Dismantle-Dismantle the components of stippling.
Extract information-extract direction
Establishing evaluation system-what is the right direction expression?
Repetitive training
Feedback and correction
resolve
Even if it is a horizontal stroke, it is necessary to take a deliberate practice by means of decomposition. It contains the following elements:
Maybe you can judge the horizontal line of a message in the first time, but when the visual system reads the image information of the text, it doesn't split all the stipplings into groups and read them separately, but reads the text as a whole first and then analyzes it quickly. In this process, the information in the image itself will be deleted by the brain. In the end, all you have in your mind is a message that has been deleted by your brain, and these deleted messages just need us to master.
Is it feasible to read this information just by reading a word for ten minutes or even fifteen minutes? It is feasible in theory, but it is more likely that you will try it, just like paddling. Because the learning style of the brain is more inclined to "strengthen the sum of local effects is greater than the whole", the former belongs to deliberate training, and the latter's training style itself has the attribute of "paddling".
Analyze the brain's judgment process of these elements.
Trend: What you see is what you get, without judgment.
Length: You can draw a conclusion after a little observation and judge for yourself.
Direction: the direction needs careful observation, because the writer is easily confused by radian when observing, such as an arc that looks like a straight line.
Curvature: This is the difficulty of writing, which is subject to the revision of the "principle of least effort" and the natural inaccuracy of writing action expression, and needs to be revised repeatedly from the perspective of writing. From the point of view of "deliberate training", radian training should be the later training requirement, and the marginal benefit brought by training radian is small, which is easy for learners to feel frustrated at the beginning.
Speed: Speed and the rhythm brought by speed changes will have an impact on writing, such as radian. Speed will increase or decrease the radian of stippling. When ordinary people receive writing training in the early stage, they usually don't consider the influence of speed on writing.
Looking at these elements, the direction has become the most worthwhile training project in the early stage of writing learning, and it is also the most marginal benefit.
Direction type
Direction training actually revolves around one thing: people can't express long straight lines easily and smoothly, but only short straight lines.
In the first step of learning to write correctly, it is mentioned that the essence of writing is to use the activities of joints and muscles to express rich lines. The arc activity of joints makes the writing of stippling take arc as the main form of writing.
Assuming that the starting and ending items of a horizontal line are A and B, in the case of short distance and medium distance, there will be such a trend:
In calligraphy, these two directions are common:
But if the length is extended again, the curvature will be too large:
Although this exaggerated "horizontal" is written smoothly and easily, it is obviously not satisfactory visually. Minimize the radian, or even reduce it to a straight line, which is visually beautiful, but it makes the writing no longer smooth and easy. For this paradox, the ancients came up with a solution: using waveforms in different directions to offset the radian of the whole line.
Wrong idea
But the horizontal line shown in the above picture is still not the most common form of long horizontal line in traditional calligraphy:
This is a long horizontal line that conforms to your cognition, which is simplified by many people as:
Press its head and tail hard on purpose.
Distort it on purpose
Of course, there is no problem in this way of writing from the aesthetic point of view, but aesthetics is not the highest priority of writing. Most people want to "write" the word well, rather than "create" the word XX. No one will deliberately "pause" the hard pen in daily writing. So the question comes back: "Did the ancients also need to" deliberately press hard at the head and tail, but also deliberately twist? "
Let's take a look at the real daily writing of the ancients.
This is the book of Buddhist scriptures in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which embodies the form in the daily writing state. Note that most long strokes in the picture have a "pause" action at the beginning and end of the pen. But do you deliberately "pause" with a hard pen in your daily writing?
The reason why the ancients deliberately "paused" when writing was because the brush was conical. If you don't "pause" to expand the brush, the horizontal shape looks like this:
Taking advantage of the "soft and elastic" characteristics of the brush, you can quickly unfold the pen by "pausing" it at the beginning. The ancients called the technique of spreading brush with quick movements "spreading brush". In the history of calligraphy, there are various forms of starting a pen, but no matter which one, the brush is spread out and the lines are thick enough. (In fact, it will also involve the action of putting the pen tip on the paper by paving, so I won't go into details for the time being. )
The brush is elastic. If you put down the brush at the beginning of writing, you will naturally receive the reaction force of the paper in the middle of writing, and the elasticity makes the stippling on the paper in a "press-lift-press" posture.
Sun, a book critic in the Tang Dynasty, mentioned in the Book of Paintings that "painting changes from painting to painting and from peak to peak; Within one minute; In essence, the improvement of lines is the writer's adaptation and control of brush elasticity, not deliberate man-made. What is really created in the field of calligraphy is precisely those jade seals that have not been mentioned.
The picture above is the work of A Qing Wang Shu. In order to achieve the effect of "jade tendon" with the same thickness, he did not hesitate to burn his hair and tie it up. You can see that the inscription on the left looks strange, which is formed by the burning of the nib.
For a writing brush, it is normal to have pressure, but not normal to have no pressure.
For a hard pen, it is normal not to press it, but it is abnormal to press it.
Direction judgment
The difficulty in judging the direction is that the middle part of stippling looks like a straight line. There are two reasons:
Most people judge the direction of a line by the upper contour of the line, ignoring the small contour. Real judgment needs to find the central axis.
First, because of the speed and the author's strong proficiency, the author can show a subtle arc that makes people look like a straight line. But implication does not mean vagueness. The ancients used curves as straight lines, not straight lines.
If the direction of the line is separated from the line, then the image or omission must not be taken as clear feedback. A new evaluation system must be established to meet the needs of deliberate training.
The correctness of the direction, please use the arrow symbol to indicate.
Write fluently and easily, give up fingers that are not suitable for long-term writing, and complete "the most labor-saving writing" with your wrist or even your arm.
The ductility and smoothness of lines make the line system of lines look smooth and beautiful.
If you only emphasize the need to express the line direction smoothly, then you only need to do these three points, and the others will not be used as training points in this chapter for the time being. So you can express a stroke in the following form.
Exploration of ductility
For the three standards just now, the biggest problem will be how to reflect "extensibility". I googled the photos of rattan.
It is not clear whether Figure 2 can be regarded as a "vine", but both pictures illustrate the extensibility of lines-lines with smooth radians and small curvatures.
Expressing such lines requires joints with small curvature, which is one of the reasons why I advocate wrist instead of finger as the main force point.
There are two ways to recommend it to everyone and force yourself.
Change from the posture of writing: many people write, and the index finger bends backwards to provide strength. Let me introduce a writing posture that actively makes your fingers feel powerless:
This pen holding posture can make the writer unable to control the pen flexibly through finger strength, which is very effective.
Expand your writing scope.
Mi Fei said in the book "Hai Yue Ming":
All big characters should be like small characters, and small characters should be like big characters. Chu Suiliang's fine print is like a big character, which was later passed down by his ancestors, with occasional wonderful people. Big words, such as small words, are invisible.
The purpose of writing big characters is to make the writer feel the limitations brought by finger writing, thus forcing the pen at the input end to change from the output end.
When writing, there are two writing ranges:
Limit writing distance
Comfortable writing distance
This is equivalent to the fact that the stride of running is different from that of walking. The former belongs to the limit range and the latter belongs to the comfort range. In writing, we generally use a comfortable writing range. However, when practicing calligraphy, many people will stubbornly adopt the same writing skills as before, because the "limit writing distance" of fingers is similar to the "comfortable range of motion" of wrists, so the writing range is so large that even the "limit writing range" of fingers can't be written, and the strength of learners will definitely change.
After forming a habit, the brain usually doesn't like to change. It is difficult to change the habit without forcing the brain to change it from the outside.
First determine the size of the grid, then use a new gel pen to write lines outside the grid, and then use the same action to write lines inside the grid, so as to ensure that when writing some pictures, there is still the scope of the writer's activities, and the remaining actions will be used for other purposes.
How to check the action
Please put the handle frame directly above your hand with the lazy support and record the writing action.