Try to think of writing Dovahzul runes as a student practicing Chinese/Japanese kanji or other characters. Writing runes consists of the following marks (My own description): Punctures, Gouges and scratches. - A PUNCTURE is where the claw would insert straight into the writing surface (like in [g]) - A GOUGE is where the claw enters the writing surface in order to form a SCRATCH, will then go a certain direction to form the parts of a rune. For example, the [g] rune has a puncture in the lower left, followed by a small vertically-down scratch where the claw enters the stone and travels down. Finally, the claw gouges diagonally and scratches from up-right to down-left. Here's my advice for writing using a pen: For PUNCTURES, you can use a simple dot. For GOUGES and SCRATCHES, you can think of them as the number "7", but the top "flag" marking is really short. That's how I write them. That's easy for scratches going from top-down or diagonally up-down. For the horizontal ones ([k] and [n]) and vertical-upward ones (parts of [ey] and [m]), you have to just adjust your hand to get it right. To get a consistent form for the scratches, try this: With a pen, form the top flag of a scratch by running the pen from left to right a really small distance. After that, flick the pen in the downward position (as opposed to running the pen along the paper evenly). This will produce the tapered edge of the end/bottom of the scratch. Now all that's left to do is to practice each rune meticulously to get them looking good. |