My Handwriting is Crabby
I have pretty terrible handwriting. I always used to get in trouble in first grade over my inability to write exactly on the line. Guess what, I still don’t write on the line. I write between the lines (and read, hehe. Sorry. *cough*) but my letters don’t exactly touch the line. And I hold a pen wrong apparently, but that is neither here nor there. In fact, sometimes it looks as if a crab, or a spider, got in some ink and walked all over my page. Random thought: a crab would probably be better at this than a spider, seeing that they walk sideways already…
*drumroll please*
If you still don’t believe me, here is a shot of my recent class notes:
My habit of sometimes writing three lines inside one printed line is not helping matters either…
Hope you enjoyed those drawings without even a single stick figure! The other thing is…
You may have noticed something a little different round here. I hope none of you thought that you ended up on the wrong blog! Yes, I changed my theme and did a complete redesign, using my own header and background this time. My old theme has bothered me for a long time. I like the playfulness and the fun of it, especially in the details, but I long felt that it was too “busy” for my content. My content is already so bright and varied that the large, bright header and background felt too much. I needed something cleaner, because I want people to come to my blog for the content and not have that overshadowed by my theme. I also did not like that my old theme did not display my images very large. I draw them much larger than you ever saw on the blog before, and I want to utilise that. This theme has a huge display, yay! 
I also added some follow buttons over there in the sidebar –> (I think you may have to scroll upwards at this point). Yes, I made them too. I have Twitter, Pinterest, Goodreads, Bloglovin’, RSS feed and, of course, a Tumblr in there. Feel free to follow me there! I don’t use my Tumblr much – usually only to “like” or reblog and follow other Tumblrs. But sometimes I post quotes that I decorate on there that I do not post here.
See you again soon!
Oh, PS. New origami tutorial is (finally) up!
Go check it out! (Click on the picture.)
You’re not alone.
That’s good to hear!
Hey Elana.. you are very very creative..Your new theme is really nice.. =)
Thank you, that’s so nice!
Okay: 1) I love the comic, the crab is very clever; and 2) I teach, your handwriting is quite fine–I hand letter most of my comics and your quickly taken notes have better penmanship than do my carefully crafted letters. Keep posting. I enjoy your approach.
1.) Aww, thanks!
Must say, that’s not the worst of my notes. My Middle English notes are much worse than my Shakespeare, because I constantly have to check my book for spelling as the lecturer talks. Ugh!
2.) Hehe, then I don’t know what my teachers complain about!
Thanks, I will!
Love your new blog design! Good job. I want to redesign mine someday…but I haven’t had time yet. The crab design is great. Who cares if you can’t write pretty…you cartoon pretty.
Glad you like it! *sigh* Yes, it does rather take a lot of time – only the hours of browsing through themes already takes it out of you!
And thanks! 
Yay, glad it’s recognisable, seeing that I’m not too sure what a crab looks like…
That’s so funny! I write the same way! My mum drilled it into me how to hold a pen/pencil correctly when I was little, so I have perpetual indents on my fingers from where that pen or pencil gets held (I write pretty hard sometimes) but as for writing all over the notebook, I do that, too. I’ve peeked at my best friend’s school notes and she’s got them all bulleted in tidy rows and organized and whatnot. I scrawl story ideas and snatches of dialogue on all sorts of random paper products, and even when I have lined paper, the notes end up all over the place.
It’s pretty bad when I can hardly read it back to myself, though. Hehehe.
Haha, I also always have indents on my fingers! Actually I use a fingerhood for exams these days, because I hold a pen that it presses right on the cuticle and after three hours of essay-writing, that starts to bleed!
Hehe.
My bullets are all crooked with arrows and whatnot running all through them. Well, can I help it if the lecturers talks in circles?
Ah, all the poor people who’ve asked to copy my notes over the years. I can hardly read them, let alone anyone else! They often come back the next day and ask me to read it to them.
I wish mine was that good. The lines are in order, and I take notes in a modified outline form my father taught me, but the writing looks like a committee arguing about how how letters are supposed to look.
Hehe, wow, it’s the first time someone said that!
I have no outline, I just write everything, change my mind halfway through, squeeze extra stuff into tiny gaps and make arrows all over the place. I drop half of my “h”‘s and mess up the tails of my “e”‘s. So, it’s not very attractive what goes on on my pages.
Love your crab! And the bookmark. Thanks.
That’s good to hear, thanks!
That crab is the cutest crab ever!
Well, even if my handwriting is not cute, at least the crab that causes it is cute! Thanks!
Great post, and really, your handwriting isn’t all that bad. I used to use a computer program to put my dialog balloons in, but then decided I like the more “organic” feel of writing it out with a pen. Also noticed you are a fan of 2 of my favorite blogs, “Hyperbole and a Half” and “The Oatmeal.” It is good to study from the masters. Love the new theme BTW
I really can’t hand-draw at all, so I do everything on the computer. I type faster than I write anyway.
Ha, yes, they are great blogs. It’s nice to see what legends are doing every now and then!
Thanks, I’m glad you like it!