[Scriptoris] RE: award scrolls and introduction

[Elaine Crittenden]

Wanna improve your lettering in two seconds or less?

S-L-O-O-O-O-W D-O-O-O-O-W-N!
:-)

Lete

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>From: "Betsy Marshall" <betsy at softwareinnovation.com>
>To: "'Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: RE: [Scriptoris] RE: award scrolls and introduction
>Date: Fri Sep 12,2003,8:47 PM
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>> It might help to go to Hobby Lobby and pick up a
>> cartrige calligraphy pen. Also pick up some nice
>> paper. Strathmore or Brostol are both good.
>>
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> my own trick was to go to Staple/OfficeMax
> (or equivalent) and get a package of the blue graph paper.
> Practicing on this helped keep the lines level and the letters vertical
> Until the hand had the "muscle memory" thing starting to happen.
> But my best adjustment was to look at it as 'drawing' each letter,
> emphasizing the shape over the content, not writing like my everyday
> scribbles- content winning over form- no doubt the source of my
> continuing bad penmanship, but relatively legible calligraphy.
> Betsy/Pyro- not known as a scribe, but lurking here to learn.
>
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