Celtic Calligraphy

Guess who's back, back again~


A quick update to archive this weeks lesson. What were we up to? Well, there was a messy workshop inspired by Celtic Monks, and we got to work on the Grid Lock project we were given last week for our type books.

Workshop: Calligraphy.

Pah-drake gave us a history lesson on where the Celtic typeface actually came from. I won't go into any details today as I am hoping to write an illustrative essay on it. If all goes well, I'll post some screenshots on here in future.

Jay's Work~

After which, he gave us all ink and some varying sizes of reed. In which we were allowed to recreate the Celtic type face. A messy yet incredible workshop, if you ask me.

I have a love for all things Celtic, I even play an online game that's based off the mythology. So my eyes lit up this Wednesday morning when this was the plan for the next 3 hours.


Above is what my friend Jay produced, and below is my own work. I loved this session, can you tell? Firstly, we tried using straws but they were far too thin and unstable to continue writing with. I never got my hands on a smaller reed but I did on a larger, and it was quite an experience. I loved the more free-flowing sketchy feel to the letters I managed to produce. Not quite the Celtic style, and with a little touch of Kayleigh-ness. I would have loved to use the thinner reed but. It was great all the same~

100% would do it again.

Project 1b + 2: Nature's Alphabet & Grid Lock

17 of  26! Getting there~

Remember I had to take pictures of the alphabet? Well, I didn't get the full thing but I managed to get a total of 17. Some of them are hard to see but I think it'll be fun to vector them. Which is the second part of this project. We'll be vecoring the letters from the pictures we took in order to create our own type-face.



You can see over to the right, or on my Pinterest board, my set so far. Thank God for Trees!




Our next little project is using the building-grid photographs I described in my previous post to lay out text within our type books. I currently don't have any screen shots but I should do by next week!

Watch this space~

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