If someone asks me about drawing ability I usually ask them how good their handwriting is. The way I see it, if you can write with a pen or pencil then you can certainly draw. Funny thing is, I draw better than I can write; most of my writing looks like a fowl clawed at it. I'm still amazed that my boss can read my reports at all. =/

Well lets just say this....in school I was told to rewrite a whole report because the teacher couldn't read my handwriting. >_> And no, it hasn't changed much since then...because I type more than I write these days I guess. So yeah, I PRAY that my art is better than my handwriting. ^_^;

It is also why I tend to write my initials on my art in a way similar to how Zorro slashes his "Z" mark, heh.

Ehe, he...
I suck at both.

Well, my handwriting pretty much sucks...atleast that's what most of my English Teachers have said. I've started to try to actually switch my writing style....writing predominantly with capital letters, but switching sizes to distinguish between what should be lower case and what should be Capital. By writting with capitals only..I can keep people from confusing my o's and a's for u's....which happened often.
But generally I tend to type things out...unless writing by hand is absolutely necessary.
Also...my text usually ends up curving as I write...I can never keep it straight. ._. Really hope my art is better than my writing. ^^;

I don't really think handwriting will be a good indicator of drawing ability. Well, for me anyway. The way I write, I mostly use my fingers to guide the pen, ending up with tiny cursive. However, when it comes to drawing, I mainly use my wrist and arm. That's why I can kind of draw left handed, but absolutely cannot write with my south paw.

My handwriting sucks like a sucky thing - I write so fast that w and r sometimes blur into the same letter, it's hard to tell the difference between u and a, and between n and u, and it's just generally a scribbly mess - but I'm a pretty good artist.

I also hold the pen wrong - at least according to every teacher I've ever had. You're apparently supposed to hold it with your thumb, index finger and middle finger, and then use your ring finger and little finger to guide it or something - I never really paid attention, since I rest the pen on my ring finger and hold it steady with my thumb, and don't really use the other fingers. It looks downright silly, but it works, even if I've developed a crooked ring finger because of it. :P

Writing and drawing are different. Spend a lot of time writing and practicing writing and you get better, much like drawing.

Lonnehart
Does your handwriting say something about your drawing ability?

Answer is no. I've seen people draw really good but their handwriting is really horrible. I've also seen people who have excellent writing style but draws unskillfully.

As for me, my writing is probably slightly below average.

Eunice P
Answer is no. I've seen people draw really good but their handwriting is really horrible. I've also seen people who have excellent writing style but draws unskillfully.

Erm well, then that goes to say people with horrible handwriting can draw better on average. So it might have something to say about it! :)


My handwriting is harbl, but my drawing and painting are pretty skillful.

Everybody, no matter how enormous their ego is, thinks their hand writing sucks. You could go and ask the best writer in the universe what he thinks of his own hand writing and he'll tell you it's shit.

I failed my GCSE English because of my hand writing.

I can't draw either.

...For years I got told off for my poor handwriting -_-
On the bright side, I was allowed to start cursive script before the other kids, because it was more readable than my printing...
Same thing happened when I switched from pencil to pen lol!

Maybe Mecha is right in her theory though? I've seen at least one artist who could draw ok as well as write neatly, so the bad handwriting-good art thing isn't 100%.
Maybe a couple more...
...although NONE of them do much art now.
hmm -_-

Skullbie
Erm well, then that goes to say people with horrible handwriting can draw better on average. So it might have something to say about it! :)

Not necessary true. I've also seen plenty of people who draw really good and have really good handwriting too. With enough practice, you can actually improve your handwriting. I had been doing a LOT of writing throughout my childhood and high school days because the education system in my schools focused more on handwriting than typing a report. However, I never get to learn much cursive writing, so I suppose my handwriting isn't so bad. Here's a sample of my handwritten work:

I don't think my handwriting is that bad... I mean, it's really legible, and it's hybrid cursive-print. And not to sound snobby, but my drawing isn't horrid either

This might be because my latin teacher made this huge fuss about my u's and v's looking alike even though when you read a word, it's kind of hard to mistake u's for v's

equus cannot be confused for eqvvs.

virus cannot be confused for uirvs.

And I found out later that the romans used the same V for both of them anyway.

Uh, in short: handwriting skill not telling of drawing skill, imo.

My handwriting is pretty bad, but I do not think it reflects on my art. Heh, I've had friends with terrible hand writing who are great artists... so, I don't think my handwriting says something about my drawing ability.


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But, hey, I could be wrong.

My normal writing is about the same as when most people try to write with their left hand half-asleep, but I can draw okay.

My handwriting is very legible (a print-script hybrid... I don't know how to write in script), but the lines don't look very elegant. It looks like a 7 year old's handwriting.

I think it corresponds with my art. My art hits the basic technical points, but is missing that natural elegance...?

I hand-wrote the lettering for my comics for 20 years, but that's not my normal handwriting style. I prefer a combination of script and cursive. Most people complained my handwriting was a lowpoint in the early books of Due East, but most people like the art. I think that's normal. I handwrite a lot of my notes for the comics and then transcribe them to Google Documents. That keeps them legible and saves them online so I can check them from any computer with an internet connection.

I think ultimately it doesn't matter... lol!

I suppose it does for me a little bit, but I don't think handwriting always correlates to artistic ability. I know of several people very good at art who have horrible handwriting habits. Some people just don't care when it comes to handwriting.

My handwriting is messy so i perfer a keyboard for long peices like storys and essys.

But my drawing skill is good when i want it to be good.

Mrm...
My handwriting was a mess from the start. I never managed to accept the idea of holding the back of a pen towards myself. They tried and tried to get me to hold it the right way, even putting plastic caddies on my pencils so I'd hold them properly when writing. To this day, I still handwrite with the end of the writing utensil facing away at a forty five degree angle, give or take. The 'correct' only hurts my fingers and slows me down.

Art-wise, I got stunted back in high school with a complete bitch for an art teacher over the course of 4 years. No matter what, she was always in my class. She hated the living hell out of me. I wanted to expand into cartooning and go onto Joe Kubert's school. She was only interested in classical art and art history. Many comments were made that I couldn't go anywhere with what I was doing or that everything I did was 'wrong'. Year after year of this, I was forced to endure.

Finally in my senior year, we were developing art for the district's creative works magazine. I was determined to put forth a truly impressive work in my style, so I spent nearly all night working on a hyper detailed and eye catching piece. It featured a peaceful Eden-like tropical fantasy scene of friends enjoying a picnic atop a small boulder surrounded by lush individually drawn grasses, plants, and otherworldly fauna. It was for all purposes perfect, years better than anything I could do at that time. I went to school with 3 hours of sleep.

When I showed the work off, the entire class was impressed. I figured my submission was a shoo-in to make one of the many spots in the magazine. Time passed and the magazine came out.

My work wasn't in there. Instead, they took a fellow classmate's one dimensional scribble of a potato chipped headed man leering his tongue out. I don't need to mention how fitting the metaphor of the insult was to me, given my art teacher chose the submission. Now, that classmate was a good artist, but the scribble was done like a five year old drew it. She simply didn't care about the project and did it so she had something to hand in. That's what qualified. I gave up any interest in bothering to please others with technical skill then and there. To this day, I tell people I'm not an artist, 'I just draw'.