This is my very first try. I did a composition of my own so as not to "defame" the classics
. My own observations of my own work are below:
1. For my own work I will actually have to put in the most effort at heading and lettering. I don't have much artistic talent so it will take a lot of work to get precise at it. Perhaps a basic art class will help.
2. I found it extremely hard to keep everything on a straight line. Any recommendations outside the use of lined paper (which would look tacky in my opinion) are welcome!
3. I played around with different stokes and different ways to hold the pen. I found the most satisfactory way to do it in terms of how it came out is on page two for the end of it and beginning of Ws ton basilea. This looked the best to me in artistic value and readability. Also, in the first page I alternated between a fine tipped red pen and an actual calligraphy pen and on page 2 i went with just the calligraphy pen, and i like the calligraphy pen results better overall.
4. The advantage of a computer is it is easy to correct messups. As you see here, I messed up a few times and if this was a final work, I would have had to scrap the page and start over.
5. I played around on how to write a kentima and finally figured out a decent way to write them in the same section that i found the best way to hold the pen. For some reason everything seemed to come together for those 4 or 5 lines.
Any comments, criticisms, and advice is welcome for this. I have A LOT I need to improve but I will say I was pretty encouraged by my first attempt. I think with practice I will get out the kinks and be more consistent.
~Sam