Not a font. Not a free bundle 'o fonts. 'Cause human. Thinking with ink.
Four looks at a little fragment of wisdom from a book I read that wasn't a self-help book but a collection of stories. This ladder could be your career, or your love life. The missing rung could be a missed opportunity, or a missed deadline, or a missed letter from someone you love. It could be a missing bit of faith in something greater, or a missing parent, or even the bus on the way to a job interview. And about the ladder? –– who's holding it anyway? I like quotes that give you some room to imagine.
As I tell my handwriting clients, I can't do just one. It's important to try many versions to get the feeling right. Freestyle brush writing is one of the most challenging forms of calligraphy, because there is no manual that will tell you just exactly how it should look to be "right." It's abstract, dark and light and how things interlock. And most important, do you hear a voice coming through in the letters? Nothing tricky here, no ten different styles in one piece or illustrations or drop shadows, just the words offering a bit of quiet encouragement in the day.
Ingredients: One book, "God's Gym," by John Edgar Wideman. One Brush, one ink, three different papers.
(Yes, the first line of this quote really was about love, isn't nearly everything? This is love month after all.)
