Diary of a scribe: Making an Illuminated Manuscript
Hello everyone! Welcome to the first post in my "Diary of a Scribe" series of blogposts. The idea behind this series will be to document the process that takes me from a blank page, to something as shown in the opening picture of this post. Specifically we will be following the development of my latest commission. An Illuminated Manuscript covering two plays from Fiore Dei Liberi's " Flower of Battle " Manuscript I would like to stress before getting in to it that I am not saying that this is THE best way or how YOU should be doing this. This is just my current method of working that works best for me. I have learned mostly through trial and error, building on what has worked for me in the past and continuing to develop with each new project. There is a lot to cover in this first post so with that out of the way lets get started. First steps: Goals When starting a new project the obvious first step is to look at the source material. In this case I am reproduci...
