Penmanship!

[Brett]

Simple thread: Show off your penmanship! This thread will probably compliment the Handedness thread, so sorry if this belongs in that thread or there's already one somewhere.

Very cool idea for a thread! 👍

How about that, a thread that actually suits what I spent years doing as a youth!

Here's a bit I knocked up in a few minutes like I used to do on my old school books, it's before breakfast so don't expect miracles, I need time to make quality pieces.

That handwriting is generally how I write unless it's on the board in school when it becomes a bit sloppier to make the kids work harder, plus I prefer a pen which I didn't have to hand.

Writing on a board is much more difficult than a piece of paper. The angle you have to have your arm and hand at is not as conducive to writing.

Nice job on the cursive handwriting. I can no longer write in cursive, bar my signature. When I try to write in cursive my hand, wrist, and brain decide not to work together. However, I can write in print in both normal fashion, i.e. with upper and lowercase letters, and all uppercase letters.

 

[Monatsende]

I have a decent sample of my handwriting. But no possibility to take a picture. (Yes, I do NOT have a fancy smartphone. I`m the old school guy running around with a NOKIA 6310i which is - that`s what I heard - outstanding trendy.
Don`t want to scan here in the office because I wrote on a confidential/classified document.
So I`ll use my scanner at home and post it later.

 

[Brett]

My previous post in handwriting:

 

[PeterJB]

Cookie for anyone who can decrypt this mess:

 

[AOS-]

 

[Nessy]

In the process of doing so.
Reason?: For poor and improper use of Wacom. 👎

 

[Omnis]

What's caps cock?

 

[Brett]

 

[axletramp]

Do. Not. Google.

 

[Schwartz]

I'd post my handwriting, but I only write in dingbats.

 

[Ross]

 

[Famine]

What's caps cock?

Scary thing is he writes just like my brother... But what I want to know is...

Cookie for anyone who can decrypt this mess:

How do you have a right knob and how can you write with it?

 

[Monatsende]

Please don`t read the document... please not...

 

[DG_Silva]

Ooooh, that looks an interesting document... Where's the rest of it?

 

[mattythedog]

Just to make it awkward for you lot, it's landscape.

 

[Ross]

Just to make it awkward for you lot, it's landscape.

I'm guessing you used your iPod to upload as well. I took the photo with my iPod and when I got on the laptop it was upside down so I had to rotate it with Google+ and then upload it to tinypic.

 

[mattythedog]

I'm guessing you used your iPod to upload as well. I took the photo with my iPod and when I got on the laptop it was upside down so I had to rotate it with Google+ and then upload it to tinypic.

Yeah, I did. I really couldn't be bothered to find a way to rotate it, so I just left it. Sorry to all those people with sore necks now.

 

[lbsf1]

Here is my handwriting, The pencil writing didn't come out particularly well in my scanner.

Its extra bad at the moment due to the summer hols, however it is normally pretty awful.

 

[homeforsummer]

What's caps cock?

It's what people call me for writing entirely in capitals.

Incidentally, that's fairly legible as far as my scrawling goes. I occasionally happen across old notepads from university and can barely read them myself.

I can write neatly too, I just choose not to. My entire job revolves around typing, so writing is something of a redundant skill for me these days.

I do actually enjoy writing like that. Despite how it may appear, it actually flows quite well and allows me to write fairly quickly.

 

[Tom]

 

[Crash]

This is a great idea. Instead of typing posts we can write each other letters, scan them and upload them here!

I'm surprised you haven't Photoshopped anyone's posts yet.

My handwriting has gotten worse since not having written much in the past couple of years. Also, if I'm writing fast, I'm scribbling, and I can barely read that myself. I will upload some handwriting after I get home. I would be interested to see what my handwriting says about me.

Oh, and I saw the handwritten Chinese in the picture and thought it was terrible. Then I saw it was Shem's and just went "Oh.".

 

[W3H5]

To be honest I just wrote the name of the brand of smokes I buy and the writing is stylised to be all fancy which made it very hard to copy, so it was more copying than my own writing.

 

[Danny]

 

[dhandeh]

Talking of crayons, when my next delivery comes in, I will offer up my handwriting, but in the meantime...

 

[Terronium-12]

Making fun of the above will result in a ban until the year 2175.

 

[axletramp]

I think you need to be told again... you write like a schoolgirl.

Nice hyphenation there. You don't see that much in handwritten letters. Must. Keep. Margins. Straight.

Mild OCD?

 

[Brett]

It is girlish handwriting. Take that as a compliment. Better that, than something that is barely readable or some illegible mess.

When I was still in college, I never understood the point of taking notes if you then had to struggle to read said notes. Really, if you have trouble reading your notes, then what is the point of even wasting the effort to scribble something down and contribute unnecessarily to future carpal tunnel? I put in extra effort to ensure that if I were to reference my notes I could then quickly and easily decipher what I had previously written. It is also one of the reason I rarely wrote anything in pen. My hand/arm and brain do not always sync up. One gets ahead of the other and it results in a handwriting mess. To fix that, I always kept these handy.

 

[Terronium-12]

I think you need to be told again... you write like a schoolgirl.

Nice hyphenation there. You don't see that much in handwritten letters. Must. Keep. Margins. Straight.

Mild OCD?

A wee bit. That, and I've always taken pride in my writing.

It is girlish handwriting. Take that as a compliment. Better that, than something that is barely readable or some illegible mess.

When I was still in college, I never understood the point of taking notes if you then had to struggle to read said notes. Really, if you have trouble reading your notes, then what is the point of even wasting the effort to scribble something down and contribute unnecessarily to future carpal tunnel? I put in extra effort to ensure that if I were to reference my notes I could then quickly and easily decipher what I had previously written. It is also one of the reason I rarely wrote anything in pen. My hand/arm and brain do not always sync up. One gets ahead of the other and it results in a handwriting mess. To fix that, I always kept these handy.

 

[Sprite]

 

[CinnamonOD]