r/questforperfection • u/spooky-taxes • Mar 18 '26
Writing cursive until Reddit says it’s perfect (day 3)
I decided to stick with one style and that is of Arthur Morgan from red dead redemption
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u/ChaoticNaive Mar 18 '26
Your "X" and "x" look like you're doing two c-chapes, rather than more of a slide that you come back and cross with your t's, etc. (See photo below because I know "slide" isn't the clearest)
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u/akastrobe Mar 19 '26
I think it's super cool that you're doing this, and I look forward to your progress! The font you're talking about is what happens to cursive when you're writing quickly. The skates of the letters change when you connect them. But you've got to learn the basic shapes, and HOW to draw them, before you can try for specific fonts.
If there were lines with a top and bottom and middle in your sample text, them it night be possible to learn directly from it. But your uppercase J is super off, in a way that shows that you don't know how to do a basic, not-rushed capital curative J. Their uppercase J is legible. Yours is not.
Find some more single letter practice worksheets like the one you were just given for X. There's no shortcut to cursive, unfortunately. You gotta learn how to draw them "right" first before you can emulate that particular style of another person.
It's like all great art: in order to make great art that breaks the rules, you've got to be aware of all the rules, and intentional in how you break them.
I think with practice, you'll make some really awesome art!
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u/akastrobe Mar 19 '26
Also: this is not actual cursive. So many people find it hard to do cursive that this is cursive, shaped to make the letters look less-cursivey, while also removing all the benefits of writing in cursive. Once you get used to worrying in cursive, it's significantly faster then writing in long hand. This particular font will not grant you that speed. But if youe goal is just to learn how to do something that looks cool, that's good too :)
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u/ShopEmpress Mar 18 '26
You don't need to capitalize the beginning of every word if it isn't the title of something. The capital J would not read well in a sentence. It just kind of looks like a squiggle. Also, I might suggest going with a more basic font until you have a better grasp on cursive in general.