Calligraphy appreciation of precepts and official scripts;
Imperial calligraphy 1
Regular script and official script calligraphy II
Yu bi Li Shu calligraphy 3
Overview of the main brushwork of official script;
Official script is based on seal script. The shape of seal script is irregular, vertical and round, while the shape of official script has evolved into a flat square. This change in modeling has brought about the diversification of pens, and the strokes of clicking, drawing, skimming and pressing are different. Fang Bi is round, the circle is square, the square has a circle, and the pen has changed. To learn official script, we must learn these brushstrokes and techniques, and carefully copy the traditional techniques. Naturally, the brushwork of official script can not be separated from the structure of official script, and the length, thickness and oblique curvature of lines, the interpenetration, echo and density of strokes can not be separated from the natural structure of characters. There are also variants in the structure of official script, such as saving pen and shifting pen. If you don't master these techniques, you can't write official script well. As far as the whole work is concerned, with the needs of the content, the arrangement and size of the characters change and should be adjusted at any time according to the natural structure of the characters. Write fewer strokes with great momentum, and reduce more strokes appropriately. According to the needs of composition, horizontal characters should be written as vertical characters; Characters that combine vertical potentials should be written as horizontal potentials. Generally speaking, the composition of official script is that the vertical line spacing is short and the line spacing is slightly longer; Some words have large spacing and small spacing between lines; Some cliff carvings also have a dense and uneven layout, such as "carving stones on the inclined road opened by Yan Jun". Rich composition and layout changes are entirely the result of artistic processing according to the needs of style and actual environment. These are all the skills we need to master in learning official script.
Wave pen, also known as three-fold pen, that is? Three twists and turns? Typical pen of transverse wave pen, commonly known as? Silkworm head dovetail? . The style of official script is flat and even, divided into several strokes. Every few horizontal strokes that don't leave, hold or walk, there will be a wave of strokes, which will become the outstanding strokes of this word. Turn the pen upside down, squat down and turn to the right. Slowly raise the pen to the middle of the stroke, then slowly press it down until the pen is closed, then turn around and pick it up, like a dovetail, until the pen is closed or back to the front.
These wave pens are in different situations, in different positions, and the pens are not exactly the same. Like a pen? Silkworm head? After the next meal, some pens become square, such as? what's up Draw a stroke horizontally; Have a plenty of round pens, such as? Xing? Crosswave pen at the beginning of the word; Some squares have circles in them, such as? Joe? The start of the shear wave pen under the word; Have a plenty of Fang Bi with round front, such as? The words in the middle of the curtain, the stroke of the pen. Pen collector? Dovetail? Different pens have different shapes, such as? Huh? 、? Xing? 、? what's up 、? Joe? 、? Curtains? Going? All Chinese characters have different strokes and shapes. Shi Chenbei? Lord? 、? Hey? 、? Next? 、? ***? The pen of the wave pen is also different. The overall style of the two monuments is different, but the writing style on the same monument is the same. It can be seen that the overall style of each tablet is consistent, and its shape also changes when writing wave pens.
But a word has only one stroke, even if there are many horizontal characters, there can only be one stroke. This is what is commonly called? Yan Fei? . Like what? Release? 、? 、? Are you online? 、? Words? 、? Filial piety? 、? Guy? 、? Heavy? By analogy, all horizontal paintings are in an important position, but all horizontal paintings except one are not wave strokes.
Wave stroke is the most important stroke in official script, and its brushwork rules and rich brushwork forms are the first thing to be studied in official script. Although Zhang Qianbei's wave brushwork introduced here can't cover all the wave brushwork of official script tablet, the main rules of his brushwork are very representative. Not only for the convenience of copying the official script tablet, but also for creating official script works and exploring and creating their own official script style. We can see how the ancients wrote a variety of changes when writing wave strokes from the needs of the natural structure of a word and the layout of words.