Hi! Here are some templates that will help you to create cursive letters step by step.
Cursive writing was created to help children develop better handwriting and make writing easier. Its purpose is to loosen the hand and make strokes more fluid.
The very first step is to loosen your hand and get used to the fact that the strokes should be connected. It’s also extremely important to warm up your hand; you’ll find that this makes writing much easier. Here’s a template with basic exercises to warm up your hand.
The first thing we need to do is familiarize ourselves with the letters we’re going to be writing. As you can see in the image, there are strokes that go up and down in each letter; letters are made up of strokes.
While in lettering, these strokes are separated; in cursive writing, the strokes should all be continuous. But don’t worry, since we’re just starting out, we can do them separately.
Remember, the idea behind cursive writing is to loosen up your hand to improve your calligraphy, so let’s take it one step at a time.
The next step is to try making the strokes in one continuous line. The arrows will guide you on how to make each stroke.
In this image, try to copy the stroke that’s already been made and make the letter as similar as possible to the original.
Don’t worry, we’re just copying right now; you shouldn’t do this on a blank sheet of paper.
Now do it without cheating! This exercise is much easier because you already know which strokes go up and down, and you just have to follow the dotted line.
The difficult part here is doing it all in one continuous stroke. Do you think you can do it? Try as many times as necessary until you can make the line in a single stroke.
Now that you’ve practiced copying the strokes, you’ll see it’s much easier to do them from scratch. However, we need to train our hand, so you should practice upward strokes. This stroke is fundamental in cursive writing; many letters use it, so practice until you perfect it.
The next most common stroke in cursive is the semicircle; this is much simpler than the previous one, as we only need to draw a circle without closing it.
With just those two strokes, you’re already capable of writing almost the entire alphabet. Try writing the following letters; this time, don’t cheat, write them on a separate sheet of white paper so you can keep improving.
The letters I asked you to do a moment ago are the most difficult, and you’ve already done them, so now we just need to do the easy ones. On this sheet, I’m showing you how the lowercase and uppercase letters should look, but with very minimal help. Remember that on November 12th, we’ll have a class on how to write cursive letters, and I’ll teach you the tricks from scratch so we can improve together. Don’t worry.
All that remains now is to practice; here are some words for you to practice your strokes.
Remember that in the PAPER FISH course, we’ll see how to make cursive letters. That post will be saved on Instagram so you can see it as many times as you need, and if you have any questions, just let me know through any of the paper fish’s platforms.