How your handwriting is the key to drawing better

Go write your alphabet!
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[@Charles_Bro-son]

This advice can be misleading for beginners. Usually we write with the fingers and the wrist. While it is much better to draw with the arm or even the shoulder. Linework usually is much more flowing and crisper that way. The challenge is to achieve the precision necessary to place the line where you want it to be. Drawing lines from the wrist or fingers usually means to have more of that precision feel, however they come out scratchy and less flowing.

[@ModernDayJames]

Hell yeah! Time to go write the bee movie script by hand

[@Starstruck8970]

When you have bad handwriting:

[@teddy_bearsoup6045]

The worst my handwriting got, the better my art became 💀💀💀

[@penselnel]

I got a good tip from Drawfee about this. Draw too much rather than too little. It's easier to connect the lines by going a little too far and then erasing the excess, than drawing too short and having to draw a tiny stroke to make up for it. It's okay to take space. Be bold!

[@alonachiong666]

The funny thing about me is that my drawing are readable while my writing isn't

[@nickdoesart8489]

I am an academic artist, I work both digitaly and traditionaly and I consider myself to have a very bad and inconsistent writing. I think those are just 2 separete things in my mind, to me writing is monotonous and mandatory task, where as drawing is creative and has to be inconsistent to portray the organic nature of a subject. But I think it's the result of me being able to transform my disadvantage into a positive result.

[@Jake28]

Personally I don't buy this, since my handwriting is god awful but my drawings are (allegedly) pretty good. I get the idea, but honestly I don't think they're connected at all.

[@-._.CrayonEater._.-]

My handwriting is awful, and I can draw realistic animals-

[@I0IRosellaI0I]

Looks at handwriting a bunch a scribbles , looks at art a bunch of scribbles. I think i see a correlation here

[@laz_kwn]

This can actually differ for people growing up writing in different languages. Some languages have only curved lines whereas some have more corners and are nuanced. The English alphabets can be broken down into simple lines and curves but some languages have letter that are written in one go/ without breaking them down.

[@CherryGryffon]

This might be true for some people, but there are also many studies that say "sloppy" or "thoughtless" handwriting is actually the result of the inverse. As in, your brain is working faster than your hand can, so the crisp words are lost in the attempt to just get the words down before they're gone from your head.

[@snoot6629]

Draftsman here , we use capital letters not because of that CSI shindig , we use it because its clear and easy to read compared to using both lower and uppercase

[@sashaarin]

I've been struggling with a bit of art block of the "didn't draw enough for a while and kinda forgot how to" variety lately, and I think this video put a crack in the wall for me. I naturally gravitate towards sketchy/scratchy art, and this is really good advice for balancing that preference with readability. Using only (or primarily) a few different types of lines forces you to be more intentional and think about the structure of the thing you're drawing beforehand, and reminders with a "fresh" (to some) approach like this are really helpful for people like me who tend to be overly eager to "see" the final product in a sketch haha. Thank you!

[@demirtopaktas3596]

I think unreadable handwriting does not mean that you wont have good art. Unreadable handwriting contains variety of characters where each character can feel different in shape(thats right it is uncertain but maybe uncertainty has some art value in itself as well). Drawing should also have variety you do not have to draw same rectangle always sometimes just bend shapes as you like :)

[@qrbitsart]

After reading the comments for a few weeks, I think I should clarify something... My handwriting was crap for the majority of my life, I would constantly get nagged over it. I would write wobbly and messy lines, and my drawings looked about the same. After learning how to draw with proper draftsmanship, my handwriting naturally became better along with my drawings. They are the same concepts, I just say draw like you write because it's easier for most ppl to understand the concept of creating letters than say, a complex form.

[@AizenMikoto]

This is really interesting. I've had the same idea for a long time.

[@DoktrDub]

It doesn’t quite equate the same way, not tooting my own horn by I’m a pretty experienced and competent comic artist, but my handwriting leaves a lot to be desired, I write for functionality, I’m making sure people can read it, but it’s not super fancy calligraphy or anything whatsoever, in fact, everybody says it’s bad even though they can understand it perfectly, and it always has been bad, the way we draw and write are typically different in how we do it, if I started drawing how I write… I will become terrible at it in comparison lol, albiet I do see that this will be one of a handful of ways to improve your linework, I just do it through art practice specifically.

[@ferranocana8658]

I finished college in May, then I started an online art course and now I've started 2D and 3D animation studies. My handwriting has improved a lot since May, after learning to draw shapes, lines and sketching, I've passed from having a very straight calligraphy to a more curvy, conected and stylish handwriting. I also think the way you write influences how you draw.

[@arioctober]

This supports my theory that hand lettering is a really good entry level art form... Because as long as you know how to write you can learn to hand letter. Learning to hand letter will give you the fundamental skills you're talking about here.