Hard-pen calligraphy is a brilliant flower in the garden of calligraphy art. Its writing tools include ballpoint pens. How to write ballpoint pen running calligraphy well? What I will show you below is an appreciation of ballpoint pen running calligraphy. I hope you like it. Appreciation of ballpoint pen cursive calligraphy
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Running Script Techniques
Running script was developed on the basis of regular script and introduced A font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of legibility of cursive script. "行" means "walking", so it is not as sloppy as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. In essence, it is the cursiveization of regular script or the regularization of cursive script. Those with more regular script than cursive script are called "Xing Kai", and those with more cursive script than regular script are called "Xing Cao".
Running script has the characteristics of both regular script and cursive script, but writing good regular script does not necessarily mean you will be able to write beautiful running script. As an independent calligraphy style, running script has its own characteristics in the development process. own characteristics. To learn running script well, you need to go through a period of special copying training to master its writing techniques and the rules of tying characters.
Let’s introduce the technical characteristics of running script:
In terms of brushwork:
Follow the flow of writing: The brushwork of running script is no longer like regular script, which requires reversing in and out. , hide the head and protect the tail. Instead, when you start writing, you will follow the lead, and when you write, you will walk in the center. When you close the pen, you will take it out with the trend, or it will lead to the beginning of the pen, or it will pick up the front. No more backtracking. Many strokes have mutated in this way. Most of these strokes are exposed. The strokes became noticeably smoother. It also makes more curved strokes form in running script, and the strokes should not be too straight, which increases the dynamic feeling of pointillism and prevents it from becoming stagnant. These changes in penmanship naturally speed up writing a lot.
Echo of dot painting: Since the strokes in running script no longer return to the front for a pause, but mostly raise the front of the pen, the attached hook and pick-up of dot painting are formed, that is, when the stroke is finished, the stroke is brought down and the stroke is finished The natural connection makes the dots and paintings seem to be connected even though the strokes are broken, but the strokes are broken and connected, creating an obvious relationship of looking, looking, and responding. Obviously, these glances, bows, and echoes add lively interest to the fonts.
Leading thread: The hooks between the stipples make them look forward and echo. Sometimes this echo is drawn out of the hairspring through the tip of the pen, and connected to form two or several strokes, which are written continuously and in one go, making the The words appear coherent and elegant.
Abbreviation and omission: As mentioned earlier, Lian can write two or several strokes together into one stroke. This has actually played a role in simplifying and speeding up the writing, but the original strokes have not been reduced. , it’s just that the strokes are connected by threads and do not exist alone. There is also a simpler situation in running script, that is, the original stipples are simply merged to form a unique writing method in running script.
Changes in retraction and expansion: Compared with regular and rigorous fonts such as regular script, official script, and seal script, running script has a characteristic that is unique to cursive script. That is, it can adjust its font and stroke form at any time according to the needs of the composition and the characteristics of a certain character.
From square to round: regular script has more squares and less circles, and the folds are mostly square. Even Zhao Mengfu’s writing that focuses on circles often reveals square meanings. This is undoubtedly due to necessity and the increase in the number of characters. A certain intensity. Running script, on the other hand, is an essay that follows the trend, has endless changes, can be used both in square and round directions, and is flexible and vivid. Press heavily and lift lightly: Some writing techniques in regular script, such as sudden strokes, backstrokes, and reverses, are no longer used or rarely used in running script. What is more used is the use of lifting and pressing according to the trend. For minor details, you need to close the pen and lift it gently, a little faster. For thick and heavy strokes, you need to press the pen harder and the speed is slightly slower. Of course, the alternation of light, heavy and thick strokes must have a reasonable rising and falling process. There should be no big ups and downs, sudden light and sudden heavy strokes, and it should be made natural.
How to write well with hard pen
If you want to write well, you must first improve your aesthetic awareness, that is, know what kind of writing looks better and why it looks good; secondly, you must be able to use your own hands Using your pen to write the beautiful shape you want to write is your ability to control the pen, which is also the basic skill of writing.
Therefore, if you have a certain sense of aesthetics and certain basic skills, you will definitely be able to write well. Whether it is to improve aesthetic awareness or to strengthen the training of basic skills, it is required to read more, write more, and think more, so as to be aware of the eyes, hands, and heart. There are no shortcuts to practicing calligraphy.
So what kind of characters are considered to be more beautiful? The quality of a character is nothing more than its lines and frame structure; for a character, in addition to a single character, it must be beautiful In addition, it also depends on its layout (i.e. organization). Beautiful lines should explain the ins and outs clearly, write smoothly and freely, and have appropriate priorities. They should present beautiful shapes and expressions, full of vitality, light or heavy, slow or urgent, hard or soft, and belong to nature. Lines that are unclear, dull, hesitant, and inconsistent in weight are naturally unsightly; the frame structure is the combination of strokes in a word, such as the length, straightness, angle of placement, spacing between strokes, and thickness (heavy and heavy). , the relationship between before and after, etc. For beginners, it is advisable to first seek symmetry and dignity in the structure of the characters, and then consider changes according to needs and personal habits and hobbies (personality).
Layout, also called "organism", is the arrangement of words. Such as the size, shape, arrangement and angle of the characters, the correspondence between up, down, left and right, etc. As far as brush calligraphy is concerned, the shades of ink and changes in dryness and wetness must also be considered, but these can be ignored in practical hard-pen calligraphy. As far as general and practical writing is concerned, the layout should achieve two things: first, let the center of gravity of each word in a row or column be basically on the same straight line; second, slightly distinguish the size and shape of the words, generally and In other words, words with more strokes should be written more compactly and the lines should be as thin as possible, words with few strokes should be written loosely, and words with small shapes should have thicker lines. But generally speaking, characters with more strokes are still larger, and characters with fewer strokes are smaller. However, some strokes with fewer but stretched strokes can also be written larger, such as the vertical strokes of the character "中", the horizontal strokes of the character "安", the strokes of the character "人", etc., which can be made according to the characters before and after. Matching needs vary. In regular script, the difference in size of characters is not very obvious; in running script, the difference in size of characters can be very obvious, and in some cursive scripts it is even more obvious. In addition, appropriately exaggerating the main strokes of individual words in running script will also have a vivid and beautiful effect on the entire article.