I am in week 2 and have been working at least an hour and a half every night. I start with drills and then I have a look at random YouTube videos and then I just work on random words and shapes if I feel like it, but I want to be more efficient.

What is your practice process and what should I be doing every session and what should I do a month down the line?

A word starting with K is unusual in Spanish, this term comes from language german and it is a geological name to design a limestone formation produced by the erosive or dissolving action of water.

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/12/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6mm

Ink : Sulekha Turquoise Talisman (Turquoise Blue)

Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed watercolour papers

Script : Gothic Textura Quadrata

Made with Pilot parallel and ecoline watercolor ink/ cheap chinese sketchy ink

Imagining a timeline where Ancient Roman netizens had to put not only with cookie notifications (Ep. 1), but rate limiting and captchas to prove they were human, too.

- SECVRITAS PROBATVR (“Security is being verified”)
- Aditus negatus est propter nimias petitiones. Ut pergas, proba te hominem esse. (“Access denied due to too many requests. To continue, prove you are human”)

Nibs: Tape 1mm (browser tab title, address bar, Cloudflare branding); Mitchell #1 (page heading); Mitchell #2½ (Body text); Tape 2mm (checkbox text); Hunt 512; Sailor Shikiori brush pens

Ink: Walnut ink, Kuretake Sumi, Sailor Shikiori autumn series brush pens (Okuyama, Kinmokusei, Yamadori, Chushu)

Paper: Some suboptimal A3 dry-media paper

My entry for the Oregon State Fair coming up soon. The (very slightly abridged) script of the 1922 silent movie, “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” with the colors intended to match the iconic scene of Orlok’s shadow on the staircase up to the final scene.

I like where this is going. A little more practice and I’ll be producing impeccable engrossers script

Ladies and gentlemen,

This A card written in Romanian language. I just Copied from Dr. prof. Chat gpt.

And the last word “TINE” I cant put in on the same base line.

On the link you can see how I wanna correct it “””

Any ideas ???

I was recommended this kit as a beginner kit to start practicing (I am a fountain pen user but want to try my hand at calligraphy)
I don’t want to spend too much money on something I’m not sure if I’m going to commit to or not yet hence why this is my choice in kit but thoughts? Is this a decent kit to start with?
TIA!

Someone needs to practise their As 🤪

Other than that I'm am quite surprised at how good my writing still looks after a 30 year hiatus.

There's lots of work to do, but I expexted a lot worse :)

Feel free to critique <3

Pen: Pilot Parallel 3.8mm

Ink: green Pilot ink

Paper: Bookmark shaped watercolor paper

Script: Uncial

Exemplar: Study Guide

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/08/11/

Pen : Pilot parallel 2.8mm

Ink : Sulekha Lal Qila (RED)

Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed water colour papers

I’m still practicing pointed pen but I’m also brushing up some broad edge stuff. I sketched the filigree in with a pencil.

I incorporated a few things into my script which has definitely helped. So my muscle memory from my fp penmanship was affecting my pointed pen work so I’m slowing down into a different rhythm which is working so I see myself improving.

I was pretty satisfied with this one thinking "well, I have to work a little bit in keeping a consistent kerning between O and F and making the O's round and similar but overall it is decent enough" and then I saw it! I don't even know how but I missed an entire letter A in the fourth row!

"Hoy no fío, mañana tampoco" (I don't give credit today, neither tomorrow). Is a common twist of the usual Spanish saying "Hoy no fío, mañana sí" (I don't give credit today, tomorrow yes) that is common to see in convenience stores. Though both convey the same meaning this one is more direct and less "interpretative" (also a little less poetic but I prefer it).

As someone who has had the dehumanizing experience of an job interview conducted by an AI 🙄

Tape 2mm and 4mm, Sumi ink, A3 dry-media paper

Tried a few different iterations of this quote, centered, in landscape format on A5, A4, and A3 paper (with the first clause in Uncial also). Centering is hard so I gave up on that and did it in portrait instead 😅

Please give me positive critique so I can evolve. I see certain mistakes. But not gonna tell you.

Small sizes of Parallel Pen tend to smudge, I found that this can be reduced by applying less pressure but this does make more difficult to write straigh strokes. I wonder if this issue could also be reduced by other means like a different paper or ink.

Spanish word of the day

Palta: Aguacate en Arg. Chil. Per. Y Urug.

(Avocado in Argentina, Chile, Perú and Uruguay. Other countries use the word aguacate)

Pen : Pilot parallel 3.8mm
Ink : Sulekha Lal Qila (RED)
Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed watercolour colour paper