For Aspiring Calligraphers & Institute Founders
Calligraphy Teaching Course
Several of our students told us in the recent past that Calligraphy India should start a Teacher Training Course for those who want to establish their own training institutes of Calligraphy. Thus a process of wide-ranging consultation started.
To our great surprise, there was an overwhelming opinion suggesting that Calligraphy India should plunge into a new venture which has remained unexplored so far in a systematic manner.
The positive response has encouraged us to embark upon the initiation of a regular Teacher Training Course which will offer several benefits to those who undergo this training. Professionally competent persons would become available to impart training in Calligraphy to all those who may be anxious to be skilful in this art. Not only will they gain in setting up their own training institutes, but would also remain busy earning other economic benefits by involving themselves in various types of jobs related with calligraphy.
Calligraphy India, therefore, cordially invites interested persons to join our Teacher Training Course in order to reap benefits to improve their financial condition.
Become a Trainer
Gain the skills and credentials to teach Calligraphy professionally.
Start Your Institute
Set up and run your own Calligraphy training institute.
Earn Economic Benefits
Take up calligraphy-related work and improve your financial condition.
What is Calligraphy?
The word calligraphy literally means beautiful writing. Its relevance lies in the human need for expression, through mark making, symbols, designing, drawing, painting and crafting.
Calligraphy encompasses, and is influential to, many related disciplines: book designing, manuscript work, typeface designing, bookbinding, logo designing, sign making, beautiful handwriting, and calligraphy as illustration and artistic expression.
It is for these benefits that a learner draws from calligraphy — and the test of time it has withstood — that calligraphy is still flourishing today. Those who have learnt this art, and will learn it, have always been gainers, never losers.
Handwriting commenced with the coming into being of the present civilization, and it will continue to be used for as long as the civilized world exists. Therefore, calligraphy as an art will also remain in great demand — as it is today, and in the future too.
Calligraphy covers a huge area of study. No one can start to learn everything at once, but you must make a start. This start, when followed with perseverance, will take you to your cherished goal — your goal to learn calligraphy to your satisfaction.
Calligraphy is more than "beautiful handwriting" or "ornate lettering techniques." It is the art of forming beautiful symbols by hand and arranging them well — a set of skills and techniques for positioning and inscribing words so they show integrity, harmony, ancestry, rhythm and creative fire.
Useful Notes
- Symbol —
- a mark with a specific agreed-upon meaning in a language, such as a letter, numeral or word.
- Integrity —
- admirable proportions and form of a letter or symbol.
- Harmony —
- a pleasing relationship between visual elements — parts of a letter, letters, words, the whole text and surrounding space.
- Ancestry —
- the heritage of letter-shapes, materials and techniques which calligraphers use.
- Rhythm —
- the calligrapher's deliberate repetition and variation of marks and spaces, creating pattern and emphasis.
- Creative Fire —
- the mysterious, individual life of a piece of art — the part of it which is you.
Myth Busting: What Calligraphy is Not
1. "Ornamental decorated letters"? — No.
Calligraphy is not just decorated text or letters used as ornaments. It is about the symbols themselves being beautifully formed and arranged. There's a big difference between a beautiful form and a beautiful ornament placed on top of a form — naked, undecorated calligraphy should look good just as it is.
2. "Beautiful handwriting"? — Not exactly.
The Greek root of "calligraphy" does translate as "beautiful writing," but the word has taken on a larger meaning. Calligraphy aims for an art reaction — a deeper meaning communicated from artist to viewer. Handwriting, by contrast, aims to be read quickly, easily and accurately; clarity and speed matter more than artistic impact.
3. "Lettering done by hand"? — Not quite.
Calligraphy requires good letter-formation, so it is a mode of hand lettering — but "lettering" and "calligraphy" remain distinct disciplines with a large overlap and different purposes.
4. "Just really old-style writing"? — No.
Calligraphy is not the mere reproduction of historical alphabets. Copying the handwriting styles of the past isn't the creative purpose of the art. Learning historical hands trains the hand and eye, but it isn't the calligrapher's final destination.
5. "Any kind of fancy font"? — No, again.
Fonts are lettering styles standardized for machines and printing presses. The individual stamp of a calligrapher's personality — the unique "fire" or "soul" in a piece — doesn't translate into letter-forms built for machine use.
Calligraphy vs. Handwriting
Calligraphy
Aims to produce an art reaction — a deeper meaning communicated from artist to viewer, inviting a new thought in response.
Handwriting
Aims to be read — quickly, easily written and accurately understood. Clarity and speed matter more than beauty or artistic impact.
"Calligraphy is a skill. This skill involves touch, pressure, hand movement, unity, and that elusive quality we term 'beauty.'"
"Calligraphy is a script that exhibits exceptional and often self-conscious artistry and aesthetic quality in design and execution."
Calligraphy is writing as art: it is making meaningful marks beautifully so they show INTEGRITY, HARMONY, ANCESTRY, RHYTHM and SOUL.
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Join Our Teacher Training Course
Calligraphy India cordially invites interested persons to join our Teacher Training Course and reap benefits to improve their financial condition.