
Discover how to feature your calligraphy on various materials using the three stage prep play and display framework, and confidently create personalized products for gifts or new business lines.
Explore the materialligraphy approach to creating calligraphy on non-paper surfaces by blending tools and materials, inspired by Southeast Asia inscriptions, with a prep, play, and display workflow.
Explore the prep, play, display method to choose and clean materials, guided by the four f factors: size, shape, surface, and color. Plan how to display and package your work.
Prepare calligraphy materials by cleaning thoroughly and selecting items by size, shape, surface, and shade to optimize ink flow and lettering.
Choose your calligraphy tools and supplies by style and flex, select pens and nibs for chosen surfaces, and build a basic curated set of black, white, and metallic colors.
Compare solvents for ink and paint on porous leather versus non-porous glass, and see how water, rubbing alcohol, paint thinner, turpentine, and plate liquid leaf affect peach Martin's iridescent calligraphy.
Discover a beginner-friendly, do-it-yourself video set-up using household items to create a white background, natural light, and adjustable angles, including a cup-and-chopsticks phone stand for close-ups and overhead shots.
Display your calligraphy items as gifts by packaging them with boxes and ribbons. Create personalized chocolates and ribbons with messages to enhance the presentation for the recipient.
Learn to package small calligraphy orders with bubble wrap, boxes, crepe paper, foam paper, and ribbons, and choose shipping options in Asia while planning stock for peak season.
Explore how to approach lecturing or calligraphy on everyday materials, inspired by objects like chocolates and hangers. Share your created piece with the community via a hashtag.
Learn to write calligraphy on a tile with acrylic paint, choosing waterproof acrylic or gouache for removability, and mix white with yellow oxide and titanium dioxide for bright color.
Explore the prep play process, learn how to infuse calligraphy with the right materials, and preview related master classes while working through projects with Joy.
Level up your calligraphy by applying basics to food, wood, and paper, exploring gifts, home decor, place names, and card designs through two courses with tips, coupons, and social sharing.
Have you ever been to events and admired the beautiful modern calligraphy-infused escort cards, signages or souvenirs, wondering how you can create them too?
Have you been doing calligraphy on paper for a while, and itching to progress to using other materials?
Have you spent ages scouring the Internet for the right tools and supplies to use for specific types of mediums and just wish that all the information can be found in one place you can turn to?
If you answered YES to any one of the questions above, then this FREE course is for you!
"Materialligraphy" (my paid course) is ONLY course in Udemy that teaches you a simple 3-step framework to follow using a structured approach, so that you have the confidence in selecting the right combination of materials, tools and supplies for any material.
This Introductory Materialligraphy course offers you the basic foundation of the same 3-step framework leading up to the full course. This is a foundational, yet comprehensive, step-by-step course to learn the Prep-Play-Display framework which can skyrocket your creativity in infusing your modern calligraphy and lettering on a variety of mediums.
This class is most useful for those who already have some background knowledge in modern calligraphy and lettering, and is more focused on using the right supplies and calligraphy styles for different materials, than on how to create calligraphy itself. (For basics of brush pen calligraphy, you can also enroll in another one of my FREE course called "Basics of Brush Pen Calligraphy").
You will learn:
Section 1: Introduction and Overview
Section 2: Selecting the Best Materials for Adding Your Modern Calligraphy and Lettering To
Section 3: Selecting Tools and Supplies, Using Solvents Effectively
Section 4: How to Show Off Your Modern Calligraphy Pieces on Video, Photos and Packaging
After completing this introductory course, you will probably be yearning to learn more about applying the Prep-Play-Display methods for specific materials. You may want to go on to the Materialligraphy Masterclass, also available on Udemy.
I am sure you will love this course as much as I have loved creating it for you!