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26th Oct 2021Artist49 commented on:
CraftingDo you do calligraphy? I've been looking into using fountain pens instead of dip ones.ViewDate:
25th Oct 2021Artist49 commented on:
Pen palsHello DuskySouthAfrican, There are several historical calligraphic letter forms to practice from ancient times before the printing press. Most are exotic and more suitable for greeting cards than the smaller forms for correspondence. For the Italic handwriting style look for a "stub" fountain pen. Pilot makes one that takes cartridges or you can add a "converter" that can draw ink from a bottle. The Plumix fountain pens are inexpensive and while not a traditional pen body is practical to use. The traditional body Pilot pen with the same medium pen point (called a nib) is the Metropolitan. Once again for that calligraphy look it a 'stub' ,medium, Bold, or Double Bold (if you can find one). The medium is fine for Italic calligraphy. Look for samples of the style with Google images...some have instructional value. A traditional dip pen is near impossible to stroke up without catching on the paper, so letter are formed with 2 to 4 strokes per letter. A fountain pen is tipped with a rounded hard material that lets you create some letters with less strokes...still it's best to keep it traditional until you can speed write and find your own style. Lamy and TWSBI make a stub version. They are more blunt, making less crisp strokes but offer different filling devicesViewDate:
24th Oct 2021Artist49 commented on:
Pen palsI've recently reactivated my interest in calligraphy, but dip pens are not conducive to writing anything longer than a post card. Finally discovered there are fountain pens that are good for both italic writing and Spencerian. My experiments have left me with 22 pens of various widths for italic and a couple for the thick and thin style of Spencerian script. There's also brush lettering...but I have to stop some where. Anyone interested in learning more?