I was told by my Japanese friend (nicely of course) that my Kanjis look like they were written by a third-grader. I don't want to do calligraphy with a brush: I want to just learn to write them nicely with a pen. The handwritten Kanjis look different than the printed ones. Where can I get help to practice the handwritten ones?

Here's the site I use, which was recommended to me by my professor.
http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html

That site is cool
Thought I had one like this
but No
heres an unrelated radical search though
http://kanji.sljfaq.org/mr-old.html

[Katsuo]

The Yamasa site is useful for learning handwriting. Enter any kanji on this page and you'll get three versions of it as follows:

Left side: A Mincho font, typically used in newspapers
Middle: A Kyokasho (school text book) font, often used as a model for handwriting
Right side: A handwriting font

I would suggest initially copying the middle font. As you are using a pen, your strokes will be thinner of course. As you get used to writing you'll get faster and your characters will naturally become more like the font on the right.

The book "Easy kanji" by Fujihiko Kaneda (Yohan) contains a lot of handwriting examples.

The site http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/bushubetsu-menu.htm seems to have a lot of interesting information (click on the green links).
Unfortunately, all in Japanese, but the pictures are useful.
By the way, a translation of those pages would be great… but still beyond my abilities.

there's some good threads about this if you search

You can pick up some useful tips from this video series, 簡単ルールで 一生きれいな字

I even searched for you!

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1427

https://www.nhk-book.co.jp/shop/main.jsp...1870062007

Katsuo Wrote:The Yamasa site is useful for learning handwriting. Enter any kanji on this page and you'll get three versions of it as follows:

Left side: A Mincho font, typically used in newspapers
Middle: A Kyokasho (school text book) font, often used as a model for handwriting
Right side: A handwriting font

I would suggest initially copying the middle font. As you are using a pen, your strokes will be thinner of course. As you get used to writing you'll get faster and your characters will naturally become more like the font on the right.

thanks, I'll be sure to change my font to that in my production deck(active recall of sentences/vocab)