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I finally got myself new inks and a better pen-holder! *fanfares* Been practicing black-lettering and other types of fancy lettering techniques/styles for a couple of weeks now. I’ve scanned most interesting  pages so everyone can check out how cool and fun hand-drawn letters can be!

Those 7 pages are only about 15% of all the experiments that I did within last two weeks since I updated my set. Filled with some random words, mostly coming from music that was playing, a few fun phrases and whatever came into my mind when I dipped the pen into ink bottle…

Since I need more practice, I’m thinking of throwing a drawing session where you can ask me via my facebook page to draw something. Your name, for example, or some clever phrase or quote. Stay tuned!

Here’s something that’s been keeping me busy lately. You can find some more sketches inside of the post.

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Random lettering & rather weird drawings from my moleskine notepad. Leave a comment if you feel em :)

New article @ iLoveTypography brought my attention to this insanely gifted brother from Milan, Italy, who goes under moniker «Bean One». From what I see in his flickr gallery, he’s totally obsessed with letters and calligraphy and I must admit I haven’t seen an artist putting so much passion into every line before. I can barely find words to describe how awesome his stuff is…

Just take a look at those — pictures can say more:

There are some live performances available at Vimeo. Worth watching! He’s also on MySpace ;)

We spent a great weekend with my brother, who I sincerely congratulate on becoming a father on February 4th! Late night we were hanging out at his place and  I found some useless brochure and spent the last drops of ink of my 1,5mm marker by throwing some strange-looking calligraphy-like stuff on the pages.

Some shots of what I came up with at around 5am: