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Spencerian Script / Re: With nib or brush?
« on: February 20, 2020, 01:03:44 PM »
Thank you I will definitely check that out!! 
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Spencerian Script / With nib or brush?
« on: January 17, 2020, 01:34:57 AM »
I've been looking at the Secrets of Madarasz book and I found these two examples. I just can't wrap my head around how he's making these strokes with a pointed pen. The strokes are so thick on the "Zanerian" example, and the sharp corner at the bottom of the "S" in the "Shakespeare" and the tip of the "r" have me confounded. Are these really done with a nib? or is it brush work? What's the trick to making script like this?
I've only learned Spencerian from Michael Sull's book. I haven't really done much beyond that and I'm just starting to get my feet wet with some of these more ornate looking styles. Any help would be appreciated.
I've only learned Spencerian from Michael Sull's book. I haven't really done much beyond that and I'm just starting to get my feet wet with some of these more ornate looking styles. Any help would be appreciated.
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Coffee & Nib-bles / Re: Calligraphy confessions
« on: January 19, 2019, 11:23:54 AM »
Ok, so I am a newbie but have a few confessions already...
1. I am practicing/learning spencerian with a pilot g2 roller ball instead of a dip pen or fountain pen, even though I own both...and 3 oblique pen holders, 3 different inks, and Nikko G's which I haven't yet used...I guess I'm worried about having to incorporate pressure sensitivity and shading while trying to learn cursive for basically the first time since 3rd grade. I tried it on deployment and the rocking of the ship made for disasterous results...
2. I'm afraid the post office won't be able to read my addresses so I do the name as pretty as I can and the rest of it in military "recruit handwriting" capital block letters so I know it won't get delivered to the wrong address.
3. My posture is horrible, I have a place to sit properly but it's my cat's favorite chair and he's too cute for me to kick off. Ever. So I hunch over the coffee table and count down the days until my next chiropractor appointment...lol.
4. I ordered the same how to write spencerian book twice because I forgot I had ordered it and was too impatient for it to arrive. I now have 3 books, and have barely started the first one.
5. I thought eleanor winter's book on copperplate was really dry, but P.R. Spencer's writing very interesting...
6. I'm really only learning so I can write love letters to my wife when I deploy again in August.
1. I am practicing/learning spencerian with a pilot g2 roller ball instead of a dip pen or fountain pen, even though I own both...and 3 oblique pen holders, 3 different inks, and Nikko G's which I haven't yet used...I guess I'm worried about having to incorporate pressure sensitivity and shading while trying to learn cursive for basically the first time since 3rd grade. I tried it on deployment and the rocking of the ship made for disasterous results...
2. I'm afraid the post office won't be able to read my addresses so I do the name as pretty as I can and the rest of it in military "recruit handwriting" capital block letters so I know it won't get delivered to the wrong address.
3. My posture is horrible, I have a place to sit properly but it's my cat's favorite chair and he's too cute for me to kick off. Ever. So I hunch over the coffee table and count down the days until my next chiropractor appointment...lol.
4. I ordered the same how to write spencerian book twice because I forgot I had ordered it and was too impatient for it to arrive. I now have 3 books, and have barely started the first one.
5. I thought eleanor winter's book on copperplate was really dry, but P.R. Spencer's writing very interesting...
6. I'm really only learning so I can write love letters to my wife when I deploy again in August.
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Coffee & Nib-bles / Re: Do tell and do show your pen
« on: January 16, 2019, 10:40:30 AM »
That is a beautiful piece of writing. I know it's an antique but any idea what kind of nib it is? I would love to be able to get something like that for writing!
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Spencerian Script / Re: Shading letters
« on: January 13, 2019, 10:33:09 AM »
Michael Sull's said in a YouTube video taken at the IAMPETH 2017 conference that shades almost never cross the half way mark of the letter. That that was one if the major differences between it and copperplate. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly where it was in the video... but here is the link! Audio quality leaves much to be desired, but as a beginner I found it very useful.
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Introductions / Hello from San Diego!
« on: January 12, 2019, 10:01:48 AM »
Hello all! I'm looking forward to browsing the forums and getting to improve my calligraphy. I originally started this journey on my last deployment as a desire to improve my handwriting so I could write beautiful letters. It has since grown into me expirementing with dip pens, and fountain pens, etc. Since my main purpose is letter writing, pointed pen (specifically Michael Sull's spencerian) is what I've decided to focus my efforts on. I am still very early on in all this, and looking forward to improving!
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