Unlock your creativity with this course on artistic calligraphy. Craft and use your own tools for unique aesthetics.
Explore the art of calligraphy with a rustic and handcrafted approach. Learn how to create unique posters using manual techniques in calligraphy, lettering, and painting. Discover how alternative handmade tools can add personality and authenticity to your creations. Through a dive into the Wabi Sabi aesthetic, understand how to embrace imperfection and the creative process as a journey of discovery.
Delve into the use of traditional and alternative calligraphy tools while exploring different types of inks and surfaces. Build your own glue pen and brushes using natural materials, expanding your expressive possibilities. Develop skills to compose balanced layouts by experimenting with colors, shapes, and textures. By the end, you’ll be able to create a piece that communicates more than words — a true visual story told through letters.
What will you learn in this online course?
18 lessons & 24 downloads
How to make your tools 2
11 minutes, 48 seconds
Finding the voice of the lyrics
14 minutes, 48 seconds
Layout and Composition
16 minutes, 30 seconds
Backgrounds and drafts
14 minutes, 6 seconds
Final Art 2
7 minutes, 26 seconds
Bringing Analog and Digital Together
4 minutes, 4 seconds
What's included in this course?
Learn how to create a rustic-style poster using manual calligraphy, lettering, and painting techniques. Discover the fascinating history of calligraphy as an art form and explore the philosophy of Wabi Sabi, which values beauty in imperfection. Develop your skills by mastering traditional calligraphic tools and experiment with creating your own from alternative materials. Learn about different types of inks and surfaces, as well as layout and composition techniques that will bring your lettering to life.
Delve into the anatomy of alphabets, understanding their essential shapes and characteristics. Explore ways to express the personality of letters and see how they can tell unique stories. Find your own artistic voice through experimentation and the creative process. Ultimately, you'll be able to create a complete piece of calligraphic art, uniting text, background, and colors into a harmonious composition. Also discover valuable tips for digitizing your works and using them in commercial projects, ensuring your handmade art takes on new dimensions.
What is this course's project?
Create an A3-sized poster with a phrase inspired by rustic aesthetics, using manual calligraphy, lettering, and painting techniques, exploring alternative or handmade tools. Develop practical skills and creativity in the process.
Who is this online course for?
Aimed at lettering and calligraphy enthusiasts, this course is ideal for those looking to improve their manual skills, explore creative and alternative techniques, and develop artistic projects with a rustic aesthetic using handmade tools.
Requirements and materials
Extensive prior knowledge isn't required, but some practical experience with calligraphy or lettering is ideal. You'll need a small ruler or materials to build a colapen, such as an aluminum can, a craft knife, a toothpick, and masking tape.
Reviews
- 6 months ago
O menga é um cara sensacional e um professor melhor ainda! indico demais
- 10 months ago
Curso ótimo mesmo, me acrescentou muito, muito mesmo as minhas futuras estampas/ilustrações. E super indico fazê-lo, pois este trará muitas ideias novas de texturas e com estas inúmeras possibilidades se abrem em nossas criações.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Presentation
- Influences
- U2
Experimental Process, Materials and Tools and a Little Calligraphy
- The art of the process
- History and evolution of writing as an art
- Materials and tools for Calligraphy 1
- Materials and tools for Calligraphy 2
- How to make your tools 1
- How to make your tools 2
- Alternative tools
- The forms of the Latin alphabet
- U3
The Experimental Process in Practice
- Content and Concept
- Finding the voice of the lyrics
- Layout and Composition
- Backgrounds and drafts
- Final Art 1
- Final Art 2
- U4
Other Paths and Possibilities
- Bringing Analog and Digital Together
- New paths and different processes
- FP
Final project
- Calligraphy: Experimental Process with Handmade Tools
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FAQs
You’ll learn technical and historical fundamentals, various styles and tools, experimental techniques, creating expressive letters, creative processes, and how to blend manual and digital methods in calligraphy projects.
The course is intermediate level, recommended for those with basic knowledge of calligraphy or lettering who want to deepen their techniques, creative processes, and artistic experimentation.
You’ll need art papers, different types of inks (watercolor, gouache), metal nibs, brushes, an Automatic Pen, ruling pens, handmade colapen, and some alternative materials for experimentation and tool-making.
Calligraphy is the art of beautiful writing; lettering is the expressive hand-drawing of letters; typography involves designing and using digital or printed fonts in graphic projects.
Yes, the course guides you step-by-step in making colapen, ruling pens, and handmade brushes, plus tips to customize materials and achieve unique calligraphic effects.
Yes, the course teaches how to turn mistakes into creative opportunities, overcome blocks, and embrace the Wabi-Sabi principle to appreciate imperfection’s beauty in art.
The course explores historical models, cultural influences, the evolution of Western letterforms, and the impact of fine arts on contemporary calligraphy.