Youtubers like Oe Seihou 大江静芳and Seidou 青道 has some really good videos on this topic.
Search YouTube for [ペン字](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E5%AD%97) and you’ll find countless videos of native Japanese people giving demonstrations of good everyday handwriting. (I think this is more directly helpful than looking at examples of, e.g. people writing with a brush, calligraphy, etc.)
Well, copying a font *is* probably your best way of recognizing how the lines and proportions all work together in a kanji. Japanese children will use a booklet and copy the kanji and it’s font over and over until it doesn’t look like a copy anymore.
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Practice. Same way you learned to write English.
Start with learning the kanji and kana as they show in the book, then eventually figure out shortcuts .
A #2 pencil and a LOT of grid paper.
[This playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD3A32FF2555EC1B8) explains concisely what many consider good handwriting and other handwriting resources I’ve looked at follow it pretty closely.
Youtubers like Oe Seihou 大江静芳and Seidou 青道 has some really good videos on this topic.
Search YouTube for [ペン字](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E5%AD%97) and you’ll find countless videos of native Japanese people giving demonstrations of good everyday handwriting. (I think this is more directly helpful than looking at examples of, e.g. people writing with a brush, calligraphy, etc.)
Well, copying a font *is* probably your best way of recognizing how the lines and proportions all work together in a kanji. Japanese children will use a booklet and copy the kanji and it’s font over and over until it doesn’t look like a copy anymore.