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I come from a fine arts background primarily focused in portraiture, but calligraphy had always been a hidden passion of mine. I started off with copperplate which was my first passion, and I grew rather quickly into it, but on the back of my mind there was always a longing for Blackletter and Fraktur specifically. Yet, I was always afraid to get into it on my own, it seemed like a completely different world, and doing it alone could mean making my life a lot harder than I need to. With a couple of pens lying around from my college years, I stumbled across Stella's workbooks casually scrolling through my instagram. That was when I took the plunge. These workbooks were fundamental in shortening my learning curve. Everything from the guidelines to the ways on how to write each letter, how to perform each and different stroke, completely revolutionised my practice and made my life a lot easier. If you're wondering whether you should grab these, if you're planning on starting fraktur, look no further because this is the definitive starting point.