Assorted Tips for Calligraphy
Here are an assortment of tips for improving your calligraphy, your experience, your tools and materials, etc.
Use hairspray on paper to keep it from bleeding. (You can also use this on charcoal and pencil work.) The best way to do this is to spray two coats by spraying from above and letting the hairspray fall down onto the work.
When working with horizontal strokes, give them the "smile factor" by lifting them just the tiniest bit as you go from left to right.These horizontal strokes have more life to them and more of a positive feeling. Horizontals that go down as they go to the right have a heavier, more depressing feeling to them.
A tiny dab of extra ink at the ends of thin horizontal strokes adds that special touch.
Especially when doing a piece with black ink, one bit of red somewhere in the piece will add a strong point of interest.
A tiny squeeze of vermilion added to black ink will give you a much richer black.
When doing work for reproduction, make the hairlines slightly thicker or they may not show up at all.
When bouncing letters, keep the first and last letters on the same line (also the first and last words on a line). Doing that will make the eye read them as straight.
Flourishing too much or in the wrong place is like laughing at a joke before the punch line or laughing when you don't really get it - there's a hollowness to it.
You need enough interlinear space for the eye to travel back to the left to start the next line, or it becomes difficult to read.
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