I am good at hard pen calligraphy, and I passed Band 6 in high school. But I didn't spend much time practicing. Mainly a summer vacation in junior high school, I studied with a teacher for a while, and then I worked hard when I wrote.
First of all, I don't like Pang Zhonghua's handwriting very much. I feel very rigid. But there are still good copybooks.
You don't have to imitate it completely, just pick one you like and have a look. In the final analysis, we still need an environment and good writing.
I recommend that if you want to write a good running script, you should practice first. First of all, the basic strokes should be practiced well. For example, you should find that the horizontal strokes of regular script are different from the beginning to the end, with the strokes being heavier in the middle and lighter in the middle.
Practicing regular script does not mean writing regular script at ordinary times, but writing running script should have a shelf and not be soft. My roommate always wanted to learn running script, so I taught her. However, because she doesn't have the basis of regular script, the running script she wrote gives people the feeling that it is only a little similar to the appearance, but it is completely light, soft and empty.
After practicing regular script, it is very simple to practice running script. Running script just changed the order of many strokes. For example, next to the word "wo", people usually write horizontally, but when writing a running script, the second stroke is written vertically; The word "door" is usually written first, but when writing a running script, it is written vertically first, then clicked, and then quickly ticked. Many radicals and simplified characters have changed their stroke order, and you will get used to it once you know it.
Secondly, structurally, it is regular. For example, there are words on the right, and it should be thinner on the left, and the "knee" and "moon" in the picture should be thinner, so it looks more balanced. The last stroke of "in" you write must be flat, or a word will feel like flying. And your "down", your point is higher, and the whole word is refreshed. And your "you" is longer horizontally, and your "moon" is also longer. Usually, the characters with up-and-down structure have a slightly longer top to appear stable. When practicing calligraphy, you should also experience it yourself. The structure is fairly regular. For example, the law of left and right structure is that the left side is narrow and the right side is wide, like the right side of "line" and "emotion", the left side is wide and the right side is narrow; There is also a short left and a long right, such as "freshness" and "reason". These rules can be summarized by looking at other people's beautiful calligraphy yourself.
So I still insist on practicing regular script first, then running script, and pay attention to the structural rules carefully.