Looking For Help Finding An Italic/round Hand Style.

[Drawing61]

Thank you all for this fascinating and informative discussion.

[Inky.Fingers]

[Inky.Fingers]

High angled writing with a 1.5mm Nib Crisp Cursive Italic Lamy.

 

With higher angle, about 60 degrees, a slimmer vertical stroke and broader horizontal stroke.

Connecting the letters, helps a lot with spacing and helped me to eye-coordinate the line straight.

 

Upper sample with 45, lower with 60.

 

Edited March 13, 2016 by #InkyFingers

[dms525]

High angled writing with a 1.5mm Nib Crisp Cursive Italic Lamy.

 

With higher angle, about 60 degrees, a slimmer vertical stroke and broader horizontal stroke.

Connecting the letters, helps a lot with spacing and helped me to eye-coordinate the line straight.

 

Upper sample with 45, lower with 60.

 

 

 

Very nice! I think you have made a great leap forward on multiple fronts. Your italic page is much more pleasing with that amount of flourishing.

 

David

[Inky.Fingers]

Thanks David. I think I tinker with too much flourish...but it gave me so much incentives to practice. I am having trouble with both upper and lower case. Any good samples that you can demonstrate? Love to see more of your hands.

and what is bread breaking?

 

[dms525]

#InkyFingers -

 

Here is a collection of samples that might help.

 

 

I don't know where your "breaking bread" question comes from. I bake bread. Is that it?

David

[Inky.Fingers]

[dms525]

I write a "w" as illustrated in the first image of my preceding reply.

 

David

[akustyk]

#InkyFingers, your handwriting is amazing!!!

[Inky.Fingers]

Thank you Akustyk. Truth is, I have too many masters, an unfaithful student. In the Sea of Calligraphy, I am a pebble of different colors (a wandering soul): Chancery, Secretary, Merchantile, Uncial and English Roundhand. Truth is I can't distinguish them apart.

 

I blame the internet for allowing chaos to occur.

 

[Inky.Fingers]

Edited March 19, 2016 by #InkyFingers

[Inky.Fingers]

[Inky.Fingers]

[dms525]

 

[Inky.Fingers]

More slant or less?

[dms525]

More slant or less?

 

 

I am sure you recognize that slant is not the only difference between the two samples. To me, the difference in weight, that is the number of nib widths of the x-height, is more striking.

 

Personally, I can't state a preference for more or less slant. Many modern teachers of italic handwriting say that letter slope is the inevitable result of faster writing. If that is true, then it should have an organic relationship to the script's rhythmicity. I think we see that (or its absence) unconsciously, and make gut-feeling aesthetic judgments based on that perception.

 

Hmmmm .... I would say I like the first sample somewhat more, but I think letter slope is just a part of it.

 

David

[Inky.Fingers]

I must apologize, the scanner is not the best option for me. A mobile phone gives better results.

 

Thanks David.

 

This was written with the same pen, on different paper. Upper is your 20lbs copy paper; Lower was HP 32lbs Premium paper.

I find it a bit difficult doing slant with Italics than with English Roundhand. I write without guides so it is a bit wobbly.

 

There's still a lot of inconsistencies...I need to iron them out, any suggestion?

[dms525]

I must apologize, the scanner is not the best option for me. A mobile phone gives better results.

 

Thanks David.

 

This was written with the same pen, on different paper. Upper is your 20lbs copy paper; Lower was HP 32lbs Premium paper.

I find it a bit difficult doing slant with Italics than with English Roundhand. I write without guides so it is a bit wobbly.

 

There's still a lot of inconsistencies...I need to iron them out, any suggestion?

 

 

I may not be the best source of advice regarding consistent letter slope. My own is improving, slowly, but I certainly have no magic other than reflective practice. Slope guidelines haven't helped me much.

 

David

[Inky.Fingers]

[Inky.Fingers]

How is this achieved?