My Handwriting Sucks! I Want To Write Like This

[Draless]

Wow. I'm impressed.

 

I'll be honest though, your handwriting before wasn't bad, and with minor improvement I'd be content with it. It was nice.

 

How long would it take you to write, say, the last picture in an exam based setting?

 

It looks awesome, but I need to be able to write nicely with speed.

 

Have you any examples of writing pieces you've written quickly?

The last picture is my attempt at some form of calligraphy and in no way write like that normally. I'm a lefty overhand writer so I switch to underhand to do calligraphy. The top other examples are my general writing.

[highlander1307]

Ouch! Your handwriting is better than mine.

[MyHandwritingSucks]

Ouch! Your handwriting is better than mine.

Haha, I'm sure it isn't.

 

Please refer to post 16.

 

That is my handwriting; not the first post. That is something I want...

 

Anywho; Day 2.(I've done about an hour's practice in total over the 2 days)

http://i.xomf.com/ljcwm.jpg

 

Feel free to critique.

 

Personally I hate the following:

 

I think my i's look weird, inconsistent even.

 

I think my vowels haven't really changed in terms of strokes and general appearance. See a, e, i, in particular.

 

I think words involving the conjunction of these vowels are the most displeasing to view (with my current state of writing)

 

But hey, I'll work on that.

Edited June 27, 2014 by MyHandwritingSucks

[MyHandwritingSucks]

you know what there's really no such thing as a sucky hand writing what's important it can be read because like beauty it's very subjective what looks good to other people looks bad to other people have confidence man HAVE CONFIDENCE

heck infact I'm still practicing flex writing all things considering because most manuals you will read are written for right hand people and obviously thats where the limit is set

but here are my samples

http://i.imgur.com/bXr0sIvl.jpg

 

Yes I'm a lefty

 

http://i.imgur.com/T4OVNxnl.jpg

 

I ended up just looking at letter forms and work from there I somehow developed my calligraphy around the flex nib

Looking great!

 

And please refer to post 16, the previous is pretty elementary lmfao.

 

Although I do agree with the silver lining of your post!

 

Keep it up.

[ac12]

If you do not have a fountain pen, use a SOFT pencil or a gel or felt tip pen. All 3 are such that you do not have to press down hard on the pen to write.

Your handwriting will change based on the size of the writing, your body position, and the pen. So your whiteboard writing can be OK, but pen on paper may stink. So get yourself a standard writing device as above and start practicing.

[MyHandwritingSucks]

If you do not have a fountain pen, use a SOFT pencil or a gel or felt tip pen. All 3 are such that you do not have to press down hard on the pen to write.

Your handwriting will change based on the size of the writing, your body position, and the pen. So your whiteboard writing can be OK, but pen on paper may stink. So get yourself a standard writing device as above and start practicing.

 

Done.

 

See below

 

http://imgur.com/z4yxSoa.jpg

Tried to start working on a 'slant'.

 

 

Still on day 2, I haven't slept yet

 

I think I've progressed, no?

 

Critiques?

 

Two days ago my handwriting was that of the first paragraph in post 16's image.

 

Done with a ballpoint pen, normal pressure applied. After writing for about an hour, surprisingly, my hand didn't cramp. Just my pinky finger got restless due to it's cooped position when writing.

Edited June 28, 2014 by MyHandwritingSucks

[MyHandwritingSucks]

http://imgur.com/KBi42pA.jpg

 

Day 3.

 

This was done as soon as I woke up. I decided to write 'fast', and the above is pretty much at a near note taking pace. No time taken to refine.

 

I don't know why, but I'm not happy?

 

Can people post their note taking handwriting?

 

Of-course, I'll still continue to refine. I just don't know why I'm not happy?

 

Critiques please?

[Draless]

I think one thing I notice is that you want instant change in your handwriting. Or you want to see progression. Handwriting is like any fine skill, playing the guitar, exercising the body, etc. You need to have patience, I didn't notice change for a couple weeks to months in my cursive, and I still was unhappy with it. Its taken 3-4 years for me to be personally happy with what my fist looks like.

 

Just keep writing, pages and pages every day if you can. I personally did not write out letters like writing a over and over. I wrote out song lyrics, quotes, anything that kept me entertained.

[ac12]

As @Draless said, changing/improving your hand is a LONG process. It does NOT happen overnight. Example, it took me MONTHS to improve my handwriting. One component was changing from a finger writer to arm writing. That one thing took me 3 months until writing with my arm started to become natural, and many more months before I did not have to think about it as much.

 

You have to get a printout of the letter style that you want to emulate and practice writing like that. This will be painfully slow, but you have to learn the new letter-form and strokes to write it.

Write the alphabet from a to z and A to Z several times.

Then try copying some text out of a book, while writing as close to the desired letter form as you can.

If it does not look right, cross it out, then try again. Repeat until it looks decent.

This is somewhat SLOW writing, as you are training your muscles to write differently than you used to write. But, remember you are writing, not drawing, so you have to write with strokes. And that implies a certain minimum speed for the stoke. Too slow, and you are drawing the letter. But, if you cannot get the letter shape, at writing speed, then you have to slow down to drawing speed to get the hang of the letter form/shape.

Speed comes later as your muscles get retrained.

 

However, for me, handwriting changes based on speed. My particular handwriting looks pretty decent at my normal writing speed. BUT speed it up like when taking notes, and it quickly degrades. My particular handwriting style cannnot be sped up very much.

 

My practice routine was to write for 1 hour a day, every day. This was to get my muscles used to the new hand/style. Retraining muscles is not an overnight event, it takes a fairly long period of time to do. And like I said, it took about 3 months before I got to where I was happy with the results.

[MyHandwritingSucks]

As @Draless said, changing/improving your hand is a LONG process. It does NOT happen overnight. Example, it took me MONTHS to improve my handwriting. One component was changing from a finger writer to arm writing. That one thing took me 3 months until writing with my arm started to become natural, and many more months before I did not have to think about it as much.

 

You have to get a printout of the letter style that you want to emulate and practice writing like that. This will be painfully slow, but you have to learn the new letter-form and strokes to write it.

Write the alphabet from a to z and A to Z several times.

Then try copying some text out of a book, while writing as close to the desired letter form as you can.

If it does not look right, cross it out, then try again. Repeat until it looks decent.

This is somewhat SLOW writing, as you are training your muscles to write differently than you used to write. But, remember you are writing, not drawing, so you have to write with strokes. And that implies a certain minimum speed for the stoke. Too slow, and you are drawing the letter. But, if you cannot get the letter shape, at writing speed, then you have to slow down to drawing speed to get the hang of the letter form/shape.

Speed comes later as your muscles get retrained.

 

However, for me, handwriting changes based on speed. My particular handwriting looks pretty decent at my normal writing speed. BUT speed it up like when taking notes, and it quickly degrades. My particular handwriting style cannnot be sped up very much.

 

My practice routine was to write for 1 hour a day, every day. This was to get my muscles used to the new hand/style. Retraining muscles is not an overnight event, it takes a fairly long period of time to do. And like I said, it took about 3 months before I got to where I was happy with the results.

 

Care to share your progress?

 

I guess the main problem is I'm indecisive. I don't know what I want.

[nojanv]

Pick up a guide book, they help so much you wouldn't believe. I use How to write American Cursive and How to write Spencerian Script by Michael Sull. In 2 months my handwriting was 10000x better and even impressed people!