Thank you for keeping High Art alive.

WOW, I am just awestruck by your masterful calligraphy! Always wanted to make some illuminated manuscripts, and my whole obsession with antique books and medieval manuscripts started with Amnesia the Dark Descent (full of 1800s books) and Dark Souls III (with all the medieval prayer books and scrolls that grant you spells)

Looks absolutely amazing! There is totally a book I want to recommend you called "The Celtic Design Book" which is handwritten and illustrated by Aidan Meehan, an absolute master at celtic art and I think you will find it super useful if you haven't heard of it!

Takes a ton of inspiration from books like the Book of Durrow and Book of Kells, and teaches how to make celtic knots and carpet pages, half-uncial script and illuminated letters, and so much more!


Thank you for reading this comment, it turned out way longer than I intended 😂

Just subscribed, this is seriously incredible! What a beautiful art.

I'm into 'slow' art, so this is a great video. I signed up to a local course about art materials (how to make them from stone age to acryllic). I'm doubly disappointed having seen this video that the course had too few enrolments to run. As the materials used create art that lasts over 1000 years, I guess you can afford to be slow!

This is incredible. The attention to detail! Ty for filming ❤

Dam Youtube, now I'm interested in 8th Century penmanship! LOL. nice work.

Nice video! Finally some practical lessons! Thank You!

Thanks man! I've been looking for something like this for a long time... There's something magical about watching how manuscripts were made a that period of time.

Awesome video once again! Btw, are you Catholic?

Saw that everything is very justified. I am curious to know how did medieval manuscripts  deal with the problem of long words? did they cut the words, use abbreviations, increase or reduce the spacing between words, reduce or increase the spacing between letters? for these two i think it would make the text look haphazard  - increase or reduce the spacing between words, reduce or increase the spacing between letters. whats you process for dealing with long words?

This is beautiful, I am going to start this myself. Is that about a 1.5mm nib do you think?

do you have recommendations on pens or ink to buy to learn calligraphy? I like this style but I don't think I'm at the point where I can jump into the period accurate quill portion yet haha.

Nice work. Do you take any precautions while working with poisonous pigments? I think for most colours there are modern substitutes. Do you always use those pigments, or is it at the request of your client?