#arabic caligraphy

[nobrashfestivity]

HOSSEIN ZENDEROUDI 1970s

[vsthepomegranate]

إمبراطورية مستحضر الأرواح

(2023)

by Magnum Innominandum

[mitas71]

[random-the-hijabi-artist]

Yo, so I found a caligraphy brush on Procreate and decided to experiment with some Arabic writing lel.

It says "hello." :3 (It's read right-to-left, btw) If you want me to write somethin' (like your name er whatever) then feel free to ask uwu.

[whereisko]

[joshbond]

Lawrence of Arabia Film Poster

[sayxit]

[soakedworld]

Source not known

[hitchmaj]

Arabic christmas card

https://www.zazzle.com/arabic_christmas_greeting_card-256627445561838410

[cavalierzee]

Surround Yourself With The Same Flowers

[jamieandgeorgedashigz]

'The Celestial, strong and powerful crystal' is the translation of the first text in Arabic. The second is 'And who is this little man?'.

[nhmahfuz]

arabic calligraphy art from nh mahfuz

[vsthepomegranate]

Palestinian artist Bilal Khaled paints calligraphy reading “in the name of the camp, I did not die, ask Jenin” in Burj al-Barajneh, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Lebanese capital Beirut on 10 June

photo by Nidal Al-Wahidi

[darulfunoon]

[wuntrum]

last time I had dental treatment (root canal) I kept falling asleep 😭😭 however I recently had an mri with a video screen and I got to watch some scenery of french countryside and then arabic caligraphy. it was really relaxing, despite all of the noise. it's true the situations were not the same, but this is all to say I would recommend you watch something you like so it will help your mood stay positive

ooooh that sounds nice...once i actually get Into the dentist office im usually really chill and fine, so hopefully my mood wont take a nosedive or anything, but those are definitely good relaxing options

[notwhelmedyet]

making maps for A Fire Shall Be Woken

it's been a few weeks since I posted an update on my current bookbinding project and that is because I was briefly possessed by the ghost of Christopher Tolkien and decided we needed fold out maps. And, of course, I couldn't find any maps on the internet that suited so...................why not hand draw them? this is reasonable, right?

First I made a map of Eriador (the region to the west of the Misty Mountains), starting with a traced version of Karen Wynn Fonstad's map from The Atlas of Middle Earth. Her map was lovely, but the lettering didn't match the uncial lettering I'm using & I really wanted full color. there were probably easier ways to get a full color map and redo the labels than redrawing the whole damn thing but I am not known for doing things the easy way. I tried to use primarily elvish names for places where available, since that would be how both POV characters refer to them.

(Karen Fonstad's original on the left, my version on the right)

The whole thing was done with a Nikko G nib dip pen, minus the Eriador label which was a brauss caligraphy nib in 1.5 mm. Most of the colors are watercolors that I diluted & mixed with a little gum arabic to prevent feathering. The black is cheapo speedball india ink.

It's hopefully not *too* obvious in the final version that several sections of the map were redone on a second sheet and spliced together, especially the area around Isengard and Imladris, where I misinterpreted rivers and roads before consulting the Arda Encyclopedia (shoutout to fans who love cataloging information y'all are the best)

The frame is based on a Mucha design that @zhalfirin pointed me towards and felt very fitting.

I finished that map last week and was very happy with it for about two days before I started thinking....oh, but what about the back of the book? What if we had another map for the back of the book? What if we made a map of Rivendell?