With the basic skills of regular script, I have mastered the structure and brushwork of regular script, and then I will write regular script, official script, running script and cursive script. Even seal script can get twice the result with half the effort. Regular script can enrich and change the structure of Weibei and Lishu, such as Zhu Suiliang's regular script; Regular script permeates human running script and cursive brushwork, which can increase agility, such as some regular script inscriptions in Zhao Mengfu.
Some beginners are eager to practice running script and cursive script. Because they don't have the basic skills of regular script, they don't have the basic font rules and punctuation skills, although they write like a dragon and a phoenix. As a result, they got twice the result with half the effort and took a detour.
The best way to practice regular script is to paste it. Actually, anything can be pasted. You can choose tablets according to your own preferences, such as Yan, Ou, Liu and Zhao, but try to buy better quality copybooks when buying tablet stickers.
General steps of practicing calligraphy
On the basis of selecting posts, we should go through five steps: reading posts, describing posts, copying posts, carrying posts back and creating posts.
The first step is to read the post
We all know the pronunciation of the posted Chinese characters, so we don't need to read them any more. Read what? Read fonts, read structures, read strokes, and analyze the relationship between stroke characteristics and strokes of Chinese characters. For example, when we read the Chinese character "zhong", we should read that a vertical line of "zhong" passes through the middle of "kou", and the word "kou" is slightly flat. The long vertical line in the middle is divided into two sections with equal length by the lower horizontal line of the mouth, and the upper horizontal line of the mouth is divided into two sections with equal length. This is an interpretation of glyphs and structures. Different fonts and strokes have different characteristics.
The second step is tracking. "Tracing red" refers to tracing red, that is, beginners draw printed red copybooks along the handwriting with a brush. "Imitation" refers to copying the post, that is, covering the model words with transparent paper and writing them one by one along the shadow of the words on the paper, which is also called writing imitation.
The third step is to post. It refers to putting the copybook aside and watching the copybook write word by word. This method is helpful to master the brushwork and meaning of Chinese characters, but it is not easy to master the structure of Chinese characters.
The fourth step is to recite the post. Refers to the method of removing the copybook on the basis of copying, recalling the font on the copybook according to your own memory and writing it on paper. This is a key step in practicing calligraphy. Only by carefully examining the words you read and write, can you write accurately. When writing, if you can see the exact font of the Chinese characters to be written on white paper, so that "the words are on the paper and the words are on the chest", it is not a problem to write a good hand.
The fifth step is creation. On the basis of mastering the writing method of the words on the copybook, I learned the writing method of the words not on the copybook by analogy. According to the needs of self-expression, writing a paragraph with center, content and self-contained system is creation.
If you can write a word close to copybook in your daily study and life, your purpose of practicing calligraphy will be achieved.
Practice posture:
When practicing calligraphy, we should pay attention to the posture and method of writing, so as to achieve "head straight, body straight, arms open and feet safe" There are writing postures and methods in general copybooks.