I. Overview:
Stroke emphasizes brushwork. Liang Qichao, a famous scholar in modern times, emphasized the importance of pen power to calligraphy in an article, saying: "Writing depends on pen power, and whether there is pen power determines the quality of words. The presence or absence of pen power, as soon as you write it down, you can see it immediately. "
How can I show my strength with a pen? Sun, a book critic in the Tang Dynasty, said, "All wonderful people should come back together and keep their backs." By backbone, he means the internal strength of using a pen and the external strength of drawing on paper. Dropping some ink dots on paper at will is spineless and powerless; For a person who can't write with a brush, dragging a pen on paper like painting with a brush is spineless. The correct way to write with a brush is to hold the brush directly so that the pen and the paper form a 90-degree angle.
Degree angle.
Second, the practice of improving writing ability:
1, hold the pen with a brush.
At this point, let's emphasize the important role of "Four Treasures of the Study" discussed in the previous chapter. Please compare the basic differences between hard pen writing and brush writing. When writing with a hard pen, the lines are all of average thickness. You can't see, and of course you won't notice, where the author focuses, where he pauses, and where he speeds up. The characters written on rice paper with a brush and black ink are very different: its stippling can show different styles, thick or thin, heavy or light, line or stop, fast or slow, and these styles are all formed at one time. Because when you write every stroke of a word, you always write it in the prescribed order, and you can't redraw it or modify it. Here lies the difficulty and charm of calligraphy. Therefore, we can also understand the resulting brushwork as the writer's ability to master this art.
2, the specific performance of writing techniques:
One is to use more centers. The center is to keep the pen straight when writing, keep the main hair in the center of the stroke to be written, and the auxiliary hair on it naturally falls on both sides. The pen used in the center has bones in the words and is smooth and natural. Opposite the center is the flank, which is sharp and steep because it deflects the cue ball to one side of the line.
The second is to press skillfully. This is an important means to create a sense of magic and rhythm. Lift, that is, when writing, gently lift the pen upward; Pressing is the opposite. Press down hard. Lifting the pen can make the lines look thin and powerful, light and smooth; Press the pen to make the lines thick and powerful, dignified and calm. The thick or thin, light or heavy lines in a word are mainly obtained by this method of lifting and pressing hard.
It is not an easy task to deal with these two diametrically opposite ways of exerting power. When the writer lifts or puts down the pen on time, he has to deal with two different ways of exerting force: walking and staying, that is, one tries to move forward, and the other tries to make it stay or not to walk so fast. This situation is just like a basketball player moving forward with the ball. He ran with the ball while patting it. This skill cannot be achieved overnight.