Everyone is familiar with Yan style in calligraphy. The biggest feature of Yan style is that some strokes are thick and powerful.
With these characteristics, if you want to write facial expressions well, you almost have to choose a wool brush.
One of the characteristics of wool is its delicate fiber. The pen names of the traditional brushes Yanghao, Xinen Guangfeng and Xi Guangfeng refer to this characteristic of wool.
Compared with weasel tail and mountain rabbit hair, the wool's edge is almost less than half the thickness of the latter.
This kind of delicate and soft strokes is almost naturally prepared for facial expressions. The brush strokes are soft, so the brush is very flexible to lift and press. Those particularly thick strokes in facial expressions can be painted with soft brush hair. The pen displays flexibly.
The root of the brush is often thicker. This is because the brush is soft. In order to increase the strength of the waist, the tail of the brush must be full.
For the thick strokes in the body, press down hard with a hair brush to spread the tip of the brush, and then rely on the full-shaped tail to support the waist of the brush, so that the brush will not be too difficult to control.
The fineness of wool also brings another characteristic, that is, it is very absorbent. After the hair is dipped in ink, the hair will swell very full due to its strong water absorption.
This will easily lead to the pen tip not showing and the pen tip to appear flat.
Therefore, special attention should be paid to this point when making mid-to-high-end wool brushes. The pen tip is often made into a staggered state as shown in the picture, so that the wool knots on the pen tip will not be so obvious after absorbing water.
What size of brush pens are you generally used to? Do you think nylon-enhanced brushes are better to use or pure brush pens?