Have you ever received a request from someone asking to use your work online? For most of us the answer would be yes. If not, if you keep creating good work, someone will ask you. What would be your response? As we all know, it’s a great feeling when someone asks to use your work in their project, be it a book, online advertising, a website, social media sites, etc. Many artists are just so happy for their work to be shown that they say “YES”, you can use it. They believe that it will help … [Read more...]
5 Tips to Help Anyone Starting Off in Shodo
From my conversations with the Beyond Calligraphy community, it seems that a lot of people have a difficult time finding a good shodo teacher from whom to learn or any teacher at all. This means that a lot of students are trying to learn from books or streaming video services. This is a double-edged sword. The good point is that there are many people who have the passion for and want to learn this wonderful art. The bad point is that some of these learning mediums miss the simple things. Here … [Read more...]
How to Design the Perfect Calligraphy Tattoo?
Most people get ink (tattooed) to identify a specific time or event in their life or a significant aspect of themselves. This can be a simple symbol, words, or a detailed design based on something with meaning. For an English speaker, tattooing using English words isn’t that interesting or creative, so people look for different ways of writing the same word in other languages in the hope of finding something interesting. This is one reason you see many people with Kanji / Hanzi Tattoos. That is … [Read more...]
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