When creating your own calligraphy works, you should pay attention to the following points:
First, the choice of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Before writing calligraphy, you need to prepare pens, ink, paper and inkstones. There are two kinds of brushes, wolf hair and wool. You can choose wolf hair when you start writing, which is easier to control. Choose better bottled ink, some inferior inks are too strong. Paper is Xuan paper, as the case may be. When choosing an inkstone, you can choose a slightly better one, depending on your own economic situation.
After the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are selected, some auxiliary equipment is needed, such as paperweight, felt, small bucket and so on.
Second, choose the appropriate content and font.
If you are creating for the first time, you should pay special attention to the choice of font and content.
Say the content first. When choosing, you can choose an ancient poem with fewer words, or something you are familiar with, which can be a word or an ancient poem.
After the content is selected, you can conduct special training on the content and write these words well. In the process of practice, we should choose the appropriate font, official script, regular script, seal script or running script, choose familiar fonts to practice repeatedly, master the frame structure and writing skills of fonts, and try to create when we are very familiar with them.
If you choose more words, you should pay attention to the different ways of writing a word when practicing, and master more ways of writing, so that you can use it flexibly when writing.
Third, pay attention to the change of font.
Everyone should understand that writing a word well does not mean that you can write a calligraphy work well. Calligraphy works attach great importance to change and unity in font selection and structural arrangement. In a calligraphy work, if the same word appears more than twice, there will definitely be different changes.
In the process of writing, everyone should pursue such a unified overall style. If every word is written the same, it won't look good. Everyone should pay attention to all kinds of changes between words and paragraphs, and unify this change with the overall style of the work.
Fourth, pay attention to the coordination of the overall style.
A calligraphy work is a complete whole, where to be heavy and where to be light is very particular. Everyone should pay attention to the special arrangement and design when writing, so that the overall layout of calligraphy is more reasonable and coordinated.
Calligraphy works pay attention to one stroke and one ink, that is to say, from the beginning to the end of a work, different pen and ink changes should be used to express the aesthetic feeling of calligraphy, which looks like one stroke and one painting, called "one stroke and one ink". The shade, density and moistening of a work have different changes, which are all expressed through the changes of pen and ink. Everyone should attach great importance to it.
Fifth, pay attention to signature and seal.
After the work is completed, it must be signed and sealed. At this time, we should pay attention to the position and font of the seal. The position of the seal is generally located in the upper left third of the calligraphy works, which is in line with the golden ratio. The font used in the inscription should be consistent with the font of the calligraphy works. For example, when writing a pair of official script works, it is best to use official script or regular script to match the main style of the works.
The same is true for stamping. What kind of seal to choose, what font to use and what shape to use should be determined according to the characteristics of the work and consistent with the overall style of the work.
Creating one's own calligraphy works is very important for building confidence in learning calligraphy. After practicing calligraphy for a period of time, everyone can try to create, which will not only help improve their understanding of calligraphy, but also quickly find their own problems and shortcomings, and point out the direction for future practice.
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