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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Broad Pen Mail Exchange?

« on: August 16, 2014, 07:45:42 AM »

Heart beat is rising with every new participant..the quotations idea is good, would take care of the content anxiety and helps me not sound stupid..i am new to the exchange concept too, how exactly does it work??

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Broad Pen Mail Exchange?

« on: August 14, 2014, 04:59:45 PM »

I am interested, but i am not very good..

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Need Gothic exemplar

« on: August 14, 2014, 04:58:09 PM »

Thanks brad. This seems pretty straight word and is more than an exemplar..thank you very much

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Need Gothic exemplar

« on: August 14, 2014, 04:55:09 PM »

That should keep you busy for a while.

I think you just planned the second half of 2014 for me...thanks

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Johann Sebastian Bach

« on: July 23, 2014, 07:32:12 PM »

And i meant to write 'praise'..don't even know how did i end up with 'appraise'

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Johann Sebastian Bach

« on: July 21, 2014, 01:45:20 PM »

so you basically digitised the hand written version of a digital typeface and made it look better than the original....kudos to you

I wrote it with slight modifications for handlettering, scanned it and uploaded it FPN. If that is digitization, then that's what I did!

(If you haven't already guessed, I'm computer illiterate!)

Ken

Its worthy of even more appraise if you didn't retouch it..Sorry i don't know what FPN means

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Johann Sebastian Bach

« on: July 21, 2014, 05:42:34 AM »

so you basically digitised the hand written version of a digital typeface and made it look better than the original....kudos to you

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Need Gothic exemplar

« on: July 21, 2014, 05:39:44 AM »

Hi everyone

I have been teaching myself calligraphy for some time now and have chosen to take up gothic as the next hand that i would learn. The problem is that i am not particularly fond of the version of gothic that my reference manual has and i am looking for some help here.
I was hoping that one of you could help me find a good exemplar along with instructions explaining the finer points of the hand.

Thanks in advance

-Nishant

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: A sampler for Foundational, Uncial and Rustic Capitals

« on: June 19, 2014, 04:26:38 PM »

Ohhh...I get it..i find it weird swell...whenever i practice without reference i tend to not give it a curl...but since i picked up uncial and foundational after a long time i kept the book handy and so ended up following it. I would try them both out to compare which feels more like it belongs.
Surprisingly the cream holder is easy to find here in india, apart from them we are stationery deprived.

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: A sampler for Foundational, Uncial and Rustic Capitals

« on: June 16, 2014, 02:22:02 PM »

Thank you Lori, you have a good eye for detail. I completely missed the 'e' going lower than the baseline, although now that you have mentioned it that is the first place my eye travels to in the piece. I would work on the serifs more to make them crisper and cleaner. Do you have any suggestions on how to work on the word spacing?

You are right about the ‘h’, it wasn’t acceptable for me as well but i had over inked it and there was no going back from that. I would keep in mind, not to do it again. could you explain/illustrate what you are saying about the ‘p’, i did not get that.

The holder is not vintage, it is from Cretacolour. The metal thingy that looks like a slider is actually the thing that holds the nib in place. So basically you lift it—insert the nib—and press it down again.

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: A sampler for Foundational, Uncial and Rustic Capitals

« on: June 16, 2014, 05:52:16 AM »

Thank you sisterofdream. Letter spacing is something that i really struggle with, i would try to layout my work beforehand rather than just picking up the pen and going at it.
The height of the rustic capitals varies because the reference book i follow suggests that these particular letters be written taller than the others. When i try to write them at the normal height i find that-
'B' becomes broader and looks lesser a part of the alphabet
'F' and 'L' start to be mixed with 'E' and 'I' respectively.
So i did not fight the wisdom of the book long and started following it.

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / A sampler for Foundational, Uncial and Rustic Capitals

« on: June 15, 2014, 12:45:11 PM »

It would be nice to hear which of them needs the most amount of work and more importantly what details am i really missing, because i feel that i have reached a spot where i am no longer able to self critique myself on these hands.

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Introductions / Re: Introduction to new beginnings

« on: June 13, 2014, 06:45:01 AM »

Sorry, forgot the link in a hurry

Here is the tumblr account http://theuturn.tumblr.com

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Introductions / Re: Introduction to new beginnings

« on: June 13, 2014, 06:42:20 AM »

Hi Bella
I do not have an active instagram account yet, although you could go through my ramblings on my tumblr. I am in the process of making everything more organised, so would add these things to my signature once i am done with all that. Thank you for your interest

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Who are the people who do Calligraphy?

« on: June 11, 2014, 02:38:02 PM »

This is interesting. i personally am also interested in knowing how these people write when not intentionally trying to make it beautiful. Although this can't possibly be a survey question, but i find it intriguing.