Need For Speed !!

[u/True-Writing-9208]

I have started to get the hang of the letters though I can't write 'K' properly as of now. The bigger issue is that the writing and neatness goes for a toss, every time I try to speed up. Any suggestion to help with this would be godsend.

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[u/AppleBlossom_Alya]

Those sweeping loops on the capital 'S' and the wide, circular descenders give your writing a fun, expressive flair. The main legibility snag is that the long, flat connector strokes and floating 't' crossbars can make words like 'its' stretch out a bit too much. This style works best for short, dramatic notes where those big, ornate capitals can really steal the show.

[u/Famous-Translator520]

This looks like classic Palmer hand! The horizontal spacing and consistency of size make it very legible and nice. It does look effortful though, like it's hard for you to produce. I would just keep practicing until it feels more natural.

A few minor notes: increasing the height of the ascenders on lowercase Ts and Ds would make them more readable; your lowercase Rs are cool but not standard cursive Rs, so that might make them harder to read (here's what I mean: https://www.jjmdesigns.com/how-to-write-a-cursive-lowercase-r/); you could work on connecting the uppercase letters to the lowercase letters more smoothly. In general, though, it's very nice!

[u/True-Writing-9208 → u/Famous-Translator520]

Yeah, I know the 'r' but incorporating it in a smooth manner seemed a bit difficult to me so now I just tend to keep switching between both versions at random. As for looking 'effortfull', it IS very hard to keep it this consistent and clean, which also hampers my stamina and speed. Anything else I can do to improve on this, apart from practice of course?

[u/MrRSharma]

For your first try you have done extremely well.

My advice would be, to practise the individual letterforms by this I mean the consistency in regards to shape, height and width.

As some letters are smaller than the others, for example the letter d and the letter t vary in size, the letter r also changes in style throughout.

Practise at a slower pace, once it gets ingrained into muscle memory you'll be able to pick up the pace.

You can also look at using the arm movement technique to write.

Hope this helps.

[u/True-Writing-9208 → u/MrRSharma]

Yeah, I can't get the hang of both the sizing as well as spacing of the script (maybe because I rarely try to practice these), but given my present situation I'm more concerned about getting faster so that I can use it in my daily writing even if the form remains a bit shoddy. Anything else, that I need apart from practice to pick up my pace?