My Handwriting And A Quick Question

[nifty]

 

This is a picture of my handwriting but I have a quick question. Are there any vertical styles of cursive I can base my handwriting in? Any links or pictures would be greatly appreciated!

[nifty]

I forgot to post this in addition to my previous post. Sorry for the redundancy in my verbiage.

[Randal6393]

You are currently writing a standard American cursive hand. IAMPETH has many books on how to improve your writing and different styles of writing based on American cursive. Would suggest going to their site http://www.iampeth.com and checking a few of the lesson books out.

 

Best of luck,

[caliken]

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Edited April 1, 2014 by Ken Fraser

[caliken]

Although this upright cursive was written with a flexible, pointed nib, it would be just as easy with a normal round-tipped fountain pen.

 

[Columba Livia]

Some scanned books you may find useful:

 

A teacher's manual for "the natural system of vertical writing":

 

https://archive.org/stream/teachersmanualt00newlgoog#page/n38/mode/2up

 

This has information on posture, holding the pen, practical considerations and some sentences and an alphabet.

 

copybooks 1 to 6 of "Barnes National system of vertical penmanship":

 

https://archive.org/details/barnesnationalv00unkngoog

 

200+ pages of letters, words, sentences which could serve as models for study and imitation.

 

The theory and practice of handwriting by John Jackson:

 

https://archive.org/stream/theorypracticeof00jackrich#page/94/mode/2up

 

It's about the theory and practice of vertical writing. Much of the book is devoted to arguing on very shaky grounds that vertical writing is better than slanted writing (claiming for example reading slanted writing damages peoples eyesight and that writing it damages peoples spines) however the actual practical information on and examples of vertical writing are perfectly fine.

 

Vertical writing Business forms:

 

https://archive.org/stream/cihm_93933#page/n11/mode/2up

 

Copybook with examples of business letters, ledger pages etc (That is what was meant by Business forms). The business letters are good for looking at to get an idea of how a page of vertical writing could be laid out, will look, line spacing et al.

Edited April 1, 2014 by Columba Livia

[calhoun tubbs]

I know this was posted elsewhere on the forum, but here's another link which may prove helpful:

 

https://archive.org/stream/penmanartist05zane#page/n15/mode/2up

 

In the issue of penman and artist #5 (the link I posted), you'll find lessons in vertical penmanship throughout.

The page you can download the pdf from is here:

 

https://archive.org/details/penmanartist05zane