• This is my most popular video with over 3 million views! I made it because a couple of people had mentioned having difficulty with their signature.

    As teenagers, my generation would cover school exercise books, and the back pages, with practice signatures – slowly forming our adult personas.

    Maybe I was a bit self-obsessed, but I remember writing out my signature hundreds of times, slowly perfecting it, making it just a part of muscle memory. Girls, I knew, when they started going out with boys, might even practice a possible married name! (I think some boys even tried out what their new girlfriend’s name might look like conjoined with their surname.

    The main message of this video is to just keep on practicing – a thousand times a day if necessary. Some complain that the advice is far too simple. some complain that it is impossible and demand I design their signature – even though I say, “Only you can design YOUR signature.”

    Some thank me and say how brilliantly the advice worked. Some are so lazy, they can’t be bothered to watch the whole video, let alone practice a thousand times!

    Interestingly, the major demographic for this video is the Indian Sub-Continent. I think that the signature has not been a major part of the culture before, but the internet and the introduction of western security systems, has seen the need to devise and practice signatures.

    either way over 3 million views is oretty astonishing for such a niche subject!

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    Did you ever see that wonderful episode of Father Ted where Ted explains Near and Far to Father Dougal? Check it out here! My Patreon Patron, Megan, says she cannot get here head around foreshortening, so I made here this video.www.patyreon.com/shoorayner

    My Patreon Patron, Megan, says she cannot get here head around foreshortening, so I made here this video. See my patreon page here: www.patyreon.com/shoorayner

    Perspective is one thing to get your head around, but foreshortening can be quite a mind-twister. Basically it is explained using perspective.

    If you put your hand over your face and look in the mirror, it pretty much covers from chin to brow. Now move your hand arm’s length and it will cover the whole head. Things nearer to the viewer appear larger than things further away. So a cow in the barn next to you is much bigger than the cat three fields away.

    Drawing people with hands or legs outstretched towards the viewer can cause problems when drawing, but if you take a logical, perspective view, it all begins to make sense.