Ooh, pretty: or why SCAdians should stay away from photoshop

[Dragostae]

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!  

[Naito_Mitsukai]

OOOOOOO!! PRETTY!! rofl heart

Makes me REALLY want to finally figure out a device for myself! sweatdrop  

[Random Saxon]

Oh, quite nice.
Could you do it for other kingdoms, or was this an act of patriotism?  

[Dragostae]

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.  

[Felix OFlyn]

Not bad.  

[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  

[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.  

[Sad-Hacked-Returned]

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  

[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.  

[Dragostae]

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.  

[Snaebjorn]

How could it have hurt you? Your just drawing sideways.  

[Snaebjorn]

That is true. Don't use an angled nib. Use a flat nib. Much much easier on the wrist for that style.  

[Dragostae]

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.