Calligraph Dirty To Me

writing the awfully bad awfully well

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This hangs in the background of my favorite Christmas movie.

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Sketching light uppercase alphabet by Julien Priez

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This is a nice one. Zapf would be proud.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_FnN0sj6NE)

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This is definitely the most “high concept” piece I’ve done so far, and I’m pretty happy with it.

The checkering on top is very weak compared to the central checkering, but I am otherwise pleased.

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Hold the Door

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J.R.R. Tolkien recently wrote about the 2016 U.S. election, and I just had to calligraphy his quotation.

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So, speaking as a big nerd who loves Ghostbusters -- I have an original ‘84 patch that’s on its third jacket -- I just wanted to show that love as the new movie comes out.

I haven’t seen the new movie, but I hope it’s good. I’m going to see it soon.

This is definitely my most meticulously planned piece, with the minuscule letters at three nib widths for X height, and hackling stolen shamelessly from the master: Rudolph Koch.

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Read about the capital T kicking my ass on Patreon. That is, it didn’t kick my ass on Patreon, but that’s where you can read about it.

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Maybe one day shitty things will stop happening so close to one another and I can get back to nerd references and dick jokes, but in the meantime you can thank Brexit for this one.

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“The past and present wilt — I have fill'd them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a Minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through With his supper? Who wishes to walk with me? Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too Late?”

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In the wake of the Orlando shooting, I was going to remain respectfully silent as I've nothing really to say. Then my friend said this, and I felt I should write it down.

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The Soul of the Alphabet | Ian K. on Patreon

Official Post from Ian K.: Oscar Ogg, in his book "The 26 Letters," show how our letter 'A' came from the Roman which came from the Greek alpha which came from the Phoenecian aleph. An aleph is a point which contains or reflects the entire universe, or a microcosm which echoes its containing macrocosm. Borges has a story a

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Well, hey, happy new year, everyone. I keep practicing my roundels, and am getting used to not working freehand -- I work freehand a lot -- so I hope you enjoy.

This one is a present for someone, so, it’s not in the store, but you could get the design on all sorts of thing at my RedBubble page, and I would of course be grateful to you if you chose to support me on Patreon.

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Made this one as a birthday card for one of my best friends who truly is like some prototype for a person, and who shan’t be replicated, the stubborn mess.

Also, it’s a rondel in textura quadrata in sumi black ink. The center text is in vermillion sumi ink, and that’s just my handwriting. The splotches are vermillion sumi, and I made them by blowing on the pen nib very hard.

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