The Beautiful Art of Flourishing

14 Responses

1. Pro Joachim Vu

   Here is a quick piece of ornamental script, written with a Hiro no.40 nib. Being used to draw my flourishes with pencils or fine liners, the flexible pointed nib is really not an easy tool to use. The gain in speed and fluidity is amazing though.

   5 months ago

2. Pro Samuel-Dean

   very beautiful indeed

   5 months ago

3. Ton Somers

   How did you learn this? Beautiful!

   5 months ago

4. Pro James Blevins

   Oh man! Beautiful

   5 months ago

5. Pro Pavel Maček

   Lovely!

   5 months ago

6. Pro Tobia Crivellari 

   Stunning! @Joachim Vu

   5 months ago

7. Pro James Blevins

   This needs more views! So beautiful! This takes a lot of practice.

   5 months ago

8. Justin Crutchley

   Absolutely beautiful!

   5 months ago

9. RaitG

   looks very good

   5 months ago

10. Pro Melissa Ginsiorsky

    This is gorgeous. Amazing work

    5 months ago

11. Pro Karli Ingersoll

    pretty!

    5 months ago

12. Claire Coullon

    This must be so hard to do, but I have to say you've pulled it off beautifully (also, I love your definition of "a quick piece"..!) The flourishes coming off the the end of the 'g' are so fantastic, really detailed and intricate but flow perfectly and don't look cluttered at all. Amazing one at the very end too!

    5 months ago

13. Pro Joachim Vu

    @Samuel-Dean @James Blevins @Pavel Maček @Tobia Crivellari ™ @Justin Crutchley @RaitG @Melissa Ginsiorsky @Karli Ingersoll Thank you everyone!

    @Ton Somers Only practice and study of works from masters :)

    @Claire Coullon Thanks Claire! This one took less than 15 minutes to do, so it really is a quick piece :) everything is drawn free hand except for the quote where I use guidelines. Of course the flourishes requires some preliminary practice to get the movement right! This piece is quite old already, and I find it really clumsy by now. I have some more recent stuff I may post soon, and you can really tell how regular practice is important for this kind of stuff!

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    5 months ago

14. Claire Coullon

    Yeah it's amazing the improvement you notice even over a relatively short period. Really looking forward to seeing some newer stuff, too. Have a great holiday though!

    5 months ago