![]() ![]() I guess they don’t want anyone to go around ordering a set of handsome design cards for only $0.35/dozen. This last page was completely deleted in the Modern book. I guess it makes the word ‘Beauty’ easier to read, but I can’t think why else they chose to edit only that one flourish and not the others. On the left, the large flourish was flipped from the original. Both are crisp and beautiful and easy to read. How I wish I can still send in $1 for a 22x28in print of Zaner’s flourished eagle. You'll also find instructions for embellishing letters. ![]() Learn how to make calligraphic flourishes, then apply the technique to draw 15 different flourished animals. Similarly on this page, the ads for prints and artwork has been edited out. Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy Courier Corporation Calligraphic Drawing, written and illustrated by artist Schin Loong, is a step-by-step guide to the pictorial side of calligraphy. ![]() Which makes sense, as these items are not available anymore and may be confusing to the modern reader. and you can see they edited out the parts about using the Zanerian penholder and nib. For examples, here on left is the Modern and on the right is the Original. Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy: Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy: Instructions and over 150 Examples E. The two books are almost identical except for a few differences. Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy : Instructions and over 150 Examples (Lettering, Calligraphy, Typography). You can still find it at Scranton Uni’s store for $25 along with other amazing books. On the right is the original 1951 book printed by the Zaner Bloser company (the company EA Lupfer worked for) which the book on the left is a reprint of, so let’s call it the Original. In fact it is the book that got me interested in pointed pen calligraphy. You can buy it for about $8 on Amazon, and is an absolutely amazing book to own. On left is EA Lupfer’s Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy reprinted by Dover. For every word or picture, the drawer must follow a certain pattern - the order in which the lines are drawn is very important. So today I’d like to post comparisons between two wonderful books. The first Arab calligraphers really cared and were interested in developing Arabic calligraphy to be so beautiful, organized, clear and unique for more than 1400 years! In a language that is still used and the people who still speaking it are growing in population, and the calligraphers who working on it never stopped this endless process! So, you could imagine how much effort has been done to beautify Arabic calligraphy, and I’m just one of thousands of calligraphers who try to understand the basics, and create works in my point of view, but that can also communicate with any other culture.Comparison between Fascinating Pen Flourishing and Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy But the Arabic language had the unique chance to be the one which is responsible to deliver the sacred message of the Qur’an and Hadith, and the whole of Islamic knowledge is connected to that. Most of those letters are abstract ways to explain a figure in nature, that’s why in most languages you could easily imagine letters looks like a man or a tree or a sun or a hand or a bird etc. The term may derive from the Greek words for beauty ( kallos) and to write ( graphein ). ![]() Actually, this description is applied on the nature of the Arabic calligraphy itself, to explain it we need to remember that the most types of ancient writing was dependant on pictures or drawings, like Chinese, Hieroglyphics and many other writing systems, it was pictorial, and until it was decoded it became letters as we see now. Key People: Mi Fu Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini Wu Changshuo Dong Qichang Huizong black letter Spencerian penmanship Exemplaires du Sieur de Beaulieu calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. ![]()
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