Cursive Writing

[calhoun tubbs]

Hi Calhoun,the inks I am using are by Montblanc, Pelikan & Lamy.A video on how I do letters - a g d q y - will soon follow.PeterPS Just watched the Pelikan video again: The ink I am using there is by Montblanc<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FpNEIjRNI4Y" frameborder="0"></iframe>

 

Thank you for the reply. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that in one of the videos a Lamy ink bottle is present. Those inks, the blues in particular, look great coming from those pens. Your cursive method is very interesting and I look forward to your next video.

[turnero]

A new video with the letters r & n and their connections to a g d q y

[caliken]

Interesting deviations, but I, personally, prefer the stroke sequence and construction of the more usually accepted minuscule letterforms.

Edited October 27, 2010 by caliken

[turnero]

ff

Edited November 7, 2010 by turnero

[turnero]

new video coming soon - had problems posting it

Edited November 7, 2010 by turnero

[TheSherminator]

Well, if you think about it, this is the idea behind any good handwriting, and especially in uniform scripts such as Roundhand/Copperplate. If you bisect a word in copperplate vertically and look at the bottom half, all you will see is uniformly spaced and almost identical up and down loops like this, so as it looks like a bunch of equal u's.

 

Anyone who has studied copperplate and used any of Dr. Vittolo's stuff will know what I mean.

[Gobblecup]

I have really enjoyed these videos Peter, your writing is very uniform and simplistic, yet also attractive and unique.I hope you continue to produce these videos and share your script with us. I unfortunately do not have a nice flexible nib like yours, I think part of your writings beauty comes from the nib choice.

 

Also I enjoy your German and Spanish videos, I speak both, with varying degrees of fluency day to day!

[turnero]

[turnero]

I will soon post some examples of my cursive using a fineliner, rollerball & ballpoint, so you can compare it to the flexible nib.

 

For a pen with a flexible nib I would suggest a Pelikan 140 with M, B or BB nib.

 

 

 

I have really enjoyed these videos Peter, your writing is very uniform and simplistic, yet also attractive and unique.I hope you continue to produce these videos and share your script with us. I unfortunately do not have a nice flexible nib like yours, I think part of your writings beauty comes from the nib choice.

 

Also I enjoy your German and Spanish videos, I speak both, with varying degrees of fluency day to day!

 

 

 

[turnero]

[carlosjaviercontreras]

Thanks for the videos in Spanish, Peter. That was classy!

 

Btw, that's a beautiful MB 134. I particularly love the clips on those pens.

 

Regards,

 

Carlos Javier.

[alvarez57]

Vielen Danke!

 

I can borrow some ideas, now I love those nibs that you're using.

Gracias.

[turnero]

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[turnero]

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[leahmarie64]

http://www.peterunbehauen.de/bilderkalligrafie/unbehauen.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

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This was fantastic. I would love to watch more of this type of writing. Thank you

[jestuh]

thanks so much, just watching the videos has given me a perspective on writing with a fountain pen even better. I'm still very new to all this

[thang1thang2]

thanks so much, just watching the videos has given me a perspective on writing with a fountain pen even better. I'm still very new to all this

You replied to a three year old thread... Please don't do that in the future. While it was nice and fascinating, it's better to let threads die a natural death once they've been several months without posts in them.

 

I gladly retract my previous statement. It was from old habits that no longer apply to this sort of forum that I am on. Please, continue to raise the thread. After all, I found it very interesting. It's not the type of cursive I would, myself, write; but fascinating nevertheless.

Edited May 12, 2013 by thang1thang2

[caliken]

thang1thang2,

 

You've raised an interesting point which has bothered me for some time.

 

Unlike general discussions about commodities, this Penmanship forum doesn't date IMO.

 

Some of the information given here, is just as valid and interesting now, as it was when first posted years ago. It often concerns techniques which have remained unchanged for centuries and has developed into a comprehensive and free resource to anyone interested in improving their penmanship.

 

Of course, it's easy to start a new topic and link or relate to a previous one, but this seems unnecessarily convoluted.

 

I would be very interested in other views on this as, to me, resurrecting an old thread seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and only adds to the richness of this marvellous forum.

 

(sorry, thang1thang2.....that's just my opinion!)

 

Ken

Edited May 12, 2013 by caliken

[Mickey]

I agree, Ken. Continuity is important in a pedagogical forum. Some topics do play out, but others live on, if at a slower pace than when originally conceived, or in fits and starts, as new readers acquire insights which didn't occur to the original participants. I will, however, agree that this was necroposting, if a fairly innocent instance.