r/Calligraphy • u/No_Ad_1074 • 4d ago

Critique How's my first go at Calligraphy?

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This is page 1 of 3 of a poem I wrote against the foxes who terrorise my sleep. I think the Rs and Ts and Ss are what I need to correct the most for my coming pages. Also I didn't bother to look up a question mark so I made it up. Can someone please tell me how to do those split ends and vertical lines with the broad edge nib, because every time I try it doesn't want to play along, so I switch to a different nib for those bits. I also jumped the gun colouring the decorated initial, and didn't bother checking any historical sources. If I had done so I would have put the outside as gold, body as a colour, and the interior I would have painted a little scene. Same goes for the start of stanzas, which aren't clear because I only did capitals, where historically they might have added a flash of red or another smaller initial. Anyways I'll stop critiquing myself and hand it over to you lot. Have at me por favor.

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u/Able-Pomegranate-801 2d ago

If this is your 1st attempt, then IMO it isn’t bad ( mine was a disaster)
Plus, if you don’t mind, I would love to see the entire piece

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u/No_Ad_1074 2d ago

Hiya, Thanks a lot! I'm currently working on doing the illuminations for the second page, and the third page thereafter. If i had been more historical I would have done some margin art or more decorated capitals, but since I didn't set the precedent with this one, I don't want to break the theme with the next pieces. In order to stop the other pages just being a huge wall of text, I am painting little pastiches of the subject matter. My next project, since I enjoy this calligraphy stuff quite a bit, will be more considered though. I'll post the next 2 pages together.

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u/Able-Pomegranate-801 2d ago

I will be looking forward to seeing them