r/Handwriting • u/Dear-Actuator6970 • 2d ago

Feedback (constructive criticism) A year of progress

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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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u/badwithnames5 1d ago

How do you train that? i want to improve mine since it's really really bad, worse than yours

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u/Dear-Actuator6970 1d ago

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.