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This is the best picture of my handwriting that I currently have. It's a birthday card to my mother.

 

I'm sorry, it's in Dutch, my native language, I simply do not have better pictures right now.

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This is the best picture of my handwriting that I currently have. It's a birthday card to my mother.

 

I'm sorry, it's in Dutch, my native language, I simply do not have better pictures right now.

 

Ah, but you wrote the envelope in English. :lol:

 

Beautiful handwriting: lovely letter shapes and an impressive ability to keep to a straight line.

 

Cheers,

David.

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Ah, but you wrote the envelope in English. :lol:

 

Beautiful handwriting: lovely letter shapes and an impressive ability to keep to a straight line.

 

Cheers,

David.

I guess the word "mama" is internationally understood, haha!

 

As for my handwriting, I guess it does help that I was taught "basic" cursive in primary school - think "stripped-bare" Palmer's.

 

I've been writing in script for the past decade, though.

 

Thanks for the words of praise, I do love to get some compliments every so often!

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It is clear and legible.

Letter height is even and spacing is even.

I think you are doing well.

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It is clear and legible.

Letter height is even and spacing is even.

I think you are doing well.

Thank you! I do feel like my loops are a bit too wide, though I don't know how to fix that, yet.

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This is the best picture of my handwriting that I currently have. It's a birthday card to my mother.

 

I'm sorry, it's in Dutch, my native language, I simply do not have better pictures right now.

 

I've been writing in cursive since I was 7 or 8 years old and your style is WAY better than mine. I'd say you are on a good path!

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I'm no expert, but from an aesthetic standpoint I don't think your loops are too large. I would be happy to consistently have open loops.

Very nice handwriting.

 

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I may not have been much help, but I DID bump your thread up to the top.

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Thank you! I do feel like my loops are a bit too wide, though I don't know how to fix that, yet.

 

Style is very individual.

I think the loops look just fine. But if you think it is too wide, then do a bunch of drills to get your hand used to making them narrower. You have to retrain your muscles to get used to writing as you want to.

Then pay attention as you write, so that you do not regress back to your old style of wider loops.

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Hi Emma, ziet er netjes uit hoor.

 

Nice choice of capital letters! Spencerian inspired?

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If that's new then I'm jealous. :yikes:No critique needed.

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Thats New, I going emerald pink with envy ( that nonsense is intentional), I have written cursive for 7 years (since I was five) and I struggle to get something like that!

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Beautiful!

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Beautiful writing indeed. And I would point out this is specially awesome:

 

 

Ah, but you wrote the envelope in English. :lol:

 

Beautiful handwriting: lovely letter shapes and an impressive ability to keep to a straight line.

 

Cheers,

David.

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Your hand is beautiful, just as it s.

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Beautiful handwriting.

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Looking good. If you wish to change something like the width of loops, make a list of words that have lots of "loopy" letters in them, and practice writing them as often as you can, making the loops the width you like. Include words that have double loops, like"ff" or "ll", as well as words with different loops next to each other, like the English words " held" and "alkaline." The practice isn't so hard to get right, but you have to do it often enough so you don't have to think about it when you're actually writing something

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Your handwriting is beautiful and very personal.

 

Your ability to keep a straight line on blank paper is extremely impressive.

Is it fair for an intelligent and family oriented mammal to be separated from his/her family and spend his/her life starved in a concrete jail?

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