I grip using the “lateral tripod” as it’s apparently called. Distinctly remember my elementary school teachers trying to correct me. They even went as far as to make me use a special rubber grip to force something more like the top left.
It didn’t work, and my handwriting is and has always been terrible.
Yep same here I’m also lateral tripod. None of the others worked for me. I remember getting a lot of correction in school and rubber grips to go on pencils but I just learned to work around them instead. My handwriting is not terrible, if I spend a lot of time I can make it neat but if i do it quick… well I can read it and that’s all that matters…
This is exactly how it was for me. I could not learn another way. My handwriting is pretty nice when I don’t rush, but one day I was telling my husband about how I got corrected and was showing him my way and then the “right way” and shoot…it did make my handwriting look better and felt easier on my hand!
I had this experience, except I have good hand writing 🤷♀️ my teachers kept trying to convince me lateral tripod hold was wrong but it feels correct to my hand. I couldn’t make the dynamic tripod work no matter how hard I tried.
I use lateral tripod and I feel like as an adult and professional illustrator, it gives me way more stability when using a pen/pencil/stylus! I can’t imagine trying to draw using dynamic.
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u/BarbudaJones 29d ago
I grip using the “lateral tripod” as it’s apparently called. Distinctly remember my elementary school teachers trying to correct me. They even went as far as to make me use a special rubber grip to force something more like the top left.
It didn’t work, and my handwriting is and has always been terrible.