Why am I so bad at handwriting and art

Alright, rant time again Crowd erupts into applause sooooooo, this is kind of a two sided thing here because, I have the worst handwriting and drawing “skills” known to planet Earth, I literally couldn’t draw anything to save my life. I literally get carpal-tunnel everytime I handwrite and I despise it so, so much. My drawing is so bad they show it to detainees at CIA blacksites as a torture method and my handwriting is so terrible that I literally do not possess the vocabulary in any language to describe how utterly horrible it is. Anybody else feel like this? I see so much art on the forums and go to myself “That’s not possible” and I see other people’s handwriting and I just feel useless at everything, I can’t read it on my own, everytime I see somebody read mine it looks like they’re translating hieroglyphics it’s that bad. Anybody else feel that way on the forums? Advice is also appreciated :blush:

This is Russian cursive

I doubt you can be on pair with that

9 year olds have better handwriting than me

Don’t have much in the way of advice other than to practice, but if you’re looking to create art and can’t quite get the hang of more traditional methods, maybe try other avenues like 3D modelling :]

Much appreciated my friend! (I’m trying to get into writing)

train it then

Literally impossible :moai:

Took me just a moment to find this thing

https://www.nala.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Better-handwriting-for-adults.pdf

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Ooh, good luck!

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Many thanks!!!

haha me too my handwriting hasnt changed since the 1st grade

same here lol, when I was little I an occupational therapist came to see me(No not the therapist with the mental health) because of my handwriting being terrible

you wanna improve at art? then draw

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if your problem is handwriting then write. if you can’t read it yourself i’d reconsider tbh. there are countless videos on youtube, try to follow a few, pick up a style of your own.

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Much appreciated

Yeaaah this is kind of similar to me, except that I am starting to be happy bout the things I draw. Biggest issue I had when I despised my drawings was that I focused on mistakes too much, it’s way better to just leave it there for the most part, it doesn’t have to be perfect. I didn’t look at the whole picture exactly but eventually I figured out that it’s better to just power through it and not focus on mistakes as much but rather focus on little improvements you made.

For comparasion this is something I made year ago with reference vs something I finished just yesterday with no reference, the improvement is there. Now also keep in mind that 1. everyone improves at a different rate and 2. the improvement is not steady, it’s like stocks going up and down, sometimes you may see a decrease in improvement and other times it just skyrockets.



a little random side notes that I didn’t exactly know where else to put. I recommend experimenting with different things in drawing, like different kinds of shading etc.

As for the writting I just stopped writting in cursive so I could read it easier, still not exactly the prettiest handwritting, quite the contrary it’s awful on everything except for my signature but it is atleast readable to me. That is if I can’t avoid handwritting something, I usually try to avoid it since I am slow and not using cursive doesn’t help that fact.

Problem is, I don’t even use cursive

I’ve never been the most proud of my art and felt like I just couldnt get something right even with practice, and I found out that I have dyspraxia (not to be confused with dyslexia). I’d never heard of it until I tried figuring out if I had autism or not.

If you’re not ADHD or autistic you probably don’t have it, but it’s worth looking into. Also, my handwriting is pretty good for a male. It used to be ass before I had intervention and practice in 1st grade, but there’s still a problem for me now. My handwriting can LOOK neat, but I have to either write slow or strain my hand to compensate for my condition. It can leave my hand hurting after taking notes for an extended amount of time but I digress.

I hate myself

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relatable!!!