So, you may have noticed that sometimes I
write in a strange, alien, futuristic type
code in some of my drawings. Well most of
you have. I've been receiving lots of queries
about it. It's called elian script, and is
named after Dr. Elian, its inventor. In this
video, I'm going to be teaching you how to
read and write elian script. It might seem
a li'l bit complicated at first, but I'll
try to explain to you what it is and how to
read it and write it as well as I can. It's
based off of these three tic tac toe boards
I'm drawing here. This is the cheat sheet,
if you will. So yeah. You draw these three
tic tac toe boards and then you fill them
in with all the letters of the alphabet, like
I'm doing now. To write the letters 'a' to
'i', you have to use the first box. To figure
out how to write a letter, you have to look
at the lines that it touches, like, the lines
that the letter touches in the tic tac toe
boards. If you look at the letter 'a', you
can see that it's touching lines on the top
and the right hand side - so that's what the
symbol looks like. Kind of like an upside
down L. For 'b', it's touching lines on the
top, the right hand side, and the bottom,
so that's what the symbol looks like there,
like a 'c' in the mirror, I guess. And so
on... These first nine letters are the most
basic and the simplest, so you really have
to make sure you understand them before you
go on to the rest of the letters. You can
pause here, if you like. In the rest of the
alphabet, we use this system too, except we
make small changes to differentiate between
the three different grids. Alright, let's
get into it. The second grid may look a bit
complicated at first, but it only has one
major difference from the first grid, being
that in each symbol, one line is elongated.
You can see that here, I'm writing out all
of the different ways to write each letter.
In the first grid, there was only really one
way to do this, but here you can see that
there are two, three, and in the case of 'n',
8 ways to make the letter. So, you just take
the lines that the letter is touching in the
grid, and make one of them longer. It's just
that simple! For the third grid, we make one
minor change again from the second grid. So,
what you have to do is just add a dot to the
end of one of the lines for each symbol. It
doesn't really matter where you add the dot,
but the basic rule is just to add it to the
line that won't really confuse the reader
and make it look like it's added to a different
line on a different symbol. It doesn't really
have to be a dot, too. It could be like a
squiggle or a square or triangle or trapezium
or something like that, just pick a shape
- it could be that. Just as long as you can
clearly see which symbol it goes with, and
that it's not on a straight line, you should
be fine. Like, it should probably be legible.
I don't know. I really hope that this made
some sense to you. Feel free to ask any questions
you might have in the comments below, if anything
was unclear, and I will try to respond to
all of them. I'm planning on putting a part
two out sometime, I don't know - sentences?
Stylize your elian script? Something like
that. I'll put something on the screen now
- no. Now. Right now, if you want to check
that out. Thanks for watching. Bye!
