Why did you leave a small gap for the downward stroke while drawing the upward stroke for the L? Does it give any benefit?
My best guess is that you wanted to avoid a dark patch in the region where the two strokes cross (due to excess ink). But then there are a lot of other crossings where you don't do that.
This person posts very often and they always do that when making that loop. I think it was intended as a way to avoid ink crossings. I believe its just a habit at this point but it looks nice. I love their writing and never get tired of seeing these posts.
The "small gap" that you see is more of a pen lift in order to, I assume, prevent the lowercase L from looking like an oval (pictured on the right in the attached image).
I grew a habit of always doing the "small gap," like in the video, after a small upstroke when starting an L, b, or p as well so that the loop looks less wonky (pictured on the left in the attached image).
Why did you leave a small gap for the downward stroke while drawing the upward stroke for the L? Does it give any benefit?
My best guess is that you wanted to avoid a dark patch in the region where the two strokes cross (due to excess ink). But then there are a lot of other crossings where you don't do that.
I was curious about that too.
This person posts very often and they always do that when making that loop. I think it was intended as a way to avoid ink crossings. I believe its just a habit at this point but it looks nice. I love their writing and never get tired of seeing these posts.
The "small gap" that you see is more of a pen lift in order to, I assume, prevent the lowercase L from looking like an oval (pictured on the right in the attached image).
I grew a habit of always doing the "small gap," like in the video, after a small upstroke when starting an L, b, or p as well so that the loop looks less wonky (pictured on the left in the attached image).
Small Gap VS Gapless
However, I'm not sure why the person in the video would do it, so the ink theory is also plausible.
Elegant
Beautiful! Never seen anyone leave a lil space on a L before thats pretty cool!
Paper used?
Nice, but the pen not working at the beginning ruined it for me.