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I had posted an Hassan Massoudy’s calligraphy in the artwork of the day thread and I thought I could be an interesting thread to start.SomethingElse encouraged me to do it !
Share the calligraphies you like, the ones of your country, the ones you wrote, the ones who draw characters, animals, poetics images ; discuss the techniques to write : pencils, quills, brushes, papers, inks, etc..
Some various one I found on the net.
calligraphy_allposters.jpg
©allposters.com
calligraphy_AndalusQuran_answer.jpg
©answer.com
calligraphy_cecilia-letteringart01.jpg
©cecilia-letteringart.com
 
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calligraphy_france_istockphoto.jpg
©istockphoto.com
calligraphy_kazuya_akimoto.jpg
©kazuya_akimoto.com
Calligraphy_keep_it_going_kghoefer.jpg
©kghoefer.com
 
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calligraphy_kurukshetra_answer.jpg

©answer.com
calligraphy_song_dynasty_Mifu01_ans.jpg
©answer.com
calli15_hassan_massoudy.gif
©hassan massoudy
 
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oh awesome. I'm actually taking a class at my university in calligraphy.
 
do they teach you about the history of it, matthaeus?^

interesting topic!
i like just beautiful handwriting in general
ornamentalpenmanshipsigvg5.jpg

i especially like seeing handwritten letters from Victorian England-- they were so well done. It seems like they were expected of society maybe? I remember as a kid we were taught how to write properly and clearly and in an appealing style (when I was in the Philippines), but in Canada it's not really emphasized I think.. not the schools I went to anyway
my parents and all my aunts from there have very beautiful handwriting...

There are some more examples of the writing and also lessons here :flower:
http://www.iampeth.com/lessons.htm
I want to go to the library now and get some books on penmanship! :p
 
Famous brand foreign calligraphies

Bonjour,matthaeus123, I hope you will post your personal works!
こんにちは giusさん, I'm glad you have an interest for this topic.I like the hand written victorian england too, and thanks to you for the link.
I had studied calligraphy but only some european middle age ones..I shall try to find them again.
photos © modillustr
 
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The Book of Kells is one of my favorite illuminated manuscripts. It dates back to the 8th century. You can see a few more images here.

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Winter quarter I have to make a book. And write about 10 pages in it of calligraphy.
 
Thank you for posting those beautifuls calligraphied animals,somethingelse, and for the links!
A Tunisian calligrapher, Lasaad Métoui, whom I recently discovered the artworks, with a wonderful cover in a show window.
Some of his calligraphies:
lasaad_metoui_rememberance.jpg
Rememberances woven with heart's fibres, in the net of memory. Silently, winter prepares the seeds of the light.(A.Boudet)
lasaad_metoui_calligraphy.jpg
Calligraphy is a spiritual art.
lasaad_metoui_opportunity.jpg
Love is the only opportunity that idiots have to grow up.(Honoré de balzac).
All images © l-arbre-aux-papiers.com
 
Three ones more:
lasaad_metoui_love.jpg
Love, it's the I don't know what...(Victor Hugo)
lasaad_metoui_douceur.jpg
From "douceur"(softness) to "douleur"(pain, sorrow) only a letter changes.
lasaad_metoui_beauty.jpg
Beauty is in the eye of the one who is looking at(Margareth Hungerford)
All images © l-arbre-aux-papiers.com
 
SomethingElse said:
The Book of Kells is one of my favorite illuminated manuscripts. It dates back to the 8th century. You can see a few more images here.
lab404.com
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Thanks for those beautifuls posting and for links, somethingelse!
I had to illustrate a presskit cover for a project of CD about the Celtic culture.The customer wanted a handscripted title, so I had tried to draw it in this illuminated manuscript style.(Customer also liked Neuchwanstein and Loire castles, not really celtic...)Unfortunately this project failed.
The skecth and the printed cover(technique: watercolor, the subtitle "quest..." was added in typography)
©modillustr/bi-aru
 
I tried taking an East Asian calligraphy course; it is really really hard.

You have to be very steady, its almost like a form of meditation of tai chi. Concentrating but letting everything flow. There are huge competitions in Asia between different calligraphers, and they creat enormous poster/banner size creations. Its really amazing.
 
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This is some of my calligraphy.
 
^^ Nice videos. Preparing your tools is half the fun of doing calligraphy. I loved preparing the ink on the stone.

^My own calligraphy looked like angry ink blots, lol.
 
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