How To Do Lettering With Different Pens

In this tutorial, I am going to be talking about how you can do lettering with almost every utensil that you have at home. I will be including a lot of supplies that you have at home so that people who are on a budget can be able to start learning calligraphy.

For this lettering tutorial I am just going to be going through different writing utensils that you might not think that you can do calligraphy with. This will just help you get your imagination going.

This is just a brief summary of what you are going to be learning about today:

• Calligraphy With Regular Markers
• Calligraphy With A Pencil
• Calligraphy with White Board Marker
• Calligraphy With Sharper
• Calligraphy With Chisel tip Marker

Calligraphy With Regular Markers

So here you honestly you could do calligraphy with regular Crayola markers.

I  have already done a full depth tutorial on this so check it out here. 

Anyway here is just some simple tip to doing lettering with Crayola markers. The very first thing that you must know with any lettering is that upstrokes are thin and downstroke are thick. 

So when you are doing an upstroke you are going to have less pressure on your marker than when you have a downstroke. 

Here are just some simple lettering designs that I have done with my Crayola markers. 

Calligraphy With A Pencil

I have already done a full in-depth tutorial on this also so you can check it out here.

But anyway I am just going to be explaining a few things that go into pencil calligraphy if you just want to get started.

The way that you are going to be able to achieve your thin upstrokes and thick downstrokes is by putting more pressure onto your pencil when doing down-strokes and less pressure when doing upstrokes.

This will then lead to a difference in line weight leading to the “Calligraphy Look” that you are going for. 

You might not have thought about it but doing calligraphy with a pencil is easier than with a calligraphy pen.

Calligraphy With Sharpie

Ok you probably don’t believe me when I say that you can do calligraphy with a sharpie without doing faux calligraphy (fake calligraphy). Well you are wrong it is totally possible.

The first thing that you are going to need is:

• Bleed Proof Paper
• Pencil (For Outlines)
• Eraser
• Regular Sharpie Marker

To be able to achieve thin upstrokes and thick downstrokes we are going to first make sure that we are holding the sharpie correctly.

I would recommend not holding it like a regular pencil.

You should be holding it at almost 45 degrees. 

Any way to get thin strokes we are going to make sure we are applying little pressure and using the very tip of the marker.

When doing down strokes we are going to be applying more pressure and make sure that one whole entire side is touching the paper.

Then you should start practicing moving between these two motions to get thin strokes and thick strokes. 

After you got these motions down get out your guidelines and start practicing as you would do in regular calligraphy.

Remember that you should be practicing the basic strokes first.

In my faux calligraphy tutorial I talk more about them. The link is here. 

How To Do Calligraphy With A Chisel Tip Marker

I find that this is going to be the easiest utensil to do calligraphy with compared to all of these other writing utensils.

So the first thing that you are of course going to need is:

• Any Chisel Tip Marker
• Pencil FOr Guidelines
• Eraser

Here it is going to be very basic. For all of your upstrokes you are going to be holding your pen like this and making sure that only the very tip of your marker is on the paper.

Now For all of your downstrokes you are going to put the whole chisel tip marker against the paper. 

You should now be practicing moving between these hand motions.

Then we are going to start practicing our basic strokes.

Witch, I again talked more in-depth about them in my faux calligraphy tutorial. So go check that out. 

Here are some calligraphy pieces that I have done just with a chisel tip marker. 

Conclusion

You have now just learned how to do Calligraphy with multiple everyday utensils that you can find at home. 

Again you don’t always need calligraphy supplies or brush markers to be able to practice or create awsome calligraphy pieces. 

You could honestly do calligraphy with almost every writing utensil that is out there. 

This was just something to give you ideas and fun ways to practice calligraphy/lettering.