5 Steps to Mastering Beautiful Penmanship
- Fall in love with your tools. Get to know every pen, every nib,
you encounter- that goes for ballpoints and pencils, too. Learn how far you can push them, what their “sweet spots” are, and how they work with different inks and paper.
- Write with awareness. Know why you’re writing every time you pick up a pen. Make every stroke with intention, deliberately.
- Master the basics and develop consistency before attempting variations or flourishes. Start every word with basic letterforms; variations and flourishes can follow later. When you decide on a specific angle or slant, stick with it throughout your writing piece. Don’t change letter proportions or heights midway through a piece.
- Be confident and believe in yourself. No one controls your hand but you. Control your hand, and you can control any tool you have at hand.
- Write what matters. When you write things that matter to you, things you believe in, things you love, it comes forth in every stroke.