In my teaching experience, if adults want to write hard-pen calligraphy well, they must pay attention to the following issues:
First, when practicing, they are copying and tracing (copying) This is very important and determines the success of your calligraphy practice.
Tracing is a method often used by adults to learn hard-pen calligraphy. An important feature of tracing is passive practice, which is a mechanical repetition of an action. This is completely different from practice making perfect. We know that when we ask ourselves to draw a painting, we can basically draw an accurate picture, but when we are asked to draw a gourd and a gourd, we often cannot even draw a three or four-point pattern. Even if you trace dozens of times, your painting level has not improved. Because tracing is mechanical, the brain's learning component is only secondary. To write good calligraphy, you must pay attention to "the intention comes first", that is, you have the image of the word in your mind and then write it out. The opposite is true for tracing. Good writing cannot produce conditioned reflexes in the brain, so after leaving the copybook, the writing is still the same as before.
Copying posts is a misunderstanding. What you care about every day is just the quantity. After copying it dozens or hundreds of times, the words on the copybook are the same and what I write is another. This practice method is nothing more than "copying homework" and you won't learn much. Quantity and quality are not the same concept, so copying is actually copying the text of the copybook, not the calligraphy of the copybook. What you copy is still your own handwriting, and what you repeat is still your own mistakes.
Post-writing is a more important learning method. But you must understand the essentials of writing a post, which cannot be explained in a few words. But there are a few key points that you need to know:
1. Use your brain when writing a copybook. Use your brain to think about how the words on the copybook are written, what the strokes are like, and what the combination is.
2. When writing a post, you should always compare it with the original post. After the first pass, you should go back and compare it with the original post. After you find the shortcomings, write again, compare again, and repeat until you are done. Otherwise, repeating it over and over again will reinforce your mistakes. 3. When writing a calligraphy, "the intention comes before the writing", which means that you should have the image of the word in your mind before writing. Therefore, you need to read the copybook frequently and remember the writing method of the words in the copybook. The more you read it, the more you will become familiar with it. . "Reading thousands of volumes, writing like a god" is still important for calligraphy.
Second, forget your previous fonts and practice the basics in a down-to-earth manner
If adults want to learn calligraphy thoroughly, they must forget their previous fonts and recognize the meaning of their own handwriting. Ugly, even disgusting and disgusting with my own words. Then start from scratch, starting from the most basic dots and strokes, and then to the structure. This should be the case for temporary posts. When writing, you should still write in the same way as when you practice hard-pen calligraphy. No matter how slow you are, you must forget your previous font.
Third, correct the structure
For hard-pen calligraphy, the structure must be corrected first. Regardless of whether you are using a hard pen or a soft pen, you must first adjust the structure. The quality of the structure directly affects the overall effect of the characters. Choose a regular script copybook that you like, but this copybook must have good calligraphy and beautiful calligraphy. You are not required to write regular script well. Of course, it is best if you can write regular script well. The function of regular script copybooks is to straighten the glyphs and adjust the structure.
Fourth, to establish a sense of interest
I suggest that students write a few words before practice and then write the same few words after practice to compare the effects. If the effect is obvious, Your interest in writing will be greatly increased. Often, the practice effect is very good in the beginning. After this period of high interest, it enters a period of depression, with slow progress, little effect, and slowly declining interest. Therefore, it is necessary to let students realize their progress, realize their advantages, and cultivate their interest. Only in this way can they practice hard calligraphy well.
Fifth, professional guidance and practice
It is best to learn from the teacher when practicing hard-written calligraphy. The teacher will give guidance in all aspects so that you will not go astray. The effectiveness of exercises led by a teacher is several times that of one's own contact. Sometimes the confusion in calligraphy is not that there are many gaps, but that there is a lack of guidance from teachers.
Do you know how many requirements a word requires? Do you know the saying "a slight difference is a thousand miles away"? Do you know where your handwriting has shortcomings? If you can't see this, progress will certainly be slow.
Calligraphy works of Fengge calligraphy students
The role of the teacher is irreplaceable. Of course, the more important thing is your own practice. You don’t need a lot of practice. 20 minutes a day is enough.
Come on, although it is not easy, it is a very happy thing to practice your calligraphy well through your own efforts.