Feedback - Spencerian

[VictorN]

Hello guys and girls! I've just found out this amazing forum yesterday, and I love how full of information it is!

But, I'm now here to ask you for a feedback. I'm trying the spencerian style and I'd like some tips/suggestions!
Here's an image of my last work:

 

http://s13.postimg.org/dgsm92s6v/Screenshot_1.png

 

Edited November 23, 2014 by VictorN

[linearM]

Try to maintain the same angle on your letters. I'm having the same trouble when I'm writing Copperplate.

[londonbooks]

Excellent work and you're so young. Best way to improve is to practice, practice, practice - then more practice.

[Mickey]

I'm pleased you've chosen to learn my favorite hand. As has been mentioned, consistent slants are important. The reason I say slants is because Spencerian has two slants, equally important. They are the 'direct slant' (typically 52 degrees) and the 'connective slant' (typically 30 degrees). Although the direct slant gets the most attention, the connective angle is no less important, and paying attention to both will pay huge dividends. Too many beginners obsess over the direct slant, missing that it is the difference between the two slants (in this case, 22 degrees) that drives and defines the hand.

 

If you truly wish to write this hand, don't worry too much about shades till you can write a respectable monoline Spencer with a fairly flexible nib. Learning how not too shade will help develop the lightness of touch necessary to write Spencerian, not merely draw the letters.

 

Welcome to the neighborhood.

[schin]

Very nice! Keep an eye on your angles.. and don't make your letters too rounded.. Copperplate is rounded, Spencerian is almond-shaped.

[VRT]

May I criticize something? Your r and s are least "spencerian" of all. Somebody recently posted this link to Bloser Lessons - it might help with shapes.

 

Good luck.

[VictorN]

Hey! Thank you all for the feedback! I've listened to all of you and i'm training daily. It's not good enough yet, but it's getting better, although I still have some troubles with 'r', 's' and the angle (however it's more solid than before). Here is a last work, any more tips or suggestions?

 

http://s29.postimg.org/xzyksjovb/spencerian.png

 

 

[goofeesteve]

Very nice, I too am working on learning Spencerian. The biggest thing I see right now is your "e" is too closed at the loop so it looks very similar to your "i"

 

I would suggest practicing just the "e" and then write eieieieieieieiiieieeeeiieieie or something similar until you can easily tell which is which.

 

I do this constantly with e-i, m-n, u-v, e-c