Calligraphy For Beginners: Worksheets

Calligraphy is all about practice. And the best way to get that practice is by using calligraphy for beginners worksheets to get your daily brush pen lettering practice done easily. There are many free printable resources that you can use (just choose the right paper particularly if you are using brush pen markers). There are also entire workbooks printed and bound for your calligraphic practice for a small fee.

Here is our ultimate guide to calligraphy for beginners worksheets, practice sheets and spacing guide sheets to bring your calligraphic skills up a level.

Brush Lettering Calligraphy For Beginners Worksheet

This beginner calligraphy worksheet comes with recommended pens and a variety of brush lettering styles, from very ornate to simpler styles. You can practice connected and not connected fonts with this worksheet, and there is a handy font guide on the first page that shows all the alphabets used.

Lettering practice sheets By Dawn Nicole

If you are just starting and want basic calligraphy for beginners worksheets, Dawn has also provided a really cool one here. It is simpler and perfect for daily practice to learn how to use brush pens.  Her entire website is a great calligraphy resource, with many free and paid courses and ebooks.

Another great calligraphy for beginners worksheet full of drills by scribblinggrace can be found here. Commit to doing at least one page every day and you will soon notice improvements on your technique.

For brush pen calligraphy the Tombow Fudenosuke brush pens are great and very affordable. They don’t bleed, which means you don’t need really thick paper to use them.

Studio Series Calligraphy Paper Pad

50 sheets of heavyweight paper that are already lined with a preprinted grid for slanted practice. This calligraphy paper pad works for beginners and advanced users who need no-bleed paper to use with brush pens and dip pens. The slanted grid makes it easier to angle the letters without getting in the way but it doesn’t have pre-printed letters as guidance. Better used with a companion guide that shows how to trace the different letters if you are new to calligraphy.

Pencil Calligraphy Worksheet For Beginners

This worksheet is a great free resource for pen calligraphy practice. It is designed to work with pens, which means you can print it on basic printer paper. It’s great if you just want to practice on the go without worrying about markers or actual ink spilling on your bag.

You can download it here.

Dip Pen Calligraphy For Beginners Worksheet

Another free resource by TPK, this is not exactly a regular worksheet. It is designed to help you practice different types of strokes using a dip pen before you move on to more complex lettering.

You can download it for free here.

The speedball H9455 Oblique Pen Holder and Nikko Pen Nibs are great for beginners and very affordable. Remember, at the beginning practice is the most important thing so buying very expensive calligraphy sets is not worth it.

Handwritten Calligraphy for Beginners Worksheets

Bohoberry offers all the printables you may ever need in exchange for your email address. If you are into bullet journaling this resource is a goldmine of printables and inspiration that you should bookmark. There are new printables added every month.

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It contains both a book/course perfect for beginners, and a companion sketchpad to put that knowledge into practice. You can start by tracing with tracing paper first, before progressing to actually drawing the letters on your own looking at the examples.

Calligraphy For Beginners Worksheet Notepad

Over a hundred pages of calligraphy worksheets for beginners, it’s probably cheaper than actually printing your own and cheap enough you don’t feel intimidated to practice on it. The paper is not the thickest, so it would work better with pencil calligraphy than actual dip pens. Depending on the brand of brush pen you are using it will work as well, though if you like very dark, intense colors they will bleed through.

Hand Lettering Practice Pad

This calligraphy practice book includes 120 pages of angled lines, straight lines and dot matrix practice sheets of no-bleed paper. Suitable for dip pens and brush pens, this is a great pad for aspiring calligraphers as you will have a lot of pages to practice.

Inovart Calligraphy Underliners

If you have a lightbox this set of underliners is a great alternative to printing or tracing guides on paper yourself, as they are reusable. They are made of thin, translucent plastic and correspond to the 6 most popular callgraphic lettering nibs – fine, medium, broad, b2, b3 and b4. You may be able to use them without a lightbox if you use very white, thin paper, but a lightbox makes it much easier. They are also quite cheap and very useful for copying and tracing sketches and worksheets from books.

Speedball 003069 The Speedball Textbook 24th Edition – Calligraphy Instruction Book

So technically this is not a calligraphy for beginners worksheet, but it needs to be here because it’s such an awesome resource. It covers many different font families and shows detailed information on how to trace the different letters, which you can use on your own worksheets as a reference. Coupled with the Inovart underlines this will teach you a lot about calligraphy and technique, and it’s also a great source of inspiration.

Conclusion

In calligraphy, practice makes perfect. But practicing on the same letters and styles all the time can be really boring. It is easier to get several types of calligraphy for beginners worksheets and alternate between them. If you find a particular kind of stroke or style challenging, focus on worksheets that cover those letters and alternate with easier ones as warmup or for relaxation. Above all, enjoy! Calligraphy should be fun and relaxing!