Letterforms in ink using a broken 38mm brass calligraphy nib for my pre-thesis zine project — My work is often parametric. The instructions I gave myself for this exercise: • Draw 20-25 letters per minute. • Don't dip the nib in ink unless it runs out completely. • Choose a different starting point to draw the letterform as often as you can. • Use the wide orientation of the nib, the narrow and the combination of both. • Cover the entire page. Let the available space guide how fat or slender or small or big the letterforms are. What I enjoy about drawing letters this way is that I can rarely ever recreate a letterform. I learnt Devanagari calligraphy in India and Fraktur calligraphy in France. Both times I perfected the letterforms by drawing them over and over again using a grid to maintian proportion. Here, I try to use repetition and lack of grid to create different letterforms each time and let variables like amount of ink, speed at which I draw and intuition drive their own character. Divorced from any particular genre/classification, I draw the letterforms with just their basic skeleton in mind – the way we learnt to write our ABCs in pencils as kids. Feels like I'm pissing off typographers and calligraphers at the same time! #inklettering #calligraphy #ink #letterforms #inkletterforms #graphicdesign #typography #typographydesign #aigaeyeondesign #thedesignkids #thedesignfix #snapmag #thedesigntip #creativegaga #designbywomen @designbywomen_ #itsnicethat #designbywomen #visualdesigner #printmagazine #fruitsartclub #visualart #type01 #femmetype #typeposter #typedepartment #typegoodness #grafikfeed #icographica (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVc-Y2Fr9iT/?utm_medium=tumblr
