Arabic Calligraphy Practice

[silver ink]

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag175/ink00/6_zpsdf6ee8e0.jpg

wrote this with a kalam and a fountain pen.

Edited July 2, 2014 by silver ink

[smk]

Nice practice silver ink. I think the composition will benefit greatly from guidelines to keep the lines straight.

 

Are you learning a particular style from a book/guide?

 

Salman

[silver ink]

Nice practice silver ink. I think the composition will benefit greatly from guidelines to keep the lines straight.

 

Are you learning a particular style from a book/guide?

 

Salman

Sir i would like to learn nasakh. few words might look like nasakh.

 

Right now i am not following any book or guide.

 

i also like how they used to write it in older times.

 

verses of Holy Quran in kufic script 8th or 9th century

 

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag175/ink00/Quran_8th-9th_century_zpsd61a3fe1.jpg

 

verses of Holy Quran in maghribi script 13th-14th century

 

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag175/ink00/Quran_zpsb0b09c58.jpg

Edited July 3, 2014 by silver ink

[smk]

Naskh is an excellent script to start with. Here's a pdf that has introduction to several scripts including Naskh to get you started: http://www.oweis.com/workshop.pdf

 

I have one other pdf that I used as reference when I was learning Naskh. I don't remember where I found it but I will look for it and let you know. It is an excellent resource and had great detail.

 

The way to start is by learning individual letters first (mufaradat). This is followed by exercises for joining each letter to every other letter (murakabat). After this comes words and sentences. It pays to do it this way - there is no substitute for correct form.

 

Best of luck.

 

- Salman

 

ETA: I found the page: Arabic Calligraphy Books. There are a ton of books here on many scripts. Most are in Arabic but the pictures tell a good story :-) Download the ones for Naskh and use whichever one you like.

 

S.

[silver ink]

thanks a lot sir

let me go through it

[Fabienne]

Beautiful Work! It appears that you used a shading green ink for your first picture on the left. Did you outline each letter and then fill it in, or is that the effect of the ink and writing instrument?

 

By the way, Ramadan Mubarak!

 

Thank you so much for sharing with us.

[silver ink]

Beautiful Work! It appears that you used a shading green ink for your first picture on the left. Did you outline each letter and then fill it in, or is that the effect of the ink and writing instrument?

 

By the way, Ramadan Mubarak!

 

Thank you so much for sharing with us.

i wrote it first with kalam and green drawing ink

 

kalam on the right

 

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag175/ink00/17_zps57f3e576.jpg

 

 

then outlined it with a fountain pen and black fountain pen ink in it.

 

thanks a lot for Ramazan greetings.

Edited July 3, 2014 by silver ink

[Renzhe]

I'm looking at Kufic since it looks simpler to write. I only learned some letters. I constructed this by drawing guides with a pencil and filling them in with a brush. I'm not too sure about all the..."serifs" so I did them...Ming style! Hope I don't offend anyone.

http://i59.tinypic.com/15g4i9c.jpg

 

Edit: looks like a little bit was cut off by my scanner. Oh well.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Renzhe

[silver ink]

@renzhe

 

sir it is looking very beautiful

 

 

have you heard of Haji Noor Deen?

 

he is chinese

 

http://www.hajinoordeen.com/about.html

Edited July 4, 2014 by silver ink

[Renzhe]

Yes, I saw a video of him giving a presentation at Harvard. It looks very nice, but I have a feeling he breaks many rules.

[silver ink]

Yes, I saw a video of him giving a presentation at Harvard. It looks very nice, but I have a feeling he breaks many rules.

rules relating to arabic calligraphy or chinese calligraphy?

 

he writes in arabic but his style of presentation is related to chinese calligraphy

[Renzhe]

Arabic, because I've never seen him write Chinese except his name.

[smk]

Renzhe - that is a nice rendering. The serifs are perfectly fine - the tops of the verticals are open to artistic expression and yours is quite elegant in my opinion. I have not done much work in Kufic, only a couple of compositions but even that taught me that the rules are many can be quite confusing.

 

The only change I would recommend would be for the leading triangle to be closer to the first vertical i.e. Alif. The way you have is makes it look like 'Ya Allah' (with the Alif of Allah missing) rather than 'Allah'. Ideally the distance between the triangle (i.e. decoration) and the vertical should be less than the distance between connected letters (e.g. the two Laams in Allah) - in some cases you could go equal but never more that distance. This ensures that it reads as a decoration and is not a connected letter. Since you can leave off the dots in Kufic, these kinds of things become more important.

 

If you were indeed going for 'Ya Allah', then you need to add an Alif after the 'Ya'.

 

Regards,

Salman

[Renzhe]

I definitely intended that to be a decoration. Now that you say so, I see that it's definitely too far. Could I just leave the alif as a plain vertical though?

 

In any case, I think I'd need to learn Arabic before I try this again.

Edited July 5, 2014 by Renzhe

[Ghost Plane]

You've come to the right (write?) thread. By the time these gentlemen are done showing you how pretty it can be, you'll want to learn in spite of yourself.

[silver ink]

I definitely intended that to be a decoration. Now that you say so, I see that it's definitely too far. Could I just leave the alif as a plain vertical though?

 

In any case, I think I'd need to learn Arabic before I try this again.

yes sir alif can be one straight vertical line.

 

you have got space and you can still write it

[smk]

I definitely intended that to be a decoration. Now that you say so, I see that it's definitely too far. Could I just leave the alif as a plain vertical though?

 

In any case, I think I'd need to learn Arabic before I try this again.

 

You can leave the Alif without the decoration. The slight descender on the verticals make it balance out the 'haa' at the end so you don't have to have it. In fact, I think the design will be stronger without it.

 

S.

[Renzhe]

I Photoshopped it to see the effect. I also tweaked the height of the first laam for aesthetic reasons, and corrected the descender on the haa. How's this?

http://i57.tinypic.com/1zodpo4.jpg

[silver ink]

sir its looking very beautiful

[silver ink]

http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag175/ink00/20_zpse70bd32f.jpg

wrote this with kalam and fountain pen.

Edited July 6, 2014 by silver ink