A soft pen is a pen with a relatively soft head. It is generally more common when drawing. The lines drawn by a soft pen are more obvious, and can distinguish delicate and natural changes in thickness, and the paintings drawn are very charming.
Generally, soft pens are also considered large beauty pens. They are used with side strokes. They are not very suitable for writing calligraphy, but they can train the frame structure.
The recommendation for learning calligraphy is to use a brush to practice, or you can practice hard-pen calligraphy. Hard-pen calligraphy is more commonly used in life, and after you become proficient in hard-pen calligraphy, learning the brush will become easier.
Hard-pen calligraphy and brush calligraphy promote each other. The structure and brushwork of fonts are the same. Hard-pen calligraphy takes less time than brush calligraphy. When learning brush calligraphy, A long-term process.
Brush calligraphy has a longer history than hard-pen calligraphy, which only became popular in the 1980s. When writing calligraphy with a calligraphy brush, the strokes will be thicker if you press it harder, and the strokes will be thinner if you press it lightly. Therefore, it is very important to control the calligraphy brush. Only when the calligraphy brush is used well can the handwritten characters be thick or thin.
The more important thing about calligraphy practice is to practice every day. Over time, you will make progress. The tools only play an important supporting role.