Which is better to learn first, writing brush or hard pen?

For beginners who are learning calligraphy for the first time, hard pen is easy to learn, and now it is more popular. You can practice hard pen first, then brush, so you can learn better step by step.

First of all, hard pen calligraphy can be used as an appetizer for brush calligraphy. As we know, the hard pen and the writing brush are in the same strain in structure, and can basically be used in general, such as shoulder-back, equal spacing, parallel, main pen, welcoming, interspersed, elastic, and embracing without blocking. And they can all be taught by hard pen calligraphy. After half a year's study, children's hard-written word structure and strokes will definitely make great progress. Once you master the structure, you will have a solid foundation for learning brush calligraphy.

Practice regular script and running script together and compare them. Writing regular script first and then running script, comparing the similarities and differences of frame structure and strokes, is convenient to save time and increase interest. You can kill two birds with one stone. As for the order of practicing calligraphy, generally speaking, it can be such an order: basic strokes, complex strokes, radicals, shelf structure, and the arrangement of paragraphs and chapters. This is the approximate sequence, so practicing calligraphy can improve efficiency.