Handwriting Tips

Always a fun page to do for Sketchbook Design Class. This year I’m keeping things simple and using only different widths of pen for headings. I have been opting for fast over style lately. As ever, I always use my own cursive for the majority of my text, as it is very easy and very fast for me.

I got curious when I did this page to see what I had done in previous runs for this class.

This one is from January 2021, when the sketchbook design class premiered. It was a revelation the first time I took it, and it improved the overall look of my sketchbooks a hundredfold!

August 2021 was my second run of the class, and I consider the pages I was making then the best of my work. I aim to get back to the skills I had then! I have always loved this page spread so very much. Especially those sunflowers! August is sunflower month, and I enjoyed capturing that, and the fresh cut flowers I had when I did this spread.

Then in January 2023, for class I did this spread. I like it, too.

Now I’m taking my fourth run through this course to reinvigorate my sketchbook design skills and practice. Looking back through these older versions of the same assignment certainly does inspire me.