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I've been surfing around looking and there seems to be plenty beginners, how to make your own wedding invitations, kinds of course but I'm wondering who hosts workshops that do things like examining manuscripts and putting the various scripts both into context from a historic perspective and talks through techniques, materials, preparation of them.

For example looking at old bibles like the vulgate or sinaiticus or early english manuscripts.  Techniques for identifying the scripts in time, understanding how the specific manuscripts style is different from older or newer manuscripts of the same script, identifying the individual scribes styles.   What strokes and extend skills need to be learned to emulate the styles and on and on.

Things like Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Sumerian and Asian scripts and the various related technique could also be fascinating.

Any suggestions would be appreciated?


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Is it reasonable to practice a couple of different scripts each day.  i.e.  A Gothic style and a Cursive style.   I've been looking at the Spencerian text and copybooks as well as various early biblical fonts.  Some of the Uncial versions are quite readable and I thought I might pick one or two to begin with.

I am very early in my practice so just about any time I put ink to paper I see improvement but I wonder whether best practice is to practice a few scripts at a time that are fairly far apart in technique OR whether it is better to commit to learning them in a specific order?

How often do you switch between the scripts to stay fresh, interested, and in practice?  Or do you instead simply pull up an exemplar and go to work?    This is purely for the hobby of it.

Thanks for any comments,
Robert



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Introductions / Hello I'm Robert and I have ink
« on: December 05, 2016, 08:45:16 PM »
Just a beginner looking for tips and ideas.


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