The shelf of strokes: this is formed after long-term training. Nowadays, many people think that regular script is too simple to look good, so they don't practice regular script, but regular script is a good font for practicing strokes. Spend some time copying and practicing every day. Only when the shelf is set up can the font itself look good.
Brush strokes: Brush strokes are not particularly important in hard pen, but they can really affect the beauty of a word. A monotonous stroke, even if the shelf looks good, is all bad words, let alone a good signature. To practice calligraphy, you should copy every structure of soft-pen calligraphy, that is, "start the pen against the front and return to the front to collect the pen."
Flexibility and random variability of strokes: This requires learning other fonts, especially English fonts. The round body is recommended here, because the strokes of the round body are flexible and suitable for China people.
calligraphy
China's calligraphy is a unique traditional art in China, which is mainly divided into "soft pen calligraphy" and "hard pen calligraphy". Throughout the ages, Chinese characters in China have been created by working people, and pictures have been used to record them. After thousands of years of development, it has evolved into today's writing, and because our ancestors invented the writing brush, calligraphy came into being.
Throughout the ages, Chinese characters have been written mainly with brush. As for other writing forms, such as hard pen and finger writing, their writing rules are not completely different from those of brush writing, but they are basically the same. Based on tracing the source (after Oracle bone inscriptions), this paper focuses on the law of writing Chinese characters with a brush.
As long as we have a "narrow" understanding of calligraphy, it will be of great benefit to understand "broad" calligraphy. Calligraphy in a narrow sense refers to the methods and laws of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including writing, calligraphy, stippling, structure, layout (distribution, lines, composition) and so on.