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Gothic Littera Bastarda Practice-The World Was Young The Mountains Green


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Hey everyone, I've been teaching myself a Gothic hand from Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphy, it's history and technique (the one he calls gothic littera bastarda) for eight months, maybe. I finally worked up the courage to share some with you all and see what you think! So here is some practice with a poem from the Fellowship of the Ring, because I'm quite the Tolkien geek! I would love to hear any criticisms you have, as that's how I'll get better. Let's see if I can add this image in: http://i.imgur.com/iGHAG3L.jpg

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Great, looks good. Fluency with bastarda comes from building up speed and lots of practice. For a look at what the hand looked like in every-day use, recommend looking for some of Wycliffe's sermons at the Cambridge website. There are several cursive letters in Elizabeth I: Her Life In Letters.

 

Best of luck and keep on writing,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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Your spacing is mostly even, the fluency looks good, the hand confident, and the legibility immaculate.

 

I really like what I see! I hope that with practice you will be able to form the letters a bit more more consistently with respect to the fundamental strokes, without compromising rapidity. But that's just being critical.

K.M.J

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Thanks Dave! And thank you Randal, I'll check out those sources, you have a link for the Cambridge site?

 

Your spacing is mostly even, the fluency looks good, the hand confident, and the legibility immaculate.

I really like what I see! I hope that with practice you will be able to form the letters a bit more more consistently with respect to the fundamental strokes, without compromising rapidity. But that's just being critical.

Thanks for your feedback penner, quite encouraging! I'm going to work on the fundamentals some more this week and see if I can post something new this weekend.

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Okay, typophile, I'm about to do a very bad deed here. The link for the Oxford University Library is http://image.ox.ac.uk/. This site is an entry for the online manuscripts held by the colleges of Oxford University. Thousands of pages, done in many diverse hands and in many languages. Knock yourself out, hope this inspires many of the people on FPN to study the hands of our ancestors.

 

Don't blame me if you exhaust yourself in study and reading. You are warned, this may be dangerous.

 

Enjoy,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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I think that was a very good deed Randal! Thanks for the link, I'm sure I'll spend may hours studying the site!

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