Early Morning Patterns

One of the many things that fascinates me about calligraphy is the structure and order
that can appear over an entire page of work.
Sometimes you don’t notice it until you’re done, especially if you’re practicing letters.

But when you’re doing warmups, sometimes trying to keep consistent patterns is the whole point. What’s cool about it is, that even if you don’t succeed in getting everything just the way you wanted, it almost always looks really cool. Here’s a page of fun warmups:

daily calligraphy warmup
daily calligraphy warmup using a small metal nib (Speedball C5) to write large letters – it ends up imitating a pointed pen (almost)