Please post your cursive alphabet here

[jwar2003]

Here's my sample which still retains a lot of the elements I had to digest in grade school. The more knowledgeable among us could probably spot what style it is. I do not recall.

 

http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy107/crewel/WritSample3.jpg?t=1274420037

 

Nice sample, but what colour ink ia that?

[Moondust]

Here is a sample of my cursive. I lasted only two sentences before switching to my daily writing. This is an achilles tendon for me, but I shall prevail!

 

I like this - it's fun and lively and has something riotous about it.

[pmhudepo]

Hello this is my first post.

 

My cursive uppercase video

watch the 720p

 

Hi krisuma,

 

Nice writing sample! It looks like you apply a lot of pressure with your index finger; is this comfortable on longer stretches? I find I am capable of more precision when I'm "finger writing" like you appear to do, but I can't do that for very long.

Edited February 29, 2012 by pmhudepo

[inkydoc]

Here is a sample of my regular writing. It evolved from what I learned in my Canadian elementary school education combined with my French-educated Vietnamese father's writing sample that he provided me as a child. You'll notice that I alternate between cursive and printed lowercase letters, especially "s" and "b". I've never found a pattern.

 

[Woliaj]

Hi, I'm very new to this, could i get a few pointers on how to make my writing more like Caliken's. My writing is not based on anything, rather i transitioned into cursive with no guidance and have been stealing pretty letters ever since a bit like a collector. Now i just have a jumble of different styles.

also which pen suits my writing most

[David H 1960]

I do not write beautiful. But I do write legible.

 

I know the cursive Q is supposed to look like a 2. PHOOEY! Same for the Z.

 

I'll try to come back and give a sample.

[Miles R.]

I'm a bit of a maniac about forming characters without unnecessary pen-lifts, including "x" and "t." In the line of small letters, I went back only to dot the "i" and the "j," even though, as you can see, I had some difficulty in keeping my hand moving consistently across the page. The only capital letter that I have not been able to reduce to an unbroken movement is the "K."

 

The ink, by the way, is Fog Grey by De Atramentis.

 

 

I didn't have the patience to write out the names of 26 countries, as I should almost certainly have made an error along the way. (On my first try, I wrote "Canda" for "Canada," and had to start over from the beginning.)

 

I admire the handwritings of vidalia11 and wykpenguin and am envy-stricken by those of of fenriz and caliken.

Edited March 12, 2012 by Miles R.

[Redonna]

My cursive alphabet (it's a shame my lower-case started going up a slope - on LINED paper! Sad, sad indeed.)

 

[GClef]

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/Tutuguans/0604131952-1_zpsc19c596b.jpg

[VRT]

I've been practicing the Spencerian script lately...

 

 

[idazle]

[mrcharlie]

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/5448/mycursive.jpg

 

 

I was taught 1970s Zaner-Blosser in school; the writing so very nicely done by vidalia11 in the second post of this topic is what that should look like. If you visit the Zaner-Blosser website you will see some of their letter forms (in particular the capital Q) are different now.

 

The style done so nicely by idazle above (I don't know the official name of it) was the other main style I was taught in elementary school, which was quite confusing at the time as no one explained that there was more than one cursive system, and I may have been taught something different in a previous school system.

 

For a long time my capitals were a mix of mostly Z-B and a few like idazle's. Before I started re-habbing my penmanship, I was looping my t and not looping the ascender of my l, h, b, f, and sometimes the k. This would result in me accidentally crossing the l and not the t a lot. I was not looping the e well (and still don't) but was slightly looping the i, so you could only tell the difference by the dot or lack of the dot. In general the letter forms were too thin.

 

I started by working on and rationalizing the capitals. However, the biggest improvement to my legibility was working on the lower case letter forms (which still need some work but are much improved), since they are the vast majority of the letters in any piece of writing. Also, I started to almost always switch to print caps when writing acronyms or any other all-caps words, as most all-caps words written in cursive caps just look stupid.

[mboschm]

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/o565/mboschm/DSC_0412_zps7e385172.jpg

[GClef]

I started by working on and rationalizing the capitals. However, the biggest improvement to my legibility was working on the lower case letter forms (which still need some work but are much improved), since they are the vast majority of the letters in any piece of writing.

 

My thoughts exactly when I did this...

 

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/Tutuguans/0509131447a-1_zps4d63d113.jpg

 

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/Tutuguans/0509131447b-1_zps866faed2.jpg

[Toiwat]

http://i.imgur.com/9xGot97.jpg

[Lyander0012]

Seeing the posts here, I've developed an even bigger complex about my penmanship. Ah, bother it, I'll still be working on it either way )

 

Written with a Sheaffer Prelude (M nib):

 

http://s17.postimg.org/tslil4nin/IMG_20130611_142645.jpg

[GabrielleDuVent]

I'm bored.

 

Pangrams:

 

English: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

French: Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume. (Take this old whiskey to the blond smoking judge)

Latin: Sic fugiens, dux, zelotypos, quam Karus haberis (So fleeing, leader, you are seen with jealousy like Karus).

 

J, V, and W evolved from vowels I and U, apparently, and therefore weren't used.

 

From top (Pangrams section):

 

Lamy EF with Lamy Blue

Parker Sonnet M with Pelikan 4001

Platinum Preppy F with J Herbin Rose Cyclamen

Platinum Preppy F with Platinum Black

Pilot Varsity

Platinum Plaisir with J Herbin Encre Violette

 

http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w614/GabrielleduVent/DSC_02561_zpsf0d699df.jpg?t=1370847387

[Seastar028]

I'd appreciate any comments or constructive criticism on how to make my writing better

[Poppet]

Hello!

I hope it's ok to post in such an old thread. I've always used fountain pens but I wasn't taught cursive at school. I've recently taken up pointed pen calligraphy and thought tuning up my usual handwriting at the same time made sense.

Any comments or tips appreciated!

[GrayStratCat]

Very nice Poppet! Since you brought this thread back to life, I thought I'd post an example as well.

 

Did this fairly quickly, but it's a half decent example.

 

~Salt

Edited December 19, 2014 by GrayStratCat