#cursive series

Hullo! Mod Seraph here ✨

We’re glad you love this blog! We can’t wait for your application in the future 😘💕

I’m so so sorry about the colour issue!! After reading your ask, I found some resources online to view how a particular image would look like to an individual with different kinds of color-blindness, so I’ll be using those to check my colour choices when I make the next cursive lesson!! 

🌸 @briarpatchpumpkin​ and any other colour-blind person reading this, could you let me know which colours in the original post (located here) are hard to differentiate from each other? 🌸 And, possibly, suggest some good colours to use? I’ll be doing some additional reading on which colours contrast well to the colourblind eye, but I’d love to get some input from people who are actually colourblind!

Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention!! 

Hullo! Mod Seraphtonin here 🌸

I’m starting a short series on how to write basic cursive, which is how I got into typography! This series will teach you some possible ways to write the alphabet and can serve as a base for you to build on as you develop your calligraphy skills further

🛑 Note that the style of writing depicted here is far from the only correct way to write cursive. I’m not claiming that this is the One True Method or anything like that. This is just one potential method of writing cursive, and is the method I prefer 🛑

We’re gonna be starting with the letter a! 

Dark blue = brushstrokes

You can write the letter a with one or two brushstrokes (click on the image above for a larger version) 

🌸 If you choose two strokes, you write the c-shaped bit first (stroke 1), and then add another line going down (stroke 2). Start from the dot and move your pen along in the direction of the arrow 

🌸 If you choose one stroke, you link the c-shaped part and then the line going down all together in one brushstroke!

The tail at the very end of the letter, the bit that flicks up towards the upper right, is used to join the letter to the letter next to it when writing them together as one word. It’s good to practice by writing it even if you aren’t writing a whole word, so you have the muscle memory ready by the time you join everything into words

Light blue = guidelines

Hope you noticed the guidelines up there in light blue! Those will be your friend when you write. I like using 2 guidelines when writing my a’s - one for the top of the letter and one for the bottom. These help me structure my letters so they all look even 

Light green = anchor points

You’ll want to have about 4 main parts of your “a” touching or coming close to touching your guidelines. I’ve indicated those points in light green. These anchor points will allow the letters in your writing to be more uniform in size

You can adjust how close the anchor points are to the guidelines or to each other in order to change up how your letter looks! I think purposely “messy” letters have a lot of character (no pun intended 😉)

This is just one basic method for how to write an “a” 😁 that’s it for now! Tune in next time for... b!