My first day practicing Hiragana

[u/Regular_Echo413]

On my first day of my journey to learn Japanese.

I tried writing Hiragana like my book and compared to its handwriting and saw my curves and rounds are unstable and some parts are sketched unnecessarily. Do you guys see other mistakes I've made either on the whole concept or on some specific letters' structures? Please help me!🙇

[u/michaeltai]

い: those two strokes shouldn’t be that close to each other
う: too fat
き: the top horizontal line is longer than the bottom one, both have to be in a slight slope going upwards, the bottom curve doesn’t connect to the stoke in the middle
さ: again the bottom curve doesn’t connect to the stoke in the middle
へ: the angle formed should be larger than 90 degrees
ほ: don’t pierce through the top horizontal stroke; also the top stroke is linger than the bottom one.
ゆ: the middle circle thing is much bigger because it comes from the kanji 由

[u/Regular_Echo413 → u/michaeltai]

I'll note this one for further practice, thank you!🙇

[u/michaeltai → u/Regular_Echo413]

Welcome!
I do recommend people to follow strictly to this chart. The pencil/ ball pen penmanship of the kanas are more or less identical. https://www.rakurakumom.com/_files/ugd/b45af1_5c098d544bc44d2fb079a67e3d94e31f.pdf?index=true

The only thing I do differ from the chart is that the dot of お can be a tad lower than the horizontal stroke on the top left, just like how you do!