You know, I never leave comments on YT, but your vids are so stunning that I decided to express my admiration. BuJos are so mainstream nowadays, not so many people really use them for productivity sake and they all look like a copy of a copy of a copy. Same themes, same spreads: hearts and cherry blossoms for Valentines day, succulents and sea shells for summer etc. But yours is so unique, so artistic and yet helps you stay productive! I've never seen anyone using an A6 notebook as a BuJo, what you're doing is just fantastic. I wish your YT channel a decent amount of subscribers!

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Your words mean the world to me. I see KZread as a way to connect with a community of people who like the same things I do rather than putting on a show, so it is my priority to stay true to what I do with or without a camera. Happy to see you here!

I just got a manuscript pen and started practising at once! It's so much fun to practise these beautiful letters!

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

I am so happy to hear this! Let me know if I can help you with anything :)

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! It helps me a lot to see how every stroke is made, instead of just seeing the finished result in a book. Keep up the fantastic work! ❤️😃

Great tutorial with lovely historical knowledge! I started recently with a little more of a "old school" approach using a calligraphy quill and ink dipper. More laborious and time consuming but very satisfying!

Hello and thanks for always explaining well historical data and how to do the letters. Trying it already!

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy you enjoyed it! The history of medieval scripts is so fascinating to me, and I just love being able to share it with people who also like it. ❤️

I really like your break down there is very few channels that tell you why on, really love this 🙏🏽

Thanks for this amazing tutorial

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching it! Looking forward to the next one!

Love it. Time to practice. Thank you for the lessons.

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! 😊

Great video - thanks. I find that this alphabet is excellent for practice due to its pristine simplicity, as the bells and whistles, frills and frou-frou that so often embellish the "gothic hand" can easily mask an underlying deficiency of discipline and dexterity. Your notion of exercises is spot on. You can make it a pleasure - a kind of mindfulness meditation. It's a choice. When I was a kid, an old gentleman told me, "If you have 4 hours to chop down a tree, spent 3 hours sharpening your axe. You'll get the same job done, with a lot less effort." One on the related Upper Case alphabet would be the icing on the cake!

What a great tutorial. Clarified all the issues I had about ‘the right forms’ of lettering.

@SolisScriptorivm

2 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear!

very amazing,, I was stunned to see the video

I can't wait to start practicing!

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Really beautiful font. Bought a pen (luckily the stores are open even during lockdown) and started practicing today, this video is incredibly helpful! Thanks a lot!

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :) It makes me so happy to hear that you've joined! Let me know if there is anything I can help with.

2:09 If you think, there was Fraktur font in germany, which was based on gothic fonts, and actually, we may say that gothic was at least in some use up untill 1940s! Which is insane.

Fantastic instruction. I may have to try this.

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, please do!

Another excellent video ! Hey if you are a fan of unique Gothic text & script...have a look into the Italian / Gothic script called “Beneventan”. It’s a fun one to play with and looks very handsome when adorned across a lovely piece of paper. Its executed very well with the same variety & size nib you frequently use. Samples of the full script can be found in old text photos online...Beneventan....worth a look!

Very nice mome, good job and thank

Thanks very much for the explanations!

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU 😊

That was an excellent video. Thankyou. Have watched both Gothic videos now and I am wondering about how to write the numbers in the scripts, and any punctuation like question marks and exclamation marks, etc.

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

This is a very good point. I make them up, since they don't necessarily appear in medieval manuscripts. Once I have studied the main strokes of a script, they can be applied to numbers and punctuation marks as well. This topic is a good idea for a potential video, though! Thank you!

Very thorough explanation. what fountain pen are you using?

Hello. I'm just at the beginning of calligraphy journey. And your video is the first one you get on search request "textura quadrata". Thank you very much for being so accurate and clear explaining this script. And I have one question. I've seen some textura quadrata scripts (basically in books "Calligraphy's Bible" and "The Art of Calligraphy") and they have "dimonds" or "quadrum" as Paul Antonio calls them. But here you show script with feet, but not diamonds. Can you please explain why is so??? Thank you.

amazing, great find. got yourself a new subscriber.

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@sergiyradonezhsky634

3 жыл бұрын

@@SolisScriptorivm no no, We should be thanking you!

I've just finished a calligraphy course for beginners about Foundational and now I would like to study other type of style. So your video comes at the right moment! 🙂 I followed your tutorial but I'm not really much satisfied of my work. I'm struggling with space between paragraph and words and height and width of the letters are not always the same 😅 I should practice more! Thank you so much for all your inspiring video! ☺️ Keep it up!

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

I am so happy to hear that my video is helpful to you! Yes, spacing is the hardest part about calligraphy, in my opinion. I would suggest preparing the page with more pencil guidelines while you get used to it. For example, have the two main lines that I show here encasing the pen width marks, then also draw lines for the ascenders and descenders. Also, think about the space between letters as one pen width. Hope this helps!

@alicezeta7152

5 жыл бұрын

@@SolisScriptorivm thank you so much for your advice!! I'm looking forward to watching a new video! Greetings from Italy 🤗

I find many textura quarata typefaces that are different from each other? Why?

So excited to be practicing this but finding that as a lefty I’m having a problem seeing where to line up the strokes. Any advice will be appreciated. Tomorrow I will try sitting at a different desk to see if that helps. Also I write with my paper the proper angle, I don’t write with my hand all curled or paper facing backwards as many lifted handed people do. I was able to make one or two really beautiful r’s~~woo hoo.

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

I don't have personal experience being a lefty, so maybe not the best person to give you advice, but I'd say focus on the angle of the pen in relation to the lines on the paper rather than in relation to your hand. Also, I've heard being an underwriter helps a lot with calligraphy and fountain pens in general.

@sherrygraham8650

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I will keep practicing.

very beautiful, very good,, I don't want to leave before I finish watching your video,, this will be a master of peace v for you,, I am so inspired,, keep on working,, G B U

Since I'm basically learning this from you, practicing my lines are all trembling and I didn't get how to make them steadily straight and, voilà, only now watching again I realized you do push the nib quite, against the paper. Is it so? That would help controlling the "straightness" (Again thanks for doing these video and sorry for my probably stupid question..)💐⭐☺️

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

Not stupid at all! Yes, especially when going slowly, I push the nib against the paper. Figuring out the angle is the most important part, though. And you can play with the pressure of the nib to paper for smaller details.

@skieswatcher9321

3 жыл бұрын

@@SolisScriptorivm thanks for answering ❤️

I'm left-handed. How can I write like this without smudging the ink?

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard that the best way to approach it is by underwriting. Hope this helps!

This is textura semi quadrata 😉

How did the medieval/ancient scribes get the attention span to do this every day? Most people would get bored or distracted along the way.

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

It is impressive to think about! I imagine they would spend a lot of time developing patience and concentration skills. I find that time flies when I am actually fully focusing on something.

Your lettering in your bullet journal seems to be much more rounded - is it a different style ?

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is! I write in a variation of uncial calligraphy. I will be teaching the basics of uncial style in the next Sunday Scriptorium episode, so that will be closer to what I do in my BuJo.

Mam plz, show capital letters of Gothic calligraphy.

@SolisScriptorivm

2 жыл бұрын

Someday!

Did you know that this "font" was used in Germany until the 1. World war

@Jeremy_Fisher

4 жыл бұрын

Close! The Gothic Textura Quadrata script was only widely in Germany in the 14th and 15th century. The Germans preferred a rounder script called Schwabacher, which later gave way to the Fraktur script which was used well into the 20th century and WWII. I'm sure the Gothic Textura Quadrata script was used in Germany in the 20th century for decoration occasionally, or to harken back to the olden days, but as widespread script it's days were long gone by then.

Your cat wants to do a tutorial for cat-ligraphy.

@SolisScriptorivm

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yes!

cats are a bunch of jerks.

@SolisScriptorivm

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

Imho what you are writing here is Textura Semi Quadrata.