1. Preparation: Choose a suitable pen and paper to ensure good pen and ink quality and smooth paper without creases.
2. Holding posture: The correct holding posture is to keep your fingers relaxed and natural, hold the pen body with your middle finger, ring finger and thumb, and hold the pen tip with your index finger and little finger. This pen holding posture is conducive to the fluency and accuracy of writing.
3. Adjust handwriting: Everyone's writing habits and needs are different, and the intensity of handwriting can be adjusted according to personal preferences. By mastering the angle of the pen tip and the applied force, the writing force can be adjusted.
4. Stroke structure: Pay attention to the clear and coherent stroke structure when writing. To make strokes smooth, we must first control the center of gravity of the pen and keep the movements stable when writing.
5. writing speed: control the speed when writing, neither too fast and unclear, nor too slow and time-consuming. Mastering proper writing speed can improve writing efficiency and quality.
6. Writing posture: Keep correct sitting posture and standing posture, and let the arms and shoulders relax naturally, which is conducive to the stability and comfort of writing.
7. Font specification: Pay attention to font specification when writing. The font should be neat and tidy, the strokes should be symmetrical, and the spacing between words and lines should be uniform.
8. Correction and erasure: If writing is wrong or needs to be revised, you can correct and erase it with an eraser or other correction tools.
In short, the steps of writing with a pen can be simply summarized as: preparation, pen holding posture, handwriting adjustment, stroke structure, writing speed, writing posture, font specification, correction and erasure, etc. Good writing habits and skills can improve the quality and efficiency of writing.
From the perspective of calligraphy art, the form and writing style of each stroke are not exactly the same for works with different styles or the same style. If they are exactly the same, there is no art at all. Using a pen is one of the elements of calligraphy art.
Calligraphers of all ages have expounded the use of pens in calligraphy. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, once said: "Breaking the hairpin, Master Yan leaking the method, Wang Youjun painting sand on the cone, and Huai Su flying out of the forest, startled the snake into the grass, and hooked the egg tail, all of which are the same brushwork: the heart does not know the hand, and the hand does not know the method.
According to the calligraphy pen mentioned by Mr. Qi Gong, the basic points of calligraphy pen can be summarized as follows: center and flank, exposed front and hidden front, Fang Bi and round pen, hanging needle and exposed, and late speed, fat and thin, shade and so on.