Beginners who practice seal carving must first pay attention to their hands, so as not to be carved by the carving knife. In addition to paying special attention to your own hands, you also need to be wary of various novice seal cutting sets and stone sets on certain treasures. It’s not that these novice sets and stone sets are bad. If you just want to experience seal carving, these sets are a good choice. They are relatively cheap and have all the items. But if you want to play seriously, these sets are too useless.
At the bottom of the answer, I recommended more than a hundred seal-cutting books. You can take a look. All of these seal-cutting books are available in the lower right corner of the top seal-cutting picture.
Just now. To start learning seal cutting, you need a good knife. The knife is divided into tungsten steel and white steel. Tungsten steel knives are hard and not easy to wear, but they are also brittle. Some bumps may cause the blade to break. After the blade is broken, it is difficult to sharpen it because it is too hard. White steel knives are relatively soft and easy to wear, but they have good toughness. Most bumps will cause the blade to curl. And white steel knives are easy to sharpen because they are soft. Also, white steel knives are generally cheaper than tungsten steel knives. I have more experience with tungsten steel knives and less with white steel knives, so I can only recommend tungsten steel knives. For the tungsten steel knife, choose the most common Yongzi knife. It doesn’t need to be so fancy. Generally, you can buy an eight mm or six mm one. You can also match it with a three mm or two mm one to clean the bottom or carve some fine inscriptions. Generally, two Yongzi knives cost up to 70 yuan, and if you don’t break them, you can use them for a few years without any problem.
As for stones, just buy Qingtian stone or red stone. I recommend Qingtian stone because Qingtian stone is cheap and easy to carve. I went to Taobao to search for "Qingtian Jinshifang" (I didn't take any money). I often buy stones from this store. The prices are cheap and the quality of the stones is good.
Then there is the ink pad. For the ink pad, you can buy a cheap one first, such as "double-dimensional", which is cheap and affordable (I didn't take any money). Later, you can buy some good ones, such as ink pads from Xiling, Shanghai.
The last thing is the seal book. This is the key point. Just buy a Han seal seal book at the beginning. You can buy it on Taobao for only ten or twenty yuan. It takes more time to get started with Han Seal, and more in-depth study in the later stage. The famous Zhejiang School, Shanghai School, Anhui School, and Beijing School are all closely related to Han Seal.
Finally, remember to write more seal characters. After all, "the seal comes from the book". Writing too many seal characters will have a great effect on the layout of the seal and the use of seal characters.
Last and last, there are some miscellaneous little things, such as Lianshi paper (used for stamping), transfer paper (used for transferring stamps to stones), bristle brushes (For edge extensions), small regular script pen, ink, etc.
It is estimated that it will cost about one or two hundred yuan to buy tools at the beginning. It will cost more in the early stage, but it will definitely cost very little in the later stage. Be careful, do not buy various beginner kits on Taobao and separate all the tools. purchase. (I didn’t get paid for publicity, nor did I get paid to be a troll)
The above are some of my personal opinions, I hope they can help.
Pay attention to the lower right corner of the picture. All the seal cutting books and materials are from here
Recommended seal cutting reference book catalog:
│? Shanxi Museum Collection of Ancient Times Seal seal.pdf
│?億山stele.pdf
│?億山stele and seal script techniques.pdf
│?億山stele and its calligraphy techniques .pdf
│?Zhang Linjun’s Tao Te Ching.pdf
│?Photocopying of ancient seal carving studies by Deng Sanmu.pdf
│?Xu Zhenglian talks about knife techniques and lines. pdf
│?Warring States Text Collection.pdf
│?Research on the Seal Roots of the Warring States Period.ZIP
│?Famous Bibliophiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties - Collection of Seals. pdf
│?A famous bibliophile in the Ming and Qing Dynasties[1].Book collection seal..pdf
│?Mr. Lai Yishi’s seal cutting.pdf
│?Lai Seals for Chu Sheng’s own use [refined rubbings from original stones].pdf
│?Selected Seals from Xiling Seal Society [Volume 1].pdf
│?Seals from Xiling Seal Society Select [Volume 2].pdf
│?Xiling Four Family Seals.pdf
│?Xiling Autumn Auction Chen Julai Boutique.pdf
│? Original copy of Zhao Zhiqian's seal spectrum.pdf
│?Knowledge of edge inscriptions and sealing techniques.pdf
│?Copying tutorial as a gift for novices in seal cutting.pdf
│?Xiaoyao-Ten squares of recent works by Wuling Laojing.pdf
│?Deng Sanmu’s original rubbing manuscript.pdf
│?Jin Yi’an seal cutting.pdf
│?Selected Han Jade Seal (original).jpg
│?Han Wadang Boutique.doc
│?Han Private Seal.pdf
│?Wow Guan Seal Pu.pdf
│?Shenyang Ancient Books: Hundred-Title Thousand-Character Text.pdf
│?History of Sha Meng Hai Seal Study.pdf
│?Sha Cun Seal Words - Sha Menghai.pdf
│?Warring States sealing mud unearthed in Xincai area of ??Zhumadian, Henan.pdf
│?Compilation of ancient seals.pdf
│?150 examples of appreciation of ancient seals.pdf
│?Interpretation of ancient seals.pdf
│?Compilation of ancient pottery texts.pdf
│?High definition Private Seals of the Han Dynasty 2.pdf
│?Fang Jiekan’s Fine Bird and Insect Seals.pdf
│?Shi Xiaofeng Seal Engraving Online Exhibition.pdf
│? Seal cutting techniques - how to use a knife.pdf
│?Dictionary of seal cutting techniques.pdf
│?The four most common misunderstandings among seal cutting enthusiasts.pdf
│?200 cases of review and revision of sick seals_Han Tianheng.pdf
│?Summary of review and revision of sick seals.pdf
│?Another side of margins that cannot be ignored in the art of seal cutting.pdf
│?Seal Engraving Dimension.pdf
│?Luo Fuyi + Chinese Seal Text Collection Supplement.pdf
│ Seal Engraving Compilation of Pre-Qin Seals.pdf
│ "The Collection of Ancient Seals"
│ "The Collection of Ancient Seals" Luo Fuyi.pdf
│ "The Collection of Ancient Seals".pdf
│ ?Identification and writing method of seal script.pdf
│ ?Seal script seal script.pdf
│ ?Seal script glossary.pdf
│ ?Collection of ancient seal script supplement six Shutong.pdf
│?Niao Chongshu Tongkao.pdf
│?Seven Textual Research and Interpretations of the Warring States Seal Seal.pdf
│?Warring States Period Seal Compiled by area.pdf
│?Handheld epigraphic dictionary.CHM
│?Selected ancient seals collected by the Palace Museum.pdf
│?Collected by the Palace Museum Selection of zodiac seals.pdf
│?Fang Jiekan's original printed spectrum of "Heart Sutra".pdf
│?Fang Jiekan's seal script of "Heart Sutra".pdf
│?Daqian Seal.pdf
│?Tianjin Museum Collection Seal.pdf
│?Anzhi Jingshe Seal.djvu
│?宝 Zi stele.pdf
│?Compilation of sealing mud-Fu'an.pdf
│?General's seal 10
0 square.rar
│?Lu Xu Three Generations of Zhu Traces.pdf
│?Chronicle of the History of Seal Engraving.txt
│?Seal Genealogy of the Four Masters of Seal Engraving. pdf
│?Jade Seal Collection.pdf
│?Jade Seal (reverse).jpg
│?Jade Seal (front).jpg
p>│?Wang Fu'an.pdf
│?Wang Fu'an's printing.pdf
│?Wang Fu'an's original seal rubbing.rar
│?Wang Fu'an Seal Script Thousand-Character Essay.pdf
│?Wang Fu'an Seal Script Commentary Part Catalog.pdf
│?Ancient Seal Compilation.pdf
│?Ancient Seal Compilation and Explanation Supplements and classification revision.pdf
│?Luo Fuyi’s Seal Selection.pdf
│?Guo Jizi’s White Plate and Late Qing Dynasty Zhu Tuo.pdf
│?Xixia Official Seal Huikao.pdf
│?Xiling Seal Society’s century-old collection of exquisite works.pdf
│?Appreciation of the works of Yuan Daohou, a member of Xiling Seal Society.pdf
│ ?Xiling Seal Society Collection-Xiling Eight Masters of Seal Engraving.pdf
│?The master of Baishanzhai hand-made the seal used by Beihong.pdf
│?Fu'an seal engraving.pdf< /p>
│?Compilation of Qin Seal Texts.pdf
│?Selected Bird and Insect Seals of Qin and Han Dynasties.pdf
│?Concise Chinese Philology [Revised Edition].pdf
│?A Hundred Days Guide to Seal Script Techniques.pdf
│?Identification and Writing Methods of Seal Script.pdf
│?Wang Mianzhi’s Prescription Lecture Notes.pdf
│?Gan's collection of ancient seals.pdf
│?Seal surface.pdf
│?Comparison of authentic thousand-character inscriptions in past dynasties·Seal script scroll.pdf
│?A series of Chinese seals with seal styles of past dynasties.pdf
│?Selected seal cutting works of past dynasties.doc
│?Collection of ancient graphic seals.pdf
< p>│?Wu Changshuo's Stone Drum Inscriptions.pdf│?Exhibition of Wu Yiren's seal cutting works.pdf
│?Illustrated ancient Chinese characters.pdf
│?Basic Chinese characters Interpretation of Forms and Meanings.pdf
│?Addition to Xu Sangeng's Seal Manual.pdf
│?Renchen Year Welcomes the Spring Seal Engraving Exhibition.pdf
│?Big Dictionary of Bronze Inscriptions. pdf
│?Jinwen Bian (fourth edition).pdf
│?Selected manuscripts of Chen Julai’s printing and ink printing.pdf
│?Green clay legacy-new A special collection of clay seals from the Qin and Han Dynasties.pdf
│?Seal script composition.pdf
│?Seal cutting.doc
│?Fifty lectures on seal cutting_Wu Yiren.pdf< /p>
│?Introduction to seal carving.pdf
│?Common knowledge of seal carving techniques.pdf
│?"Yishan Stele" collected by Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.pdf
│?Selected Bird and Insect Seals (Reverse).jpg
│?Qi Baishi Seal [Original Stone Precision].pdf