Arabic Calligraphy: Learn Kufic Script
Connecting the Letters: Structural Changes
A course by user4617764 surname4617764 , Calligraphy Artist
Joined November 2020
Explore the ancient Arabic script style of Kufic by learning to write a short text using traditional artistic practices
Joined November 2020
About the video: Connecting the Letters: Structural Changes
Overview
“Once you’re familiar with the letters on their own, you can move on to the script grammar, which is the way letters combine and how that changes their shape. In this lesson we focus on structural changes, which affect the letters in initial, medial and final positions. For instance, here is how the letter Ha changes in these three positions, in a computer font: ههه. These changes are an essential part of the Arabic alphabet in any style and period. But they don’t necessarily appear on the page in their “raw” state: like the structure of a house, they’re covered over with something more aesthetic. This aesthetic part is the next lesson (Stylistic Ligatures), and I recommend really understanding the structural changes before starting on the stylistic. The script grammar is the most important part of the course to enable you to write words and sentences, and accompanying tasks will include both practice and observation. ”
In this video lesson user4617764 surname4617764 addresses the topic: Connecting the Letters: Structural Changes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Arabic Calligraphy: Learn Kufic Script. Explore the ancient Arabic script style of Kufic by learning to write a short text using traditional artistic practices.
Partial transcription of the video
“Connecting the Letters: Structural Changes When we connect letters together, we're talking about script grammar, and this will be divided up into the next two lessons. In this lesson I'm going to talk about structural changes, which is the way the letters change in the middle position, in the initial position and in the final position. We've seen the isolated position, which is when the letters don't touch any other letters, but when they do, they connect sometimes and sometimes they don't, so there's a whole science we have to learn here so we can write them correctly, but in this lesson w...”
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Course summary for: Arabic Calligraphy: Learn Kufic Script
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A course by user4617764 surname4617764
Joumana Medlej is a Lebanese calligraphy artist based in London. Though she is known for her use of Kufic scripts, her work encompasses also encompasses other fields including graphic design, drawing, illustration, digital games, and children’s literature.
Joumana teaches Manuscript Kufic and Square Kufic at the Arab British Centre and her studio in the UK, rediscovering traditional inks and paints along the way. She has collaborated with Apple, Amnesty, the Khayrallah Center at NCSU, BBC Arabic, and the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan, among others.
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