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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Practising for consistency
« on: March 09, 2014, 09:10:10 AM »
Some italic drills, working on the fundamentals...
Do you guys do these often?
Do you guys do these often?
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Show & Tell / Italic Inception
« on: February 22, 2014, 02:51:42 AM »
This is something I did last month. It's done on an A3 watercolor sheet, with shellac ink wash.
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Spencerian Script / Some Spencerian practice...
« on: February 21, 2014, 04:47:20 PM »
This part of the forum seems awfully quiet... Let's show some Spencerian love!
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Brush Calligraphy / First try with a brush...
« on: February 21, 2014, 02:05:57 PM »
... and I went big. This is 2m wide and 1.5m high. It's a mural for my newborn son's room.
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Show & Tell / Part of a card I just penned
« on: February 19, 2014, 07:15:34 AM »
I did a card for a newborn girl, and quite liked how it came out. Her's the "relevant" bit:
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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Italic handwriting practice
« on: February 17, 2014, 03:59:54 PM »
Inspired by reddit's /r/calligraphy word of the day, I did a bit of handwriting practice. I went for flow (and to some degree speed), rather than accuracy, but kept some "old style" features that I don't usually use in my daily writing.
In any case, it was very fun to write...
Iron-gall ink on cartridge paper. French square cut nib, probably 0.5 or 0.75mm.
In any case, it was very fun to write...
Iron-gall ink on cartridge paper. French square cut nib, probably 0.5 or 0.75mm.
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Copperplate, Engrosser's Script, Roundhand Calligraphy / Some inspiration...
« on: February 11, 2014, 03:09:09 PM »
The other day Joe Vitolo posted this wonderful exemplar of Lupfer's work on the FB calligraphy group, and it's so wonderful, I felt like sharing it here.
It's a very nice blend of ornamental-style caps with a flourished roundhand lettering... One can only wish to achieve anything close to this!
It's a very nice blend of ornamental-style caps with a flourished roundhand lettering... One can only wish to achieve anything close to this!
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Spencerian Script / Some full arm practice for Ornamental capitals
« on: February 09, 2014, 05:35:59 PM »
After doing Spencerian for about a year now, I still pretty much suck at doing ornamental caps, so last week I decided to start practicing more. Here's some "full arm" practice. Nothing too good, but very fun to do!
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Show & Tell / Time is getting shorter...
« on: February 05, 2014, 05:56:00 PM »
Pen control exercise in English Roundhand. X-heights are 10, 6, 4, 2, 1.5 and 1mm. The mis-alignment in the last three is due to the lack of guidelines so small. I used a Brause 66EF for the larger sizes, and an Esterbrook 355 (first one I try, and like all other Esterbrook nibs I've tried, it was love at first sight! Awesome lil' nib!) for the smaller ones. I started losing control at the 2mm mark, in the last three, the 'm' became rather Spencerian-ish at the joins, but overall, I like how the word is still clearly in roundhand.
This was good fun!
This was good fun!
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Show & Tell / Song Lyrics
« on: February 03, 2014, 06:17:35 PM »
Lyrics are fun to write!
Here's some I've done...
Here's some I've done...
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Spencerian Script / Spencerian guidelines
« on: January 31, 2014, 09:46:49 AM »
Hi,
I've made some Spencerian guidelines for my own practice, and thought maybe they can be helpful for other people.
2, 3, 4 and 6mm x-heights, 52º slant.
Cheers,
Martín
I've made some Spencerian guidelines for my own practice, and thought maybe they can be helpful for other people.
2, 3, 4 and 6mm x-heights, 52º slant.
Cheers,
Martín
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Copperplate, Engrosser's Script, Roundhand Calligraphy / Some copperplate practice - criticism welcome!
« on: January 31, 2014, 01:54:26 AM »
Here's a practice sheet from yesterday. I'm aware of several errors in it, but I might be missing something, so any hard/constructive criticism you can give me would be very welcome!
Cheers,
Martín
Cheers,
Martín
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Introductions / Hello from Finland!
« on: January 28, 2014, 05:34:44 AM »
Hi, my name is Martín and I live in northern Finland. I've been doing calligraphy for about a year and a half as of this writing. I started out with Chancery italic, and then picked up Spencerian about a year ago. Now that I'm comfortable with those, I'm trying to learn Copperplate.
Looking forward to finding nice people and nice calligraphy here
This is a more or less representative sample of what I can currently pen in the scripts I practice...
Looking forward to finding nice people and nice calligraphy here
This is a more or less representative sample of what I can currently pen in the scripts I practice...
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