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Favorite Resources / San Francisco stores?
« on: February 09, 2016, 07:00:45 PM »
I am going to spend the next week and a half in San Francisco (business travel) and will be right around Union Square. Any good calligraphy related stores to check out?

Thanks.

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Show & Tell / First non practice piece
« on: February 06, 2016, 01:52:24 AM »
Not sure about this one. Too early, quality too low yet? Only been married for 23 years, one has to be careful. I can wait for another year and hopefully be better, but then there is the whole selfmade present thing....there are a few other pieces to go with it but I doubt I will get much better in a week.
 :-[

PS: I know there is supposed to be an 's at the end (forgot in all the excitement), I will re-write it but it wont improve much I think.

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I am not sure this belongs here, sorry if it is in the wrong place.

Being a beginner and coming from a technical background I need to wrap my head around mechanical proportions first to really understand a letterform before I can write/draw it (I know this is going to break my neck when it comes to flourishing). I have found it difficult to get a good grip on some Copperplate letters for that specific reason as most are just a sample to be copied until the desired look is achieved.

However I stumbled onto this book:

https://archive.org/details/RecueilMethodiqueDePrincipesDEcriture

Based on my limited knowledge it is a distant cursive cousin to Copperplate with an angle of just over 56 degrees but I really like how the letter proportions are shown. Too bad it is all in French which I can only read about 0% of.

Is there a Copperplate resource that has similar proportion diagrams?

Steffen

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Kind Critique / Help with M's and N's please
« on: February 02, 2016, 01:37:40 PM »
I am a beginner (started at Christmas) and am having a great time learning Copperplate based on the information from this great group, specifically the worksheets posted by Erica. Thank you so much, these are a great resource for noobs like myself.
I am still very shaky and have not made it through the worksheets but I am doing this for fun and fun is what I am having so far. I also do understand that practice and repetition are necessary to get better and am willing to put in the time and effort. However...... capital M's and N's seem to have a mind of their own and are not cooperating no matter how many pages I fill with them. I can't wrap my head around the slants and their alignment to the basic 55° slant. Should either of the four basic lines of the capital M be aligned with the slant or are all four at different angle or only 2......?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I have attached a picture to show the level that I am at (which ain't much yet but it will be).

Thanks in advance,

Steffen


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Introductions / Hello from Colorado
« on: January 08, 2016, 01:26:49 PM »
Hello everyone,

I always liked beautiful lettering and have the worst (but very very fast  ;)) handwriting even though sometimes even I can't read it. Looking to re-write the family recipe collection and make a nice cookbook out of it once I am a bit (lot) better. Copperplate is the target for that project, I love pointed pen so far.
Right now I just started and am having lots of "shaky" line issues and often get way to distracted, there are soooo many nibs and inks an papers and letterforms....awesome.
Very humbling to look at some of the work on this forum, there are some very talented members here.

Looking forward to learning as much as I can.

Steffen

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