BETH LEE

Calligrapher | Book Artist

Calligraphy class

Resources

Artist books:

There are many, many website that feature artist books, but here are a few to get you started:

  • Some of my favorite book artists and resources are list here.
  • The six book swaps that I hosted on my website.
  • All kinds of wonderful tutorials and resources on the Book Arts Web.

Guidelines:

  • Guidelines sheet for monoline italic - be sure to set your print for landscape, and uncheck any fit-to-printable-area check box.
  • This guidelines generator can give you a similar page of guidelines for week 1 monoline italics if you use these settings:
    • Orientation:Portrait   Landscape
    • Margins:   one-inch
    • x-height:  2 per inch
    • Ascenders/Descenders: 1x x-height (mine is less than this, but this is the closest option)
    • Space between text lines: no overlap or space between
    • Angled lines: 85° every .25 inches
    • Draw 'x' on x-height line - not checked
    • Show configuration under bottom line - checked
  • This guidelines generator, Ductus, sets up guidelines according to pen width, but it doesn't provide vertical slant lines.
  • Here are some more that might work for you: