Newbie Interested In Cyrillic Cursive

[unvoleurderoses]

Hello FPNers! It's nice to have found this forum with the writing experts:) You love giving advice yes?

I have started learning serbian recently and would like to be able to write with the cyrillic cursive script/style (not sure how you call it). The pen I use is the cheapest liquid ink (same type as the pilot v7) pen. It is supposed to draw a 0.5mm line. I also have a millimeter paper:) small notebook that helps me practise a bit. It's my first try ever to write with letters connected to each other, I try to connect all of them, don't know if there are exceptions where a letter should stand alone. I write slowly at the moment and I often raise my hand from the paper. And of course I get a lot of these how you call them ink blots? And I try for my letters to have a steady height, about 3mm suits my style with this pen (+3mm for b's, capitals etc +3mm below the line for y's etc.), but the width(length) of my letters varies a lot and I have no idea how to get it controlled.

Is the 0.5mm appropriate to produce letters of this size or I need something with a finer tip? Independently of the practice I'll do, can a liquid ink pen give a very beautiful image like a fountain pen does or am I doomed? I also find that I have to press this pen a lot and I don't like pressing, are things different with a fountain pen? And if you have any guidelines or tips about serbian or other similar type of cyrillic cursive, I'd be very happy to read them:)

[Anton Gorodetsky]

Dobar dan!

 

Cyrillic Cursive is the only reason I initially purchased my fountain pen, and actually started caring about my handwriting, quite a small world in that sense.

 

The secret to good cursive is to move smooth and fast. Cyrillic Cursive is unique, particularly because (at least when I was being taught) that gaps and hooks are necessary to differentiate between certain letters. The pacing gets weird, since especially at the beginning you're taught to lift up. Keep at it. Your form seems to be very stilted, in my opinion. Probably because you're trying to get it "perfect."

 

What I suggest you do is find certain words and then write them out, much like you're doing. It's a long process but you want to hammer out the basic form and then start to work on your speed. You'll find what seems to be fat and sloppy handwriting actually turns to be quite nice. I actually did start out with a .7mm, which suffice it to say was way too fat for what I'm doing! I've moved to a .4mm, which whilst bigger than yours, I feel is just thin enough.

[unvoleurderoses]

Hi and thanks for the advice. You are definitely right about the "trying to get it perfect" part.

I'll continue to practise until I get the basic form of each letter and the letter connections/combinations.

Ћао

[hardyb]

This might help a little:

 

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/LRC/RU_writing/index.htm

 

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/serbian.htm

 

http://www.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=19477

 

And a search;

 

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=Serbian+cyrillic+script++handwriting&oq=Serbian+cyrillic+script++handwriting&gs_l=serp.12...2328.5250.15.7718.12.2.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.eOidbBtpkrw&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=15667442720058dd&biw=1024&bih=589

[unvoleurderoses]

Thanks for these links:)

[brunico]

It's interesting to write in a different alphabet. When I had to write ancient Greek, I could do the letterforms well, but I didn't find joining letters intuitive.

 

Here's another link, to create printed grids for writing practice. It's designed for italic, but you can get rid of the slant and configure it to do vertical lines for letter widths etc. Might be easier than using graph paper.

[unvoleurderoses]

That's cool. Bookmarked:)

[suexilin]

Hi

 

I am Bulgarian, a Cyrillic alphabet language quite close to Serbian. We have the same letters with some exceptions. I write in cursive in daily life, in my journal and in letters, because I am used so - in school we had to write in cursive all the time.

 

It is possible to connect ALL the letters when you write, however this will make your writing very homogenous and not easy ti read. But if you are in a hurry, you do not need to lift your hand at all until you have finished writing a word. Usually we do leave some letters alone.

Here is a sample of cursive writing in Bulgarian.

What I wrote is this:

 

Български език, ръкописно, прилича на сръбския малко. Всички букви се свързват когато пишеш! Успех!

 

English: Bulgarian language, in cursive, looks a bit like Serbian. All the letters connect when you write! Success! (meant as a wish )

 

Edited January 24, 2013 by suexilin

[unvoleurderoses]

Hi! Thanks for the writing sample. Yes, it felt a bit "unnatural" to connect some letters. See you around:)