another sojourner

questions & calligraphy requests welcomed! (a list of prompts i eventually plan to do is linked in my pinned post)

[anothersojourner]

i'm gonna start posting any of my "creative" stuff on here so i, hopefully, get less distracted endlessly scrolling.

eventually i'll set this up to look better but for now i just need to actually start posting the stuff i make so think of it as a creative dumping grounds for now!

feel free to send me questions or calligraphy requests; i can't promise to get every one of them done forever but i promise to try! (if you're curious what prompts i have done or plan on doing i have a spreadsheet linked below the cut)

i guess i should list the inks i use, shouldn't i? i'll update this as a master list too!

dominant industry inks; romania red 101, tsavorite 112, base black 100

platinum carbon black

ink institute X yoseka inks; yuan ji blue, qing purple

sailor ink studio no. 653

colorverse crab nebula

and i have a few that i either have mixed or don't plan to use after getting samples, these include inks from noodler's, herbin, and the parallel refills that come with every parallel pen i buy

Sheet1 CALLIGRAPHY SUGGESTIONS FOR ANOTHER SOJOURNER questions,what should i write? (case sensitive),who suggested it? [username)(site

[anothersojourner]

i have to get a couple things sorted first, but hopefully i can get 20-30 miles of riding in tomorrow!

[anothersojourner]

it's been a very long couple weeks, i wrote this one yesterday but wasn't able to post it. working on a fresh page today too!!

[anothersojourner]

i should be able to get at least 2 sheets of practice a week, on my days off work, but i'll try to get closer to 5 if i can!

[anothersojourner]

it's been tough lately, but in a good way for once!

[anothersojourner]

oh yeah, i am gonna be away from my calligraphy supplies for a few days and won't be posting until like may 12th

i was planning on bringing them with me but the logistics didn't work out for it

[anothersojourner]

the days keep rolling in, and i keep having overly ambitious ideas, but what else is new there? lol

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

HERE’S THE FINAL VIDEO OF THE COMPLETED NECROBEEMICON

i have yet to hollow it out to hide a dagger but thats gonna be done if/when i earn enough on twitch to commission a dagger

i fuckt up on music credit its manowar’s flight of the bumblebee cover

ty to my pal @god-o-biscuits for the vid editing job i would have put it off for WEEKS and not done as good a job otherwise

[crying-over-really-dumb-things]

OP you are insane in the most amazing way possible. I don’t know what you were possessed by but the fact that I have a million journals with only a few pages filled in and you had the patience to do this???? Beautiful. Immaculate. Was the meme dead by the time you finished this? Absolutely. But it is a necrobeemicon and therefore you have resurrected it.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ill be honest the only reason i managed to complete the thing was bc i was using it as wednesday livestream content, if I didn’t have a point in my week where ‘ah yes. folks are expecting me to work on this’ i absolutely would not have gotten it done, thats why just a 70 hour project took me two years. it should have taken like 9 months. 

[radiobob214]

Op put so much work into this. It needs to live forever. I have scheduled it to post on my graduation day.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

@parzitheproto here’s the finished footage, if you would like to observe the making of this artifact, feel free to search “necrobeemicon” into my blog and observe the posts

for those not seeing the video

This is footage of that time I wrote the entire bee movie script into a book, hollowed out the back, put in a bee-themed knife, and built a leather belt carry-strap for it

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

#the necrobeemicon#and remember folks for anyone inquiring about its purchase: $2k in canadian dollars#< prev tags#this is awesome#can i eat your art?

dude for two grand you can do whatever you please with my work

[anothersojourner]

i was hoping to be discouraged by checking how long this took you, but my icarian project i'm thinking of starting looks """"reasonable"""" since i was thinking it would take ~2 years with daily work hahaha

as always though, truly phenomenal work with this project mia!! your work is always an inspiration and i hope you're doing okay today!

[anothersojourner]

now for today's, right on schedule!

and the bonus picture of my makeshift tabletop easel is below the cut hahaha

[anothersojourner]

i was running behind schedule yesterday, but i did the practice lol

now to start on today's

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i needed to look at the ink name for the purple and almost forgot to post this 🙃

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r.i.p. to my goal of hitting a full month without missing a day o7

[anothersojourner]

currently debating a couple long term calligraphy project ideas, i'll be floating them around for a couple weeks before i start but as a taste of my "bad ideas" i'm tempted to do ~600 pages of anglo-saxon poetry in old english OR the translations which would take me 2 years at one page per day...

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sang to the tune of "girl on fire" by alicia keys

i get so

distracteeeeeeeeeeeed!

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she (the cat, her name is sweetie) kept me from getting this done sooner by slowimg down my chores lol

[anothersojourner]

some bonus paper testing below the cut