Click the green flag then enter the word you'd like to see written in calligraphy. (The longest word that will fit is about 8 letters.)
I've seen so many gorgeous pen projects this week, and I've rarely used the pen blocks myself. So for today's "use a block you want to learn more about" prompt, I decided to use the pen. Thinking about using the pen made me think about the analogy that's often drawn between coding and writing, about students using coding as a tool for learning instead of just "learning to code". I'm not sure my project really relates to that, but the idea of writing led me to calligraphy. Which I know nothing about. So I did some research and happily found that modern calligraphy can be done with just a few basic strokes - that made creating blocks for each letter simpler. And once I had figured out one of the strokes, I had something of a pattern that made the others easier to create. The biggest thing I learned about using the pen is that combinations of moves and turns make curved shapes much easier than combinations of x and y changes (my first, quickly abandoned method). I'm fairly happy with the way it turned out, although even with the basic strokes, I ended up with a ton of defined blocks. I still need to fiddle with the letter spacing, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. ********************************************************************* Quill image from favpng.com Paper backdrop by aopsan via freepik.com Tutorial on the basic calligraphy strokes from Lettering Daily Music is A Little Bit of Dreammusik by Ergo via freemusicarchive.org
