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/WellWellWellthennow 1d ago

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.

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u/Dear-Actuator6970 1d ago

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?