Been a little while since I posted some calligraphy, and honestly I haven’t been doing a whole lot lately. But last night I did some ink work for a freelance project I’m working on. I scanned it today and scanned this piece as well. Went back to basics on the strokes. This stroke will be used for ‘a’, ‘c’, ‘d’, and some others too. Remember when I said I hoped I wasn’t learning in a way that would require me to relearn what I’d already did? Well I was. I’m just glad I caught it on my 3rd character and not later. It seems that consistency is one of the keys to calligraphy. Multiple characters of similar strokes should look, well, similar. I’m thinking that the best way to achieve this is to practice the basic strokes first and then assemble them into characters as I go along. This maybe old info to those who have studied calligraphy, but I’m doing this on my own as a bit of an experiment. Part of any good experiment is learning from past mistakes.
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