So, how can you learn how to write long, slender letters? First of all, you will need a very good pen. You can buy one at any stationary store. But you have to be careful about the choice. If you are left-handed it won’t be so easy for you to master the florid handwriting style.
Most importantly, though, you must practice as much as possible. You should also keep practicing even when your handwriting is perfect. Keep practicing until it becomes an integral part of your body.
If you want to become an expert in calligraphy it is best to start young and practice every day. If you are older and have never practiced this skill before, it might take longer for your handwriting to turn beautiful but with enough dedication and patience, it will happen!
Cursive writing is definitely a lost art. Unless you are a very good artist, you can be forgiven if you cannot write in perfect cursive. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have to know how to do it! It’s nice to have beautiful handwriting, especially if you are going to write professionally. And since learning cursive may be something of a lost art, here are some great tips on how to get the best handwriting possible!
The Rules of Cursive Writing
Cursive writing is done by connecting one letter to another. This means that the letters need to flow into each other and they should be connected smoothly.
There are several basic rules when attempting to improve your cursive writing:
1) Write in the direction that the letters face. For example, if you were writing the word “ten,” it would be written from left to right, not from right to left or any other way around. If a letter faces upward, then it should be written upward; if it faces downward then it should be written downward. In essence, letters should not look like they are leaning or hanging onto other letters for support. To make sure this does not happen, check your writing every once in a while so
So why did Spencerian become the standard style of penmanship in America when it wasn’t even invented here? Why didn’t we stick with Palmer method, or one of the other competing styles?
Easy answer: because it was better.
In the late 19th century, American schools were beginning to teach students how to write in cursive rather than print. It was a change that came about largely because of a man named Platt Rogers Spencer. Spencer, a lawyer by trade, had developed his own style of penmanship while practicing law in Cincinnati, Ohio. He observed that the handwriting of lawyers at the time was terrible—they had been taught to use very small letters and write very quickly, and as a result their writing was illegible. So Spencer developed a new system of penmanship that would be more readable and more efficient for future lawyers—and he believed all students should learn it too.
One thing he did differently from most penmen before him was writing letters that slanted to the right instead of straight up and down. This created a greater contrast between thick strokes and thin ones, making his writing beautiful and easy to read at a glance—a skill important for anyone who has to write things like contracts and wills. And another thing
HOW TO WRITE CURSIVE LETTERS
1. Begin with a capital letter.
2. The first four strokes of all lower-case letters are the same as the upper-case versions. Make sure they connect smoothly to the vertical part of the letter and are proportionally correct — not much thick and thin, but not squished or too thin either.
3. Skim over this post to get an idea of how the rest of the letters are formed, then come back to these in more detail if you have trouble with any of them.
4. Don’t worry about making your letters perfect at first, just try your best! If you make a mistake, erase it and try again.
5. Go slow so that you don’t feel rushed or frustrated — it’s OK if it takes you a little while to get each letter looking right!
6. Now go back through and do the “practice stroke” for each letter on this page (click on them). Do them slowly and carefully, making sure that each one is perfect before moving on to the next letter (it might help to have a mirror in front of you so that you can see what your hand is doing).
7.
When you start to write cursive, it is hard enough to make the letters form well. It seems like it would be impossible to make them look beautiful at the same time. But with practice you can do both!
Here are some tips to make your cursive writing look its best. Your writing will be much more elegant if you keep these things in mind as you write.
A cursive letter is a beautiful thing. It’s more than just a way to convey information. It’s a work of art.
When you ask someone to write something for you, it would be nice if they could do it in a beautiful cursive script. But how can you get them to do that? Most people just don’t think about it. They don’t realize there are different kinds of handwriting, and they don’t know how to tell one kind from another, or what makes some kinds more beautiful than others.
Telling someone how to write beautifully in cursive is one thing; showing them is another, but that’s what I’m going to try to do here. I’ll show you the best way I know for getting someone else to produce better writing: by doing it myself first.
The loopy, squiggly style of handwriting that is often called script was the dominant form of penmanship in America until the invention of the typewriter.
So what happened? The story begins with a man named Platt Rogers Spencer. Spencer was born on this day in 1819, and he is credited with inventing the kind of cursive handwriting we still use today.
The first time Spencer ever showed his new cursive system to an audience was in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was 1848, and he was giving a presentation to teachers at the city’s college for women, called the Cincinnati Normal School for Girls. He did not have a very receptive audience. In fact, one of his listeners said his new style “looked like scribbling.” And another said it looked like it had been written by a girl.
Then Spencer did something that would change America forever: he decided to write out the U.S. Constitution in his new style of cursive. In doing so, Spencer used up all the ink in his pen. But when Spencer was done, everyone agreed: his writing looked beautiful!
As Americans began to learn Spencer’s style of handwriting—called Spencerian Script—it quickly became popular among schoolchildren everywhere (who were no longer
