I must say, I like this method of writing it out much better :3

I'm so jealous of all you people with your gorgeous, script-like handwriting! Mine looks like a 5-year-old's scrawl. :C

You too, huh?

Hey, at least you can draw! I'm tempted to make this meme the first entry on my "Gallery" -- just to warn people that I have no business going anywhere near art supplies of any kind. XD

My handwriting looks like this because I've practiced it. I've molded my handwriting over the years, adapting a letterform here and there - that lowercase 'g' is something I very deliberately trained myself to do.

Think of the letters as shapes, not as letters, and draw them with thought and care, then do it again and again until the interesting form comes quickly.

I had never thought of someone doing that before, and yet now it seems totally logical.

I've had similar experiences with handwriting practice, although mine haven't been artistic so much as remedial and extremely necessary. I should do this meme some time just so people can see how bad my handwriting is now, and shudder at what it might have been.

I don't get to do interesting modifications to my handwriting, such as your "g", because more than three-quarters of my handwriting is intended to be read by a computer's handwriting recognizer and it wouldn't be sure what to make of it. I do now have reasonably consistent slant, long pull-off at the end of phrases or on every character when printing, and narrow but tall shapes to my handwriting in general- what I tend to find elegant in a font.

Not that I find my handwriting elegant. It still sucks. But yes, there's a very distinct process of focusing and learning to reshape writing- maybe I'll get more adventurous as my handwriting becomes more legible.

The very, very sad thing is that I've done similar things with my own. Perhaps it's the repititive practice that's the key; I typically just pick a letterform and go with it for a few months until I get sick of it - but all of them are intentionally chosen.

Maybe I should try to be a little more forceful about it, though - create new letterforms for the letters that give me trouble, and practice seeing them as shapes like you said :D it's certainly worth a try!

oh hey! I was meaning to do this anyway. Now i guess I will!

I too have also always been jealous of your amazing handwriting. I'm tempted to give you a nice line of text about something clockworky to throw into that tat concept from a couple years ago.

ps: I sent a surprise to you in the mail today, but you have to wait til you go home again to get it, because I'm dumb and forgot you were leaving this week. *plants seeds in your brain*

*plants seeds in your brain*

Dude, that never works on her. The little spiderbots always dig 'em up and toss 'em out her ear. I really recommend using fungal spores instead -- they're small, and the rhizomes take a lot deeper root!

Alright, fine. I'll redact my seeds and just forcefully stuff one of my many tentatendrils into her cortex. 8) Fungus is too tricky!

Drat! Now everyone will see how crappy my writing really is. :"D Actually, thanks. I never get tagged for these things.

Your handwriting is fabulous in the best meaning of the word. I'm pretty happy with mine (and moreover where it is going) and I think I'll do this meme too. Might have to steal your lowercase g (mine's pretty generic). Feel your pain on the uppercase G, fuck that letter so many times.

Feel free, I swiped that lowercase g from Steve Gallachi!

Oh, and also, am I reading this correctly? Is that an ə?

Fuck, never mind that, I'm blind. What is that backwards e thing? :)

It's a backwards e, like I use in my signature. See it huge on the front of my site.

Oh god, why didn't I notice that. Thanks, my mind can be at peace again!