Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook

Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook

“Here we are, at the end of this course! Thank you for making it through our experimental calligraphy journey. I hope you've enjoyed learning about the fundamentals in calligraphy practice, and have also taken the time to learn and research what calligraphy means to you. Before saying goodbye, let's gather all that we've covered throughout this course and recap the necessary steps to complete your project.

• Start by practicing simple exercises like compositions of lines and historical models.

• Explore the expressiveness of a brushstroke and how it translates to different letters. Join them together and write words that visually express their meaning.

• Go one step further and find new styles by changing the tools, scale, and mediums of your calligraphy.

• Review and reflect on your work. Choose what to keep and bind it together to create a great booklet of progress.

• Finally, remember to find your own voice and aesthetic. Use the exercises we've seen during this course and explore more tools, styles, and letterforms.

I can't wait to see your final sketchbook! You can share your project with all of us by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result and the steps that have led you to it. It would be great if you showed a picture of each step and added a brief explanation about what you have done in each one. I will try my best to comment and engage with your work as much as possible. But, in the meantime, don't be afraid to discuss your ideas with your peers in the forum, so everyone can grow. Thanks again for taking this course, and keep writing! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“ Final Project Thanks for going through our experimental calligraphy journey. It has been a long way but I hope you had the chance to grow and to see how you can reinvent calligraphy by taking its foundation and breaking it into new styles with new techniques and exploring new tools. We had a chance to see how letters are constructed, and now we can break every rule. I hope you feel inspired to keep pushing calligraphy's boundaries, but also your own. It is said that practice makes perfect, but here we don't want perfection. We want to practice and we should focus on the process. Before yo...”

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Course summary for: Creative Calligraphy: Find Your Style with a Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
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• 928 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 37m)
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  Calligraphy & Typography

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  Calligraphy