Jeg er sulten
Lettering gives me ownership
That is probably the main reason why i am so taken by it; it is the purest form of expression there is, at least for me. If I wanted to plaly a song like WWWY (Take That) on the piano I'd have to go downstairs to the piano, or play soundlessly on my table, and if I didn't want to do that I'd have to make do with the guitar which puts me at a setback because I am just not good enough yet at the guitar and it requires a significant amount of effort into learning the basis of the whole instrument before learning well - you could cop out and just learn the tab for the song, but you wouldn't be learning it properly, you'd just be learning the fingering for the song and that's just not enough
I started lettering/ brush writing/ calligraphy because I was fed up of cursive fonts not turning out the exact way I pictured in my brain - I was designing the phrase "relentless grace" and none of the cursive fonts matched up; I had to resort to using the Varsity font instead of a soft cursive because I wanted it to look relentless and it was just big and blockish and not up to par. I started there - with a watercolour pencil dipped in water to create black ink, and the brush in that watercolour pencil tin. I decided to get a brush and some poster paint, and I've not looked back since.
Calligraphy is difficult. Writing one wrong letter could ruin every single perfect letter you'd worded so carefully before, but that's why I love it. I love thinking so carefully about where to place and how to slide your brush, when everything about one letter is just done in less than one second because it joins from the previous letter (or doesn't join, depending on where you decided to take it in that split second). It's so tough but it's so enjoyable, because when it turns out well, it looks perfect. When it doesn't turn out well, you have the ownership of the piece - so you have to redo it exactly the way you saw it in your head, or experiment with a different way of angling the brush, until you get the desired effect. It isn't mired by excessive technique or the need to learn where to pluck or place your fingers on a fretboard; it's about changing your own technique until you get there.
Perhaps I'm just lazy to learn guitar basics and I've come along fine enough learning new chords occasionally. I've learnt some more basics from Daniel and now after a few years I know why F#m is a bar Em on the second fret (that is how weak my guitar basics are) so I'm getting there, but very slowly. Perhaps also i'm just not good enough in Photoshop and Illustrator to manipulate fonts the way I want them to turn out, but then why would I want to work on a font that someone else created to get an effect I desire when I can just create it myself?
I wish there were a way to put music you hear on paper instead of on an instrument
That is probably the main reason why i am so taken by it; it is the purest form of expression there is, at least for me. If I wanted to plaly a song like WWWY (Take That) on the piano I'd have to go downstairs to the piano, or play soundlessly on my table, and if I didn't want to do that I'd have to make do with the guitar which puts me at a setback because I am just not good enough yet at the guitar and it requires a significant amount of effort into learning the basis of the whole instrument before learning well - you could cop out and just learn the tab for the song, but you wouldn't be learning it properly, you'd just be learning the fingering for the song and that's just not enough
I started lettering/ brush writing/ calligraphy because I was fed up of cursive fonts not turning out the exact way I pictured in my brain - I was designing the phrase "relentless grace" and none of the cursive fonts matched up; I had to resort to using the Varsity font instead of a soft cursive because I wanted it to look relentless and it was just big and blockish and not up to par. I started there - with a watercolour pencil dipped in water to create black ink, and the brush in that watercolour pencil tin. I decided to get a brush and some poster paint, and I've not looked back since.
Calligraphy is difficult. Writing one wrong letter could ruin every single perfect letter you'd worded so carefully before, but that's why I love it. I love thinking so carefully about where to place and how to slide your brush, when everything about one letter is just done in less than one second because it joins from the previous letter (or doesn't join, depending on where you decided to take it in that split second). It's so tough but it's so enjoyable, because when it turns out well, it looks perfect. When it doesn't turn out well, you have the ownership of the piece - so you have to redo it exactly the way you saw it in your head, or experiment with a different way of angling the brush, until you get the desired effect. It isn't mired by excessive technique or the need to learn where to pluck or place your fingers on a fretboard; it's about changing your own technique until you get there.
Perhaps I'm just lazy to learn guitar basics and I've come along fine enough learning new chords occasionally. I've learnt some more basics from Daniel and now after a few years I know why F#m is a bar Em on the second fret (that is how weak my guitar basics are) so I'm getting there, but very slowly. Perhaps also i'm just not good enough in Photoshop and Illustrator to manipulate fonts the way I want them to turn out, but then why would I want to work on a font that someone else created to get an effect I desire when I can just create it myself?
I wish there were a way to put music you hear on paper instead of on an instrument