#missingvwls

The letter O for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge. He's got a little lion tail 😊. If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_o #letterarchive_o

We made it! The letter Z for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge 😊 If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_z #letterarchive_z

The grain on these two holders is so pretty I thought I'd try a video for once 😊 The dark brown one is some lovely French walnut. The foot of the two part one is undyed buckeye burl, and the tail is white ash that had some really nice luster. The music is a track from my friend @ian_f_king and his project Missing Vwls off an album titled Movement. -

The letter W for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge. I pretty much never do my capital Ws like this, but they're kind of fun. Maybe a little more informal feeling? 😊 If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_w #letterarchive_w

The letter T for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge 😊. If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_t #letterarchive_t

The letter S for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge 😊. I shouldn't have gone back in for that second retouch on the terminal of the capital 🤷🏻‍♀️. Little s's have that tricky right oval shade, I've been working on it a lot lately, but def still have a ways to go. If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_s #letterarchive_s

The letter R for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge. Rs are hard like Ps, but I like them anyway 😊. If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_r #letterarchive_r

The letter N for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge 😊. If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_n #letterarchive_n