Calligraphy: One Day Calligraphy Mastery: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Learning Calligraphy in Under 1 Day! Included: Step by Step Projects That Inspire You: 10 (CRAFTS FOR EVERYBODY) - Softcover

Warren, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1522957774 ISBN 13: 9781522957775

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Discover How to Make Amazing Calligraphy in Just One Day with This Easy to Use Guide**** Included: Beautiful Designes with Step by Step Instructions and Illustrations **** Calligraphy is one of the most fluid forms of art today. Typographers and iconographers as well as calligraphers use letters as a way of driving a point home more than just through the word itself, but through the way the word impacts you. Once you start looking at the way that words are made up, you’ll begin to see the many ways that you can change them to have a bigger effect on the viewer. This is true of everything from invitations you send out to art you create for display. Words have specific meanings, but the way that a word is viewed versus heard can affect how it’s perceived. Calligraphy allows you to subtly enhance each letter, putting in different flourishes, curls, and lines. You can even add small pictures inside the words or letters to make each one a true type of art. Even when you perfect your calligraphy, it’s still very difficult to get all your letters to look exactly the same each and every time. Small differences work their way in, which is part of what makes the finished effect so beautiful. To get the same effect out of a font, you’d have to go into each letter and warp it slightly, and even then you wouldn’t quite achieve the beauty that comes from working with your hands. Of all the art forms that I’ve studied and used over the years, calligraphy is one of the most under appreciated. As I began looking at different fonts to reproduce, I realized that was I was looking for was calligraphy. A beautiful, elegant way to express letters and words by hand on any media from cardstock to wood. It didn’t take me long to realize that calligraphy allowed me to personalize things far more than using a computer font or a sticker ever could. I hope that you find similar uses for this art form once you begin as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522957774
• ISBN 13: 9781522957775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70