![]() ![]() ![]() Along with my college pals, I worked on one visual art project a week for a year and used this time as a way to discover my own creative passions. After graduating from college, I wanted to find a way to stay connected to my creative network and challenge myself to make more art. The “dots” over the “i” and “j” are a hairline stroke with the pen angle at 40° or 45°.Welcome to our latest author interview with the person behind the Copperplate Calligraphy Practice Book. This book will help you practice and perfect copperplate handwriting with its perforated, easy-to-use beginner-friendly collection of exercises and drills for the modern calligrapher! Let’s learn more about the author, Christen Alloco Turney, and the inspiration behind this book! Note: The examples were lettered using a 3mm Brause nib with an x-height of 5 pen nib widths and 2 pen nib widths for the ascenders and descenders.Īs you might have noticed, we have already written two letters with Basic Stroke 4 – the letter “i”, and if we extend the stroke to an ascender, the letter “l”. Letters such as the “a”, “k”, “s”, “x” and “z” will be discussed in the “Special Letters” section. With these few basic strokes, we now have enough to almost build an entire alphabet with a just few exceptions. The simplified serifs in this demonstration can also be built up by adding the serif strokes as separate pen strokes. Note: Serif strokes in Gothic lettering are usually built up with the pen and vary depending on the letter style. Start at the waist line with a serif stroke (Stroke 3), continue a straight stroke and finish with serif at the bottom (Stroke 2). Stroke 4 – Serif Stroke at Top and Bottom: Start at the waist line, pull the stroke one pen nib width to the right (serif stroke) and without lifting the pen continue to about one pen nib width above the baseline. Start a little below the waist line (about a pen nib width), draw the straight stroke and pull the stroke to the right one pen nib width before the baseline for a serif stroke. Gothic is a very dense, compressed style and this can be achieved with a pen angle of about 40° and pen nib widths of 4 for the x-height and 2 for the ascenders and descenders. A stiffer nib such as a Brause nib might also be easier to work with than a flexible nib. Tip: A pen nib size of about 2mm – 3mm is easier to work with when practicing Gothic letters as it can be difficult to see serifs and counter spaces with very small nib sizes. graph paper or guideline sheet (refer to Stroking the Rules post to create your own sheet for your pen nib size).calligraphy pen – dip pen and ink, calligraphy fountain pen or calligraphy marker.In this demonstration, we’ll use a very simplified variation of a Gothic style to practice the pen strokes and develop an understanding of consistency and negative space. Gothic can be very easy if you apply a few basic concepts: A beautiful example of a contemporary variation of the Fraktur style by Denis Brown can be seen at the QuillSkill website – the style is so fluid and dynamic the letters almost dance off the page!Ī well-executed Gothic can be elegant and beautiful a poorly lettered Gothic is obvious and distracting as it is much less forgiving than other styles such as Italic or Uncial. Compressed or “Gothicized” Italic) in contemporary calligraphy although understanding the structure and construction is a good starting point to developing variations. Historical Gothic styles are usually replaced with less mechanical, more lively variations (e.g. – generally characterized by dense, vertical strokes and a variety of built-up serifs. There are many variations of Gothic lettering in manuscripts – textura, prescissa, quadrata, rotunda, etc. ![]() Gothic lettering – sometimes referred to as Blackletter – is often a favorite of beginner calligraphers as it lends a sense of formality to a work.
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