Whether a word looks good or not depends on its structure and strokes.
What is structure? A structure, also called a knot, is the shape of a word. A word has a triangle and a trapezoid. They are big on the left and small on the right, long on the top and short on the bottom, just like a person has a ratio of height, height, thinness and density. For example, the contraction of the middle palace refers to the changes in the form and structure of words.
What is a stroke? Stroke is the brick of a word, such as left and right strokes, which form the radicals of the word and then form the word. We often see the feeling that someone writes brush characters with a hard pen. In fact, they have made great efforts in strokes. Need a solid pen control, pay attention to the weight of lifting.
The combination of structure and strokes can make a word have multiple postures. If you look at the posts of ancient calligraphers carefully, they are all charming and beautiful despite their different styles. This is also the charm of calligraphy lines.
You can practice the structure first, write the big frame of the word well, and then spend time practicing pen control and carving strokes. A word with good structure and poor strokes will look good.
2, how to practice calligraphy: temporary paste
The copybook is written on paper by myself. This is the most important part and the basis of practicing calligraphy. Try not to draw on the post with transparent paper, because when drawing, you hardly move your head, which is easy to get distracted and will greatly reduce the effect of practicing calligraphy.
When posting, you must try to be completely similar to the post. Only in this way can you get rid of your free will and correct your habitual addiction. Practicing calligraphy is a process of breaking away from self. Just like in martial arts novels, if you want to practice magic, you must abolish the previous three-legged cat kung fu.
How to make your words look like those on a post? You can think of it as a "let's find fault" game. Your eyes should be poisonous enough, which side is long, which side is short, which side is high and which side is not on the symmetry line. You should criticize your words mercilessly and mercilessly on the original post. When you find a problem, write it again until you do your best every time.
You can also register as a calligraphy teacher online or offline. Teachers can feedback homework in time and find mistakes. Otherwise, writing a word dozens of times on the basis of not finding the problem is to strengthen the problem and do a lot of useless work.
Don't read a stroke when posting, write a stroke, it's easy to be blind. Read and learn the structure and strokes of the word before you start writing, and then start writing. After posting, take the time to recite the post and keep the spelling of this word in mind. You will find that people who can only write one word before writing have different ways of writing in their hearts. For example, this is the writing of Yan Ti, this is the writing of cursive script, and so on. It is because you practice and read more words that you will remember them.
3. How long to practice: mentality
Calligraphy practice, like other skills, depends on the accumulation of quantity, which will lead to qualitative change. Don't try to write in a week or half a month, at least in years. Under normal circumstances, serious practice for half a year will also make great changes. If you want to practice calligraphy as a daily course, you should avoid exposure in cold environment. For example, write 1 hour every day for a week. It is better to write for 7 hours at a time.
If you have never insisted on one thing for a long time since you were a child, and you are not a persistent person, you can take practicing calligraphy as a personal behavior experiment. On how to stick to one thing for a long time, we can see how this article sticks to one thing for a long time. In addition, you can also punch cards together, find writing tribes, and put pressure on your peers.
Many people give up because practicing calligraphy at first is an extremely boring thing, unlike games with instant rewards. During the period of practicing calligraphy, I often feel that my handwriting is poor and my hands are too stupid, because my hands are not beyond my own aesthetics. After a while, you will find that your handwriting looks good, which means that your hands have caught up with your own aesthetics, which means that you need to read the post again and then continue to feel that your handwriting is poor.
After repeating the process of "eyes are superior and hands are inferior" several times, the handwriting has been greatly improved. Up to now, I still feel that my handwriting is nothing compared with my predecessors' copybooks.
Usually, the progress of calligraphy practice occurs in every bottleneck period. Breaking through every bottleneck period will be like an epiphany, understanding the problems that I didn't understand before and writing the strokes that I didn't understand before.
In addition, beginners must write slowly and remain modest, just like primary school students, every stroke must be written in place. Only when you write slowly when you are practicing calligraphy, can you bear the annoyance and lay a good foundation, and then you will write quickly and beautifully in your daily life.