Doris Fullgrabe

Verbessere deine Kalligrafie: Verbindungen und Abstände

Hi Pam! Looking so good!! I'm noticing some connections are a little flat. So: all lowercase letters are completed by their exit stroke, and that goes all the way up to the waistline (unless it's leading into an oval). Then, as the following letter is formed, those (second) downstrokes touch the preceding letter's exit stroke, creating the illusion of cursive / non-stop script. Take the first th, for example - either the exit stroke of the t is too short, or the stem of the h is too far to the left, because they should connect at the height of just below the waistline. Compare it to the ck of quickly - that's more like it. So I'd say add a little space between the th, the mp of jump, the mp of nymph, and maybe also between the ab and al of grabs and waltz. And then to the contrary, you can tighten the curves between the iv in five and jived a little. Great job though!! Hope you're still having fun!! :-)

Thank you for your feedback, as always! I do seem to have trouble getting my curves to appear to join halfway up the x height. I will try making them a little more steep. I was working on trying to get the spacing right, but I could see the shape of connections wasn’t right. Yes, I’m loving it. I spend my evenings practicing in pencil to try to improve shapes, and I’m trying (failing, mostly) to get the hang of Procreate So I can work on there, too, when I’m not at my desk with pen and ink. I shall keep working at it as I move on to playing with flourishing. Thank you again.

It's all a question of practice, truly, and I know it can get frustrating! It all plays together though. You can't get the right spacing if the forms aren't right, and even if the forms are right, the spacing can still look off. Believe me, I wish there was an easier solution... ;-) The pencil-evenings sound great though, and also don't skip the basic warm-up drills. 

Writing on a screen like in Procreate is a completely different experience than nib or pen on paper. You'll be able to get some of the shakiness out by upping the streamline feature for your brush strokes, but you'll have to be quick in lifting or the system will just make a straight line out of everything. But you can change that setting. 

Either way, I think you've already come super far in, what, a week or two, since you posted your first practice pages? Well done you!! :-)

All critique welcome! Still a bit wobbly, I know.

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