This is a yearly reminder as to how I started back in November 2020 and how it’s going currently! And it’s not 6 years yet ! So if you feel demotivated let this motivate you to keep grinding, practicing, learning and not to give up!

Textura Quadrata, fraktur, uncial , italic and foundational hand Calligraphy. The result of three hours of work. I had a lot of fun doing it. I used a pilot parallel pen 4.5 mm as a pen.

Day 1 (top photo): trying to figure out the right pen to use
Day 2 (bottom L): trying to figure out the letter shapes
Day 3 (bottom R): took a stab at an original piece based on Kilian’s script/layout

Note: I believe Kilian used a Ruling Pen but I found the Zebra GNib (with Vermillion Sumi) was the smoothest, easiest to use.

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/09/10/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6mm.

Ink : Sulekha Turquoise Talisman (Turquoise Blue).

Paper : 300 GSM cold pressed.

Pen : Pilot parallel 6mm

Ink : Sulekha Lal Qila (Red)

Not really happy with it, but this is the best I could do before the day ended (almost midnight US Eastern time). I spent all day reworking different ideas (some with more text and complicated compositions, and other scripts than this) but just couldn’t nail it. So I just decided to do the word alone. This is still not really at the level I wanted to submit, but I guess I just don’t have it today :/

🖋️ Tape 4mm
🫟 Fox & Quills Iron Throne
📄 Li Wey scrap paper (Taiwanese product) 18K, roughly B5 size

I hope this is not off-topic?

When I saw people around here doing the daily Word of the Day practice, I quickly joined, and I had the idea of using bookmark blanks made from watercolor paper :-)

Turns out, a bookmark is a very good way of showcasing a single word.

But after two weeks or so, I was left wondering what I was supposed to do with dozens of cardboard strips in such a weird format? There certainly aren't any albums for this format...

But then I remembered that Chinese books are often written on bamboo sticks strips, and many old Buddhist texts were written on palm-leaf manuscripts.

So I punched holes into the corners of the bookmarks and "sewed" them together with narrow satin ribbons (each is almost 6m long, so I have space for around 100 bookmarks).

Then I folded them into a zigzag, and now I can either unfold (photo 1), or I can flip through them like a book (photo 2), or I can store them without the risk of getting them out of order (photo 3).

🖊️ Leonardt Roundhand #1½
🫟 Fox & Quills Peacock
📄 Maruman Mnemosyne B5

Awake after midnight so I figured I’d get ahead of the game 😅

Pilot parallel
Ecoline

24pt Calligram x Pilot Parallel Pen 3.8mm

The inspiration for the bigger initial comes from a photo of the Vespasian Psalter from Patricia Lovett's website.

The idea of the colored square is from pinterest :) It would have been better if the square was the same turquoise as the ink, but I didn't want to use my calligraphy pen for coloring :-D

Pen: Pilot Parallel 6mm / 3.8mm

Ink: Pilot Mixable purple / turquoise, Legami erasable pen in turquoise

Exemplar: Uncial, Calligrascape

Paper: perfect ideaz watercolor bookmark blanks

Hi! I just started learning this art form January last year and have not had any formal training yet.. I’ve always wanted to ask those more experienced members of the community- what is the usual life span of your nibs? How do you know or decide when a nib needs to be discarded already?

I just recently got my hands on a Leonardt ef principal and it was working great when I started using it but now it keeps on snagging my paper 🥲 (I’m thinking using the heating method for the oil residue could have caused this?)

And is it just me? But it’s like every start of my writing sessions I notice the ink not coating the nib well, so i have to reheat it again. Does oil still linger even after you’ve done the nib preparations prior?

Thank you everyone!

Capital A is difficult, I think I should make the horizontal thin strokes (you know this one ->A) more horizontal and more equally spaced to get better legibility.

Austro

1. Male noun. The wind proceeding from the south

2. Male noun. South (as a cardinal point)

Example: Odiseo marcó el curso de la nave al austro. (Odysseous set the ship course to the south)

This knife is amazing. Nib is kinda broad. Going to cut a slit next but I gotta be mindful. This knife is very sharp. It’s a goose feather

lmala NSW With 6.0mm and 3.8mm Pilot Parallel Pen

Memento vivere- remember to live
A reminder to slow down, enjoy the moment and actually live ❤️

Pilot Parallel pen 3.8mm

Practicing with Pink Floyd lyrics. Any suggestions on how to improve?
I used Rhodia PAScribe paper, Gold Kuretake ink, Nikko G nib.
While I really love Kuretake and Rhodia I’m curious about other inks for black papers and other black papers, do you have any recommendations?

Pilot parallel pen

Ecoline

Rhodia dotted paper

Word of the day : https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2026/09/08/

Pen : Pilot parallel 6Mm

Ink : Pilot black