Saturday, October 6, 2007

Calligraphy School - Class 2


Today's lesson involved tracing Roman skeletons to understand their proportions. We were to think of the letters inside a box. Some letters like O take up the entire box. Letters like W and M go outside the box. I and J are narrow. K and R are half the width of the box.


We then drew a pencil skeleton and then added the weight to the letter by drawing in the appropriate lines. This is a very different approach, but the exercise would give us a greater and more intimate understanding of the letters. After the letter was fleshed out, it was then outlined with a .01 Micron Pigma pen and then painted in with black gouache.


This was my first attempt. Pleasant, potentially harmless. Needs more tapering in the waist.

3 comments:

  1. It looks beautiful! Well Done! And James especially likes it. :)

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  2. So did Jarrod and Jeremiah! I didn't show Jenny.

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  3. "needs more tapering in the waist"? Me too!!

    It's a lovely J and doing pencil work in Romans is like eating your brussel sprouts - it's good for you, eventually.

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