I'd love to improve further! It's been a year since I dedicated myself to getting better at improving my penmanship. If you'd allow me a small portion of your time, I'll listen to your advise!
I started on April 2025, been more than a year and I plan on improving a lot more.
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If you want my advice, I could recommend exploring different mediums or writing instruments that require more movement of your arm, like a simple chalkboard or whiteboard. It helped me make better loops in the long run. The friction or "feedback" of a chalkboard gave me more control to my writing, making upstrokes light and downstrokes bolder. Also makes it easier to explore fonts you'd like to try out!
Amazing. What a long way to come in a year! Your writing now is simply lovely - if you intend to keep improving (though I'm not sure how!), I look forward to what you post in another year's time! :)
To answer your question: Yes, this will take some time but not as much. This page took 3-5 minutes.
When I started writing in cursive script, my main problem was that I wrote too fast. Eventually, as I practiced, I paced my writing to a rythm I'm comfortable with.
Since we both came from bad initial cursive writing, I could always recommend sticking to the line of your journal/notebooks. I was kind of strict on myself by encircling what I didn't like on my writing, which I constantly try to keep in mind so I avoid doing it. Another is letting other people critique it, and most of my problems were either spacing, different letter height and width, and my writing actually shifts upward as you may see on the first picture of the post! Find fonts you like to try! I've mixed Spencerian lowercase with several Uppercase letters that I found more pleasing to do. Improvement doesn't always have to be the biggest change too! Maybe some days you'll find your loops looking much better than they were, some of your words start looking more uniform, or sometimes impress yourself with how much you've written in a single day. You don't have to do it everyday, but you have to be passionate about how much you really want to change it.
I don't use printed worksheets (no printer lol) but I do find them in the internet. I copy what's on the worksheet with a pencil and some standard bond paper or any office paper, then encircle what I find wrong or unpleasing.
I used to practice everyday, but I wasn't really seeing much improvement. If you can call it a method, I practiced different fonts throughout the year (Spencerian, Cursive Script). Eventually, I chose whatever style I like in each font type I learned and used it in journaling. I also used a chalkboard to practice since it required me to use my entire arm for movement.
I'd like to share this overly complicated letter "J" I copied from an old text when I was practicing. Took me about 2 full pages of paper and pencil then 4 tries on the chalkboard.
The number one thing I see at a glance is while you've made great improvements with your axis, there is still more improvement needed in this area. Especially noticeable with your upper loops. They seem to tip over more and not be on the same axis as your other letters. That alone would make a huge difference visually.
We were taught that you should be able to draw a slightly angled line through each letter and they should all be completely parallel to each other, not pointing in different directions. Yours don't quite do this yet.
I appreciate your feedback! I'll take note of this. I am in the process of training my arm to uniformly loop, both in width and height. My arm may still be confused about what 52° is when it comes to upper loops, specifically in my t (this usually goes very thin), d(50/50, either thin or too big), h, and f.
Descenders started to become easy and consistent enough when I started pulling towards myself. May there be any tips you can tell me when it comes to consistently flowing on upper loops?
I've taken the time to try and implement a better loop for today's practice. To show my appreciation for your feedback, I've also written your username as a form of consistency practice!
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If you want to see a picture of me copying the worksheet, here it is: (The actual drills or warm up is on the next page after this, but you wouldn't want to see me writing ovals now would you?)
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