We made it to the last day of 26 Words in Basic Strokes! Thanks for practicing along with me. Today’s word is “zillion”. Grab your pen/pencil and paper and practice this last word with me.

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26 Words in Basic Strokes – Word 26 – zillion

Hello and welcome back to 26 Words in Basic Strokes. I’m Riëtte and I’m breaking down one word a day for 26 days into the basic calligraphy strokes. We’re keeping it simple, no flourishes or bouncing. If you need an overview of the basic strokes I break them down in the introduction video of this series. Today we are doing the last word, zillion.

We’ll start with an overturn stroke.

Next we have a modified descending stroke. This is our descender for our ‘z’.

Next we have our upstroke.

Then we move on to an underturn stroke.

An l-stroke.

Another l-stroke.

An underturn stroke – the exit stroke on this doesn’t quite reach the x-height.

An oval.

A connector dot that flows into and overturn stroke.

A compound curve.

Now let’s put them together.

Overturn stroke.

Modified descending stroke.

Upstroke.

Underturn stroke.

L-stroke.

Another l-stroke.

Underturn stroke.

Oval.

Connector dot overturn stroke combination.

And compound curve.

And remember to dot the two ‘i’s’.

And that’s the word “zillion”.

I would love to see your practice. Tag me on Instagram using #26wordsinbasicstrokes. Thank you so much for joining me through this series 26 Words in Basic Strokes. I had so much fun. I’ll be back soon with another series, but for now keep practicing.

PREVIOUS VIDEOS IN THIS SERIEs

1. Introduction and overview
2. Word 1 – amazing
3. Word 2 – beautiful
4. Word 3 – courageous
5. Word 4 – daring
6. Word 5 – encourage
7. Word 6 – faithful
8. Word 7 – gracious
9. Word 8 – happy
10. Word 9 – inspire
11. Word 10 – journey
12. Word 11 – kindness
13. Word 12 – lovely
14. Word 13 – miracle
15. Word 14 – nature
16. Word 15 – original
17. Word 16 – promise
18. Word 17 – quiet
19. Word 18 – remember
20. Word 19 – sensitive
21. Word 20 – tidings
22. Word 21 – ultimate
23. Word 22 – vintage
24. Word 23 – wonderful
25. Word 24 – xhosa
26. Word 25 – yummy

Happy Creating!