I just started doing caligraphy i have 3 pens. An old cross,a Lamy and a Monteverde. medium,broad,extra fine nibs respectively. What would be a good bottled ink to use(black). Currently i have Lamy bottled ink.

Well I finally overcome my fear of failing and started practicing calligraphy again. It sucks, I know but I’m proud of it.

Diamine Ancient Copper Lamy Safari Pink Cliff <B> Midori dotted notebook, A5

Wishing everyone a life filled with brightness! (Diwali/Deepavali is the Hindu Festival of Lights).

Quote from The Haunting of Hill House

Hi there I'm looking for someone to help design my signature. Would any esteemed Redditors be able to do so? Please DM me with your prices and some samples from your portfolio.

天道忌滿，人道忌全，一半在於己，一半聽於天

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I'd like to know your thoughts on the type of script used here. Nothing I recognize off hand, as I am a beginner. I'd like to create something similar and would like suggestion on possible type of pen and nib width. Paper dimensions would be helpful too. This came from the Episode "Nocturne" from Smallville. I think its a poem by John Donne.

I paint wood slices and make Christmas ornaments out of them to sell. After two years of struggling with white calligraphy fading into the black acrylic paint backgrounds, I figured now was the time to seek the help of experts on Reddit. I need to find a white paint pen that will write opaquely on black paint OR I need to find a black paint for the background that a white pen can write more easily on without fading. I typically buy your generic white paint pens from Hobby Lobby/Michaels/those kinds of places. Any tips or recommendations?

To add, I'm not interested in painting the calligraphy. I know white acrylic paint will be opaque enough, but that's too time consuming for me. I prefer a pen or marker.

I’ve decided recently to start learning calligraphy, partly because it’s a useful skill in my field, but also because I’ve always wanted to lol. I already have a structural understanding of type and I work with typography every day, but I have no experience with penmanship and calligraphy.

I’d like to start with Copperplate, and I have some Tombow Fudenosuke pens and Canson marker paper that I’ve been using to practice with alongside some cheap drill sheets I bought on Etsy, but I don’t want to develop bad habits from not learning from an actual source, whether it be an online class, a book, a YouTube series, etc. Problem is, there’s a lot of resources out there and I’m suffering from some choice paralysis/uncertainty on what are good vs bad sources. I would also like to stick with the Tombow brush pens and possibly pencils for now, but most resources I’ve found focus pretty heavily on dip pens.

Could anyone point me in the right direction for learning Copperplate specifically on brush pen/pencil? And what study habits have you adopted that you feel helped you learn more efficiently?

Can someone help decide this beautiful peace of art? What does it mean?

This is my second day practising Blackletter calligraphy... I'm using a 3.8 pilot parallel pen and rhodia paper but I get so much ink feathering.. I'm wondering what am I doing wrong?

Hi guys, I suspect it's a long shot but I was hoping someone here might have the skills to read this?

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I have an idea. Before I try it and ruin stuff, I figured I'd check in here.

I shoot photography for fun. I'd like to do some calligraphy on those photos.

Can I use my parallel pens with their ink they come with on photo paper or is it just going to run everyhwere? Has anyone here done this before?

莫聽穿林打葉聲，何妨吟嘯且徐行。竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬，誰怕？一蓑煙雨任平生。 料峭春風吹酒醒，微冷，山頭斜照卻相迎。回首向來蕭瑟處，歸去，也無風雨也無晴。 Don't listen to the sound of piercing through the forest and beating leaves, why not sing and move slowly. Bamboo sticks and shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid? A misty rain lasts a lifetime. The crisp spring breeze awakens after drinking, slightly cold, and the mountain slopes diagonally, welcoming each other. Looking back at the desolate place, when I return, there is neither wind nor rain nor sunshine.

I love making handmade cards with watercolor and markers (e.g. thank you cards, Christmas etc.) but sometimes feel a bit lazy or would like to create a generic version that is printable (but that I still create).

1)What iPad or any other tablet to you recommend 2)Any touch brush pens for the screen 3)What app is the best, like procreate? 4)Is there a way to print them directly on a card in color or would the app have a "card" selection

If this is too farfetched I get it, there's just a lot out on the internet!

I love beautiful writing and i want to learn to write beautifully, it's just that, I don't know how to start.

Leonardt principal ef, gouache

Got some pointers from one of my mentors Letterboy, who's based out of Tokyo, yesterday.

Looking at the space in between and getting them all consistent rather than focusing on the strokes.

Feel like there's a better flow now.

Mack 162 1/4" brush with Nicker Poster Color Paint on Ikea roll of paper.

Let me know what y'all think!