Heavily-Shaded Copperplate

[caliken]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd289/caliken_2007/Leonardt600-1.jpg

[jasonchickerson]

This is beautiful. And very interesting miniscule r.

[GNTravis]

All that shade is giving me goosebumps, but of course in a good way!

[Zed]

Ken, you really are a marvel! The consistency of your strokes and transitions is just unbelievable.

[Anne-Sophie]

Masterful example of the king of handwriting styles.

 

There is nothing more beautiful and classic than Copperplate in the hand of a Master!

 

Thanks Ken!

[Millefleurs]

Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for sharing!

[delano]

Wonderful -- is "craftsmanship" the word? What font is that?

[Frank C]

Would someone explain the term "shading" to me in this context? Thank you in advance.

 

Frank

[caliken]

Wonderful -- is "craftsmanship" the word? What font is that?

 

I consider myself a craftsman and not an artist.

 

It's just a form of English Roundhand (Copperplate) but written much heavier than usual.

 

Ken

[caliken]

Would someone explain the term "shading" to me in this context? Thank you in advance.

 

Frank

Shading in this context is just another way of describing a swelled stroke i.e. a downstroke produced with a flexible nib, opening the tines with pressure on the nib which produces a widened stroke, in this case much wider than normal for this style of lettering.

[Frank C]

Thank you for the clarification. I do enjoy seeing all this beautiful handwriting; I am trying to improve my scrawl.

[Zed]

The word shading used in connection with writing is pretty confusing - people sometimes comment that they like the shading in my handwritten samples

 

 

but some mean the line variation and some mean the ink intensity variation. It can get a bit confusing...

[Manalto]

I like the shading in your handwritten samples, Zed.

 

May I ask - what pen, nib and ink were used for the sample in the photo?

[Zed]

Hello Manalto, I did not mean to hijack the tread as it should be about heavily shaded copperplate.

 

The pen was a English made Waterman 515 with a customized English made Waterman #5 nib and the ink was Diamine Umber green is my memory serves me right...

[caliken]

The word shading used in connection with writing is pretty confusing - people sometimes comment that they like the shading in my handwritten samples

but some mean the line variation and some mean the ink intensity variation. It can get a bit confusing...

That's right, of course and it can get very confusing.

[kharrisma]

Hi Ken,

 

Can you tell me what nib you used in that gorgeously exaggerated example of Copperplate? I'm trying to do some oversized Copperplate myself, and my Nikko G just isn't cutting it!

 

Karl

[caliken]

I used a Brause Rose 76 nib. This is an enlargement. The original is about 80% of the size on screen.

 

Ken

[mudman]

Impressive my friend. My writing looks like chicken scratch, although I've been practicing everyday.

[kharrisma]

Thanks, Ken; I even happen to have a Brause Rose nib. I'll give it a shot and see if it does a better job at making big letters than the G series nibs do. I'm going for exactly the look of your example, in letters about 2 1/2" high (numbers, actually). Thanks again!