Stages Of Calligraphy

Posted on Author Vandita Shukla
‘Calligraphy is the most intimate, private and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice it is unique with every person’. – Hermann Zapf, German designer

Learning Calligraphy Is All About Being Patient:

At the beginning, it can be discouraging to be starting from the ground up, practicing mundane ‘drills’ and feeling like your skills will never be as advanced as you’d like. But calligraphy and lettering are specialized skills. And just like you wouldn’t pick up an instrument and know how to play a song right away, you can’t just pick up a brush pen and be a master at calligraphy or lettering. You need to practice. A lot. Dedicate time for practice every single day, and you will get better. s we already established, calligraphy and handwriting are very different. In calligraphy, there are actually some BASIC strokes you have to learn before you can ever do your alphabet.

‘Perfection of handwriting needs proper education, regular exercises, and purity of the soul’.

Skipping Basics Can Lower Down One’s Performance:

In calligraphy, you need to start with the very, very basics. These are referred to as ‘strokes’. All of your letters are made up of strokes. So, practice the strokes- over, and over, and over again- until they’re consistent. The more consistent your strokes, the more consistent your letters. picking up a brush pen and copying someone’s else’s style would be like picking up an instrument and learning a song without knowing how to play each note. You could eventually figure out how to play the song by copying the sounds, but if someone asked you to play them a ‘G minor’, you wouldn’t know how. You skipped a step.  Just grab some fancy brush pens and use them with my already-nice handwriting. Turns out, that’s the fast track to failure!

Each letter in every script known to man holds an eternal power, an individual beauty in its vertical, horizontal, angular lines, in their continuity’. –Achyut Palav, Indian Calligrapher

Use The Right Lettering Tools:

just until you know what you’re doing enough to get the expensive ones. And this is true- to an extent. You can practice with any supplies you want at the beginning- a pencil, a ballpoint pen, Crayola markers, your kids colouring supplies- but when you want to get serious, you need the right supplies.The simple reason: brush pens, inks, nibs, and papers are not created equal. If you use the wrong ones, you will frustrate yourself and ruin your supplies. even though some tools DO make our life easy, or can speed up some processes, the only way to see improvements fast is with practice, so try to carve as much time as you can, download some of my free workbooks and let’s focus on our deliberate practice!

The art of beautiful writing is accessible to anyone who wants to unlock its secrets.
Julien Chazal

Socializing With Others Of The Same Filed:

When you browse hashtags and look through your search page, you start to come across the same people over and over again. If you find someone whose style you really love, or who you think you’d get along with in real life, MESSAGE THEM! Be genuine- tell them what you love about their work, ask questions, and start a conversation. Learning calligraphy & lettering is tough, and it’s so nice to have other like-minded people on your side. I am a firm, firm believer in community over competition. So reach out to others- engage with them, tell them when you like their stuff. It really does go far. 

Germanic Tribe

Posted on Author Vandita Shukla

Diving Into The Custom:

The people, language, and traditions are what make the German culture unique. It has had a key role in the history of Europe. English speakers call it Germany ,and Germans themselves call Deutschland. Germany is known as the country of poets and thinkers.

The Culture just asking to look beauty around.

Symbolism  

The German symbols have changed through different phases in history alongside the events that have shaped its culture and traditions. The eagle was part of the Holy Roman Empire, which after Prussia’s victory over Austria in 1886 has been shared by two different states. Martin Luther and luminaries such as Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe are also important figures and very contentious symbols. Today the most known symbol of the country is its black, red, and gold flag.

Defining unity and culture

German Philosopher’s And Their Attractive Literacy:

The German symbols have changed through different phases in history alongside the events that have shaped its culture and traditions. The eagle was part of the Holy Roman Empire, which after Prussia’s victory over Austria in 1886 has been shared by two different states. Martin Luther and luminaries such as Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe are also important figures and very contentious symbols. Today the most known symbol of the country is its black, red, and gold flag.

The phase of the Holy Roman Empire and their living

Literature Of The Germans

Some of the most famous philosophers were born and lived in Germany, like Immanuel Kant, who played a central role in the history of philosophy, and h was inspired by German philosopher philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche who spent their whole lives in Germany. On the other hand, the developers of the communist theory Marx and Engels were also Germans.

Literature is the essence of honest words.

The German Romanticism

Romanticism crucially also maintains that art cannot be learned; it emerges from divine inspiration. The artist’s role is the mediator between the creative and the divine. Nature was considered to be the visible spirit, the evidence of the divine in the absence of an image of God himself. The romantic landscape artist was charged with the responsibility of contemplating nature and its spirit and then replicating it in art.

Just a common women with common thoughts!

Beyond The Voice

Posted on Author Vandita Shukla

THE PAST AND STORY OF VOCALS:

In the beginning was the voice. Voice is sounding breath, the audible sign of life.
-Ibid.

It is likely the earliest singing was individualistic and improvisatory, a simple imitation of the sounds heard in nature. Many anthropologists believe the development of a lowered larynx (important to articulate speech, as it effectively makes the flexible lower tongue the front wall of the pharynx) was a relatively recent aspect of human evolution. Three styles of chant melody evolved: syllabic (for clergy and congregation), neumatic (several notes to a syllable, for choristers) and melismatic (florid, for soloists). Metricity in either chant texts or melodies was uncommon, but occurred as early as the fourth century, In the graphic art of the Middle Ages, singers were often shown with strained expressions, their furrowed brows, protruding veins and exaggerated mouth positions suggesting an effortful, possibly nasal quality–twangy or reedy–like the instrumental colors of the time. Chaucer, in his fourteenth century Canterbury Tales, described singing of the time as being ‘intoned through the nose’. Straight tone was the probable norm, with vibrato being reserved for use as an ornament, as were a stock of ancient vocal devices: portamenti, turns, trills, and the intentional use of the qualities of the various vocal registers. The yodel was probably used as well.

PERCEPTION OF SINGING:

Singing voices are classified into six main groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass. There are also commonly used subgroups, such as dramatic as opposed to lyric, or spinto, coloratura, soubrette, and so on. The main criterion for this classification is the singer’s comfortable pitch range. low voices tend to have long vocal tracts and vice versa. Thus, sopranos tend to have the shortest pharynges and basses the longest Thus, sopranos tend to have the shortest pharynges and basses the longest a given pitch, singers with a higher pitch range should tend to have a weaker voice-source fundamental than singers with a lower pitch range.


MUSIC AND THE BRAIN:

In the act of singing (with words) there is a smooth integration of the neural systems producing speech and singing. We know that in terms of activation, these systems seem to exhibit a significant degree of overlap asymmetries may reflect complementary specializations that arose specifically to serve the simultaneous demands inherent in producing speech (words with prosodic intonation) or song (melody with lyrics). Regardless of its evolutionary origins, song production, like song perception, calls upon a combination of functions, some of whose components appear to exhibit opposite hemisphere asymmetries. Temporal lobe areas were activated bilaterally during song imagery, consistent with the integrated nature of melody and lyrics in song representations. During actual singing, temporal lobe activation would be predominantly driven by the processing of auditory feedback. It remains to be demonstrated whether song singing will result in strongly right hemisphere asymmetric activation, as does simple singing without words, or in significant activation of left temporal lobe areas associated with language comprehension.

Hobbies That Involve Writing And Creative Thinking

Posted on Author Ritika Vij

Writing encourages you to interpret things and perceive them from a different point of view. It helps you to look at things in a more conventional style. According to recent research, almost 80% of our communication is through writing. Of course, we don’t send letters to each other anymore; however, most of the mediums we use today, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, email or text messages, involve writing as their chief mode of communication. When you start pursuing hobbies that involve writing, you gain more wisdom, and the perks are numerous.

Read along to learn about some of the most prominent hobbies that involve writing.

  • Journaling

Writing down your everyday thoughts is a contenting practice in itself. The act of journaling fixes the details more profoundly in the our minds; it helps boost our memory! It sharpens our sense of creativity and makes us feel better about opening up to others or just to ourselves.

  • Blogging

Telling stories allows you to detach yourself from your worries and give you a better understanding of your emotions. Blogging facilitates self-exploration, and the deeper you explore yourself, the more interests you can discover. It inspires you to share your insights with others. Moreover, a blog can enhance your resume when applying for a new job. Hence, you benefit from your blog when a company makes a hiring judgement.

  • Creative writing

Creative writing as a hobby is a skill that inclines you towards itself; it is undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable pursuits.
As you turn into a writer, you will see the wisdom in every tragedy. Creative writing makes you look at life from a unique perspective. Consequently, this relates directly to the fact that writing requires creative thinking.

  • Calligraphy

Calligraphy beautifies the way you choose to write a particular text. Calligraphy is more than art, that excites people to reach the level of excellence in handwriting. It is comforting and provides liberty to create one’s fonts and styles of writing; this makes the art innovative and flexible for the learner and spurs creativity in them.

Conclusion
In essence, writing allows you to decipher the hidden message behind your events. Writing is a pursuit of wisdom. Certain other hobbies that involve writing as their prime focus might grab your attention too. If you love writing scripts or reviews, you can try screenwriting, review writing.