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 Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:43 pm
I got bored today. Calontiri, I made something you can play with. Just credit me (Constantia, or R. Marie Ost works here).  [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/zephyrofgod/Calontircopy.jpg[/IMG] I'm scared now. razz Now, if only I could figure out how to do period calligraphy...left-handed!
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:54 am
OOOOOOO!! PRETTY!! rofl heart
Makes me REALLY want to finally figure out a device for myself! sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:29 am
Oh, quite nice.
Could you do it for other kingdoms, or was this an act of patriotism?
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:38 am
Random Saxon Oh, quite nice. Could you do it for other kingdoms, or was this an act of patriotism? I could....but I am a Calontiri through and through. I'll start singing songs. razz If you just get me the line art, I can do that for you.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:45 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:18 pm
Nice!
Oooh, good luck with the left hand caligraphy. Somehow I don't think there's much period work done left handed, least not documented. xp
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:21 pm
Sir_Catherine Nice!
Oooh, good luck with the left hand caligraphy. Somehow I don't think there's much period work done left handed, least not documented. xp Sadly, there's very little work done with the sinister hand. I have to modify a lot of what I do so that I can make it work. Unfortunately, that means I can't do very many hands outside of uncials.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:51 pm
That is pretty... Kind of ironic that it was made on the computer... I went to ORF with a friend of mine. I was standing in line for the ATM and the guy ahead of me was in full garb and in seemed a little ironic to see him using the ATM... When history meets today... I guess
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:19 am
Dragostae Sir_Catherine Nice!
Oooh, good luck with the left hand caligraphy. Somehow I don't think there's much period work done left handed, least not documented. xp Sadly, there's very little work done with the sinister hand. I have to modify a lot of what I do so that I can make it work. Unfortunately, that means I can't do very many hands outside of uncials. Here is a bit of advice for you from another left handed calligrapher. Turn the paper side ways. Instead of an A being two vertical lines and a horizontal line you would write it using two horizontals and one vertical. Typically the paper would be with the top facing ^. So writing the A would be /-. Instead face the top of the paper to the > and write the A by doing the vertical lines on their side and the horizontal line by going up and down.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:04 am
Snaebjorn Dragostae Sir_Catherine Nice!
Oooh, good luck with the left hand caligraphy. Somehow I don't think there's much period work done left handed, least not documented. xp Sadly, there's very little work done with the sinister hand. I have to modify a lot of what I do so that I can make it work. Unfortunately, that means I can't do very many hands outside of uncials. Here is a bit of advice for you from another left handed calligrapher. Turn the paper side ways. Instead of an A being two vertical lines and a horizontal line you would write it using two horizontals and one vertical. Typically the paper would be with the top facing ^. So writing the A would be /-. Instead face the top of the paper to the > and write the A by doing the vertical lines on their side and the horizontal line by going up and down. It's one of the things that I tried when I first started doing calligraphy at the ripe old age of eight. It hurt, so I stopped.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:41 am
How could it have hurt you? Your just drawing sideways.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:04 am
Snaebjorn How could it have hurt you? Your just drawing sideways. Maybe it's the angle of the wrist?
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:18 am
That is true. Don't use an angled nib. Use a flat nib. Much much easier on the wrist for that style.
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:46 pm
You must understand that I learned calligraphy from my mother (who is right handed). Therefore, I hold my pen like a right-handed person would. It hurts my wrist to write on paper any other way than slightly angled to the right.
My point is, I can do a good uncial. I can even do some decent Chancery and some blackletter, and even some fancy court hands...but I have to be allowed to do them my own way, otherwise I have even more joint issues plopped on top of my already extensive amount (trust me, Rheumatoid Arthritis is far from fun). And because I'm a jeweller and a cook IRL, I need my hands and wrists.
Got it?
Groovy. biggrin
Sorry if that seemed a bit too ranty. It wasn't meant to be that way.
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