Flourished Horse

In July I attended IAMPETH, which is a calligraphy conference, and stands for The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting.

This was my third year attending the conference, and on the first day I took a class from Master Penman Jake Weidmann, where he taught us how to make a pictorial flourished horse.

I learned a lot in the class, and wanted to share some photos showing the process:

Sketching out the flourishes based on his example on the left.

First, we traced the outline of the horse that he provided, then drew all the flourishes in pencil, section by section.

Almost done laying out the flourishes.

When everything was in place, we inked the horse section by section, being careful not to smudge fresh ink (which I did).

Then we inked on top of the sketch.

Then when everything is dry, you erase the lines. Everyone’s horse in the class turned out amazing!

I erased the pencil lines, scanned the illustration, and cleaned it up in Photoshop.

Since I had some smudges and wanted to fix some of the lines, I scanned the image and cleaned it up in Photoshop. It turned out great! I can’t wait to try more pictorial flourishing!