Here’s some practice with metallic pencils on black. It just seems so much more rewarding than trying the same thing with ink.

Parallel pen 3.8 mm
Watercolors
Aquarel paper

Pen : Pilot parallel 6MM
Ink : Sulekha Lal Qila (RED)
Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed water colour papers.

Another entry in my little notebook, in this notebook I am trying to make every page different, and it has been very helpful to me from a design standpoint.

I have been doing some pointed pen uncials and a lot of different kinds of pointed pen, but it was time for me to finally pick up the broad edge pen and I am happy that I did, I really like how Uncials are looking with pointed pen Art Nouveau letters.

I used the Brause 1.5mm nib for uncials and Nikko G for the pointed pen Art Nouveau letters!

I hope you like it!

I am having a pretty miserable writing day. I must have written this sentence 100 times since last night and, as always, specific elements were better in some of them, but this is the least unacceptable take.

Leonardt Roundhand #3, walnut ink, A5 practice notebook bought in Vietnam (no brand)

A friend saw I was doing calligraphy and he joked if I did it back when we were teens it would have been all DM lyrics. I thought that was a great idea. Unfortunately you can see that with a TBI my motor skills started to change after an hour :( mistakes starting to appear. Grr. Still fun. This is a sort of foundational script interpretation of my own.

Have a nice Day!

Can a flat nib be used for persian calligraphy?

I wish to learn Persian Nasta'liq calligraphy and using a 6mm Pilot Parallel pen for it. People use slant cut pens for it and modify this one also by sanding it against a sand paper.
i'm kinda afraid of ruining the nib so is it possible to use it as it is?

I'm working on some invitations and want to use paper vellum as the top layer. I'm looking specifically for Gold Ink that can be used on paper vellum. I'm not super new to calligraphy but I've never used this type of paper before. I've seen that calligraphy ink works fine but I'd like to hear from actual humans rather than googles suggestions. Edit: to clarify, I'm not referring to the original animal type vellum but "paper vellum" It is a smooth non absorbent transparent paper product.

With pilot plumix BB

This is my first every calligraphy project, im basing it off Hamiltons Alexander Hamilton.

Thoughts?

Gillot 303, walnut ink

Watercolor with dip pen on calligraphy paper. Love using watercolor paint to do lettering for cards and letters as I can make it any colour I need.

Working on imitating exemplars by John Stevens, but using the Calligrafiti brush pack in ProCreate on my iPad.

I attended a wonderful week long calligraphy workshop last year, our instructor was John Stevens and the workshop was hosted at Camp Cheerio, North Carolina. This was so far the most helpful workshop I ever attended.

We studied so many different styles like foundational hand, carolingan, ruling pen, some abstract things and definitely so many discussions about designs. One thing I love about John’s workshops is that he encourages us to find things that are working in our pieces, it is important to find things that work in pieces so we can translate the knowledge into a more general canvas as well in future projects. His constant encouragement to move away from self criticism is so important for all of us artists, we all tend to be very self critical and obviously it’s not the best approach.

Another thing I loved about the workshop was that we were staying in a camp in between the mountains, we had rooms and our classroom pretty close to each other and we had 24 hour access to the classroom where all of our stuff was at, that meant we could practice after our 9-5 classes got over, most of the days I practiced up till 1/2am along with fellow learners who were all so warm and so generous when it came to sharing their knowledge and calligraphy experience. It was like the entire group was leaning and growing together, just typing this out is making me miss the experience so much!!

I just don't like the letter "X". I copied it from Pinterest but i just don't like "X" because it feels unnatural. Should I change it to something i like or keep it as is?

Experimenting with my Pilot Falcon and its flex nib today. I decided to explore a monospaced Roman Italic with a subtle magazine-inspired feel—a bit of a departure from my usual Typewriter Script, but still keeping that uniform rhythm I enjoy.

The Falcon's flex nib is a little stiffer than I expected, so it takes a bit more control to achieve consistent line variation. It's definitely a learning curve, but that's part of the fun. Every new script teaches you something different.

What would you recommend on YouTube for calligraphy training videos with pilot pens and with regular calligraphy fountain pens

He said "it's just calligraphy". I don't really understand what he meant, but it looks awesome. Just wanted to share.

Some copperplate place cards I created for a Netflix event, I always appreciate when brands, corporates and planners focus on details like handwritten place cards, and I am always a little extra happy when they want Copperplate or Spencerian place cards.

How about some monoline italic for a change?