This is the most complex one I’ve done so far, and I almost ran out of material (single straightened coathanger), so ~8 letters max. Coathanger is surprisingly difficult to bend into such intricate shapes. It took me around 2½ hours to do with two different types of pliers plus hand bending.

I literally freehanded this though, no predrawn pattern or anything, just following as close as I can to my own freehand cursive writing. I’m thinking about making a bit of a side job out of it, like $5 a letter…

What you folks think?

Edit: I made a point to weight balance it at the tip of the T for hanging on the wall or wherever.

Edit 2: Criticize me as necessary, my cursive is still slightly rusty…

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/cursive.html

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Thank you, and yes this indeed is constructive advice 👍

    I’m still warming back up and practicing a few names basically for free, for good friends only right now. My next freebie is gonna be for my mom, plus I probably ought to do my own name as well…

    There is one other complication though, that I at least try to fit in. Weight balance for a single balanced point to pin/hang it level.

    Not all names lend themselves to a good weight balance point, but Courtney happened to come really close with the T in the middle like that, but I never know exactly where the balance point might be until I’m done.

    In Courtney’s name, I planned for the top of the T to be the hanging point, but once I was done bending/folding the name, the left side of the T was a bit heavy, so I fudged the kerning a bit, compressed the left side in some and stretched the right side out a bit, until it balanced out level. Hence the seemingly stretched out N, cuz it is, but it made it balance about the tip of the T…