Arabic calligraphy painting

Assalamu alaykum, Everyone.

For the last few months, I've been searching for a free modern calligraphy painting course. But there is no such course that I can learn from Basic.

After researching more, I could find some videos and blogs on different platforms. But this process is lengthy and time-consuming, so I decided to publish a course for beginners to advanced levels.

Here, I'm going to share my learning calligraphy journey and also tools, tricks and techniques, essential info, and research.

Whoever wants to learn modern Arabic calligraphy stays with us.

The word calligraphy means elegant handwriting. From this meaning, we can find two different points that Writing should be beautiful and handwritten lettering. When calligraphy was discovered, no digital machines like computers, graphic tabs, etc.; people did calligraphy with handwritten lettering. But nowadays, we see digital calligraphy made from computers and graphic tabs. And here, we are going to learn handwritten calligraphy.

Every language has calligraphy or elegant handwritten lettering, .but today, we are going to learn about Arabic calligraphy with a double pencil.

There are two types of Arabic calligraphy

1. Traditional calligraphy.

In traditional calligraphy, we use glossy paper, ink, and bamboo pen.

2. calligraphy painting

We mainly focus on calligraphy painting.

Here, handwritten lettering and painting are complementary of both. You have to learn both perfectly for calligraphy painting.

(From sketch to painting)

Learning step :

Lettering
Joint letter
Sentence sketch
Sentence composition
Painting (watercolor painting, then acrylic painting)

Tools:

Two pencils are needed; it could be any pencil, but HB and 2B are best for lettering.
Binding rubber
Eraser, specially non-dust eraser.
Sharper.
White page /exercise book.

Preparing double pencil for modern calligraphy :

Pick two pencils from your box.
Take a binding rubber.
Tie those pencils with rubber.

Technique for holding a pencil for Arabic calligraphy.

You should bind the edge of the pencils obliquely. Then we hold those pencils at a 60°-65° angular position. That means when we write, we have to keep a pencil at an angular position. Many scholars say that 60 % of calligraphy depends on how you hold your pencil. To make the font size bigger for calligraphy, you must increase the gap between the two pencils by inserting paper on their front side. Again, to make the font size smaller, you must add paper on the backside of the pencils.

At the advanced level, you can write calligraphy without binding pencils by increasing and decreasing the gap with your fingers.

Practice

Draw the Top to the bottom line
Draw Bottom to the top line
Draw Circle
Draw Right to the left line
Draw left to the right line
Draw Quadrangle
Draw a curved line.

Practice those things for free your hand with double pencil.

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