Category: Free Inquiry

Hey Cloggers,

I’m back with my recap of my free inquiry blog and I’m excited to be sharing my learning experiences with you all!

As you already know, I did my inquiry assignment on calligraphy and lettering. Here is a refresher of what I discussed in each blog:

#1: Intro

#2: Material Needed

#3: Block Font

#4: Cursive Font

#5: Block + Cursive Combined Font

#6: Banners

#7: Doodles

#8: Homework Planner

I got through a decent amount of material and I feel like this was the perfect amount for getting started with lettering. This amount will allow me to master and play around with these fonts and drawings without getting overwhelmed by a hundred different ways of planning my life (and I don’t want to be overwhelmed when I’m trying to organize cause that definitely defeats the purpose). Once I get more comfortable with various fonts, I can just head onto Pinterest to find more!

A few things I learned from this inquiry are that lettering and calligraphy are great ways to add flare and spice to otherwise plain assignments/projects and that there are so many resources online that can help people learn more. I found several Instagram and Youtube accounts of people who do calligraphy and lettering workshops for a living and I would definitely be interested in trying one out. Maybe some day!

Some tips I would give to someone starting out a similar inquiry are that 1. there are endless amounts of fonts – start simple so you don’t get overwhelmed, 2. practice often so you don’t lose your newfound skills and so you can continue getting better, and 3. buy nice materials (this does not necessarily mean expensive – check my materials blog post) so that you feel motivated to try out your cool stuff.

I have really enjoyed learning about this and I’m excited to keep working on different styles.

I’m sad to go but it’s been a blast!

Clogging off forever,

COordt 🙂 <3

Hey Cloggers,

This will be my final Free Inquiry post where I’ll be practicing and displaying my work for my calligraphy inquiry. It’s crazy how fast this inquiry has gone but I’ll be making a final post later that will talk all about what I learned from this project… so, stay tuned!

To bring all my lettering knowledge into one useful page that would help me, I created a homework tracker. This lays out all of the assignments we have due over the next 3 weeks (or most since some teachers are still updating us about their plans). I love the feeling of crossing things off on a list so hopefully this will motivate me to complete tasks! #OutOfSightOutOfMind

Here is a picture of my homework tracker:

I used various colours and fonts to put everything out on paper. I didn’t add doodles or banners because I think it would get too messy and difficult to look at. Maybe when school is a little less stressful, I can make one with more flare.

As I reflect on the various fonts, banners, and doodles I have practiced, I am excited to keep developing my skills of lettering and calligraphy. I hope to use what I learned to continue organizing my life!

P.S. As I’m writing this blog, I have already been given 3 new assignments so I better add those #Overwhelmed #GoingCrazy

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂

Hey Cloggers,

For this week’s calligraphy post, I’m working on DOODLES! Doodles will really allow me to add flare to my final blog of planning.

Since I’m not very artistic, I (once again) turned to Pinterest for #inspo. There was a decent variety of pictures with different themes of doodles. However, I gravitated most towards the nature/outdoorsy doodles so my page mainly has those. I also started a Pinterest board so I can add lots of doodles to it and practice them!

Here is a picture of that doodles that I did:

I found that doodling was much harder than lettering and banners. I found a variety of doodles on Pinterest but lots of them we’re totally not my style or had like 395 steps to complete. I wanted simple things that I could recreate and add my own touches to… maybe I should expand my searches and look further than just Pinterest.

I messed up on a couple doodles and some were super random but that’s the name of the game I guess #ABBA

I’m excited to practice more doodles and maybe become America’s Next Top Doodler #IfYouKnowYouKnow #TyraBanks

Check in next week to see my next endeavour on this journey of becoming artsy #PrayersForClaire

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂

Hey Cloggers,

I’m back with another calligraphy blog and this is the week where things start to look nice… I’m gonna start drawing BANNERS!

To find a variety of banners, I turned to Pinterest to find lots of different styles. I didn’t want to copy those photos into this post because I’m not too sure about the copyright restrictions and I’m not looking to get sued anytime soon 😛

Below is a picture of a variety of banners that I practiced. Some are more structured and some are more creative. There are also ones that would be used for shorter words and some that could be used for longer titles and such.

Check ’em out!

I messed up on the top right banner so I tried it again at the bottom and was more successful. It’s difficult to figure out the distances and making sure you shade it the proper area – that’s why I used Pinterest for inspo!

I really like how these will allow me add flare and creativity to my planning and organizing. They’re simple to recreate and use for a variety of titles, subtitles, and dates.

Check in next week for some cool doodles that I’ll begin to include in my practice of planning!

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂

Hey Cloggers,

Did you catch my play on words in my title? 😛

Today, I’m learning my third and final font for this project! I’m excited to get into adding flare and fun into my lettering experience so I’m looking forward to learning this font and getting into banners and doodles next blog. For this font, I’m learning a combination of the block font I learned first, and the cursive font I learned last week. This third font will really start to make me look more capable (and more pro) at lettering and calligraphy #fakenews :P. Below is a picture of me practicing the font and experimenting with different sizes, styles, and colour combos.

It’s important to note that for this font to work best, the top font (or cursive) has to be more prominent. This means that it should be written in a darker colour/shade than the back font (block font). This font is great for titles because it look strong without being too difficult.

I think that this is my favourite font so far – maybe just because it gives me calligraphy cred.

I’m going to keep practicing all three fonts this week and over reading break so I don’t lose my progress #grind.

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂

Hey Cloggers,

So I’ve started working on my second font for my calligraphy inquiry assignment and I think it’s going pretty well! I picked a simple cursive font because I think I can alter it in so many different ways. I’ve also continued practicing my first font. Below are two pictures of my work practicing both fonts. I have used lined paper again to help with spacing and organization!

I really like how the cursive font allows me to be very creative. As you can see, I was able to add length to words as well as shorten them by stretching letters out or clumping letters together. I also practiced some different words because my name only has a select amount of letters in it.

I then also practiced some more of font #1, which is block lettering, and added COLOUR! My blog was getting a little boring so I had to spice things up with colour. I practiced the months in different fonts and I think that font #1 is really going along. I’ll keep practicing both font #1 and font #2 so that I can be prepared for organizing my week with all different fonts and styles at the end of this process.

Next week I’ll be learning font #3 so make sure you check back.

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂

Hey Cloggers,

So I have been working on my first font for my calligraphy inquiry assignment. I decided to choose a fairly basic font that I can adapt in many different ways – it’s like a several-in-one!

I researched and watched youtube videos, and decided on a simple block font! In the picture below, I wrote out each letter of the alphabet in the font and then used the letters to write out my name. I then used different colouring and sizing to alter it – and voila, I have a bunch of fonts in one!

I found this font to be not crazy difficult. It was hard to create consistent straight lines and I used lined paper to make the spacing easier to control (just outed myself but oh well…).

I think this font will be easy to use in a variety of ways when planning out my life. It’s simple, yet versatile. And for someone who has never tried lettering, I believe it is a good place to start the learning.

I’m excited to learn more fonts and begin to incorporate colour and design. I am excited to see my final product but I’m still far from it!

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂

Hey Blog!

So as you know from my last post, I am going to be focussing on calligraphy and lettering, as well as how to use it to organize your life, for my free inquiry project. However, before I can start working, I have to gather the appropriate materials needed to adequately work on this project and take it in a variety of ways. And that’s what I’m talking about in this blog post!

Since I know that nice art supplies such as markers and pens and special paper are often very expensive, I set a 30$ limit on my budget for materials. I then did some research to formulate a list of what would be most necessary for this project, and extra stuff I would buy if I had money left over in my budget. I listed paper (lined and blank), a pencil, an eraser, and a black pen as complete necessities and wrote coloured pens, markers, fine liners, highlighters, and a ruler as extras. As my last step before heading out to the store, I looked through the art materials I already had in my room so that I wasn’t purchasing duplicates on my trip. I found pencils, an eraser, a nice pen, an old sketchbook (with blank paper), and a ruler (yay – that smells like money saved!)

After this, I set off to the UVic bookstore (even though it can be pricey) to browse for supplies I was missing – keep in mind that the reason I chose the UVic bookstore for purchasing my supplies was because I already had flex dollars on my OneCard (these dollars have to be used on campus and cannot be redeemed for cash, so I thought might as well use this money instead of spending more cash at another store).

At the bookstore, I found everything on my list. Nonetheless, not everything fit in my budget… Therefore, I chose to purchase a set of 36 double-sided markers, a set of four (really high quality – splurge!!) fine liners, a pack of lined paper, and one coloured pen (my favourite brand and in the colour pink). I left behind supplies that I felt were less useful and I chose the double sided markers because now I would have set of thick tip and fine tip markers, all in one (and for the price of one!)

* All my supplies are shown below *

So, now that I have all the materials I need (I think…), I can get started on learning about calligraphy, lettering, and using these two artistic skills to plan out my daily life.

Logging off for now,

COordt 🙂

I’m back to talk about my first assignment for my tech class: free inquiry… and my intro gives a little insight into my topic.

I’m choosing to dive into calligraphy and lettering!

I have always loved the look of all the different fonts and styles of calligraphy & lettering, and really want to develop my skills in this area. I don’t necessarily see myself as a super creative or artistic person; however, writing is the one area where I can be expressive and creative and feel somewhat competent in an artistic skill. I also like that lettering will allow me to organize my life by differentiating school work, work work, and my social life in one calendar with different colours, fonts, and styles. Lettering makes organizing and planning way more fun (and using a planner is probably the only reason I haven’t failed or forgotten any assignments yet…)

All of these points are reasons as to why I want to get more into lettering. I want to learn more fonts and styles of writing, along with the best way to organize all my thoughts into a pretty and easy to read page of art. I’m super excited to start working on this inquiry and start developing my artistic skills!

Thanks for reading my blog; I’ll see you next week (hopefully with some more understanding of lettering and a font or two) 😛

Logging off for now,

COordt 🙂