I Should Be Studying

Sideblog- This is where I post my calligraphy. Ask box is open but I will not do anything NSFW. Will follow back as randomcraps carrd: https://loopsandtwirls.carrd.co

[loopsandtwirls]

I want to start getting into caligraphy but i dont even know where to get a beginners kit, do you have any tips?

I suggest getting Pilot Parallel Pens. I honestly learned by looking at @lettering-is-my-music 's stuff and imitating how she wrote her letters when writing my own things. Once I was comfortable with that, I stopped looking at her works and started just letting my own handwriting influence it. I also experimented. Found out what worked and didn't work.

I will let you know that the Pilot Parallel Pen ink bleeds (feathers?). So what I do is when a cartridge runs out of ink, I'll take an eye dropper and use that to fill the cartridge with ink I got from a store at my Renaissance Faire. I'll link their website below.

Regarding beginners kits, I got one (from ren faire lol) before I really got into calligraphy. It was a dip pen set, I'm not a big fan of dip pens, and it didn't tell me that I was supposed to treat the nib before using it. I personally like fountain pens more cause I don't like having to dip my pen every letter. I know some can be on the pricey side. And I'm honestly not knowledgeable enough to suggest anything regarding those. I've heard Lamy is good though.

And lastly, whenever I want to learn a new font, I'll look up the alphabet in Google. Etc. "Gothic alphabet" and I'll use that as reference.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. I'm not an expert (far from it) but I do have some tips and tricks (that I learned by making mistakes.)

Renaissance book arts: handmade leather journals, historical writing supplies, quills and ink, dip pens, wax seals, calligraphy fine art pri

[loopsandtwirls]

I couldn't decide between gold or black. I am also obsessed with Arcane right now

[loopsandtwirls]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop ink from bleeding? ;-;

[loopsandtwirls]

Just don't

[loopsandtwirls]

Sad Boi hours are out. Supportive Boi hours are in now.

[ariminiria]

I can’t believe staff deleted all of their initial @/postplus blog posts and just pretended that the survey and the encouragement-of-illegal-fanfic-monetization backlash never happened. As if they don’t know how their own site works?? As if those now-deleted posts aren’t still floating around in 100,000 different reblog chains and even more mocking screenshots?? As if we, the gremlin userbase of this hellsite would ever forget how they initially approached the whole mess???

[mnemonicpneumaticknife]

They build castles in the sand and ask the sea to pay rent

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

and that’s my cue

i tried to get the blue somewhat right

[loopsandtwirls]

[loopsandtwirls]

Am I going to actually start posting here again??? Maaaaybeeeee

[loopsandtwirls]

Sooooo....I have a tik tok....

[stimboardboy]

you are enough + it is ok to not be ok

[chickpeamcb]

more dots

[loopsandtwirls]

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A comparison of my calligraphy between now and 2017. I think I've come pretty far in the past 4 years (especially with taking pictures. What's with that huge shadow lmao)

[loopsandtwirls]

From the Loving Reaper by @jenny-jinya

I have the shorter video up on my Instagram

[dailystarplatinum]

This is a Formal Apology to all people who have ever sent me an ask or request and I haven’t answered

[loopsandtwirls]

From a post/reblog from @viridianmasquerade I couldn't find the post tho since I screenshotted it

[loopsandtwirls]

From the English cover of Say It by Will Stetson

[alivehouse]

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

[alivehouse]

artistic rendition

[ceekari]

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T

humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need

circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point

tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y

spider Q’s, so many legs

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

[catgirltoes]

New alphabet dropped!

[ceekari]

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

[modmad]

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