Re: Written forms (was: Moi, le Kou)

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From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Written forms (was: Moi, le Kou)


>When I learned calligraphy in middle school, we only did scripts that used
>downstrokes and curves. No upstrokes that I can remember. The easiest,and
<wry g>  In the message previous to this one I think I said "I cheated on
the upstrokes"--meaning that I used upstrokes where I wasn't supposed to,
not that I did whatever hypothetical upstrokes cheatingly. With the quality
felt-tip pens I started on it honestly didn't seem to make a huge
difference.

>it was all lines mostly. Coincidentally, i went out and bought some nibs
>and nib holders for doing calligraphy. I have the wide chisel points, as
>well as round tipped ones, and some drawing and mapping nibs also came
>with the pens. It's harder than I remember getting the ink to flow well
>without dripping. The mapping nibs are similar to copperplate nibs (in
>that the tips are flexible), but you'll tear holes in paper if you try to
>do copperplate with them (I would like to find some copperplate nibs to
>try and figure it out).
Interesting.  I'd love to get my hands on drawing nibs: using ink and brush
to draw is fun, but my control with a brush isn't all that good yet
(especially with regards to controlling ink flow).  OTOH, I've been using
pens and pencils of various sorts for way too long, thanks to
penmanship/handwriting....

YHL