Ballpoint Pen Calligraphy

Calligraphy with a ballpoint pen is not considered art, but mastering its foundations allows you to develop a beautiful, neat handwriting. You can learn to write in calligraphic handwriting yourself. To do this, it is enough to regularly perform the necessary exercises and follow certain rules.

Experienced calligraphers do not recognize a ballpoint pen suitable for this type of art. Nevertheless, calligraphy with a ballpoint pen has recently been widely used. This technique often creates invitation cards, cards, notebooks or photo albums are issued. Similar activities will also help you learn to write in beautiful, calligraphic handwriting.

It happens that a person does not like the way he writes or parents are unhappy with the writing of their child. This is easy to fix on your own. The process will not require much time, and the result will be noticeable after just a few days of training.

To change your style, you need to have patience and perseverance. This is not about the fact that it will take a lot of time, but about the fact that the exercises themselves require painstaking, monotonous work, unhurriedness, which not everyone is capable of. First of all, you need to determine how free hand movements are when writing. To do this, look at the following features:

• the presence of letter decorations (all kinds of curls, underscores, and the like);
• letter and line spacing
• styling strokes.

If the hand is too tense during writing, the letters will be of different sizes, angular, the distance between them will also be uneven, and the hand will get tired quickly enough. To make the handwritten text look beautiful and elegant, the letters should be even, rounded, smooth, the intervals should be the same. To do this, try to work not only with the brush and fingers, but with the whole hand, including the shoulder.

Gymnastics for hands is the first and very important stage. The memorable from childhood “we wrote, we wrote, our fingers are tired” will allow us to stretch our fingers. Do not forget about the whole hand, wrist, shoulder.

After the hands are “put on alert,” you can proceed directly to the exercises.

• For beginners, regular school prescriptions are good. The letters presented there should not only be mechanically copied. They are divided into separate components in order to make it easier to understand which of the elements cause the greatest difficulties for writing, and to pay special attention to them.
• Letters should be written out smoothly, without rushing, achieving the most accurate reproduction. Without going over to words, and even more so to whole sentences, you must first learn how to write the alphabet beautifully, pay attention to uppercase letters.
• As soon as the reproduction of letters at a low speed starts to work out, you need to increase the pace of writing - this will achieve automatism in the movements. The person engaged in writing does not think about how he writes and what actions he performs. In order for the new handwriting to take root, acquired skills must be honed to the same level.
• Performing exercises, you need to monitor the size of the letters (it should be the same), their slope, the endings of words (which strive to “move” up or down), the distance between words, and also punctuation marks. They will also need to learn how to display in a new way.
• During training, you can use a regular ballpoint pen, gel or pen, you can take a simple pencil - to whom you like more. Tools are selected independently based on personal preferences.

To make your handwriting beautiful, you need to follow certain rules:

• proper fit: the back is straight, hands (with the exception of the elbows) lie on the table, the head is slightly tilted forward, so that between the eyes and the paper is at least 30 cm;
• the handle should be held with three fingers no closer (and no further) than one and a half centimeters to the rod;
• regular workouts: 10-30 minutes every day;
• repeat exercises slowly, without rushing.

Despite total computerization, the demand for calligraphic hand-written inscriptions is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, growing. Perhaps the fact is that the Russian language "lives" only in handwritten texts that convey its soul? Maybe. One way or another, the art of calligraphy not only does not lose ground, but also conquers more and more fans who are ready to learn to write again, if only to master this ancient technique.

See the following video for basic calligraphy exercises.