Beautiful handwriting has been appreciated at all times. Happy holders of calligraphic handwriting could get a job inaccessible to those who write poorly. And even now, when a computer keyboard is gradually replacing an ordinary pen, the beautiful handwriting has not lost its meaning. Close people are pleased to receive news written specifically by your hand. And different documents still have to be filled out manually regularly enough.
You will need
- - prescriptions;
- - fountain pen;
- - ball pen;
- - paper in a ruler and in a cage.
Instruction manual
1
Evaluate your handwriting and identify its flaws. Honestly answer the question whether it is legible enough, whether you write letters and their elements exactly. Think also about what handwriting you would like. You may have to learn new letter elements. It’s better to do it right away, there’s no reason to relearn several times.
2
Calligraphy training is not much different from first-grader writing. Take out the recipe. They can be bought or downloaded from the Internet and printed. Try the same sequence that children used to be taught. Take care of the correct posture. Sit straight, lay the sheet a little slanted, take the pencil correctly.
3
Write a few lines of words with a sharpened pencil. Imagine that you are just learning to write. Try to write all the elements evenly, accurately observing the proportions and inclination. If you control the process, one or two lessons in writing with a pencil will suffice.
4
Write a few lines with a fountain pen and plain ink. Start with the elements of letters, then write all the letters, lowercase and uppercase. If you want to decorate your future handwriting with some curls in capital letters, learn them now. The most important thing is to write exactly, observing the tilt and pressure. The height of the letters should also be even, so write the copybook in two lines first.
5
Try to write something on a sheet in a cage. Try to keep the height of the letters approximately equal to 2/3 of the cell. Let the vertical stripes not bother you, write the letters with the slope that you have chosen for yourself. Closely monitor the height of the letters and the pressure.
6
Having mastered the letter on the sheets in the cage, go to the notebook in one ruler. Try to observe the height of the letters, it is in a beautiful handwriting about 1/3 of the distance between the rulers or a little more. The height of the uppercase letters almost reaches the ruler located above.
7
Try writing a few lines with a fountain pen. Do not write letter elements, but words or small texts. Keep track of the height of the letters, the ratio of height and width. Display connection elements beautifully.
8
Go to the ballpoint or gel pen. Follow all the same rules as when working with pencil and fountain pens. The beautiful pressure characteristic of fountain pens is less noticeable when working with a ballpoint pen, but you still need to do it. Beautiful letters are obtained only if your movements are correct and accurate.
9
Going to the ballpoint pen, control the process. Try not to look at the notebook all the time. Think for a while about the content of the text, and not about how it will look on the sheet. Then look what you got. If you no longer closely monitor how you write, and the letters still turn out to be smooth and beautiful, then everything is in order. If, being distracted, you stop writing correctly, you need to carefully monitor your classes for some time.
Useful advice
An adult who does not need to learn everything anew can do without intermediate steps. Write a few words in pencil to understand the sequence of movements and learn how to balance efforts. Then you can go directly to the ballpoint pen. But in this case, you need to more strictly control the movement.
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