Neat handwriting is overrated. There. I said it.
But the artists we’re looking at in this video didn’t make their work powerful by making it messy. Tracey Emin and Jean-Michel Basquiat both wrote in their own handwriting, exactly as it was, and that handwriting became inseparable from what they were saying. You can’t imagine Emin’s words in a different font. You can’t imagine Basquiat’s text written by someone else. The hand is part of the message.
That’s what this lesson is about. Not writing differently than how you already do. But writing so personally that the way it looks and what it says become the same thing.
Your handwriting already has that potential. Let’s find it.