1, regular script pen
Regular script evolved from the development of official script, aiming at standardizing the sloppy rules of cursive script and saving Han Li's trouble. Regular script structure is smooth, square, elegant and dignified. His brushwork belongs to the "eight methods of permanent characters", that is, the eight methods of point, horizontal, vertical, left, grip, pick, hook and turn, emphasizing the pen's power, gesture and meaning, and paying attention to the artistic effect of combining length with straightness and rigidity with softness.
Regular script is generally a static script, with slow stroke speed, emphasizing the afterburner of pen pressure. So choose a brush with a sharp waist. Therefore, the double-stranded brush made of wolf hair and wool is the main one. The double-stranded brush is soft and smooth, with strong waist and easy to draw and rotate. Pure wool brush is soft, and few people use it to write regular script except very good people. If you want to write regular script with pure wool brush, you must be skilled and write carefully to achieve the effect.
You should also choose a pen to copy all kinds of fonts and write in Liu style. It is best to use wolf brush, followed by double double brush, wolf brush and double brush are more suitable for European characters. If you choose a pen with a thin straight neck, it is easier to play rhyme. Most of the characters are round and thick, and it is better to use a double brush. If you use a wolf pen, you must choose the one with richer nib and fuller pen items, just press it gently. To write a face with a thin straight pen tip, we must increase our efforts, and we can only achieve it with a deep foundation. Otherwise, the words you write are often dry and monotonous, and the beauty of the colorful body cannot be revealed.
2. Running calligraphy pen
Some people think that running script originated from regular script. Actually, it is not. Running script and Cao Zhang were invented before the emergence of regular script parallel to regular script. The structure of running script is between regular script and cursive script, the one near regular script is called "running script" and the one near cursive script is called "running script". Each type of regular script has its own form in running script. Running script is more lively than regular script, without the indulgence of cursive script, vivid and flexible, full of life breath.
The stroke speed of running script is fast, and there are changes in priorities. The ups and downs of strokes change greatly, and the stroke order also changes slightly. But when strokes enter from one stroke to another, they are often connected by lines, only the context, and the dividing line is not clear. In order to grasp the charm and elegance of the font, apart from the calligrapher's intention, Lang Hao and Shuang Duo are more suitable because they are easier to grasp the stop, stop, receive and release. If you use a doubled both brush and make it with reinforcing materials such as mixed wolf hair, it is also quite easy to use, but the flavor expressed is different, and the beautiful words are softer and rounder. When writing lines, pure wool brushes are often difficult to control, and people with deep knowledge rarely try. If you know the nature of the pen, writing speed is fast, you like to change more and increase the ups and downs. Writing lines with pure wool brush can be described as smooth and unique.
3, cursive pen
Cursive script can be divided into Cao Zhang, Jincao and Crazy Grass. Cursive script is between cursive script and present grass, so it is generally attached to present grass.
Cao Zhang evolved from Han Li. Cao Zhang's structure is relatively simple, and his strokes are both cursive and official. Its main feature is that the upper and lower parts are independent and not connected, and there is not much connection between words.
This kind of grass evolved from Cao Zhang. The knot also tends to be rectangular from Cao Zhang's square, but there are still several words connected. His brushwork strengthened the relationship between brushwork, completely removed the meaning of "reason" in brushwork, and showed great changes in form and brushwork during the evolution of calligraphy.
Weeds is one of the most indulgent cursive scripts, with a more unrestrained structure. The pen is undulating and runs freely. Words are continuous, even if the pen is sometimes incoherent, it seems that the pen is broken and connected at one go.
The cursive font has a sense of freedom in modeling, and every point and stroke has a rhythm. Beauty and interest must be relaxed and smooth. Therefore, all cursive writers have many years of writing experience and can write whatever they want. However, in order to achieve good results, they all use wool brushes or double-brush pens, which are made of flexible wool, because the front of the pen is wool, while the waist of the pen is supported by stiff wolf hair, ox ears and other reinforcements, which can make the pen smooth and smooth, with sufficient writing power, not dry and smooth, and the strokes can meet the needs of both sides.
4. Official script pen
Official script is created by removing its complexity and increasing or decreasing its style. The knot is more neat, showing a beautiful and dignified aesthetic feeling. Take Han Li as an example, the use of pen is mainly the change of horizontal painting. The silkworm head and goose tail are full of twists and turns, stretching to the extreme, showing a euphemistic wave trend. If seal script is famous for its arc pen, then official script is famous for its wave potential.
Li Shu's font still has the meaning of seal. Many strokes are backward, and the font is wide and flat, revealing pebbles. Therefore, writing with a pen must be suitable for writing with a reverse pen center, so writing with a wool brush or a double-stranded brush is easier to express. If you write with a wolf pen, the strokes are healthy and sharp, and you must pay more attention to back stroke and back stroke to achieve the effect.
5, seal handwriting pen
There are two kinds of seal script: the big seal script and the small seal script, and their writing methods are basically the same, mainly because their characters are different in complexity and simplicity. The big seal script is more complicated and the small seal script is simpler, so its seal script structure changes from dense to sparse. In terms of structure, Dazhuan is close to Oracle Bone Inscriptions, with a patchwork structure, presenting a natural and simple beauty. Its pen is pure center, with uniform force and free flow. The structure of Xiao Zhuan evolved from Da Zhuan, and its structure is more neat than Da Zhuan, showing the beauty of symmetrical decoration. His pen is not only pure, but also smooth and round, which looks simple and heavy.
After hundreds of years of evolution, although the fonts of seal script are different from long and narrow, wide and flat, sharp and dignified, they all have the common characteristics of * * *, that is, irregular shapes gradually turn into regular arc and round writing, and from Jun Fang's strokes to symmetrical lines. However, most of the learned seal scripts are old and stable, and can be written with sheep's hair brush, especially with long hair or double hair.
6. Pen for Chinese painting
The brush used in Chinese painting is different according to the habits of different painters. For example, wolf brush is vigorous and elastic, and is suitable for drawing vigorous and powerful things, such as beak and claws of birds, branches and leaves of flowers, hooks, strokes, rubs or all lines of landscape painting. For the convenience of readers, this paper briefly introduces several kinds of Chinese painting pens for reference:
(1) The trunk painted by Mei Hua Mei should be old and the branches should be stiff. You should write with a hard pen, such as a wolf brush or a horse brush. There are two ways to draw plum blossoms: double hook method and deboning method; Double-hook method is to draw a circle left and right with a thin pen in the center, choose a wolf's brush and draw with its sharp brushwork. Boning method is poked, which can be poked with a sheep bristle brush.
(2) use pen-and-ink drawing orchids. First, draw the leaves of orchids. Brush with a long knife and wolf when painting, and it is full of ink. The center hangs from the root, and the pen should be neat and neat. The brushwork should reach the tip of the knife, the long leaves should have a turning point, and the strokes should have ups and downs. The brush that reaches this level is called Zhu Lanbi, which is a first-class long-knife wolf pen. This wolf pen has a straight pen, and the nib and pen items should not be too full, which does not show the fine fibers of orchid leaves. Orchids are painted with wolf hair or ghost.
(3) Draw bamboo with strokes, draw bamboo with a center, draw a stick and write branches, and use a pen quickly and forcefully to produce a round and vigorous effect; Bamboo leaves need to express the characteristics of bamboo quickly and powerfully. Therefore, the brush chosen should be strong and sharp, so the brush with wolf hair is the main brush for bamboo painting, and the bamboo pole can also be bold with mountain horse painting.
(4) Using a brush to draw chrysanthemums has been inseparable from the method of hooking flowers and pointing leaves for hundreds of years. When painting petals and branches, you can use a wolf brush and a face brush, and a sheep brush to pile leaves.
(5) It is useful to use the lines of pen landscape painting as the center and side, but the pen is always powerful. With the changes of trees, stones and mountains, the pen should be faltering and flexible. Therefore, pens should be mainly rigid brushes, such as mountain horse pen, stone badger pen, ox ear brush, wolf hair brush and so on. Water or clouds have a floating feeling, which can be painted with a wool brush or a soft brush, and a large area can be painted with a combination brush at one go.