Hm, good question, I’m not really sure, but I’d say that the body text takes maybe twice what it would take to just write it down, block letter style, with regular handwriting speed. What takes time is usually deciding on the details of how I want it to look, and meanwhile getting stuck reading a wikipedia page about Charlemagne or Maximilian I and then making some coffee etc etc etc.
I have actually been wondering the same thing about your art, how long does it take for you to make a typical picture? And how do you come up with the ideas?
That’s impressive! Do you have some sort of a lined paper underneath, when you write? It’s crazy to me how you keep everything so well aligned.
I have actually been wondering the same thing about your art, how long does it take for you to make a typical picture? And how do you come up with the ideas?
Anywhere from 10 minutes up to 8 hours. You can usually tell which images were rushed. As for the ideas - surrealism.
Back in medieval times they made the lines visible, it was a sign of luxury that you took the time and effort to make proper lines, and they wanted to show it. Then they started making lines with something that made an indentation into the page, it’s not visible unless you look closely. Now the norm is to either draw faint pencil lines and then erasing them, or to use a guide under.
thanks for taking the time to reply. calligraphy is the one thing I admire, knowing I’d never be able to do it myself, so it’s always nice to get the behind-the-scenes.
Just keep using the internet, I guess, you won’t be able to escape the inspiration eventually.
I’ve never been able to draw. To the degree that I think there’s actually something missing in my head. I have a hard time visualizing things in my mind. Do you start out knowing the final picture or do you add things along the way?
The thing about calligraphy is that the things that look impressive, some swashy gothic letters, they can be learned quite easily. The hardest part is the regular upper case latin alphabet, it requires a lot of pen angle finesse and since we are so used to seeing those letters, anything less than perfect stands out immediately. A common piece of advice to calligraphers is to let go of the idea that one is writing. My regular handwriting is hardly legible, the muscle memory is too ingrained. I think of it as drawing letters. Still, I can’t draw actual things.
How long does a page like this take you to write?
Hm, good question, I’m not really sure, but I’d say that the body text takes maybe twice what it would take to just write it down, block letter style, with regular handwriting speed. What takes time is usually deciding on the details of how I want it to look, and meanwhile getting stuck reading a wikipedia page about Charlemagne or Maximilian I and then making some coffee etc etc etc.
I have actually been wondering the same thing about your art, how long does it take for you to make a typical picture? And how do you come up with the ideas?
That’s impressive! Do you have some sort of a lined paper underneath, when you write? It’s crazy to me how you keep everything so well aligned.
Anywhere from 10 minutes up to 8 hours. You can usually tell which images were rushed. As for the ideas - surrealism.
I do actually have a lined paper under :)
Back in medieval times they made the lines visible, it was a sign of luxury that you took the time and effort to make proper lines, and they wanted to show it. Then they started making lines with something that made an indentation into the page, it’s not visible unless you look closely. Now the norm is to either draw faint pencil lines and then erasing them, or to use a guide under.
I wish I had a source of inspiration like you do.
thanks for taking the time to reply. calligraphy is the one thing I admire, knowing I’d never be able to do it myself, so it’s always nice to get the behind-the-scenes.
Just keep using the internet, I guess, you won’t be able to escape the inspiration eventually.
I’ve never been able to draw. To the degree that I think there’s actually something missing in my head. I have a hard time visualizing things in my mind. Do you start out knowing the final picture or do you add things along the way?
The thing about calligraphy is that the things that look impressive, some swashy gothic letters, they can be learned quite easily. The hardest part is the regular upper case latin alphabet, it requires a lot of pen angle finesse and since we are so used to seeing those letters, anything less than perfect stands out immediately. A common piece of advice to calligraphers is to let go of the idea that one is writing. My regular handwriting is hardly legible, the muscle memory is too ingrained. I think of it as drawing letters. Still, I can’t draw actual things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp-7cHc1uc
That is the exact thing that came to my mind as well.