After a little over 2 weeks of trying #myhandathandlettering, I can confidently say that I have progressed from practicing simple strokes and pretending to know what I’m doing to actually being able to write some letters that look like what I’ve seen all over Instagram. Yay! During my practice, I’ve played with different pens and even different paper. I was starting to think that all these people on Instagram have magical powers because my hand won’t produce the same beautiful writing as them! However I finally reached a turning point when I figured out how to hold the pen a little differently. After I watched a video by How to Hand Letter on YouTube, I learned about 5 mistakes beginners usually make. One of these mistakes was not holding their pen the right way and not lifting it after every letter or even every stroke. This, along with the other “mistake” of not slowing down your writing made all the difference in my hand lettering. After changing my grip and slowing WAY down, my strokes finally started to look how I wanted them to. Take a look at the pictures below to see the difference from before I changed my grip and after!
By no means am I to the point of successfully writing full words yet, although that’s not to say I haven’t tried…I find that I am eager to write words now just as I was eager to write letters in the beginning. But if the road to words is anything like it was to letters, I learned that it is best to just keep practicing the same stoke/letter/word over and over until it starts to feel more natural. What’s even cooler is that once you start to get used to it, it gets easier! Check out my progress below.
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