dbh2ppa Wrote:here's mine... and it's not pretty ^^ i don't try to make them pretty when i'm reviewing, not that it would make much of a difference though.
(the ones on the left column are 旧字体, just because they are prettier. whoever decided 新字体 was a good idea must have had no artistic inclinations whatsoever.)
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x155/...ykanji.gif
(my 心 primitives suck, btw)

That's scarily similiar to me in the use of felt pen, Writing traditional characters instead of modern ones and having problems with the 心 primitive

Here's mine -- an ugly gaijin scrawl. My English handwriting is atrocious and sometimes illegible, and that's my native language. But trying to write kanji often involves hand motions that aren't familiar and I have real trouble with some of the shapes. Hence the repetition. I'm not worried, it'll get better. Some of my 日本人友達 have far worse writing than mine.

http://picasaweb.google.com/digicult/yDP...0274738386

digicult Wrote:Here's mine -- an ugly gaijin scrawl. My English handwriting is atrocious and sometimes illegible, and that's my native language. But trying to write kanji often involves hand motions that aren't familiar and I have real trouble with some of the shapes. Hence the repetition. I'm not worried, it'll get better. Some of my 日本人友達 have far worse writing than mine.

http://picasaweb.google.com/digicult/yDP...0274738386

That is some ugl....err.. GANBATTE NE! Just kidding, looks 子供っぽい、かわいい！Yea, paired with hiragana/katakana, writing Japanese has strokes and swirls going in every direction possible, that is tough to follow those motions so different form the alphabet. My advise would be to try to write each character the same size and make sure strokes are straight. Maybe use square-lined paper instead of regular lined paper.