**Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**

“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”

https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.

For a long time, I'd forgotten how deeply pleasurable the discipline is of writing with pen (a classic black gel ink pen for me, I have no patience for beautiful and fussy fountain pens) on paper.

It also helps that I'd worked intentionally on reworking my handwriting in 2020 and am happy with what it is now. It's not vastly different from what it used to be. Maybe it was a trauma response due to it being 2020 and losing my father shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak in India, but I'd thought that I needed a change. Maybe I was being perfectionistic as always.

But I look at the pages of my diary now and, although I'm often anxious that my hand is being unsteady and unmotivated during writing, I feel assured of it all falling into place eventually. I feel marginally more confident in my own identity as an artist. Feeling that my circumstances since 2020, despite the excruciating emotional stress I'm still under, have only managed to distill me into a stronger and more poised, more real, me.

#RetreatPosting
#Handwriting

Apple Notes on iPad, writing with the pen, when it takes your handwriting and then re-inserts it every so slightly, but unnecessarily different. Definitely auto, but not refined. It can be switched off! In the tools palette, the … menu, look for the "Auto-refine Handwriting" switch. #iOS #handwriting #preference

“When I draw comics and graphic stories, I need my #handwriting for dialogue, captions, and text. Traditionally, cartoonists would do all this #lettering by hand, but a lot of us just turn our handwriting into a #font.”

#Art / #automation / #Calligraphr <https://theverge.com/tech/634904/calligraphr-fonts-favorites>

I've been using the Surface Pen more lately (or trying to), and the thing I notice the most is how often it misses part or all of a stroke.

#Surface #handwriting #PenBasedComputing

#dailyhandwriting 23, Are you a cat person or a dog person?

I am a familiar person, and adore it when kindred spirits transcend species designation, regardless of fur, scales, or feathers.

So, I've written a little ode to familiars instead.

#dailyhandwriting 22, 10 green things.

Decided to go with minerals.

#dailyhandwriting 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Catching up with some new dip pens.

#dailyhandwriting
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19. three stroke letters
(wrong again aefhi)

#acrylicpaintnib

rev. queen of pentacles
10 of cups
unwater of earth, manifestation of all stages of the cycle of water.

Following on the page from 18., some new colors have entered the mix.

My question now is, if acrylic paint is one step away from being awkward ink, is a nib therefore the most excellent small round brush? Is a nib the best painting tool for details? Will I make a second pen set reserved for oil paints?

#DailyHandwriting 16, Pangram. When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.

While writing these, I decided to formulate an out-of-office reply for Judge Pat instead.

When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat, when he's back from his holidays.

Thank you for your undeadstanding, the office of Zombie Outreach.

#dailyhandwriting
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15. Two stroke letters?
bdjkmnpqrtxyz
(i did it wrong again.)

#acrylicpaintnib

XIII Death
page of pentacles
Scorpio, earth of earth.

Sorry there have not been enough goblins lately.

#DailyHandwriting 14, cookies!

#crime #handwriting #lmao

'Alan Slattery, 67, took it upon himself to rob the Nationwide Building Society in Eastbourne, England, but the handwriting in his demand note was so bad that staff there could not decipher it and he left empty-handed.'

https://boingboing.net/2025/03/13/bank-robbers-handwriting-so-bad-cashiers-couldnt-decipher-demand-note.html

#dailyhandwriting
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14. 10 kinds of cookies?

#acrylicpaintnib

7 of swords
6 of swords
Ascending huh?

#DailyHandwriting 13, What is your favourite kind of weather?

#dailyhandwriting
#sylvin #surfneblin (gnomish)
11. (More drills...) write the pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”?

#acrylicpaintnib

8 of pentacles (again)
rev. 10 of swords.
Mercury of earth, un-material culmination of air's aspect.
Creativity, and un-creativity's ruin.
Here's to staving off ruination!

#DailyHandwriting 12, Pangram

Go foxy, go!