20+ Free Brush Lettering Practice Sheets. Get your lettering + calligraphy practice on with over twenty fun (and free!) practice worksheets.
Yay for FREE Brush Lettering Practice Sheets!
Around here we love, love, love all things hand lettering and brush calligraphy. And practice makes progress is our mantra.
So I rounded up over twenty of my free hand lettering and brush calligraphy worksheets for you to get all the practice you could possibly want. For today anyway!
Note: If you’re a newbie, be sure to scroll down to below the list of worksheets for videos and tips for getting started with this art form.
Basic Strokes Worksheets for Small Brush Pens
Basic Strokes Worksheets for Small Brush Pens. These free brush calligraphy worksheets are the perfect place for a newbie to start!
Basic Strokes Worksheets for Large Brush Pens
Once you've done the small brush pen basic strokes, you're ready for the large brush pen sheets.
Days of the Week Free Practice Sheets
Grab these "Days of the Week" brush calligraphy practice sheets in printable and Procreate friendly formats!
Happy Birthday Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Happy Birthday” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and a “Happy Birthday to You” flourished style.
Congratulations Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the words “Congratulations” and “Congrats” in a standard script and a bouncy script style.
Love Your Selfie Lettering Practice Sheets
A trio of practice sheets for small brush pens, large brush pens, and the iPad!
Be All There Lettering Practice Sheets
A trio of practice sheets for small brush pens, large brush pens, and the iPad!
Love You Lettering Practice Sheets
A trio of practice sheets for small brush pens, large brush pens, and the iPad!
Make Yourself Proud Lettering Practice Sheets
A trio of practice sheets for small brush pens, large brush pens, and the iPad!
So Proud of You Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “So proud of you” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and two more “finished” styles.
Get Well Soon Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Get well soon” in four different styles.
Love + Hugs Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Love + Hugs” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and a “Love + Hugs” flourished style.
Best Wishes Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Best Wishes” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and two more “finished” design styles.
Thinking of You Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Thinking of You” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, as well as two more “finished” design styles.
You're the Best Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “You’re the best” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and a more finished style.
Things to Do Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Things to do” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and two more finished styles.
Note to Self Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Note to Self” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and four more “finished” styles.
Save the Date Lettering Practice Sheets
A trio of custom worksheets for use with your iPad, the Tombow Fude, and the Tombow Dual Tip!
Thank You Brush Calligraphy Practice Sheets
Practice the phrase “Thank You” in standard scripts, bouncy scripts, and four more “finished” styles.
Months of the Year Free Practice Sheets
Practice the months of the year in a variety of styles, some traditional and some bouncy. There are seven pages of practice sheets in this set!
Like a Boss Lettering Practice Sheets
A trio of custom worksheets for use with your iPad, the Tombow Fude, and the Tombow Dual Tip!
Mixed Lettering Practice Sheets: Create
Grab this free mixed lettering styles custom practice sheet in both printable and iPad versions!
Want more free worksheets?
Visit the free practice worksheet archives here for dozens upon dozens of them!
Learn the Art of Brush Lettering + Calligraphy!
Getting Started
A video look at the supplies I use and recommend.
The Basic Strokes
On the upstrokes, you use light pressure and on the downstrokes, you use heavier pressure. I’ll demonstrate this in a video below.
Paper Matters
As I mentioned in the first video, using the proper paper keeps your brush tips in great condition so look for ultra-smooth paper designed for use with brush pens and markers.
My favorites are:
- Rhodia Dot Pad
- Canson Marker Paper
- Copic X-Press It Paper
- Watercolor Paper: Hot Press is smoother than Cold Press so opt for the hot press!
- Copy Paper: HP Premium Choice Laserjet Paper
Holding the Brush Pen
You can really hold your pen however it is comfortable for you, but one thing you need to do is hold it at a roughly 45-degree angle, as demonstrated in the video lesson.
EVEN More FREE Practice Sheets!
Join my free Happy Email Club and you’ll get an exclusive new free practice sheet every month!
From the Lettering Shop.
Want to learn lettering + calligraphy in greater detail
Check out my five-star rated Workbooks + Procreate Brushes in the shop!
LOVE video lessons?
I started a new video series on Brush Calligraphy Basics in the Summer of June 2019. Watch the lesson on Video A/a below, then subscribe to my YouTube Channel to watch all the coming lessons for each letter of the alphabet!
I hope you enjoy these Brush Lettering Practice Sheets! ✒️
Happy practicing!
LET’S CONNECT
Facebook // Pinterest // Instagram // Shop
Holy moly! What a great post chock full of resources! Thank you so much!
Wow! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for including my worksheets!!
Thanks for the shoutout!! I hope people find them helpful 🙂
I can not find the10 Free Hand Lettering Practice Worksheets, there is no link to them. Can you please advise?
Hi Marianne, you can click any title or photo in the post to go to the blog that’s offering the free worksheet. 🙂
Thanks so much! I can’t get the ones from Hello Brio though 🙁
Thanks for the shoutout to my worksheets, Dawn Nicole! 🙂
Sorry but I don`t understand how to get free worksheets?
Hi Olga, click any title or photo to go to the blog post where the free worksheets are offered. 🙂 Each worksheet/worksheet set comes from a different blog.
I clicked on the number 10 of the top 10, and it keeps taking me to the email sign up page and I am already signed up. I attempted going through the email I received about it. I put in the password and I still get redirected to a page to sign up for the email club. Please advise. Many thanks in advance for your time.
The sign in page is here: https://bydawnnicole.com/dnd-happy-email-club/
At the bottom of every weekly Happy Email I send, there’s a link to go right to the happy email club page and a reminder of the password.
cant wait to get started with new pens i got from amazon and now these worksheets thanks all! so very creative and so kind to shrae your creativity with others! Your passion shows in your work!
Thank You
Somewhere along the way I printed two worksheets entitled 50 ways to draw an A and 50 ways to draw a B. I haven’t seen any works sheets for any of the other letters and am particularly interested in the letter M. Have I missed these? Or are they still coming sometime in the future? Thank you.
Hi Patty! They go out each month in the Happy eMail newsletter. The “C” worksheet goes out tomorrow in the August email! 🙂
Glad to hear I didn’t miss them. You are very talented and creative. Love everything you share. Thank you!
Hello Nicole… I was wondering if the “F” worksheet has already been sent… Thanks!!! 🙂
Hi! Yes it went out in the October first email. 🙂 Check your spam box or “promotions” tab in gmail if you didn’t see it in your inbox. 🙂
Thanks a lot! I’ve found it. 😉
“Free”waste of my time-
The problem with the Internet is that people think just because they have an opinion, they’re entitled to say it. Freedom of Speech does not give people freedom to be unkind. It’s a right but it’s also a responsibility. Kindness Changes Everything.
One of my favorite quotes: “If you’re not kind on the Internet, then you’re not kind.” -Glennon Doyle Melton
Preach! Haters gonna hate! I guess my question is why do you click on a post entitled hand lettering worksheets if you think hand lettering worksheets are a waste of time?
I can’t decide where to start! Thank you.
Hi, I really love your work, and always download your worksheet. Sorry to ask you this, but I lost the Fifty-Ways-to-Draw-a-D file, can you please share it with me again?
Hi Adriana! All past Fifty Ways worksheets are on the Happy eMail Club Page. http://bydawnnicole.com/dnd-happy-email-club. The password has been listed in all 3-4 of my most recent Happy Emails. 🙂
hola,
hace poco tiempo que te e conocido …pero me has hecho amar tu blog y el tema lettering!!! gracias por compartir !!
thank you for your lettering ideas !!
Hi,
My name is Zeynep i am turkish 🙂 I downloaded 30 days to better brush calligraphy 🙂 I like this worksheets 🙂 I am so so happy 🙂 Thank you so much 🙂
Bay
Zeynep 🙂
Can I use pen/ nib calligraphy tools with these worksheets? I’m a beginner and want to get into calligraphy. Is the technique between brush and the pen/ ink different?
Hi Elizabeth! You can absolutely use a calligraphy pen on the practice sheets. Just print the sheet on smooth laserjet pet for best results! 🙂
Would love to practice with your advice & practice worksheets!
Hi!!! thanks for all of this freebies, they are great!!!! I am subscribed but can’t download the “50 ways to” files, it keeps sending me to the subscribe page and marks error because I’m all ready on the list, how can I get them, help please 🙂
Hi Yolanda! I don’t show you as subscribed with the email address you used in this comment. Is there another email it may be under? You can email me at [email protected] if you need help signing up! Please be sure to try from a computer and not a mobile device, as the mobile devices are sometimes finicky with signups. 🙂 This is the signup link: http://dawnnicole.us/HappyEmailList
Dawn,
I am having the same issues. I am subscribed to your Happy Emails newsletter and it is sending me to the subscribe area instead. I am doing it from the computer. I entered my email address in the subscribe box and it said I was already subscribed.
Thank You,
Brandy Swartz
Hi Brandy!
Yes, I show you as subscribed. The sign in page is here: https://bydawnnicole.com/dnd-happy-email-club/
At the bottom of every weekly Happy Email I send, there’s a link to go right to the happy email club page (and the password).
Any other links on my site are set up for new subscribers to join, not for current members to sign in, so that’s probably where you’re having trouble. 🙂
Dawn
Thank you for all free thing you have posted! It’s just a rarity in handwriting world.
See you soon!
These freebies are so helpful. you’re doing a wonderful job here.
Thank you for helping me develop my skill on hand lettering.
thank you for all free
Thank you so much for helping me develop my skill on hand lettering.
Dear Nicole,
I would like to thank you from the deepest bottom of my heart for this hard work you put into creating these freebies. I’m a newbie to hand-lettering but I’ve loved and tried to learn calligraphy for a long time. I stumble upon your blog while searching for calligraphy template to practice and man I must say your blog is AWESOME!
I’ll gladly purchase the supplies through your link and I wish you many great things in life and great health and fortune to carry on spreading your talent in hand lettering.
Thank you so so much again!
Have a nice day! 🙂
Thank you so much for these!
I can´t print the numbre 10. I subscribe the list but it still don´t work. 🙁
But I love this Page <3
Hi Jaqueline! Once you sign up, you get an email with sign-in info for the Happy Email Club page. All of the “fifty ways” worksheets live on that password protected page under the “Fifty Ways” button. 🙂 That sign-in info appears at the bottom of every weekly Happy Email I send.
All the links on this page are broken for me (404 not found)
I noticed they all end in .html as well as having the year and month in the middle of the URL, but that doesn’t seem to be the current URL structure of your site.
If you changed your Permalink structure in WordPress, it does not automatically redirect links. It looks like all the links work if you remove the date and .html parts, so I would recommend doing a big search & replace in your site an also setting up 301 redirects for the old link structure. Feel free to email me if you want more advice on that.
Hi Kristarella! Agh, thanks for letting me know. I hired a gal to change my permalink structure and setup redirects a few months ago. It has all been working just fine up until the last 24 hours! I’m going to send her an email so she can check it out ASAP. Sorry for any inconvenience!
OMG! This is everything!. What an excellent guide for a beginner like me! Looking forward to lots of practicing and hopefully meeting my own style! Yay! <3
im very glad to find this site. its very helpfull for beginner like me. waaah… i can’t wait to practice it by myself. tha k you so much dawn nicole. i love you. ?
I am new to Calligraphy and hand lettering. And I am so happy to have found your website.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this great post! It helps me a lot to start practicing as a beginner! 🙂
I FEEL LIKE I JUST TRIPPED INTO A FREAKING DIAMOND MINE!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Hello,I’m from Indonesia, and I’m new in this calligraphy world … I am soooooooo happy found this, its very useful and helpful …
So much much much much thank youuu 🙂
You’re so welcome, Helza! I hope you enjoy them! 🙂
trying to get your fun with floushing free e book but keep getting 404 pages?
Hi Jazzy! That’s a super outdated one I’ve removed from the blog as it has since been replaced with much better freebies like all the custom worksheets in this blog post! 🙂
First of all, Thank You! It’s so nice of you to share these with us! I want to know, do I have to use this internet program that’s listed to download these twenty pages? I share a computer with my hubby. He does NOT like for me to sign up for things I know nothing about! I’m NOT a computer girl! Please explain how I can print these off using my computer! Again, Thank YOU so much for sharing!
You’re so welcome! No special program needed to open the worksheets. Just click the PDF download link in the blog post of any worksheet you want. When it opens in your browser, you can print it right from there. Or you can save the worksheet to your computer and print it. If you do that, you may need Adobe Reader installed to open the PDF but most computers already have that. 🙂