What's The Most Difficult Letter For You To Form In Cursive?

[JonA]

You would probably laugh a little, but for me it's the capital I's. Everything else is easy, it's just that when I do the I's, it turns out like a T or a J.

 

Yup. I usually just form my letter I like my T, only all above the base line and with an extra curl moving to the right.

 

As to the question on a whole, I cannot think of any letters I have difficulty forming; I usually make them in the way most comfortable to me, and so they are all easy. But if you are asking which letter is the most difficult for me to make look like the old class room cursive (was it D'Nealian?), I would have to say the capital G, Q, I, and occasionally S. I mean, look at this image: School Cursive; don't those look hard? Come to think of it, that capital D doesn't look too friendly either. :embarrassed_smile:

 

Jon

Edited August 10, 2010 by JonA

[Edgar Allan Bo]

You would probably laugh a little, but for me it's the capital I's. Everything else is easy, it's just that when I do the I's, it turns out like a T or a J.

my I and my J and my T look all the same! :ltcapd:

Edited August 10, 2010 by Edgar Allan Bo

[KateGladstone]

You would probably laugh a little, but for me it's the capital I's. Everything else is easy, it's just that when I do the I's, it turns out like a T or a J.

my I and my J and my T look all the same! :ltcapd:

 

 

Would you like help with that?

 

If you post your I/J/T, maybe I can find ways to make them different without altering the character of your handwriting.

 

 

[farmersmums]

I have an issue with my lower case 'e' looking like an 'i' because I write quickly and make it too flat (no loop). As for upper case, I can't seem to find a way to make "E" attractive, which is a problem as its my middle initial. It looks floppy and lifeless. Essentially I need to go out and hunt for some new e's. That is all.

[KateGladstone]

I have an issue with my lower case 'e' looking like an 'i' because I write quickly and make it too flat (no loop). As for upper case, I can't seem to find a way to make "E" attractive, which is a problem as its my middle initial. It looks floppy and lifeless. Essentially I need to go out and hunt for some new e's. That is all.

 

Put up some pictures of your existing "E"s and "e"s, and maybe I can suggest some adjustments that will bring them closer to your ideal.

 

Regarding the lower case "e" turning into a dot-less "i" --

a quick fix for that is to lift the pen very slightly (the lift may be so brief as to be invisible, if you want it so)

as you move upwards from the previous letter (or at the beginning of a word) into any occurrence of "e."

In other words, instead of starting your lower-case cursive "e" at the base-line,

start it in the middle of the letter's "backbone" and then go up-and-right as you usually do.

An upper-case cursive "E" will often look better if the top is made distinctly smaller than the bottom.

(Did you ever make snowmen out of balls of snow? Keep in mind proportion of the snowman's top half to his bottom half.)

Whatever your chosen form of "E/e," you can practice it with this sentence:

"We remember September the eleventh."

 

 

Or copy out the famous short story EVE'S LEGEND , whose only vowel-letter is "e" --

see the legend here, get pens, mend "e"s.

 

 

Edited August 11, 2010 by KateGladstone