Drawing C clefs

I can draw alto, tenor, etc. clefs like this:

but no matter how long I've been doing this, I have this tendency to go into full-erasure mode to get it perfect (well, to not have it look like a "3"), and I'm tired of being perfectionistic about it. I am not like this about any other clefs. I don't know why it's such an issue.

Is there an easier, simpler, commonly acceptable and recognized method to handwrite these clefs?

thanks.

Hm, the way I draw them is to draw the middle part first, then the two loops. I break it into parts to make it easier.

I do the two lines on the left; then directly to the right I make a backwards C, dash downward slightly at the C (middle line for alto clef), then do another backwards C.

I've seen others do a line, then immediately to the right a K shape, the middle point of which terminates at the C line.

Examples attached; I wish they didn't look like a five-year-old drew them, but you get the idea.

Thanks, JohnGalt.

I do the two lines on the left; then directly to the right I make a backwards C, dash downward slightly at the C (middle line for alto clef), then do another backwards C.

I've seen others do a line, then immediately to the right a K shape, the middle point of which terminates at the C line.

Examples attached; I wish they didn't look like a five-year-old drew them, but you get the idea.

:) about the 5-year old comment.

thanks for the examples, J. Lee. The K shaped one I think I have seen before at some point, but I wasn't sure if that was what it was for. For my own sanity, I will use that one when writing out basic sketches. yes!

I just draw them like a 3... don't really have a problem with that. Anyone looking would understand what it is, and it's quick.

See, instead of learning anything in Statistics, I have fun practicing (yes, I actually practiced, hahaha!) drawing C clefs. So now I can do them pretty good.

See, instead of learning anything in Statistics, I have fun practicing (yes, I actually practiced, hahaha!) drawing C clefs. So now I can do them pretty good.

Crap, that's what probability class was for?

Dangit, and I wasted all that time working with random variables. I knew that was all code for "C clef practice."

;)

I draw mine more like a 'K', it's easier and faster.

...Actually, I've never used a C clef before, but that's how i do 'em...

~Kal

You can also draw them the "old" way - that is, the way they were drawn in 16th century music.

Draw the first vertical line, then draw a second vertical line. Then draw three thicker lines, 1 space-width apart, between the two long lines. The central line should be the indicator of your C.

See the approximation below.

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I've seen them, in printed music, done a number of ways. One is the "standard", another looks like a small "3" with a flat top, another looks like a weird variation of the standard way (with a tail like a treble clef), another is the "old" variation you see above (I've a couple of variations of that), and yet another is just a C with its middle wherever middle C is.

I use a 19th century music typeface and it has the weird C clef and a C-shaped bass clef.

i draw a sort of a sidways v or w first for the middle and the 2 c on the to and bottom....