Week 2: ALPHABETS (Blog #3)

Hello people!!

I apologize in advance to anyone who has chosen me as their "BBF" this week because I have a pretty boring post. But cool pictures at the end!!!!!! Stay with me.

Alright, like I just said, kind of a boring post this week. Pretty short though! All I did was work on my alphabets. One is the cursive alphabet, upper and lower case. There were a couple of letters I struggled with, but overall I think it went pretty well. I'm excited to start writing some quotes! If you have any quote suggestions pleaaassee comment. I think I will also try to incorporate some designs into the quotes, like extra embellishments. 

In addition to the cursive alphabet, I worked on a block letter alphabet. It's inspired by Seb Lester (shown in last post) but I had to improvise a bit since there was no guide. I think I need to keep working on it but... Anyway, with this alphabet I'll probably write words like copmany names or something rather than a quote because its not elegant like the cursive alphabet.

So, an important part of calligraphy is posture, especially with cursive. When you have good posture, it's easier to write the letters smoothly. I've done some very basic research on the effects of poor posture:

- Poor digestion

- Varicose veins

- Back pain (obviously)

- Bad mood (when you slouch, your mood automatically darkens)

- Decrease in lung function

- Growth issues

- Osteoarthritis (Bad posture disrupts the natural load bearing system of your joints. Joint may calcify and fuse bones in unnatural ways. It always leads to pain)

I think this will be part of my Ted Talk. I think cursive/handwriting should be implemented in elementary schools (implemented as in actually focused on) because it's a cool skill, but also because handwriting things helps with memory and cursive requires good posture.

Ok, so here is some of the stuff I did this week:

Here's the uppercase alphabet. Pretty fun, harder than the lowercase for some reason. Please ignore the awkward and alone 'N' on the first page...

Here's the lowercase alphabet. I think it went pretty well, however on some of the letters I couldn't quite decide on a specific style (typical cursive vs. the model I was looking at).

This is the Seb Lester inspired style. A little rough. And the "VANS' and "NO CHILL" are imitations, I did not randomly decide to write those.

Well, bye for now.