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Here's an art form anyone can have a go at, no artistic skill necessary! Have you heard of #AsemicWriting?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_w…

It's creating lines/forms that look like letters/words but have no specific meaning. These can be glyph-type symbols, arrangements of lines, squiggles - anything that makes you think it's written language when you look at it.

Some example images below.

Have a go!

(Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_w…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_w…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_w…

"Asemic Post-Graffiti from Nuno de Matos (AKA Matox)."

A red-yellow background covered in a variety of black and white swirls and vaguely writing-esque shapes.

"The Wheels of Transformation - Asemic Writing by Tatiana Roumelioti"

Glowing yellow symbols and letterforms on a black background. The 'page' is slanted to the left and the 'writing' runs along lines and circles, making patterns.

wordless open semantic form of writing

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

#asemicwriting

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Jey 🇵🇸 :crab:

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the last one is pretty cool!

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fyrfli 🇯🇲☕️

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This actually looks really interesting to me right now.

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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

in reply to fyrfli 🇯🇲☕️ • 2 anni fa • •

@fyrfli Cool! It's really fun to do and you can style it in looooads of different ways. I did a bunch where I was drawing weird alien plantlife then annotating them with asemic writing ^.^

@fyrfli 🇯🇲☕️

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Bears Shouting

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

So you mean cartoon writing when animators can’t write the details of a note. 😂 cool idea though

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The Dark Primordial

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

Asemic Writing sounds very interesting! For my personal grimoire I invented a complete written language, and I love the idea of ciphers and symbols in general. I'll be trying this tomorrow for sure :)

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Malte Hollmann

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Ooooh, this is fun. And almost as legible as my regular writing! :D

A photograph of a piece of asemic writing. There is three lines of symbols that imply written language, a little graph below and then again two more lines of symbols. The symbols are very edgy and somewhat erratic.

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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

in reply to Malte Hollmann • 2 anni fa • •

@MalteHollmann Nice! I like the music showing through too XD

@Malte Hollmann

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Malte Hollmann

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

Is it? Oh that's interesting. I don't see it, but then I'm used to having it around me and in my mind all the time anyway.

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Unknown parent • 2 anni fa • •

@amsterdamsheep Hah! I was not familiar :D

@the Sheep!

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Lani

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

I love doing this but never knew what it was called! It’s a great stim for me when I don’t know what to do with my hands!

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Herstory1

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

#asemicwriting Colours here inspired by Istanbul and by the sea. #mastoart #art

#art #mastoart #asemicwriting

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gnilleps

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

Interesting! I used it in college but never heard the term. My lecturer called what I was doing "the devil’s handwriting." (Without any kind of moral judgement attached)
These days I largely use it for patterning or when testing if pens are still effective.

A painting of hand holding a lit match, with the flame shaped like asemic text.

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Blahmage

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

i didn't know this has a name! I was actually thinking about it today, creating a piece 😂 now i know what to look up for tips to create my own writing

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mrlich 🎨

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

I somehow never came across that term before!

I use it a lot in my #ttrpg character illustrations to represent 'magic script'.

It's fun to make it flow in 3d along a wizard's hem line or on a scroll, or...

A sketch of a studious little bespectacled goblin writing with a quill on a long scroll while looking attentively off camera.

A very righteous or indignant looking elf in long robes which have a fancy golden script along their edges.

A sinister looking tiefling in dark attire and holding an unsheathed dagger.

#ttrpg

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ratfactor

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

Awesome idea! Time to bust out the brush pen!

Some asemic writing - thick and thin scribbing in black ink from a brush pen on the inside and two columns done with pink highlighter on the outside. Also, a little more scribbling with an orange gel ink pen in the center.

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TQ 🌌

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

I have some in my recently posted abstract artworks! I like stream of consciousness writing more than asemic writing tbh, but it's a nice change!
Also, the whole of the abstract shapes could be seen as asemic writing. #AsemicWriting #mastoArt

An abstract calligraphy painting in black and white. Strong lines dominate the work, but there is asemic writing in small letters in stone places.

#mastoart #asemicwriting

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Odonovant

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

this term brought to mind this song by an Italian artist in the 70s. It was meant to sound like English - but was in fact all nonsense. youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8 it also was a hit! #asemic

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Rare, Complete!

^YouTube

#asemic

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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

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@Odonovant One of my favourite songs :D

@Odonovant

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa •

@Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: uh! I used to do this to create conscripts (fill a page with random scribbles, find the nice looking ones and clean them up as characters of the conscript), but why have I ever stopped, it's so relaxing!

After the first page I made two pages of non-washi non-tape and I'm seriously thinking in the vague direction of plates for the inner covers of a book :)

three A6 pages with dense lines of random scribbles with relatively complex individual mock-characters that overlap with each other (but aren't connected like a latin cursive); two of the pages are semitransparent

If somebody needs *that kind* of encouragement :D it's sennelier acrylic ink (purple) and deAtramentis Dark Red fountain pen ink, with a Brause 361 pen on clairefontaine tracing paper and clairefontaine dessin croquis blanc 55 g/m². vintage quality :D photo taken with a pinephone in low light :D

#asemicWriting

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KatM

in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • 2 anni fa • •

I love to play around with #AsemicWriting. Here's one of my favorites: a little illustration of a spiritualist's room with lots of false panels etc. so he could make ghostly writing appear, candles fall... #drawing

A surreal line drawing of a room designed for seances. The drawing is somewhere between a cartoon and a technical diagram.

#drawing #asemicwriting

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Ami Moregore🧈🧈🧈🧈

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I've frequently mentioned to people that claim to have "no talent" that at its base, drawing is just the making of marks. If one can make a mark, they can draw. Just keep on making marks until you're satisfied. This would be great exercise for those who feel "untalented"
(talent was an obscene term to one of my favorite art professors because he believed anyone could do art. It was just a matter of doing the work)

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swallace

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I love looking at asemic writing. I need to try to do it!

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Lou

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this is great! Thanks for sharing 😊

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Marina :blobcatenby: :antifa:

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Ah, Cy Twombly was a master at this! Great way to conquer fear of a blank page, too.

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Kara Shallenberg

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Fun! A checklist of tasks #AsemicWriting

A checklist handwritten in green ink on graph paper. The words are indecipherable. Three tasks have been checked off.

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katpesk

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I am so happy to finally put a name to my indecipherable handwriting!

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Maria Alves

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Too difficult,no??🫣🫣

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Gretchen Emmert

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omg, I do this all the time when I listen to music! I fill up sheets and sheets of paper - I had no idea it was a thing!

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Gretchen Emmert

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Here's a couple of examples from just last night! #AsemicWriting

#asemicwriting

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laniez

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cool!

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Billthoo

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I thought I would struggle but this just seems to flow!
#AsemicWriting
#BelieveInPens

#asemicwriting #BelieveInPens

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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

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@Billthoo Yeah!! It's really fun to do, and gets the creative juices going :D

@Billthoo

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Allysse Riordan

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@Billthoo I need to do more asemic writing again. Where does time go for all the fun things 😆

@Billthoo

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Billthoo

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@allysseriordan I’d love to see that, Allysse. I’d never heard of the term before, though I love those old looking charts with indecipherable decorative scrawls.

@Allysse Riordan

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Lance

in reply to Billthoo • 2 anni fa • •

@Billthoo @allysseriordan I had to look that one up, too. It's not something I've set out to do deliberately, but I have occasionally doodled using fake script.

@Billthoo @Allysse Riordan

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Billthoo

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@analogfusion @allysseriordan I’ve never really done that before. But then again I don’t draw and never doodled much. However, the art prompts here have been a delight and given me a reason to notebook.

@Lance @Allysse Riordan

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Allysse Riordan

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@Billthoo @analogfusion art prompt ? What hashtag should I be looking at?

@Lance @Billthoo

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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

in reply to Allysse Riordan • 2 anni fa • •

@allysseriordan @Billthoo @analogfusion #CuratorPrompts and #SillyCuratorPrompts :D

#CuratorPrompts #sillycuratorprompts @Lance @Billthoo @Allysse Riordan

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Billthoo

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@allysseriordan @analogfusion for me it’s the #SillyCuratorPrompts. No reason 😁

#sillycuratorprompts @Lance @Allysse Riordan

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Allysse Riordan

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@Billthoo @analogfusion thanks ☺️

@Lance @Billthoo

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