Possible Clues:

• Artist, wearing frown, discounting old careless writing
• Small, fast stroke in hurried piece of writing
• Long, maybe illegible, piece of writing
• Write sloppily
• Dash off short piece extremely well
• Write quickly and illegibly
• Lawman inexperienced with second class scribble
• Impenetrable script
• Scribe's initial stroke, poor writing
• Bad characters joined up perhaps