What are the steps to learn calligraphy?

I have the following experience in learning calligraphy to share with you, hoping to help you:

1. Choose a suitable tool, such as a pen for hard pen or an artistic pen, and choose wool, wolf hair or a mixture of wool and rabbit hair as the writing brush according to your own learning foundation. Generally, Olin Dan or Hero can be used as ink, and thicker ink is recommended for brush calligraphy ink, such as Yidege. Paper selection (pen can use hard paper with good water absorption, brush can use rough paper or old newspaper).

2. Copying copybooks: Friends who have never studied calligraphy can practice according to their favorite copybooks. Generally, hard pen and brush calligraphy have one thing in common-that is, the shelf structure of words is similar, and the fonts will not be ugly if they are well structured. Therefore, the choice of copybook is more critical.

3. Exercise: first observe the structural order, understand the brushwork structure, and then understand the brushwork. Keep practicing for an hour every day.

4. You have to understand the structure of pasting words with your heart, imitate them first, and keep practicing until you are proficient.

5. With the foundation, you can begin to practice writing: it is the overall layout, thickness and size of a word, which can make people feel the charm.

Calligraphy practice is very important and hard. If you want to learn well, you must devote yourself wholeheartedly. It takes several years to write a good-looking one, and ten years to write your own charm. Good luck with your calligraphy!