May I see your handwriting, please?

[redqueen]

Here's mine:

[BurtWorm]

1. OT: Nice thumbnail.

:thumbsup:

[redqueen]

2. Thank you.

:)

Are you going to post a pic of your handwriting?

Please?

I'm very, very bored!

[BurtWorm]

14. I'm thinking about it.

In the meantime, here's a note I was just reading on PassiveAggressiveNotes.com:

[motely36]

17. my mom would have kept it!

NOT!

Actually, I am surprised she never found my brothers drugs in the wash. Or maybe she did and I just never heard about it. I guess I'll have to ask now. :P

[BurtWorm]

29. This is the best I can do on the spur of the moment.

I don't write all my notes like this.

This was from the 2004 RNC protest in NYC.

[redqueen]

32. Awww...

All caps is cheating. :P

[BurtWorm]

38. .

[texas1928]

3. no

Looks like someone turned a chicken loose.

[redqueen]

4. Oh please?

It can't be worse than this guy Rick's handwriting. I used to work with him and I was the *only* person in the office who could read it. :D

[texas1928]

5. Nope, plus I have no way to post a pic up right now.

and I am the only one who can read my handwriting.

[Lyric]

6. ....

[redqueen]

7. Yes!

Thank you!

I like your big O's. :)

[Spacemom]

8. Here's mine

[redqueen]

10. Yours isn't messy!

Yours looks nice. :)

[Spacemom]

15. Then yours isn't messy either

I was actually thinking they look quite similar. :D

[redqueen]

18. There's no "n" in handwriting!

It's just a little kind of a bump there. :P

You have an N. OK maybe yours is a little bit messy. Maybe mine's more lazy than messy. :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear redqueen!

OK, I will post a pic of my handwriting!

But it will take a few minutes!

Take the pic, upload the pic, get the pic into Photobucket...

So give me about 10 minutes, and then you'll see my handwriting!

:hi:

[redqueen]

11. Thanks, Peggy!

I can't wait to see yours. :hi:

[motely36]

12. What a freaking hassle!

:hi:

[redqueen]

13. But totally worth it though.

Besides, do you really have anything better to do with your time?

Apparently not! :P ;)

Thanks... your writing is very nice. :hi:


Hey, did you decide on a drag name yet? Maybe I missed a thread...

[motely36]

16. Yeah, decided last night at the theatre

Going to be Holly Daye-Cheer.

Thanks so much for reminding me to post it :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. You will when I get back from the store

Camera needs batteries.

[redqueen]

20. Thanks!

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. k, I'm back

[redqueen]

44. Ah, one of those!

Nice. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. 'Those'?

:shrug:

[redqueen]

48. Architects, engineers... people who write like that.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

50. I was puzzled, not offended

I'm pleasantly surprised you recognized it, though. Guess you've been around some architects, engineers, etc. Or, maybe you are one.

I studied to be a draftsman before I switched to journalism. That's where I picked it up.

This is my "handwriting" as a note-taking reporter. :D

[redqueen]

52. Dad used to be an architect...

worked around engineers nearly all my life (by choice :)).

Shorthand! Looks good. :)

[hunter]

64. I tried reporting very briefly.

I can hardly read my old notebooks and they scare the shit out of me anyways.

I keep them in my pile of dread.

[CreekDog]

102. that's very distinctive

i'm kind of jealous.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Here I am, my dear redqueen!

Thought I might as well include me in the picture too!

[motely36]

23. Yay!

Nice handwriting.

And you are pretty nice looking yourself :loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Aw, thanks, sweetie...

That's awfully nice of you...

I look so damn pale without lipstick!

:loveya:

:hug:

[redqueen]

26. I like your messy writing.

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. Thanks, sweetie!

Using the computer hasn't enhanced my handwriting skills, such as they are!


:loveya:

[redqueen]

34. One of my co-workers has the most gorgeous penmanship...

so did an ex.

It's something you really do have to practice. :)

[nomorenomore08]

22. No pics on hand, but let's just say I learned to write cursive back in the second grade,

and my handwriting STILL looks like a second-grader's. :P

[redqueen]

27. Awww...

I know the kind... it's nice and legible! :)

[nomorenomore08]

46. Nah, you're thinking of the kids who learned well and never forgot.

Whereas I had barely adequate handwriting back then, and if anything it's gotten worse with age... :P

[XemaSab]

51. Russian class taught me how to communicate with the people of one of the largest superpowers:

Americans.

Practicing Cyrillic script REALLY helped out my Roman penmanship. :D

[Ptah]

24. OK

[redqueen]

28. Hahahahha...

": shrug :"

:thumbsup:

[crimsonblue]

31. Who handwrites these days?

I rarely do. I do everything on my iphone.

On that note, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8314665&mesg_id=8314665

[redqueen]

35. I do!

I take notes in class... I write notes at work... I also like to write cards and letters. :)

And one thing I know for sure... I do not miss smiley face dots on i's or hearts or any of that. :P

[crimsonblue]

37. Yours may be the last generation that still commonly uses handwriting

(not that I'm saying you're old or anything :P ). Everything is going electronic, and most of the other students at KU use their laptops during class. I got to admit, I much prefer handwritten lecture notes, mainly because I end up goofing off on the computer if I take it to class.

[CreekDog]

103. you can't write anything on an iphone!

that virtual keyboard is a travesty! :rant:

[DarkTirade]

33. Can you see it? Sure. Can you read it? Not so much.

:P

[redqueen]

36. Ah, g'wan.

:)

[DarkTirade]

39. Lighting's bad, but so's the handwriting.

[redqueen]

40. And even in the bad light...

I can make most of that out.

It's got character! :)

[DarkTirade]

54. Character... riiiight.

:P

[LeftyMom]

41. Normally you'd need a warrant for this:

[redqueen]

42. Ooh it's very flowy

and loopy. I like it. :)

[hunter]

45. I have no handwriting. I print like a second grader.

A few weeks ago I had to fill out some legal paperwork in my own hand, DO NOT PRINT, it said, and it was excruciating for both me and the poor clerk who was waiting for me to finish. It was like fifth grade all over again. By the seventh grade all my teachers had given up teaching me handwriting, and I either typed or wrote in my usual chicken scratch with multiple crossed out misfires. As a kid I'd get so mad when my hand or my head got out of synch and wrote down the wrong word that I'd scribble out the offending word until there was a hole in the paper.

In college I always had to bring along extra bluebooks for my exams because my writing is large, especially when I'm in a hurry.

I write school absence notes for my kids and the attendence officers know it's my writing because no high school kid would try to pass off a fake that looked like it was scrawled by their six year old brother.

[redqueen]

49. Aw...

that sucks that you had to write in cursive for the legal paperwork... glad you probably don't have to do it often, though. :hug:

[trackfan]

53. Here it is:

[LeftyFingerPop]

55. Here you go:

[redqueen]

56. I like the mixture of upper- and lower-case letters.

Excellent.

:thumbsup:

[LeftyFingerPop]

57. Yikes! I never noticed that before. n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

58. ok, here's mine

One of my secret shames in life is that I could never really write in cursive and I have a really difficult time reading something written in cursive...don't know why

[redqueen]

73. Ooh a mix of cursive and print, *and* lower- and upper-case.

Love it! :D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

59. Here you go:

[redqueen]

74. It looks kinda Pink Floyd: The Wall.

:thumbsup:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

82. Well, I do have delusions of grandeur.

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

60. Your humb nail looks right pretty now, Ms. Redqueen....

Yep, that's one fine job of paintin' up that old thumb nail...

[redqueen]

75. Thankya...

They're not done up now though. I broke both the middle finger nails so I don't want to draw attention to them at the moment. :P

[Xipe Totec]

61. Too self conscious to write something special, so I picked a sample

At random:

[redqueen]

76. That looks like an ex's writing...

are you by chance left-handed?

[Xipe Totec]

101. Yup!

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

62. Sure

[redqueen]

77. What are you talkin about?

That looks nice.

Interesting pic too. :)

[RevolutionaryActs]

63. I only ever print.

If I did cursive, no one would be able to read it. :P


This turned out blurry. :shrug:

[redqueen]

78. Very nice...

love the ink color! :)

[Orrex]

65. My handwriting

It looks like the desperately scrawled confession of a man who's been tortured for days, until his dominant hand is pulp, so that he has to write with a pencil gripped, mitten-like, in the half-stub that remains of his other hand.

[redqueen]

79. You're no match for Rick...

this I know. It looked like that guy wrote with his foot, swear to God.

[dawgmom]

66. I work with a woman who can mirror write

They say DaVinci could do this also. It is her preferred way to write notes, etc. that she jots to herself -- it's just the way her brain works, I guess. First time I saw it, I was really startled. Seriously, you can hold it up to a mirror, and read it -- it's perfectly legible.

If I think of it tomorrow at work, I'll have her write something and I'll do a scan of it -- if you want.

[Orrex]

68. For god's sake don't touch her!

She's probably made of antimatter! :nuke:

[dawgmom]

72. OK, honeybunch...you're going to need to explain that one

I dun't gettit.

[Orrex]

95. Well, everybody knows that antimatter is the corresponding opposite of matter

Being opposite, it stands to reason that a person composed of antimatter would write backwards, or would at least be able to write backwards with ease.

And it's likewise known, incidentally, that people composed of antimatter are evil, especially if they're the mirror-duplicates of people made of conventional matter.


Watch out!

[dawgmom]

98. Ohhhhh.

I think I overthunk it. Or maybe you did. ;)

BTW, I told her what you said, and she said to tell you that she can stop clocks just by touching them, and once, she made the earth spin backwards on its axis. Would that make her the axis of evil?

[Orrex]

99. Just keep that freak away from me!

At least until I've had time to whip up a magnetic containment device.

[redqueen]

80. Wild...

no need to go to any trouble... but thanks for mentioning that. I've never heard of it before.

[dawgmom]

86. A link

Here's a link to a wikipedia blurb about it.
I find it fascinating, because brain stuff like that is really interesting to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing

[kentauros]

67. Okay, finally got to it

:D

[kentauros]

70. Of course in using Painter, I had to play with my old calligraphy skills

(as I recall) ;)





And then tried to recreate an even older email sigline in calligraphy





:D

[redqueen]

83. Oooh pretty.

Do you still use it? I'd like to learn that and make fancy cards and stuff.

I knew this artist guy whose handwriting was nearly as pretty as calligraphy. Used to love getting cards from him. :)

[kentauros]

87. Thank you :)

Calligraphy is one of those things you have to practice a lot. I haven't had to use it in a very long time, but I can play around with it in Painter. I'll have to see if the program has guidelines to use, too. The graph paper in my first example I downloaded from a site that has free printable graph paper :)

Corel Painter is a wonderful "natural media" program. It started out as "Fractal Painter" and then Corel bought it in recent years.

Here's a detail of a "guache" I started earlier this year (for a story I was working on at the time) though I haven't worked on it in a long while. I'm one of those procrastinators, ya know

[redqueen]

81. Neat!

Does your smiley face have a nose? Or are those combination exclamation points/eyes?

I must know.

[kentauros]

88. I suppose I could put a high-period in there

but it is just the two exclamation points and the smile :)

I'd type that if there was a way

[txwhitedove]

69. Good evening to you.

[redqueen]

84. Cool...

that looks like my big sister's writing! :hi:

You near Houston? Supposed to be 60 there today.

[txwhitedove]

97. North Houston. The magical snow had disappeared by morning.

By afternoon it was so sunny you could almost sunbathe.

[PfcHammer]

71. Sure, Wendy

:rofl:

[redqueen]

85. Wow you write just like a typewriter.

[Arugula Latte]

89. You seem like a well-adjusted individual.

I'm sure you'll never snap. Noooo, never.


:rofl:

[tigereye]

90. you should see my notes when I'm doing a work interview...

horrible. I had to start typing em on the computer instead, since I write so fast I can't read em! So that might tell you...

[redqueen]

93. Glad you have a work-around...

I used to take shorthand dictation... so I know what you mean.

[billyskank]

91. Here is mine.

The words are not mine, it is from when somebody else posted a similar thread; I copied the text from their original post.

[redqueen]

92. Very nice!

I think the vast majority of us get messy after a paragraph or two. :hi:

[CreekDog]

105. i wish i had that font

that rocks! :yourock:

[KansDem]

94. Here's mine...

Aren't scanners neat! :D

[redqueen]

96. Very pretty...

and yes they are. :)

[Chan790]

100. My abysmal penmanship.

You'll note something odd...I rarely make the same letter identical twice. It's hell on signatures.

[CreekDog]

104. LOL

were you raised by wolves? :rofl: