Therefore, when making seals, the most important thing is seal cutting.
Seal cutting is a combination of calligraphy and seal cutting. It was originally carved on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions. It was not until the later seal appeared that lettering began on the seal. Qin Shihuang unified the six languages and demanded seal cutting in hard practice. The shape of the seal has also undergone various changes.
? Today, lettering on seals can generally be used, such as block letters, running scripts, cursive scripts, official scripts and so on.
Although so many changes have taken place, because there are many cultural celebrities, if you want a more advanced seal, you usually use seal script to engrave it, especially in Qin Dynasty. However, seal script was briefly replaced by regular script in Tang and Song Dynasties.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that it began to flourish again. Because of the change of materials, there have been many families specializing in making seals. These artists use various artistic techniques to seal.
Qi Baishi, a famous painter, is also a seal cutting artist. In seal cutting, the characteristics of calligraphy, knife cutting and materials themselves will be integrated in one seal, so that you can enjoy both beautiful calligraphy and a painting.
In this case, each seal will have different characteristics, and there will never be two identical seals.
A seal can reflect a person's aesthetic taste. We should choose fonts according to our own preferences and choose better ones from more choices.