Calligraphy and Penmanship

[--zeSto--]

[img]http://www.alphabytes.com/calligraphy/images/calligraphy.gif'>

I think that we share quite a bit of common ground with the calligraphers
and typesetters out there. The chisel tip marker that we know so well
is really the tool of penmanship.

I dedicate this thread to the roots of the handstyle.

[img]http://www.passionfruit.com/calligraphy.GIF'>
[img]http://www.isei.or.jp/Paper_Museum/images/calligraphy.jpg'>
[img]http://www.metimes.com/issue99-46/metpix/calligraphy.gif'>
[img]http://www.rand.org/contact/personal/calligraphy/illum.gif'>

[--zeSto--]

a little more personal this time...

[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/zg17.jpg'>
[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/12step%20copy.jpg'>
[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/arabic01.jpg'>
[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/kws_tag.gif'>

please contribute anything relavant!

[moyen]

Nice stuff...my girl can rock a bit of that.

bump

[teister]

My grandpa is the illest calligrapher. I tried to learn for awhile, I should pick it up again.

[kaesthebluntedwonder]

[img]http://www.cnn.com/STYLE/9708/19/chinese.art/caligraphy.link.jpg'>
[img]http://www.kbyu.org/ancestors/images/compiled/caligraphy.jpg'>
[img]http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/adavidso/Islamic-caligraphy.jpg'>
[img]http://www.c-c-c.org/auction/auction98/calligraphy.jpg'>

[imported_FROSTY]

Originally posted by --zeSto--
a little more personal this time...

[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/arabic01.jpg'>


please contribute anything relavant!

yo this looks amayzing. like if somone could kinda modify that style into an english font kinda thing it would look superb

[SilpherGirl]

i've been learning chinese calligraphy almost all my life~ it's essential for students in asia to know how to do calligraphy. mostly in japan and china. they teach them in class once ur in elementary school all the way up to high school. it's pretty neat if ur into this kinda thing.. but gets kinda boring afterwards... like after doing 7-8 years of it..

[--zeSto--]

hey frost... That is english..

If you look right across tthe center line you will see "CLAIRE"

the rest is just embelishment.

[DBMstyles]

KWS???

[--zeSto--]

^ KidsWorldSports

(for a TV show I worked on)

[imported_El Mamerro]

I vote for Tesseract to post some of his stuff. His handstyles are fucking sick. Beer,

El Mamerro

[sectorTVA]

handstyles=my favorite part about graffiti......base of everything....studying up on those traditional Old English letters right now.....ive never really gotten into studying actual text letters until now, about 4-6 years from when i started....its my loss i guess....soon to be my gain.....

[cdz]

pretty impresive zesto, me likes lots

[black hook]

do the chinese people have a keyboard with all those symbols on them for there key board???? there must be a thousand of those symbols...how could they fit them on a keyboard?:confused:

[TRAMP]

Handstyles are indeed THE best thing in Graffiti...the claire hand is just nonsense...too dressed up man

[7evenlayers]

go to arabiangallery.com I think you will enjoi; I would post my own, but don't have the option.

[TEE_rase_war]

hey zesto what did you use to make the KWS ? hit me up on email if yad like

[re-Ignore]

Originally posted by FROSTY


yo this looks amayzing. like if somone could kinda modify that style into an english font kinda thing it would look superb

[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/arabic01.jpg'>

This is not Aribic, it is english and it says ELAINE... does it look aribic aribic though...

[SilpherGirl]

Originally posted by black hook
do the chinese people have a keyboard with all those symbols on them for there key board???? there must be a thousand of those symbols...how could they fit them on a keyboard?:confused:
i can't really explain this to u but almost every chinese word contains of different little parts put together to form the word, and each word has a definate part that represents it. the parts (strokes) on the keyboard are the main ones that usually forms a word, and yes there are thousands different words. so if u hit a certain button on the keyboard a list of different words comes up... it's really complicated, ppl go to classes to learn how to type chinese.

[--zeSto--]

whoa... it could say 'Elaine', better not tell that to 'Claire'.

here's a bit of penwork to keep the thread alive...
[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/calligraph.jpg'>

[T.T Boy]

excellent thread zesto, one of the best parts of graffiti, actually one of my faves, that arabic/chinese japanese stuff is amazing. i really like your hand id like to see more, and more of tesseracts stuff.

[imported_FROSTY]

holly shit i woulda never seen that. cauz i automatically just thought it was arabic so i didnt look for anything. shows you how stupid the human mind actually can be. or at least mine for that matter..........:o

[imported_Nero1]

Does anyone have any Sundance AS or Emuse pics to contribute? Their styles are dope.

[Dr. Dazzle]

My mum can write caligraphy fucking awesome. I always get her to write shit for school for me. I should aske her to write my tag....

[imported_Xeroshoes]

Originally posted by Nero1
Does anyone have any Sundance AS or Emuse pics to contribute? Their styles are dope.

I concur. I might just go look for some myself...

[Pistol]

I wish I had the skill of Chaz Bojorquez.
[img]http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/t2go/1la/images/1994.81_1b.jpg'>

[artsol]

hell yea. the roots and foundation of graf,not enuf emphasis on it in most mags and videos...bombing is the shit. Anyway, this whole thread was brilliant,great work and great stuff from repliers too.

[--zeSto--]

arrghh.. freephoto has fuckered my thread !!!

[--zeSto--]

but I now I bump you up!

[img]http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair/WHAC/GoodStyle.GIF'>

[Delta-9]

That ELAINE one is ill...interesting thread zesto...i like:p :P :P

[CRone]

If you like this check out Xu Bing.

[fizm]

Originally posted by Gus


[img]http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/lazerock/arabic01.jpg'>

This is not Aribic, it is english and it says ELAINE... does it look aribic aribic though...

it also has a big phallic design