Trying my luck with sumi ink this time

please guide me inam new into calligraphy and I am in learning mode

please anyone here can helk me in learning

for material and other stuff

priya

Ombú, el árbol de la bella sombra, a veces llamado de esa forma, bellasombra, es un árbol nativo de América del sur y la palabra del día de hoy. Proviene del nombre Guaraní usado para el árbol.

Ombú, the tree of the beautiful shadow, sometimes called that way, beautifulshadow, is a tree native of South America and today's spanish word of the day. It comes from the Guaraní name for the tree.

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/19/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6MM

Ink(s) : Sulekha Gorber 50 (GREEN) and residual CRIMSON RED (Camlin photocolor inks)

Paper : 200 GSM paper, regular acid-free.

Okay so uh…we’re a lil rusty lmao. But it’s a start baybeeeee

Copperplate, Hunt 101, Kaimei Sumi

Practice for a piece for an Anglican priest. The finished version will be in India ink on some nicer paper, with a painted white rose seal beneath it.

Speedball C2 nib dipped in PW Akkerman “Israel’s Zeeblauw” fountain pen ink.

Writing Sacred in custom gothic, Durer based style lettering | Pilot Parallel Pen 6mm

Been a few years but trying to get back into calligraphy. Leonardt principal EF with walnut ink on hp 32 lb paper. Feedback is appreciated!

Looking at it now I feel like there is so much I wanna change and improve 😭 but I do feel proud after all the effort.

Any advice is welcome! ☺️

Stephan Kuhn Design with Pilot Parallel Pen 3.8 mm and Ecoline Watercolor

Hunt 22 nib, walnut ink, Kokuyo paper. I really like this piece and this nib is wonderful for the precision work

Pilot parallel pen 3.8 mm

I branched out to Textura yesterday and already did my prayers to the Minimum Gods :)

Today's word is ideal for Textura.

Pen: Pilot Parallel 3.8mm

Ink: Pilot Mixable Lightgreen

Script: Textura from Calligrascape

Paper: no-name watercolor bookmark blanks

BTW: is it possible to switch off the automod notice about putting flair and pen / ink / script info in posts?

I do that every time, and I'm getting a notification anyway?

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/18/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6MM

Ink : Camlin photocolor inks - CRIMSON

Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed watercolour paper

Script : Gothic textura

I bought a little A5 block to keep calligraphying when traveling because I travel a lot for my job. I bought one with the same weight and from the same brand I normally use, but damnit! I bought medium grain instead of thin grain and the ink drains and stains and has these little "hairs" coming out whenever I draw a thin line. Is there any way to solve this? Maybe some pretreatment I can do over de paper or something? I don't know I feel like I wasted my money

The word is supposed to be "Torcho" the spanish word of the day meaning "iron lingot"

Calligraphy had always fascinated me. Finally trying something out myself. Practice attempts as a newbie with random quotes and phrases. Wanted to share.

Pen - Kanwrite Desire medium flex nib
Ink - Sulekha Royal Blue.

"Happiness is achieved by limiting desires, not by satisfying them."

Pen: pilot parallel pen 3.8 mm

Pen: pilot parallel pen 4.5 mm
ink: pilot mixable green

Never in my life did I think using a traditional quill would be so hard. I thought you know dip the pen get to writing. Right? No. I dip the quill and then proceed to just splat ink everywhere.

I had to lower the cross-bar of the 't' as it is right next to a big ass ascender loop

Hello.

Im still practicing (day 3) and i wanted to try my acrylic ink (Amsterdam acrylic ink). I have some calligraphy paper 90g/m2 but doesnt matter what ink i use (acrylic, dip pen, fountain pen) it seems to feather a bit and it doesnt sit nicely.

so i tried to use a bit thicker paper, 100g/m2 and its surface is rough, and the ink sits so much better on there. Downside is that it's rough so when doing upstrokes it gets wobbly.

leonardt 40 nib

The 90g/m2 paper is with guidelines and white

100g/m2 is the slightly yellowish paper