What Does Your Handwriting Look Like

[richiwalt]

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richiwalt: Getting Spencerian with the tablet! Now let's see how broad you can get that shading on the Spencerian capital. :-)

 

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Greetings Andrew ...

 

Yes ... that would require me switching to a different app. The ProCreate app - it does allow one to make much broader stroke - directly related to pressure. You can tailor setting strengths for opacity, thickness, and taper at both fade-out and fade-in of strokes. Heck, you can even edit the pressure curve for a customized non-liner rate of change in applied pressure. I don't use that app ... I'm partial to Adobe Sketch - the default settings of the pencil (which I used to darken, and ever-so-slightly thicken my stokes) are something that I found to be wonderful. I can't seem to figure out the massive amount of settings in ProCreate to compare to Adobe Sketch!

 

But, one of the characteristics of Spencerian was to be selective and sparse about shading ... don't shade everything, don't flourish everything, (I've read), and even then, just accent things here and there ever so slightly ... It's a way to add emphasis to certain parts of your writing. I guess doing this is easily to control, and allows for some more uniformity. It's quite a skill to press on a stylus with a consistent pressure to allow a consistently uniform-looking broadly shaded stroke. I'm pretty impressed with your skills in going after that talent - I would fall ever so short of such practice.

 

We each have our favorite forms of script. :-)

 

I also admire your project to be able to copy other's styles !!! I saw a show about those that were developing that skill - to copy the regular handwriting of famous people like Albert Einstein, Hemingway, etc ... That's also an impressive goal. (As is the ability to write without lines!! - You do know that I do not even do that, right? I have a grid overlay that I can adjust with a pinch pull to spread out and condense that grid overlay - it's like graph paper. When I save the image, that overlay is not there. Every image I post from my iPad used those guidelines. )

 

As, always ... enjoying the discussions, the encouragement, the inspirations, and being stretched and challenged by this network of people posting here. So glad that your part here and how it shapes talents of all who interact!

 

best,

 

-richard

Edited February 10, 2016 by richiwalt

[dms525]

 

This is a sort of semi-formal writing, somewhat slower than usual handwriting...but then, I never need to write very fast since my job is done on a computer.

 

 

That is a very nice, very personal, italic hand. There is plenty room for "perfecting" it, but it is pleasing as is.

 

David

[nodrog]

I do write fairly often, with fountain pen and without, and this is the typical outcome...

[nodrog]

Oh dear, that last image upload seems to have failed. Let's try again

 

 

[HalloweenHJB]

I have found a great treasure. I have been a professor of Spanish for many years, and I am now beginning my studies of Dutch. I just came across a beautiful volume of the complete poetry of Jorge Luis Borges (one of the great Argentine writers of the last century) in a bilingual edition, Spanish-Dutch.

 

Here is a poem, "Limits" (in English) in both the Spanish (Sheaffer Balance with Diamine Beau Blue ink), and the Dutch (Waterman 0552-½ with Diamine Autumn Oak ink):

 

 

 

 

[Rednaxela]

Cool!

 

Borges is also the writer of the Library Of Babel. A mind-boggling story about data, information, and knowledge. https://libraryofbabel.info

 

I think your samples are very nicely written. Great lettering. Keep them coming!

[HalloweenHJB]

Cool!

 

Borges is also the writer of the Library Of Babel. A mind-boggling story about data, information, and knowledge. https://libraryofbabel.info

 

I think your samples are very nicely written. Great lettering. Keep them coming!

 

 

Yes, indeed. But there are many ways to interpret the story. I wrote a Jungian-psychological analysis of the story many years ago in my doctoral dissertation. I still love the story, but unfortunately, it is too complex for most of my students to grasp.

 

If no one minds the magical contiguity of the Spanish and Dutch, I'll post some more...

[Freddy]

 

Bob & Ray The Kimodo Dragon Expert

 

Fred

[richiwalt]

http://www.richimages.net/Penmanship/IMG_1427.JPG

[Skyclad]

This was my Handwriting as of December 2010

 

 

And this is what it is as of today

 

My handwriting (im a lefty) seems to have stayed on this plateau as of the past several years. If I were to add a picture of what it was 3 years ago, it would look the same as today's writing. For some reason, I can not seem to break free of this plateau and further improve my penmanship.

 

[AAAndrew]

 

I'm also in the process of exploring some interesting letter forms from a letter I recently purchased which was written in 1821. It was obviously written with a quill (no real choices then) and that has influenced some of it, but also the big push for consistent formal writing obviously hadn't reaches this young woman yet. When I get more of this, I'll post it.

[richiwalt]

http://www.richimages.net/Penmanship/IMG_1445.PNG

[Rednaxela]

This was my Handwriting as of December 2010

Handwriting 12-2010.jpg

 

 

And this is what it is as of today

Handwriting 2-15-16.JPG

 

My handwriting (im a lefty) seems to have stayed on this plateau as of the past several years. If I were to add a picture of what it was 3 years ago, it would look the same as today's writing. For some reason, I can not seem to break free of this plateau and further improve my penmanship.

 

 

That is some incredible progress you've made. Very impressive! I really like how you keep all your letters so open.

 

Not sure if this is going to help you in any way, but one thing you could look at is your 's'. Try to work out for yourself what 'makes' the slant of it. I think if you would manage to turn it clockwise just a little, the overall look would improve even further. This might also be true for 'n's when they are not the first letter of a word. For these it is the legs that make their slant. Perhaps try and always pull them to the lower left.

 

The thing that currently seems to get me off my own plateau, is the adoption of a different grip. With hindsight I think I've always had less 'reach' than needed for making the letter shapes the way I had in mind. I'm quite astonished how long the words are that I'm now able to write in one go, letting the pen skate across the paper, not interrupted by former physical limitations. It's like I have gained a certain extra amount of breathing room, both vertically and horizontally, which feels very liberating.

 

Anyway I hope there's anything in this for you. In any case I think your current handwriting already looks very good.

 

Good luck and happy writing!

[mehandiratta]

http://www.richimages.net/Penmanship/IMG_1445.PNG

 

this is perfection

 

 

 

I'm also in the process of exploring some interesting letter forms from a letter I recently purchased which was written in 1821. It was obviously written with a quill (no real choices then) and that has influenced some of it, but also the big push for consistent formal writing obviously hadn't reaches this young woman yet. When I get more of this, I'll post it.

amazing

[dragos.mocanu]

Thank you all for the kind words, here's another practice sheet from today, the words belong to Edward Johnston.

 

http://i.imgur.com/94L6Pu7.jpg

[Skyclad]

Thank you for the kind word's Red.

 

I will definitely give what you said a try and hopefully that will help get me off that plateau and start helping my lettings towards becoming more consistent as is yours.

[Freddy]

....TwentyFiftyEight ....

Me current chicken scratch writin'....usin' a pair of old pens ....

 

Fred

[Macciez]

Lots of cool and interesting handwriting in this thread that's tempted me into making my first post here.

 

My standard cursive and non cursive, although I can end up writing stuff that's in between.

 

*pretends the image isn't rotated the wrong way*

http://i65.tinypic.com/55h2wx.jpg

[Inky.Fingers]

Murky -- Nice italics! Did you use a guide sheet underneath?

 

Macciez -- Ever use a stub? Nice penmanship...both prints and cursive. So readable!

 

Richard, Andrew -- Where did your flex go? More plz

 

David -- What's your favorite nib as italic goes? 1.1mm or .8mm (samples of your writing please.)

 

More practice!

[richiwalt]

Thank you all for the kind words, here's another practice sheet from today, the words belong to Edward Johnston.

 

http://i.imgur.com/94L6Pu7.jpg

 

 

Murky,

 

I LIKE THIS ALOT !!!