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Reddit mentions of Alvin, Rolling Parallel Ruler, Multipurpose Ruler Balancing Scale - 12 Inches

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Alvin, Rolling Parallel Ruler, Multipurpose Ruler Balancing Scale - 12 Inches
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    Features:
  • Multipurpose - A clear metric parallel multi-purpose drawing tool made from high impact plastic for students, artists, and designers.
  • Smooth Operation - Affords frictionless operation through the floating action of the nylon rollers mounted on the blade.
  • Efficient to Use - Draw horizontal and vertical parallel lines with ease. Also allows for easy drawing of circles, curves, or arcs.
  • Durable Construction - This parallel straightedge features a rigid phenolic construction with a black satin finish for a sleek yet durable ruling.
  • A multi-purpose drawing tool made from high impact plastic for students, artists, and designers. Graduated in both English and metric. Includes many useful formulas and conversion factors. Draw horizontal and vertical parallel lines with ease. Draw circles, curves, or arcs. Use the built-in protractor to draw angles. Blister-carded, instructions on back.
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Color12 Inches
Height5.13 Inches
Length13.38 Inches
Number of items1
Size12"
Weight0.2 Pounds
Width1 Inches

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Found 3 comments on Alvin, Rolling Parallel Ruler, Multipurpose Ruler Balancing Scale - 12 Inches:

u/fuckyeahjake · 2 pointsr/WhatsInThisThing

The device on the right here is a parallel ruler. The idea is it slides perpendicular to the lines you draw, so that you can draw parallel lines. Like this.

u/idyllif · 1 pointr/fountainpens

I haven't seen anything like that in a stencil form, but perhaps something like this might help you.

u/Cawendaw · 1 pointr/Calligraphy

This is... really good for a second day doing calligraphy. Actually, it's pretty damn good for a second month doing calligraphy. Stop making the rest of us look bad by comparison, you talented jerk! >:( Ok, but you wanted tips on how to improve. So...

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It's good that you're using a nib ladder, but it looks like you aren't using guidelines? Either that, you're using guidelines that are misaligned. One of these two things is causing irregular letter heights, and for each line of letters to sag downwards as it goes to the right.

Either way, it's an easy fix: when you make a nib ladder, align a straightedge to the bottom and draw a line to the opposite end of the page (a lot of people on here use a T-square or a rolling ruler; I usually just use another piece of paper because it's easier to tell if it's really perpendicular and also I am a cheapskate). Then do the same thing to the top of the nib ladder. If you want, you can also make a nib ladder on the opposite end of the page to check if the lines are really parallel. Do this for a whole page of lines.

When you've done this once, you can use that piece of paper to rule future practice papers: just make tick marks at the places the guidelines begin/end and use a straightedge to draw between them.

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Other than that, it looks really good, especially for the second day! You have all the letterforms down, your strokes are confident, and you're keeping the nib at a consistent angle. I'm especially impressed with C, O, Q, and G—it was months before my circles were that even. some days they still arent! If not for your title, I'd have guessed you were at least 3 weeks along.
Bravo!*

>The letters S, X, and Z

Saaaaaaame :( I'd suggest studying the geometry of those letters. X and Z are basically diagonals drawn across a rectangle. Figure out the proportions of that rectangle (
x units wide by y units tall) and try to internalize them. Try drawing a bunch said rectangles and filling them with X's and Z's. Then have that in mind while writing them. It looks like you might already be doing this, since they're underlined? If so, ignore this entire paragraph except the last sentence. If not, I found this pdf to be mildly helpful, although not as helpful as I thought it would be when I first found it, if that makes sense. I'm afraid it's mostly going to come down to practice.

S is like that, but more complicated. There's guides out there that have it as circles inside of circles, or inside a half-square, but I could never keep it all in my head. So far, I don't have a better answer than "practice, compare with examplar, practice some more." There's some pretty awesome people in this sub, though, so maybe one of them will have better advice.



One final note that has nothing to do with calligraphy:

  • if you want to make a bulleted list

  • put a hyphen followed by a space, and it will turn into a bullet and become indented.

  • remember to double-tap enter after ending each line, otherwise reddit markup will ignore it.

  • also, always remember to flair your post! On desktop, there should be a little dropdown menu that allows you to do this. On mobile, it depends on your app. If you can't figure it out just type out the name of the flair you want in brackets inside the title, and it will be added automatically (it's too late to do that for this post, but you can do it for the next one). In this case, it would be [CC] or [Constructive Criticism].