Appreciation of Huigong Pavilion's exquisite hard-pen calligraphy works If you want to write well, you must first improve your aesthetic awareness, that is, you must know what the words look like and why they look good. Secondly, you can write the beautiful shape you want to write with the pen in your hand. This is your pen control ability, which is the basic skill of writing. So if you have a certain aesthetic awareness and basic skills, you will 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 ponder more at ordinary times, so as to achieve eye-to-eye, hand in hand and heart in heart. There is no shortcut to practicing calligraphy.
What kind of words are good-looking words? The quality of a word is nothing more than its line and frame structure; For a word, besides a single word, it depends on its layout (that is, composition). Beautiful lines should have clear veins, smooth brushwork, appropriate priorities, beautiful forms and expressions, full of vitality, light or heavy, slow or urgent, rigid or soft, and return to nature. And those lines that are unclear, inflexible, hesitant and impermanent are naturally not good-looking; Shelf structure, that is, the stroke collocation of a word, such as length, straightness, placement angle, stroke spacing, thickness (thickness), context and so on. For beginners, before considering changes according to needs and personal habits (personality), it is advisable to be symmetrical and dignified in the structure of the font frame.
The Correct Method of Mastering Hard Pen Calligraphy