Calligraphy resources online?
Aug. 6th, 2012 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Before I start a duckduckgo search that may lead me down the rabbit hole, I was wondering...
- if anyone here does calligraphy?
- if anyone has a recommendation for a teach-yourself-calligraphy online resource (preferably not YouTube because they and my Gnash player don't always play nice and I'm trying to stick to Free Software)?
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Date: 2012-08-06 01:03 pm (UTC)Also, some unsolicited advice: Get hold of a pad of graph paper for practice (or print some out). It's way less annoying than ruling lines for middle and top of letters, and having these lines helps enormously.
(BTW, I think DownloadHelper for Firefox will download youtube videos without any Flash player, and you can then play the downloaded vids in Totem or VLC or something)
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Date: 2012-08-06 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-06 09:36 pm (UTC)Graph paper - check! thank you for the tip!
I'll see if my library has that book! ^_^
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Date: 2012-08-06 01:41 pm (UTC)Handwriting Tips at papernalia.com has some tips more fundamental than letter shapes. I've been doing a "training programme" based on the suggestions there for two weeks or so and am seeing improvement.
http://www.calligraphy-skills.com might be useful, though I've been skipping stuff and mostly been using the instructions for the gothic alphabet there.
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Date: 2012-08-06 04:49 pm (UTC)There are a lot of books that show you the shapes of letters, but they do not give you the arrows to show you the steps so people may guess how to do it, but that seems a lot more frustrating than something that gives you numbered steps and arrows.
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Date: 2012-08-06 09:35 pm (UTC)Also, was messing around, and 3rd grade penmanship came back to me. Was rather fun. I usually don't bother with cursive anymore, but I think I may write a letter to a penpal in cursive and see what they say! (And then vary other letters with some calligraphy...)
Thanks!
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Date: 2012-08-06 09:35 pm (UTC)