Graphics Pathway - Day 12 Poetry and Calligraphy

 During today's workshop we experiment with inks practising simple strokes :
verticals, horizontals and curvatures.
i also experimented with different types of coloured inks and different types of pens and paint brushes to work with.

 

Here are the different colour inks i will experiment with.

these are the experiment with ink using a flat edged paint brush.

 

i then went on to looking at what calligraphy is used for;

Graphic design/Logos, Wine bottles, Poems or Wedding invitations.

i decided that i wanted to create a wedding invitation using pen and ink.

i started off by experimenting with some fonts in different colour inks.

i then went on to changing the back ground colour on which my wedding invitation would be.i feel that the silver and  gold back ground colours work best for a wedding, the other colours would work if they fitted in with the colour theme of the wedding.

I then did some quick sketches of some possible layouts for my wedding invitation. out off my sketches there were 4 which i thought would work really well as invitation so i have decided to make a final lager piece of each of these layout designs.

This is the first piece that i have done from the layout designs.

I think it works very well as a first age for a wedding invitation.

i think the use of colour is really effective its not to over the top.

This is my second piece i have done on the design layouts.

i think this piece was less successful for the colour is to over powering and it is hard to see the small detail on the rest of the invitation.

Also the calligraphy is not very effective i feel that it does not have a wedding feel to it.

this is the third piece i have done form the design layouts.

i feel that this is best out of the pieces.

i think the colour usage is really effective and it has enough information on to be the front of the invitation.

i also think the calligraphy works very well for a wedding invitation.