Post progress pics for cursive writing here!

[alantin]

I didn't practice handwriting for a while, but I worked it into my goals for this year and have been practicing again for a bit over a month now.

Here is a second sample copying the same text as before.

I think it's looking better than before. I'll show it to a couple of tutors later and get some feedback. Some characters have quite bad balance, like 起, but on the other hand I'm quite happy with others, like my 能 and 前.

 

[黄有光]

A brief nonsense sentence I wrote today. Not terribly happy with 所、还、地。 But I am happy with 清楚、有、较。

[黄有光]

On 2/3/2022 at 8:06 PM, alantin said:

 

 

Although it's certainly not winning any calligraphy awards (join the club, haha), you've definitely already achieved significantly more legible (and attractive) handwriting than many if not most learners. Well done!  Here's to continuing progress  Definitely keep posting pics! I am keen to see how you do.

[889]

Another simplification: when writing words like 谢谢, use the Chinese ditto mark and make it 谢々.

[alantin]

On 3/23/2022 at 1:30 AM, 889 said:

Another simplification: when writing words like 谢谢, use the Chinese ditto mark and make it 谢々.

 

Is that used in Chinese?
I've only seen in in Japanese.

[大块头]

On 3/23/2022 at 1:54 PM, alantin said:

 

Is that used in Chinese?
I've only seen in in Japanese.

 

Yes. It has been used in the example below to abbreviate the second 明 in "你明明知道".

 

[889]

That's the scrawled cursive alternative,〻, sort of.

[黄有光]

 

这是我最近学到的手写字：视，别，海，每，数，游，游，看，京，北，第，楚，最，最（异体字），最（异体字），致，拇（写错了），多，旅，洗，至

[Publius]

视 别 致 旅 good.

[Publius]

You should learn to write 林, 海, 京 like this (sort of):

[fenggz]

[黄有光]

@fenggz Your corrections are difficult to understand. 请你贴书法写的例字

[黄有光]

I wrote this quickly, so it is a bit sloppy. Still, I'm fairly pleased with it. Thoughts @Publius ?

[Publius]

There's certainly ample room to improve. But Rome wasn't built in a day. Find a good copybook. Try to appreciate it first. Develop a sense of what makes a good piece look good.

 

And another thing: That 我 is without doubt legit. But I suspect many people will have a hard time recognizing it. You might want to try these:

[大块头]

On 3/22/2022 at 7:30 PM, 889 said:

when writing words like 谢谢, use the Chinese ditto mark and make it 谢々.

 

I asked about 叠字符号 on HiNative, and two people said they write it like this:

 

 

 

@黄有光 are you using online calligraphy dictionaries to find 字帖?

[黄有光]

@大块头 Yes, that is correct. I ordered a handwriting (not 书法) copybook a while back, but it never arrived

[黄有光]

 

@Publius How do you feel about the two forms in the middle? Are they acceptable? My concern with the fourth form is that it has a potential to look very sloppy, very easily (i.e. it is "fragile" -- it must be written carefully and there is little room for error, outside of which it begins to look messy and illegible). 

 

Also, could you clarify the stroke order of the fourth form?

[Publius]

On 3/31/2022 at 6:53 PM, 黄有光 said:

Are they acceptable?

Acceptable to me.

 

On 3/31/2022 at 6:53 PM, 黄有光 said:

could you clarify the stroke order of the fourth form?

竖、竖、横折、捺

Clearer on this page. I especially like the second one on the third row by 怀素.

But if you feel it's too fragile, don't use it. Simple.

 

[黄有光]

Practice for today!

[fenggz]

@黄有光nice hand writing. never seen the 海 is written like that(2nd line). did you learn from books or you just create your own version?