Tracing refers to following visible lines or text through transparent paper covering the original (such as drawings, prints, manuscripts), or tracing or tracing as it is.
1. The origin of tracing:
Tracing originated in ancient Greece and Rome. After development during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it has become an indispensable part of modern painting learning. At the same time, tracing is often mixed with artistic creation. Through tracing, artists can improve their insight and imagination into their works and create new artistic styles and forms.
2. Learning skills of tracing:
Learning skills mainly focus on the process of copying. When practicing calligraphy, it is best to combine tracing and copying, each using its own strengths and avoiding each other. Its short. In addition, you should often read posts, carefully observe, analyze, and experience. You can "blank" with your hands while reading.
3. The role of tracing:
Tracing can improve the painter's artistic quality and painting techniques, and improve his or her own composition ability. In the process of copying, he can trace according to his actual needs. Works that are better than your own, target your own weaknesses, and enhance your creative awareness, but you must depict excellent and classic paintings.
Notes on tracing:
1. Do not use a dedicated center or dedicated winger:
It is advisable to use both center and flanker. Special attention should be paid to the fact that the purpose is to In front of the pen, the direction of the stroke should be clear. The wrist should be round and the pen should be square. Use the center forward for thin areas and the side forward for thick areas.
2. Don’t use too many eyes:
Having eyes everywhere means no eyes, but you should also consider that the middle line is the focus of the work. In a work, there must be several prominent, wonderful, and individual characters, which are also called "eyes of the book." The small and large characters alternate, and the light and heavy characters are staggered, so that it can be "unrestrained and novel."
3. Don’t dip in ink one word at a time:
The pen should be evenly distributed and the ink should be evenly distributed. It is better to use thick ink when starting again. The strokes of thick ink characters should be clearly explained. The areas of characters with heavy pen and ink cannot be equal, and there must be a transition in the weight of the characters. Even when there is no ink, you can see that there is a pen in the characters. The most avoidable thing is a lump-like blur. You must be careful when using expanded ink. It cannot be a mess or nothing at all. Bookish.