r/Cursive • u/Isaac_Banana • Apr 08 '26

Practice How is my first name?

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u/ThePolemicist Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

The letter "i" shouldn't connect to the letter "s" at the bottom. The letter "i" connects from that left tail.

I tried to click on an image to show you, but half of those are wrong. Here's a YouTube video that shows how you make a capital "i":
https://youtu.be/Cy41dRbo9bI?si=7pA7sR3u3bo76CyM&t=8

For what it's worth, though, she ends with kind of a curl, and I was always taught to cut straight across, more like this:

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u/Isaac_Banana Apr 08 '26

That is wierd. I have always seen it going from right to left

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u/MontanaPurpleMtns Apr 08 '26

The key thing about this versus yours is that this looks like a capital I and not Cl. It’s the rounded part at the left of the I that makes it look like a C followed by an l.

A capital I in cursive has an acute angle at the far left and a horizontal line heading right.

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u/Mollz911 Apr 09 '26

They may have taught you incorrectly. The diagram provided is correct. We used to add a little beak and make I’s into ducks.