This post is borrowed from my book Using Calligraphy, which offers calligraphers lots of practical advice--whether they sell their work or write for a hobby. I'm a strong advocate of spending extra time on the first drafts, until you find one* that fits the physical text and reinforces the meaning. Sleep on your nearly-finished design. And use the more important end of your pencil--the eraser.
*And not always just one. In a further design step, you may find that a favorite quotation inspires something quite different in you some weeks, months, or years later. I keep coming back to this one, in a way that the quotation itself describes, and try it again now and then with different results. I plan to think about more designs, and hope to see it some day for "the thousandth time."
*And not always just one. In a further design step, you may find that a favorite quotation inspires something quite different in you some weeks, months, or years later. I keep coming back to this one, in a way that the quotation itself describes, and try it again now and then with different results. I plan to think about more designs, and hope to see it some day for "the thousandth time."
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| From Using Calligraphy, and still good advice. |
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