Inspiration — modern calligraphy

Live your life in colour Colour is one of the greatest joys in life, and stationery lets you express that joy in a truly personal way. The Zig Fudebiyori brush marker range from Kuretake has a fantastic range of colours to choose from catering to every part of the rainbow. To make life a little easier, Pen Pusher has picked out sets of three brush pens that coordinate with one another beautifully, giving you an ideal blending palette for modern calligraphy or your artworks. A purple lover at heart, Andra from Adadletters was drawn to the lustrous violet set and put...

  For her latest lettering process video, Andra from Adadletters revisted a quote she first lettered a year ago. Rather than comparing your modern calligraphy against other people's who may have been practising far longer than you, it's much more beneficial to compare your progress against where you came from. This way you can see just how far your brush lettering skills have progress. Here's a side-by-side look at Andra's work from a year ago and now.   In the video below, Andra shows you the process of creating her latest modern calligraphy art and demonstrates how to add shadows to...

Try pastel brush lettering There's a wonderful range of brush lettering pens available now, giving you a range of tip sizes, firmness and colours to choose from. Rich, bold colours in all the tones of the rainbow can be picked up from a range of brand. If you're looking for something a little softer, your options are a little more limited Pastel Edition pens from ONLINE German stationery ONLINE has its own range of dual-tip brush markers, known as Calli.Brush. The difference with the Calli.Brush pens is that they have a large flexible brush nib on one end and a...

Practice makes progress There are three sure ways to improve your brush lettering or modern calligraphy - practice, practice and practice. To create consistent shapes, you need to train up your hand and that means running through practice strokes and characters at every opportunity until it becomes second nature. A little advice for beginners We asked Andra from Adadletters for her advice for newcomers to modern calligraphy: "The only person you should compare yourself with is yourself. You must compare your own work, old and new. No matter what, just pick up your pens because you can do this! You will...