This past July I went to visit my parents for my birthday. That house still contains a lot of my belongings–mainly my extensive manga library and figurine collection, but also all my old notebooks, sketchbooks, paintings, drawings, prints, art supplies, etc. It’s a good thing I’m a 100% digital artist now, since there’s no way …
My third medieval script/blackletter inspired font, and this time we’re tackling a different country and different era. Scriptorium is based on uncial and half-uncial scripts, in particular the style of uncial/insular script used in Ireland around 400 AD-700 AD. Most people will probably recognize this style of script from famous Irish illuminated manuscript, the Book …
One day while I was in 3rd grade or so I forgot my snack at home. Left without something to eat at snacktime, my teacher kindly offered me a large tupperware full of grapes. At the end of snacktime (about 20 minutes?) I’d eaten the whole thing. Like… a pound of grapes. Needless to say, …
I briefly mentioned how interesting I find blackletter in the release post for Alkhemikal, but one thing I didn’t really mention was that there are so many different types of blackletter out there, with styles not only evolving over time, but unique to different countries, like Germany’s Fraktur or Italy’s Rotunda. And of course on top …
Recently I was looking up info on calligraphy… it’s something I kinda wanted to take a class on when I was at school, but either the class ended up filling up or there was something else scheduled at the same time I wanted more (can’t remember since it was several years ago at this point). …