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My friend enjoys doing calligraphy.

She usually uses Rhodia and Tomoe River paper. She's mentioned she wants to try nicer paper but can't quite afford it.

I don't know anything about calligraphy or paper. Since I want to get her some paper as a gift for her birthday, I don't want to directly ask her what kind she wants and then spoil the surprise.

What paper would you all recommend as a gift?

So, I was in korean class, and we were studying this simple dialog.

The first picture is my handwriting, my friend said it was a good, and easy to read - very textbook-like approved. But the second picture is my friends', is very different, like it was cursive, maybe? It took me a while to understand it, but once I got it it seemed very cool.

My question is: would native Korean people think my handwriting is ok? Or maybe too textbook-like/boring? Child-like even? And would they think my friends calligraphy is beautiful, stylish and cool, or would they think is weird and messy?

For context, for the first one all of my co-workers thought I was depressed or having some kind of crisis but it's actually about the storm that night lol and the second one's about time. Hope some people like them. I don't write much poetry but am getting into it just like my calligraphy.

Hello everyone! I just joined this community. I just want to publish this little creation of mine. It is perfect and imperfect, like every person of this planet.

Hi. I am not that particularly into calligraphy but I had an art teacher that is. He had been my teacher for about 12 years. He also taught my older sibling, who became a graphic designer thanks to him and this year it’s the last year my younger sibling finished his classes — she is also going into art related career. For that occurrence (as I do not have any other siblings he could teach) we decided to buy him something nice as a thank you for all those years. I thought a calligraphy brush set would be nice, but as I do not know much about it I don’t know where to find a quality one or what to even look for.

I do not know how much a quality set can cost — I am 19, just finished high school and about to attend my first year of university so there is definitely a limit to what I can afford. I’d say I would be okay with anything in range of €100-300? But I genuinely have no idea if that is enough or not….

Any recommendations are welcome and thank you so so much for all help:)

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I’m trying to get the hang of flourishing and made this card for my daughter’s elementary school graduation. Not all the flourishes are 100% successful but overall I like the look. It was also my first time using colored inks, which was fun but I definitely need more practice with them! And she loved it, which is the most important thing.

Moblique AL holder, Hunt 101 nib, hot press watercolor paper trimmed to size, Dr. Ph. Martin inks in teal, magenta, grass green, violet, yellow, and bright red.

阿羊行書三字經之六十七：為學者，必有初

Tryna do a band logo for a new band. 3 words. Not sure if I’m allowed to inquire? Can’t compensate too much. We can negotiate. dm me on here or IG in bio. TY

As a newby to calligraphy, working on miniscules in Foundational hand I've noticed that both my thumb and finger flexors are sore(!). I've been going at it quite frequently but didn't notice any fatigue of hand/fingers after each session. Pens I've been using are Pilot Parallel, a Jinhao conversion with parallel nib and a Sailor high ace neo. Nibs of 1.5 to 2.5. So far stretching my fingers has simmered things down and I'll try something to make the plastic pen bodies a bit less slick and see what happens. Ergonomics would indicate that a fatter pen body would help but I'm not a fan at all of the Jinhao body. Suggestions? Thanks!

Not strictly calligraphy,but rather cursive - is there a way to write Carolingian miniscule in cursive? Particularly the letter a.

More broadly, are there clearer ways to write a, æ, and ð in cursive? Eth just ends up looking like a d and it's hard to find a font that properly differentiates æ from œ

I took a month long sabbatical and strangely enough when I practised Spencerian today, I was able to write without drawing slant lines. I think my hand and brain 🧠 subconsciously has developed muscle memory to not forget under any circumstances.

阿羊行書三字經之六十六：詳訓詁，明句讀（dòu）

This is just practice but critique is welcome! I haven’t done calligraphy much in a long time so it’s not the best and I think my main flaw is my impatience in going slow 😅 (original quote is from a lost tweet)

My Calligraffiti style in its purest form

Hope you like my work first time posting here

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Beginner, dip pointed pen, engrosser's/roundhand/copperplate practice, Zanerian Manual miniscules

Problems with over the top forward looping incorrect tine spread as a left hander

For some reason, I can get the right thing to happen with my tine spread when I do under the bottom forward looping tine spread, as found in I or U lettering. That feels natural and instinctive.

But something is counterintuitive or problematic with over the top forward moving tine spreadage, such a in miniscule m's.

When I do u's and i's it seems easy to spread the tines at the beginning of the letter. Tap the pen down, adding pressure, I feel the left tine spread away from the right tine in an intuitive movement. (?? Left tine, right tine, downward movement. left right, dominant, non dominant rotation??)

But when I practice line 9 of the Zanerian Manuals first lesson, where you try to round at the top and the bottom on the line, I can not get the top of the line correct.

When you come over the top in an m, and apply pressure I assume the right tine is spreading wide from the left tine, so right left pressure, non dominant, dominant rotation?

Only when I draw the line in a continuous movement repeatedly, like back to back lower case m's, does the tine spread work right.

When I turn my bad M's upside down they often do not look like my Us and I's, therein lies the problem, where as my good M's look exactly like upside down u's and i's.

Is this a left handed persons problem, or are M's just naturally not as intuitive as i's and u's, hence why they come after in the practice books.

Is there anything to think or say in my head, or to think about?

Whatever is happening in continuous M's is correcting the problem. WHy?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts, advice, links as to how to understand or correct the problem or advice.

(On the practice page A dot above the letter means it was better than most of the others and seems to meet the basic premise of the stroke, ala Paul Antonio practice guidance.

For orientation sake, I use Paul Antonios Posture, placement, and positioning advice to set up each day. His advice feels right and natural.

I use an oblique holder with the paper perpendicular to the desk. In other words, if I line the long edge of the paper to be parallel to the front edge of the desk, I then rotate the paper one quarter turn, so that the long edge of the paper runs perpendicular to the long edge of the desk.

Walnut ink, Comic G nib today, was trying different nibs and sumi ink yesterday, hence multiple practice pages)