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I know you didn't mean it that way, but calling it doodling is quite a disservice. It's like looking at a DaVinci and calling it professional finger painting an
by cooper12 9y ago
I know you didn't mean it that way, but calling it doodling is quite a disservice. It's like looking at a DaVinci and calling it professional finger painting and a precursor to ascii art. These are the hands of a master calligrapher and it's quite apparent. The term zalgo is also not apt considering that's just digital vandalism/noise using stacking diacritics, while every swash and flourish in this writing is quite deliberate and strikes a visual balance. Calligraphy is an old and distinguished artform (which informs modern typography to this day) that takes tons of practice and dexterity. I suggest reading up on it or even browsing some random stuff such as https://www.reddit.com/r/Calligraphy/top/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Calligraphy/top/. Certainly not "doodles".
- dcow 9y agoI meant "doodle" as a light-hearted--almost facetious--compliment. I do consider it art. Really interesting art. Maybe zalgo isn't the best word either but there are people who make hand crafted deliberate "zalgo art" and it was the closest digital analogy that came to mind short. Like I said I think it's really really cool. It's amazingly sophisticated art and what really entertained me about viewing it was that it evoked thoughts of high school word scribbles taken to and entirely new level. I've never seen calligraphy juxtaposed with the real wild things that inspire a given instance of it.