Introduction to the basics of brush calligraphy: methods to improve writing ability

This situation is often encountered in calligraphy teaching. After a period of training, students have a good grasp of the laws of calligraphy, but the dotted line is not strong. Although students also know that it is easy for a center to achieve a powerful effect with a pen, the final effect is that the image and charm of calligraphy are insufficient, and the art of calligraphy lacks the charm it deserves. From a technical point of view, it is the method of writing with a brush, that is, the problem of pen power caused by brushwork. Here are some ways to improve your writing ability.

Methods of improving pen power

There are two kinds of pen power; The first is skill, which is the result of learning books. Mastering the brush is vivid from birth to maturity. On the one hand, practice makes perfect and requires hard work. On the other hand, we should make it clear, gain its strength, and accelerate the completion of the process of practice makes perfect. The second is strength, that is, the use of qi and strength in writing. Power needs the infiltration of air to make brushwork vivid, and there is a coherent and echoing organic connection between stippling and painting. Breathing is different from exerting force, so qi doesn't necessarily exert force, but only causes a physical result, while using gas can cause a vivid result. Qi and force are the same, so using gas must be implemented in exerting force, and exerting force must have the power of qi. Qi is the strength of qi, and strength is the strength of qi, which is the strength to change qi. A weightlifter may have great strength, but if he doesn't know the brushwork, he still can't write strong lines. A calligrapher doesn't have to be muscular, he just needs strength. The strength of the pen depends on the strength of the calligrapher. Therefore, using a pen in calligraphy, strength and strength are two different things. Strength determines the strength of each stroke, which determines that a word is the overall strength of a work. Before writing, concentrate your breath, guide your breath with your mind, guide your breath with your heart and soul, and concentrate your wrist. Only in the pen tip can there be vitality. That's what the ancients said about Qi Li. In this way, we can make it as far away as Chen Yun; Long live Gu Teng; Integral is like a stone falling from a mountain.