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TaoDragon
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[2006-10-19 16:29:10 +0000 UTC]
"TaoDragon"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 133; Deviations: 214; Watchers: 12
Watching: 11; Pageviews: 8542; Comments Made: 205; Friends: 11
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Picasso and Arthur RackhamFavorite movies: Blade Runner, The Battle of Britain
Favorite TV shows: Law and Order, The Mentalist, Castle
Favorite bands / musical artists: Jimi Hendrix
Favorite books: The Third Policeman, Rider on the White Horse, Thinking and Reasoning, Cognition and Reality, Game of Thrones (the whole of Ice and Fire), Earthsea Trilogy, Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossed
Favorite writers: Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin
Favorite games: Magic the Gathering
Favorite gaming platform: A deck of cards
Tools of the Trade: Pen and ink and books
Other Interests: Art, Philosophy, Psychology, History, Re-enactment, Sleeping
# About me
Back from a sojourn in the real world. Finding Deviant Art even more frustrating than ever - do people ever really look at these portfolios? I am a middle aged (old)anarchist Taoist and Druid, whose revolutionary zeal has paled from the vibrant red and black to a pale pink and grey. I was a professional artist (graphics) then became a psychologist, a university lecturer in social psychology, statistics and philosophy and a Gestalt counsellor. Now mostly retired, thank goodness, but sometimes take freelance work (I couldn't take much more of this brutally money-oriented cess pit of a world). I smoke, but don't drink (blood pressure!) and don't do drugs (dope gives me a headache). All my old vices have caught up to bite me in the ankles, so I'm looking for new ones to replace them. I get frustrated with DeviantArt because nothing seems to get noticed ... ho hum. One day I hope to be filthy rich so that I can retire and live the life of indolence that I was intended for.Current Residence: Nottingham, UK
deviantWEAR sizing preference: XL
Print preference: Litho
Favourite genre of music: All music, but especially Blues, Jazz and Folk.
Favourite style of art: Anime
Operating System: Windows 7 and 8.1
MP3 player of choice: Duh
Shell of choice: Uh?
Wallpaper of choice: Moon
Skin of choice: The one I wear daily
Favourite cartoon character: BC, Wizard of Id, Calvin & Hobbes, Broom Hilda
Personal Quote: I will continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible
# Comments
Comments: 60
Hey
I would love to feature some of your work in my freshly opened group. Its specialised on high detailed military illustrations and it will host only the finest deviations and will gather some of the most talented artists.
arsmilitaria.deviantart.com/
I sent the requests. You have to confirm them.
You are also warmly invited to join.
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Thank you so much for the fav! That means so much! 
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Thank You TaoDragon For The Fav Of Charles Bronson
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Thank you, that's really kind of you.
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I had to come to thank you for watching me! I appreciate it!
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Your calligraphy is awesome! I like those "old" calligraphies very much. I have always wondered how to do those.
Yup.
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You're more than welcome, your tidings deviations are very pretty. How do you do them?
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Thanks for the 
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Very Amazing Work!
I am gonna 
Also if you know any good resources or tips to try and write or draw such great calligraphy please let me know. I am gonna look around now actually to try. I have always been interested in it and your gallery is a Great example
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Hiya 
I had a look at your gallery, and I think you have a good calligraphic sense. I've been messing about with pens since I was a child (my mother is Irish, so I grew up with the Book of Kells!), and the best advice I can really give is practice until you are no longer afraid of the tools (I still get a bit anxious sometimes). Also get some good examples of calligraphy and build a collection for ideas, and just for the joy of it.
The other thing I'd suggest is not to do practice for the sake of it - that gets boring. Instead, treat everything (shopping lists, post it notes etc) as opportunities to play with letters - then practice becomes play.
I'll have a look in my book collection and see if I can find any good titles for you - you will need to become familiar with a wider range of letters than just 'Old English'.
Finally, experiment. I prefer to write with either a steel pen or a quill using gouache. I've never really enjoyed writing with ink because it's too thin for my approach.
Um. Does that help?
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I recently bought some calligraphy pens [link]
These seem to work pretty well. I need to post some of my new work up. I've written a lot in the past few days just messing around. I brought them to school and filled in A,B,C,D workshets with calligraphy letters 
Thank you again for taking the time to send this
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You are welcome. I'll try to dig out some sources of other letterforms for you.
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Here we go. This is some of the stuff I did recently. [link]
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You are very welcome. It is a nice piece of work.
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