1, stick to it.
Learning calligraphy is the same as losing weight for girls. It may last a lifetime, but the effect is not obvious. But since we started, we should stick to it. After all, many people have lost weight successfully. After all, many people have made achievements. Let's take losing weight as an example. Calligraphy will also encounter a platform period. After a period of progress, it may suddenly stagnate for a long time or even go backwards. But calligraphy is not the same as losing weight. It has a real platform and a fake platform. The real platform is really impossible to progress for a while. At this time, we should not be anxious, but also insist on reading more books. The so-called kung fu is beyond words, and it is necessary to improve personal cultivation. There may be an epiphany after the platform, and there will be obvious progress. There is also a fake platform, because practicing calligraphy is not only practicing hands, but also practicing eyes. When your eyesight grows slower than your kung fu, you will feel that you have made obvious progress, but when your eyesight grows faster than your kung fu, although you are still making progress, you feel that you are regressing. Congratulations at this time, because it is often not the skill of your hands that determines the level of your calligraphy, but your eyesight. You can practice as high as you can see. There are only people who have low eyes and high skills, and there is no one whose kung fu is higher than their own aesthetic level. You can see your progress by comparing your current words with your previous words.
Whether it is a real platform or a fake platform, there is always such a process. Facing it and overcoming it is your only way out. At this time, the pen is not easy to use, the paper is not easy to use, and the height of the table is not suitable. It's all excuses. Wang Xizhi knelt on the ground and wrote "Preface to Lanting" on a short piece of paper. Yan Zhenqing was filled with indignation and tears, and wrote the manuscript of "Sacrificing Nephew" on thick paper. Su Dongpo is sitting in a chair, reading "Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry" on a high table ... How can he say what conditions are needed to write good words? And the table is only 3 cm short, how much impact will it have? Do you still have to carry the desk when someone asks you to write in the future?
You said yourself that you were a little annoyed. This is the problem you need to solve now. Only by being calm, strengthening confidence and persisting can we make greater progress.
2, don't learn from Tian Yingzhang, there is no way out, especially can't believe all his lectures.
There is a big debate about Tian Yingzhang now. Personally, I don't like him, but it is absolutely unreasonable to say that his handwriting is not good. There is no denying that his regular script skills are solid and his writing style is vivid, which can never be erased by a "cabinet". I also watched the video tutorial he launched online. First of all, it is very good. Secondly, it is misleading. Because of his solid personal foundation and skillful skills, many places are written very concisely. For beginners, he omitted everything he should have. In his opinion, the effect is the first, all the techniques serve the final effect, and many movements that become small because of proficiency are invisible to beginners. For example, all his strokes, especially horizontal strokes, are completely exposed from the video, but is this really the case? Not at all. There are many tricks that hide before and empty after, and the movements are so small that they are almost invisible. But the effect of putting them on paper is very clear, which is beyond the reach of people without deep skill. And his cross-fold, you can't see the action of adjusting the front. Compare his handwriting with your fan, and you can see whether his folding pen is horizontal center, folded or center, and your folding pen is smooth.
Mr. Tian Yingzhang himself said, don't learn from him. After all, this is the best way. I suggest that if you want to study Europe, you should study the inscriptions of Ou Yangxun, Jiucheng Palace Liquan, or Huadu Temple Monument. Starting with basic techniques, practice strokes, structure and composition. This is a very boring process. Don't be impatient, learn slowly.