I think this
week learning about calligraphy went pretty well. I love Sans Serif, and I’m
getting a lot better at it. I started with doing a practice sheet of the
alphabet again, and as always, there were some mistakes.
I then wrote
out a couple of pages. I’m getting to the point I don’t need to be looking at
the book for each individual pen stroke anymore, I just check every once in a
while to make sure I’m doing my letters the right way.
Since Sans
Serif was going well, I decided to move on to Roman, the next script in my
book. I started with the practice strokes again.
After the
practice strokes, I practiced the alphabet in Roman script. This script has
serifs attached to a lot of the letters, and making a serif with a marker is
pretty hard, and looks pretty messy. You can see the spots on the serifs on the
letters when I went over a few too many times and it looks darker than the
rest. The serifs also aren’t the best. You have to round the corners, which is
harder than it looks because of how big the marker I’m using is. If I was using
a pen, it might be easier, but I still can’t get the pens that came with the
kit to work. Guess I should’ve listened to the Amazon reviews and not trusted
the pens. Good thing I bought the markers just in case.
After
practicing the uppercase alphabet, I realized there was no lowercase alphabet
in Roman script in my book. I decided to just write some words, and made up lowercase
letters as I went. It was not easy.
In all of
the pictures, you can see the darker spots where I struggled with the Serifs. In this
picture, I was concentrating too hard on my letters and accidentally wrote the
same thing over and over. Oops.
Today, I
determined that I like Sans Serif better than Roman. Serifs are not for me.
Next week, I’m
going to go through the rest of my book and see what other scripts there are.
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