Learning Spencerian...

November 17, 2022

On 10/3/2022 at 5:17 AM, Vintage_BE said:

I discovered this topic only now, and am not sure whether it’s still alive. So FWIW and in response to the most recent posters @Inkyways @afishhunter @CatAddictand @hh1990, here is a writing sample of mine.
I attended grade school in the 1960s in Belgium and was taught cursive in a style that somewhat resembles D’Nealian. Like most in my generation, my handwriting degenerated thoroughly as I started using ballpoints, typewriters, computer keyboards and eventually touchscreens.
I discovered Spencerian on the web a few years ago and naively thought that it would not be super hard to learn on the back of what I remembered from grade school. That assumption, of course, was completely wrong. I have had to “learn” each individual stroke anew, and to forget the “a” “b”, etc. as I remembered them. The hardest part for me is to maintain the 52 degree slant and to consistently make “angular” upstrokes. Progress is an animal that walks ever more slowly, but it does not completely stop. At least, that’s what I continue telling myself in order not to give up.

I purchased a Pilot 912 FA grinded Spencerian Flex by Nibs.com due to the free nib grind sale. Anyhow, it has been difficult for me to learn Spencerian.

December 4, 2022

On 10/3/2022 at 5:17 AM, Vintage_BE said:

I discovered this topic only now, and am not sure whether it’s still alive. So FWIW and in response to the most recent posters @Inkyways @afishhunter @CatAddictand @hh1990, here is a writing sample of mine.
I attended grade school in the 1960s in Belgium and was taught cursive in a style that somewhat resembles D’Nealian. Like most in my generation, my handwriting degenerated thoroughly as I started using ballpoints, typewriters, computer keyboards and eventually touchscreens.
I discovered Spencerian on the web a few years ago and naively thought that it would not be super hard to learn on the back of what I remembered from grade school. That assumption, of course, was completely wrong. I have had to “learn” each individual stroke anew, and to forget the “a” “b”, etc. as I remembered them. The hardest part for me is to maintain the 52 degree slant and to consistently make “angular” upstrokes. Progress is an animal that walks ever more slowly, but it does not completely stop. At least, that’s what I continue telling myself in order not to give up.

very nice.

What did you use to learn Spencerian?

can you post another writing sample please?

thanks

k