If you hold your pen at a 0º angle and draw a straight line to the right, you produce the thinnest line the pen is capable of. Understanding the Capabilities of Your Pen And after a serious amount of dedicated practice these seemingly impossible strokes actually become a reality in your work. However, once you become comfortable manipulating your writing tool in different ways, you’ll break out of this one-dimensional thinking and new worlds will open up for you to explore. With a flat pen, such as a Pilot Parallel or an automatic pen (or even a brush), our minds are initially conditioned to think of the lines it produces as thin and thick - at least when we start. Looking back, I’m not entirely sure why I thought it had to be that way. There seemed to be so many strokes that just didn’t feel possible with a flat pen, regardless of the angle I was holding it at. I recall carefully examining old english fonts, before I even knew that these weren’t true calligraphic forms - just typefaces that were based off of them. If you were to attempt to recreate the above alphabet with a single pen angle, the result would be close.
Depending on the direction you pull the pen, you produce a thick line or a thin line. If you’ve followed flat pen calligraphy tutorials (blackletter or otherwise), you’ve probably been taught to hold your pen at one single angle. For example, look at this alphabet: An example of an Old English font by Ross F George (1927) Upon studying other calligraphy artist’s work, I was often puzzled and confused by how they were able to achieve strokes that appeared to deviate from this “hard and fast rule”. Remembering back to when I first started writing with a flat pen, I was fixated on the idea that blackletter (and other broad edge) scripts were produced by holding the pen at single, steady angle (e.g. Breaking Out of the One-Dimensional Approach These teachings *will* make you a better calligraphy artist. If this sounds like you, then look no further.
I wanted to have all of these learnings comprehensively detailed in one place to make it easier for serious calligraphy artists looking to improve their skills with advanced pen techniques to learn quickly. This post is a revamped consolidation of all of the intricate flat pen calligraphy techniques I’ve learned over the years. George, see here.Broad Edge Calligraphy Technique – A Comprehensive Guide to Stroke Control and Pen Manipulation
I extracted some useful images from that file. The PDF file is made available with his permission. in Camden, NJ in 1927, was scanned in 2014 by Lee Littlewood, a signpainter in Portland, OR, who runs Lee's Better Letters. George's book Speedball 10, published by C. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
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