Getting Inky

Getting Inky

No. 2 - Making Connections

How do things meet, and why? I'm thinking about line segments and how character is built through touch.

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Ann B Miller
Feb 10, 2024
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A focused doodle of the alphabetic variety

Pull out your calligraphic journaling book and open to a new page. Follow the tips and suggestions, the dos and don’ts, and make your marks hang together in a new way.

Alphabet artwork with monoline pen; this piece became somewhat animated and cat-like.

Start with a simple, hand drawn monoline alphabet model. You can teach your hand to follow the forms by putting a sheet of tracing paper over the model and using pencil or marker. Anyone can do this (everyone should do this?).

Basic handlettered skeleton monoline capital model.

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