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I don't visualize it. It's just there, just escaped from my head right onto the paper, and it's written just how one is supposed to be writing it.
To me, it's a question of practice. The more (regularly) you write the more it become a reflex, the more you enrich your vocabulary (read widely, read as often as possible) the more you will 'know' words and how to write them (also true for grammar and full sentences). I never think about crossing the t or put on accent on 'à, é, è, ë, and so on' when I need one... it comes naturally because I internalized the various (French, or whatever other languages I can write) grammatical rules.
BTW, it's ok to forget them on occasions, provided the word/sentence remains legible. My handwriting is pretty shitty but I'm used to reading it so I need not write every single accentuation or diacritic sign in order to be by able to re-read myself. I also devised my own shorthand along the years and most of my notes will be written using that shorthand (meaning a lot of symbols instead of traditional words)... I would never use shorthand, and would take a lot more care with accents and punctuation (and grammar) knowing someone else will be reading what I write.
As for the signature, I just decided on mine when I was maybe 15 or 16 and have kept using it since then, now nearing my 60. So, yeah it just flows out of the pen without me thinking much about it.