Inktober ‘26.11-15 (five pack 31+Kundera+Holes)

Happy Nevada Day / Halloween! , I referenced “International Calligraphy Today”, book published for a 1980 exhibition. This rescue was inspired by Crous-Vidal. I wholeheartedly recommend that book for anyone interested in this art. There is endless, amazing work on Instagram but the platform is built distraction, not study. , This was inspired by Hans-Joachim Burgert. But I broke the script by tossing a small “o” instead of a full sized circle which gave that page a lovely texture between the vertical letters, big O’s, and slanted S’s. , Inspired by Herman Killian, it took many tries to get the flimsy to feel right. It’s easy to fall back into architectural lettering, which was not the goal on this one. , Italics with flourishes again. Also learning to utilize a slghtly dry brush for imperfect elegant strokes with this lady. , hooray is the other 2-step piece along with panic. I wanted to do a bubbly graphic, but how do you render bubbles in black and white? I referenced old books of…