Derek Schuger

Left Hand Workbook, Trace the Art of War Translated by Maya Mai Derek Schuger

I asked one of my love ones who happens to be a left-handed to write down the English alphabet and a set of numbers and symbols which would be used as the base for the design of left-handed friendly handwriting fonts. He did with an astonishing speed and handed it to me on a graphic paper. The writing really looks like a chicken scratch but, ironically, perfectly legible. He also happens to be a medical school student."Are you going to prescript with this chicken scratch!?" I held the piece of the paper and asked."Yeah," he said, "it's perfectly readable, isn't it?""Sure it's clear enough to me." I had to admit, nodded, "and looks like energized.""Don't you think this is a form of artwork in its own way?" I didn't answer because I was not sure if he was serious. He continued, " It's a fusion of fast pace and legibility, a true form of artwork, orders in the chaos with desirable efficiency.""Oh-kay!" I nodded again. " That's a little too much of philosophical to me. Can you be a little more artistically neat with an acceptable slower writing pace?""Sure, why not." He grinned, took the graphic notepad again, picked up a signature pen and wrote another set of English alphabet, numbers and symbols, of course with his left hand in about half the pace of writing "the order in the chaos" style. Now I have two left-handed font bases to work with. I created two fonts, one called Wild Street Dance based on "the order in the chaos" and one called Ballet Grace based on the "a little more artistically neat" In this workbook, the font Ballet Grace is chosen as the handwriting font for left hand practice.