video on I'm happy to help out if I can and yeah just let me know in the comments down below
thank you guys for watching and i will see you in my next video bye X