Part 2 - Challenge! Presidents' Day International

[bokchoy]

Beautiful writing, DanF! I love the ink and paper colours too.

 

Something about giraffes and their long necks made me associate them with gillotines. The poor things...

[kiavonne]

As do I, Dan. I have more than a few strike outs in my practice sentences!

[kiavonne]

Perhaps someone will have a "Save the Giraffes" campaign?

[Apprenti]

  On 2/11/2014 at 5:53 AM, kiavonne said:

Perhaps someone will have a "Save the Giraffes" campaign?

Just did this quickly, gotta run:

 

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r555/Josiah_Goldsmith/SavetheGiraffes033.jpg

[Apprenti]

Just a quick one before school.

 

Cheers,

Joe

[kiavonne]

[Apprenti]

  On 2/11/2014 at 4:27 PM, kiavonne said:

Sorry it's a bit rushed, I managed to fit it in the ten minutes before school this morning (including uploading the scan etc). Hope you like it anyway, it was fun to write scribble.

[DanF]

  On 2/11/2014 at 5:51 AM, bokchoy said:

Beautiful writing, DanF! I love the ink and paper colours too.

 

Something about giraffes and their long necks made me associate them with gillotines. The poor things...

Astroparche Natural with Noodler's Red - Black.

 

Something terribly poignant about the combination of giraffes and a guillotine. I'm glad something is now being done to save the poor creatures. Thanks to Joe!

 

Dan

 

Dan

[Apprenti]

  On 2/11/2014 at 7:28 PM, DanF said:

Astroparche Natural with Noodler's Red - Black.

 

Something terribly poignant about the combination of giraffes and a guillotine. I'm glad something is now being done to save the poor creatures. Thanks to Joe!

 

Dan

 

Dan

We must save the Giraffes! Perhaps the Scarlet Pimperneck will save them (sorry that's awful)?

 

Dan, I've been practicing spencerian pretty much non-stop since seeing your writing. It's frustrating when the shaded patches railroad with my rubbish pen, but I'm hoping to rectify that situation soon I'm trying to get to the stage where I can just write like you without thinking too much about it. Perhaps the practice sentences in this thread will help?

 

Joe

[kiavonne]

  On 2/11/2014 at 8:29 PM, Apprenti said:

...Perhaps the practice sentences in this thread will help?

 

 

The very core of this challenge. To help.

[Apprenti]

Ok, tomorrow I'm gonna try one in Spencerian business hand. Bear in mind I've only had a few days practice on this, and I haven't even covered all the letters yet!

[bokchoy]

For fun

 

Sipping at his coffee, the bookkeeper from Clackmannanshire adopted an air of lugubriousness and told his flabbergasted audience an abridged account of his life, how a babbling porpoise befriended his well-maintained dinghy until the rosewood vessel sank in the Mediterranean, how the shipwreck beggared him, how he squatted in the mezzanine of the Burj Khalifa and became a capable squeegee man, how he necessarily subsisted on pippin apples, how an Egyptian vexillologist gave him baguettes and assisted him to become a beekeeper, how his field of daffodils and poppies was possibly eaten by phyllophagus buffaloes and his honey quaffed by parakeets, and flummoxed and disappointed at these events, he turned to raising giraffes, only for an abbot's assessment of his giraffe's indubitably long neck and suggestion to shorten it via guillotine to offend his sense of aestheticism beyond all conceivableness.

 

http://i.imgur.com/XK1mqhD.png

Edited February 12, 2014 by bokchoy

[Apprenti]

MORE giraffes to the guillotine?! When will it ever end?!?

 

Great entry, bokchoy. Very nicely written!

 

Joe

[DanF]

I feel partly to blame for this bloodshed! ): Your Beekeeper had quite a varied career.

 

Dan

[DanF]

  On 2/11/2014 at 8:29 PM, Apprenti said:

 

I'm trying to get to the stage where I can just write like you without thinking too much about it.

 

Joe

If you do, you will be ahead of me - if I don't have my mind on it bad things tend to happen, and even when I am thinking, they still happen!

 

Dan

[bokchoy]

  On 2/12/2014 at 7:39 AM, Apprenti said:

MORE giraffes to the guillotine?! When will it ever end?!?

 

Great entry, bokchoy. Very nicely written!

 

Joe

 

Thanks Joe, though I have a long way to go to reach Dan's level of consistency. I'd like to write neatly without thinking about it too.

 

My 'r's always degenerate into pointy things . I've experimented with the more print-like form, but they tend to look like 'v's instead. How do you get those perfectly shaped 'r's, Dan? I'm jealous.

Edited February 12, 2014 by bokchoy

[Apprenti]

Feeling a little inferior as I post this, but I said I would so here it is. Dan - I hope you don't mind that I tried this with your sentence:

 

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r555/Josiah_Goldsmith/DSC_0169.jpg

 

It's not made easier by the facts that 1) I've only been doing this a few days, 2) the paper and pen aren't great and 3) this is my work space:

 

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r555/Josiah_Goldsmith/DSC_0174.jpg

 

I've been practicing a lot, but maybe I need to work on more of this and less of the above? I haven't even learned the 'language', as such, yet, so maybe I should just keep going at it?

 

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r555/Josiah_Goldsmith/DSC_0178.jpg

http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r555/Josiah_Goldsmith/DSC_0185.jpg

 

Thanks,

Joe

[the flexistentialist]

I've come to realize that the lunch hour is a great time for handwriting practice and playing with the words list... sadly I have to wait until I get home to practice with my pens. (Hoping a bit of pencil work is alright until I can get back to my favorite Wahl)

 

First version is for those who like practicing specific letters over and over... d, b, p, f, g, m and just a bit of a at the end.

 

The indubitable duty of the doubtful digger was to dredge the ditch of the dowager who begrudged begging the bellowing abbot for the bulging begonias that bloom in that beguiling bog, but before Daryl, our derelict digger could pilfer the potential posies, the abbot's pet pygmy giraffe, Peter, pounced like a gazelle lightly leaping into the kerfuffle, frightening the flabbergasted would-be florist into fleeing in a shuffling flight from the flowery ditch where Peter, himself, gruffly grabbed the growing garden in a gulp and galloped off to the grubby gypsy garrison guarding the grounds of the governor, where he gave the governor's grand-daughter, Greta, the gorgeous begonias, causing the maiden to remark that she remembered that that mistreated minion couldn't have committed the multiple murders on Monday — the maximum he could be accused of was the marginally malicious manhandling of some marigolds — which swayed her gallant governor grandfather, who after assessing the affair acquiesced to an acquittal.

 

 

The second version — well I suppose I was in a lyrical mood.

 

Abbott and Costello were jovial fellows who were always good for a laugh,

when one night on a lark, they went out after dark, accidentally meeting a giraffe
who said to the pair, "But are you aware the guillotine will soon be my fate,
for a lugubrious gypsy, feeling slightly tipsy was waiting anxiously outside of my gate
where there was quite the kerfuffle, I was lost in the shuffle, but I saw the kitten pull a Derringer from his coat,
how he pulled the trigger, I couldn't figure, but, oh, how that braggart could gloat —
and now I have the blame and a ruffian's shame for a multiple murder and such gobbledygook
but with such genuine friends who'll ensure a benign end, can keep the sheriff from throwing the book" —

which caused the duo to say in a difficult way that this story would make their hearts burst,
but they maneuvered to the right and buggered off out of sight, leaving an autographed copy of
Who's On First.

 

 

I hope everyone enjoys.

I've been having a wonderful time reading all of the entries so far. Thanks all!

 

The flexistentialist

[kiavonne]

Oh, my gosh, that was fun! Thanks, Flexistentialist!

[DanF]

Joe --- What are you doing to that cello? It is really helpful to have lots of room to work in, though I suffer with clutter too.

 

Your practice sheet look great, just keep at it, you're doing fine. I think you are a little crowded by the lines in your fist example in post 53. Lower case t's and d's are twice as high as an "a", and capitals are three times as high, then you want a little space between the top of the capitol and the line above it to keep if from feeling too crowded. I find regular wide lined notebook paper (about 9mm spacing) to be about right, with x height about 2mm looks best. Consistency with letter height is always a struggle for me, but it comes with practice.

 

Bokchoy ---- Your writing looks great, for letters that are difficult, I will repeat a bunch in a line, then do a bunch of words with that letter in them, in multiples if possible. But first look at the form of the letter you want to copy, and try to get as close as you can, then do the above steps. R's are easy to mess up if you aren't paying attention, or trying to go too fast.

 

Flexistentialist --- Your writing is beautiful, love the rhyming approach of the second example, and alliteration in the first. Looks like pencil, or do my eyes deceive?

 

Dan