Efficient Handwriting Practice Method 1: You Can Improve Just by Looking

How to look at a model to properly improve your handwriting

Just writing a lot won't make your handwriting better...

Whether it's a teacher's model,
or a model from a textbook or workbook,
when you try to copy it,
the way you look at the model becomes very important.

Just like when drawing a picture,
it is actually better to spend more time looking at the model than the time you spend writing.
Calligraphy skill equals copying skill.
In other words,
to write beautiful characters,
observation and analytical skills are extremely important.

No matter how many times you repeatedly write the wrong characters,
your handwriting will not improve.

You need the ability to look closely at the correct characters
and see how they are formed.
(If the model characters are poor or the teacher's handwriting is questionable, it's fatal...)

1. Know the correct, beautiful model
2. Put your pen down once
3. Observe it slowly and carefully
4. Try to copy it in the same way

Practice is the repetition of this process.

The way to efficiently make your handwriting beautiful
is actually
to develop your 'observational skills'
more than your 'writing skills'.

Try putting that pen aside for a moment
and focus entirely on 'observing'.

Observational skill is
the shortcut to beautiful handwriting.