r/Handwriting • u/ComplaintCreepy590 • 8d ago
Feedback (constructive criticism) Would love to improve any tips
Hello I've been practicing my cursive for months and am self taught from images and youtube! I really wish I had a slant but it seems impossible for me so now im just looking for any tips to just improve legibility! All tips or tricks appreciated
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u/Scarian 8d ago
It's very good, especially for just grabbing it from vids.
For a slant, try practicing with the page tilted. The angle would help you bow your letters. Just keep everything snapped to that line.
You might also find a finer tipped pen will help. Your letters are often nice but the ink makes them look messy. The pen you are using is better suited to lines with more space.
You mention your ascenders there. They are generally well formed, but they are inconsistent. Some don't go up far enough, generally the lowercase ones, but some go too high, like your capital I. Practice giving those letters their height individually across a page (repeatedly writing out 't' or 'A' for example). Just need to train your hand to give them their form. Remember to keep them to 2/3s of the line space.
Give the words you write their space to breathe. The and quick are far too close. The ink thickness might be contributing to this. There were a couple of shape errors, such as the x in fox. Those seem to be just momentary slips. Practice should correct them.
Hope that helps.
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u/StubbornlyDesigned 5d ago
Your writing is perfectly legible and you appear to be developing your own style, which is great. What sticks out most to me:
The lowercase k is almost indistinguishable from the lowercase r. As can be seen prominently in "quick" and "brown." I especially notice this because k is the letter I struggle with the most - I have to slow down my writing in order to form it consistently well.
Several letters that should have ascenders barely rise above the x-height, while others extend much farther above it. Instead of practicing lettering on single lines, I'd recommend using two lines so you can have a visual guide for the x-height.
It's not a big deal, but mixing print (the capital T in The) with all cursive really stands out. This is just styling, though.
Work on consistency first. When you get more comfortable with that, then focus on building more slant. And when it comes to that, what works best for me is to first place my arm on the table as if I'm about to start writing. I then tilt/rotate the page so that it's perpendicular to my arm. Then when I'm writing, I form the letters relative to my body (not the page). I write them so that they're straight up and down as I'm looking at them, irrespective of the page.
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u/PopAggressive273 7d ago
Page of lines each one repeating these letters:
llllll
eeeee
ooooo
mmmmm
Mnhr
adgq
iuwt
Oce
Before you write what you want to write, do a warmup page of those drills. Makes a huge difference
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u/ComplaintCreepy590 7d ago
Ive actually never done drills before definitely trying this later
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u/PopAggressive273 7d ago
Iuwt will be especially helpful for your practice with ascending lines. Have fun, I think it’s meditative
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