Pictorial Calligraphy
I usually presign my papers before I go to a party.
Since people pay me by the hour, I try to do as much as
possible before I’m ‘on their clock’. So in my free time,
I’ll presign my papers, I’ll put them into the mats,
things like that.
They’ll frequently be cartoony signatures. Quick happy
playful things. But I just mentioned Pictorial Calligraphy
in this blog this morning. And I came across this
little scrap of paper when I opened my desk drawer
this evening. It’s a practice paper I made
when I was seriously studying Chauncery Cursive
several years ago:
Remembering. Old dreams of Fine Art. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
So when I started presigning papers for this week’s
gigs (I’ll be drawing M&M people for the M&M Company
on Tuesday, and I have two parties on
Saturday - a 13-year-old Birthday and a Graduation,
and I’m expecting the deposit to arrive for
a 10-year-old’s Birthday for Friday…. That’s about 200 papers.
When you sign them all at once like this, you really see how
presigning saves the customer from paying extra.
It only looks like a partial second to sign a paper. But
when you do all 200 of them at once takes a really countable chunk of time.)
So Like I say, I figured I’d best to presign a whole
lotta papers. Chauncery Cursive seemed too precise
to jump right into just now. But I do Curly Writing
in my day-to-day world. That’s a lot
like Pictorial Calligraphy…..
Here’s some of the Signatures I made. Each one is like
a piece of Artwork. They’re not my ‘real official signature’,
but they ‘claim’ my Pictures:
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