CJ's Roundhand Inspiration

The idea of writing in Roundhand, much less making a version of my own, took years to be realized. So there's more than me just talking about it, I'm also taking dip pen and ink to paper to write in the manner of probably the most influential of my influences.
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[@user-hm4ns7jw4i]

My eyes have been blessed by seeing this writing

[@sparkijonas]

Why this handwriting is so addictive?

[@InbredSpanishKing]

This is probably a rhetorical question, but I think it can be a form of art/creativity

[@sirlenetelesdeamorim7615]

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[@patriciajrs46]

​@@InbredSpanishKingProbably.

[@dsjk209]

​@@InbredSpanishKingdefinately rhetorical, hopefully your username is purely satire too...

[@nadyaomar9155]

OMG.....YOUR HANDWriting IS INCRDIBLE

[@shubhamsaurya1947]

Your Handwriting(Cursive) is excellent.

[@lh3540]

this is highly relatable content for anyone over 40. It's true about the girl writing, it was always less angled, more squat and loopy, and probably in gel pen. The boys would right at a horizontal angle, as light as possible, and it was totally illegible.

[@jassidhunne6192]

❤❤❤❤love this writing

[@zanazanelol]

Can you please do a Udemy course on your handwriting? I would buy in a heartbeat!

[@ashokabd6947]

🎉

[@ashokabd6947]

À

[@singlegamer3739]

Best writing

[@FireStar-gz2ry]

C.J, i hope you are in fact either a History or English teacher because of this impeccable handwriting ❤

[@pattylee233]

Just beautiful!!!!!!

[@arjunreddy2686]

Insane..how is this humanly possible

[@warblerab2955]

That handwriting is amazing!

[@oraange]

insane handwriting!!!

[@paulcarlachapman628]

Lovely, lovely work! I am impressed. I was taught cursive in the Second Grade (1957) and have used it all my life. My handwriting is nice, but nothing so beautiful as this!

[@realcombat3644]

Beautiful letter

[@TheStressD]

Beautiful handwritting

[@junggook876]

It's amazing how you can write in one line

[@Jeff42z]

That’s amazing.

[@user-fz7ms9ds6y]

Love that your writing the declaration of inepenencew

[@watteau6646]

That's some nice copperplate script you got there! I use an angle-dip pen to get those shadings, too!

[@Pur9leRain]

So glad you told me about that whole speed saga. Here in Britain, teaching cursive in schools is not as big/important as in US or South Asia (etc) - at least it wasn’t in the 90’s. I always wrote in print then as I got older, I got jealous of that “grown up squiggly writing” and tried to emulate it. And now I have a mix of joined letters and block letters but it’s not cursive or any recognised system of handwriting. It’s really narrow, with angles, and straight. As soon as I even try to slant it, I forget how to even spell! I reallllllly want to learn cursive- my favourite is copperplate (or a combination of copperplate and American roundhand, which I saw on instagram with no instructions). I have no idea why I’m even waffling so much!

[@lh3540]

Cursive is no longer taught in American public schools. It was outright banned in some districts, where kids got sent home with notes saying they'd lose homework credit for using it. Most people under 30 can't read it.

[@aettic]

Much like you described, I learned cursive almost exclusively in 5th grade (10 years old, here in the States). I don't believe we continued after that, and I can't remember if we did any before that, though I was shipped around from school to school for all of my elementary years. I always wanted to learn to write like my grandma could, because her handwriting was fantastic. And as I got older and sunk deeper into printing, my handwriting steadily became more legible (and perhaps less boyish as I forced more rounded letters and modified some aspects like removing tails of n and u, etc. but it remained fairly cramped. When I'd write letters to my grandparents, my grandma would always comment about how near my handwriting was getting (though I think she was just being kind). I've been practicing cursive (in an upright style and a forward slant style) and developing my own characteristics of how I form the letters for about 2 - 3 years now. Slowly but surely my legibility and speed are increasing, as is my confidence. I'm a part of a small fountain pen community, and we recently did a secret santa gift exchange, where I received some French stationary (in B5 size, very soft and smooth leaf), envelopes, and a wax seal with beautiful dark red ink. I had also bought myself some Diamine Ox Blood fountain pen ink a while back, so I put these together and wrote my grandparents a thank you letter for their Christmas gift, which should have arrived by now. I wanted to show them where I'm at with cursive so far, since my grandma always took handwriting pretty seriously, and I'd like to as well. She's approaching 90, and in the last few years her handwriting has wavered a bit, but she still writes in cursive, and it's still more impressive than mine.

[@luisocampoaltamirano2890]

Very amazing writing I learned a lot from your videos, I still have too much to practice. I like you style.

[@midshipman8654]

This is some beautiful stuff, and I appreciate your story behind your journey too.

[@manimathi6512]

Perfect handwriting dued ❤❤❤❤❤

[@learning2014]

Sir I Realy Like Ur Handwriting Style...You doing doing Amazingly I Wish I Could Do The Same or Learning From u.. best Wishes For U From Pakistan

[@albasimsang7156]

Nice

[@user-mt3pw9id4o]

So satisfying

[@lk_calligraphy_]

Can you please guide me i also want to write like you. Your writing is amazing. I also love calligraphy and I want to learn it properly

[@guapahermosa7957]

Wow very impressive!

[@FilayFilarya]

Wow I hope I can achieve this style of handwriting

[@oneitalia2312]

The power of the Internet! Why haven't I came across you before? Loved the inside look at your beautiful Engrosser Script. Thank you! (Never heard of that term). You mentioned as a school-aged child, you were "fascinated" by the handwriting of the Declaration of Independence. When I heard that, I immediately smiled. It was the way you said it. I, too, am fascinated by such style of writing. I've found myself nearly examining other peoples' writing if it's beautiful or unique. (My sister-in-law has thee most beautiful script, even her grocery list looks flawless, it's her style shat she doesn't even have to think about when placing pen to paper.) My own writing, not so much. Like you, I print nicely, but it's a "whole thing" if I write to someone. I make a really big deal out of writing someone a note, for instance, a Thank You note for the mail. I have hundreds of different styles of stationary (I love paper!) How do you write your lovely hand in a straight line??? I was fascinated by that also. When I print a note, I put my unlined stationary on top of a lined paper (the kind used by first graders when beginning to write) and making sure it's longer on both margins, I line up a long, thin ruler to the lines on both sides. When I begin to print, I make sure my pen (Bic Round Tip) touches the top of the ruler on each down-stroke. Yeah, it's a "whole thing!) But the end-result is a beautiful, lovely note filled with love and thanksgiving for someone. I love the art of writing, I'm glad I found your page, as with others. This is the only video I've seen of yours so I will investigate further :-) A few things: I would like to see your Engrosser without fast motion. I want to get the motion in real time. Also, your lighting is casting a shadow while you're writing and when your hand is moving, it's a distraction. That shadow is moving, too. I thought your camera was too far away from the Pen's nib - I would like to zero-in on the pen's movement and each letter's formation. I notice the word "Happinefs".....wonder why it's capitalized, and, I know the English pronounce some words differently. Their 'th' sounds are the 'f' sound ... I'm trying to think of an example now but my mind escapes me. All in all, I love the Art of the Pen and Paper - so sorry to ramble on here but I, too, am fascinated! THANK YOU! ♡♡♡

[@CJCS]

The trick of being able to write straight(-ish) on unlined paper is to use guides. For the first line, you write it relative to the top of the sheet. After that, you use the line above the one you are writing as your guide. When/if you veer up or down, correct that as much as you can on the line you're writing, and then make a full correction on the line below. As with writing legibly, it's mostly about paying attention. The less than cutting edge camera work is due to a couple of factors: very little working space; aged equipment; and the fact that I'm old and more adept at writing than in the craft of filming. It's not the media language I grew up or worked with directly (closest was my years as a screenwriter). I could probably use a mentor forty years or so my junior. While I"ve improved on the equipment end, the other two are still massive shortcomings. C'est la vie. The choices for capitalization in colonial-era documents is always curious. For emphasis, of course, but sometimes it's just for style or even a whim. I think it adds personality.

[@talideon]

That 'f' isn't an 'f' and has nothing to do with the fact that _some_ English people (mainly in the South) pronounce 'th' as 'f'. It's actually what's called a 'long s'. If you did Calculus, you'll recognise is as the 'integration symbol', but actually stands for 'sum (of the area's under the curve)'. The 'long s' was typically used when you had a double-s to aid legibility. A form of it is still used in German as part of the 'eszett': ß - if you squint, you can see it consists of a long-s without the descending tail, with the ascender joining to the top of a following 's'.

[@oneitalia2312]

@@talideon Thank you for taking the time to write a few lines to me.....do you have a website to follow??? Thank you again and Happy Easter!

[@douglaseiker2103]

Can you explain a little how you learned to write this way and what tools are best? I have found resources on quill cutting and have cut some fine pointed quills that have been writing nicely,. I would love to learn to write this engrossers script but don’t know where to start. Can you recommend any sources?

[@j.ptomba2542]

Well done! Do you have a link to where to get the paper you used?

[@aliciadanowski245]

CJ, This is my favorite writing, it always has been. I try to write this way and it is very difficult for me, looks nothing like it.

[@maurolimaok]

An amazing video! That's my objective quality in writing!

[@stevedodson1130]

Beautiful writing. Do you know of any books that have a collection of famous people’s handwriting, correspondence or letters? My goal is to improve my handwriting.

[@MattManProductions]

I used to be great at calligraphy, but I don't have the patience anymore. But if I write in cursive I can do pretty good still

[@user-em1ij5yd5g]

My handwriting is very close to this one, always had a hand for calligraphy

[@timothyruybalid785]

When would I lift the pen when I'm writing in roundhand?

[@shengyanmariatan7316]

May I ask which website is your Roundhand from? i want to learn too

[@samyohanglimbu69]

whats the name of background music? its so good

[@user-pb7gs5sn5c]

Starting from scratch as a person with pretty bad handwriting, how would I go about learning how to write similar to this? I need to do some hand exercises for Parkinson's. Thank you for any advice!

[@shubhamsaurya1947]

👍

[@HZeshka]

Funny how I was taught to write cursive for Ukrainian and print writing for English in school. Though Cyrillic cursive always felt awful and English cursive always appealed to me, and now I am mostly write cursive for latin letters and a Frankenstein the hell out of my Cyrillic handwriting.

[@YourAashique]

Please teach us all styles of writing scripts.

[@JacquesRenaitre]

Stop flexing and tell me how this is achieved !

[@umeshvijay4881]

hy man which is the best fountain pen for writing ... under 12$

[@ProximaCentauri88]

Pilot Prera with a CM (calligraphy medium or italic) nib if you want line variation. If you want swells in downstrokes, go for dipping nibs like Zebra G, Leonardt EF, Gillot 303 or Nikko G.

[@truck4selite]

Best pen to learn with?

[@mara_yuna]

I would never stop writing if my handwriting looked like this

[@judiellal9794]

I've always wanted to write like that. I never had cursive writing instructions (also growing up in the 60s and 70s). In grade school, the teacher would write on my progress report that my printing was heavy and dark. Literally. I watched how my mom wrote and tried to emulate it, but my lack of patience won out. I ended up writing in a "style" that after the first sentence, degraded to almost illegible for other people. Ugh...

[@GARDONITE]

Can you tell me your font name? i really want to learn ithis!!

[@maheshchapdi8337]

Sir I also want to learn your handwriting So please make a video on your handwriting

[@Ivl51]

👍🏻

[@yolz_ee]

writing is my hobby so i dont mind doing this everyday

[@SirMikeyD]

When in the course of watching KZbin it becomes necessary for one person to become “that guy” (as the Laws of Murphy and of Nature mandate), a decent respect for the rules of orthography requires that they should declare the causes which … empel … uh, whoops …

[@johndoe7412]

Underrated comment.

[@mahishah2150]

Azming,💟👍

[@marwar819]

I don't like slanted handwriting. I'm always practicing making letter more vertical.

[@user-om3bd2gg3n]

Puraa page show karo sir please

[@rprp3963]

Can you teach us how to write like your handwriting

[@stefflus08]

It's like hearing my own thoughts on the childish loops and squiggles we were thought at school, and for me that was in 1990s Norway. They did not flow.

[@user-bu9su2xt6x]

Broooo.. im so nervous

[@N-calligrap]

✔✔✔👍

[@projeshsarkar8989]

What pen

[@l.a5874]

fountain pen

[@warblerab2955]

What is the paper used here?

[@Garou669]

Alluminium sheet

[@Panneapple]

Back when I was a kid, we were supposed to write all of our classwork in cursive, with a style very similar to Copperplate, and we had to follow the letter shapes/sizes we had been taught (I suppose it was so that the teacher wouldn't have to try and decypher 25 children's variation of the same letter) and I remember at the very end of primary school, I started to switch to script and my teacher (whom I liked and who was just trying to give me advice) then confronted me about it. She wasn't trying to tell me I couldn't use script, but she did try to make a case against it, saying that using script would be much slower than cursive. In retrospect, I think she assumed I would be able to write the cursive letters faster since they're all linked together, but I was always under the impression that, if I had to write in cursive, I needed to make the letters nice and round and loopy and I also thought I had to write ALL of the cursive capital letters as well. As a result I wrote very, VERY slowly. You would think that, as a slow writer, my handwriting would be nice and legible but you would be wrong: since I took my time drawing the loops, with an unsteady hand, all of my loops were very irregular, very wobbly, and it was hard to read cursive even though the letter shapes were decent enough. Meanwhile, with script, my letters were mostly straight and I didn't have to waste time trying to get loops right, so it was much faster and convenient to me. Nowadays, after switching to a cursive-script hybrid for my highschool and uni student days, I'm back to teaching myself cursive. I guess part of the problem was that, as a child, I didn't fully understand how exactly cursive and script were related, so I ended up overexaggerating the loops without realizing that the "bone" of the letter is in the script. Now that I have more experience dabbling in various handwriting types, my cursive looks much better and it's fairly fast, although my loops still look a little wobbly if I'm careless.

[@ashutoshkumarpati6875]

Why don't you upload a video about how to start doing calligraphy

[@CJCS]

Interesting idea. I'll need to do a little research on materials availability, but I'll definitely add it to my list. Thanks.

[@ashutoshkumarpati6875]

CJ's Creative Studio yeah sure... What you do is really impressive

[@sexyiguana358]

@@CJCS could you please tell me the nib, ink and holder? My ink tends to run out very quickly. I can't get the sentences like you get.

[@misbahulhaqlabeed7077]

Wow I am feeling so stressed about your experience 😔😔😔😔😊😊😊

[@mosesmosespaul6607]

Dear sir Good.God Bless you.{A.Richard Paul Chaudary.Preacher Poet.Indian.

[@SayyedSaifHussain]

Humble Request please teach us .... Plzzzzz..... Plzzzzzzz

[@Maheshsatheiitbombay]

Please writing notes pdf

[@ColumbusVI]

And then all the boys became doctors and that’s why we have doctor writing.

[@haadislays3138]

The last comment was one month ago

[@ELVENGADOR88]

RIP AUGUST NEVILLE PALMER

[@justanaverageweeb562]

hes dead? the creator? T_T

[@rstroop3740]

You write in a cool style But its very hard to learn can you give me some tips BTW love your channel❤

[@CJCS]

More videos are coming.

[@spuzzgekk]

It’s called Engrosser’s script I believe and there a lot of places on KZbin where you can learn it :)

[@hayleygun]

Love your work CJ, but this technique and style of writing does in fact fall under the descriptions of cursive.

[@tombagley5065]

Not strictly true. Whilst 'cursive' refers to most 'joined' writing with a slant, the example in the video is actually more akin to copperplate script which derives from English Roundhand. The script used here is extremely close to that used to draft the actual Declaration of Independence, which would have reflected common use of Roundhand in drafting of legal and official documents, which was the main font of choice throughout the 18th Century in England and through the English colonies. 'Cursive' script actually derives from American 'business' script which became common use in America (perhaps less so in England) from the more flourished Spencerian Script through the mid to late 19th Century onwards to today :) - Either way, this is a great video!

[@gargpawan]

please upload this page in pdf format

[@CJCS]

I don't think I have it any more. I write so many like this that I tend to toss them pretty quickly.

[@lillyyhh]

@@CJCS goodness if I had handwriting like that I'd frame it

[@Coinkeeper83]

Would love to get a copy of this and detailed lesson.

[@projeshsarkar8989]

A pen making do🙂

[@httunga5]

You don't write by your finger, is you?

[@richardtuveson8428]

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[@CalliWriting]

really verry good video,, but sir can u please share my video sir

[@CarlosHernandez-pz1lt]

how is this possible lol

[@87jello]

But at that slow pace of writing letters, to me, it's so slow that it's now another form of drawing rather than penmanship. I think this is a beautiful writing, but I'm turned off by how slow and methodic this is. I prefer handwriting to be much more free, light, and organic but still maintain beautiful forms.

[@speedyspin]

cursive is faster than print script.... and it's legible , yeah if you don't mastered obviously it will look like crap. but if you learn cursive when you should..... you can write faster and beautiful.

[@patriciajrs46]

I think women write with flash and flare because of our romantic sensibilities. Men usually don't like to write.

[@joanntaylor4536]

The straight attempt selectively bore because antarctica currently observe from a bloody chill. anxious, dynamic blizzard

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Cursive is way faster than printing, you allowed yourself to become sloppy which is why your writing became illegible. With proper technique and discipline it is possible to write both quickly and legibly in a cursive style. My grandfather could write write beautiful english roundhand almost as fast as I can write simple cursive, it is just down to practice and having standards.

[@nelg70]

" We hold these truths to be felf evident"? You should slow down. 🤐

[@Potacintvervs]

That's the long s, which looks like an f without a dash. It's a holdover from the Germanic roots of English, which was abandoned in later years. You can still see the long s in the German "ß" or "double s" which is actually a long s attached to the top of a regular s. Like "ſs". You use it at the beginning of a word or in a double s, in a word like 'sinfulness', written as "ſinfulneſs".

[@parthvaghela123]

Nice

[@deswitacantika7929]

Nice