With the development of this form, today's society has also spawned various calligraphy competitions or exhibitions, and in the face of these various competitions and exhibitions, people have also summed up many "exhibition templates" and "award-winning templates", such as hard pens, especially brush pens. In the hard pen competition, the manuscript paper of various works is a small piece of paper, but the layout is colorful. When writing calligraphy works on it, what attracts people's attention is various layout designs, but the basic skills of Chinese characters are ignored, which is very distracting. Really means putting the cart before the horse.
So in view of the problem, I personally think that the quality of a good work lies not in the external decoration, but in the kind of interest and level contained in the word itself. Therefore, when practicing at ordinary times, you don't have to be too demanding on material conditions. You can take a piece of paper in your hand and practice calligraphy with a pen. When writing a complete work, you can consider using slightly better plain paper. What is plain paper? That is, a piece of manuscript paper, without too many decorative patterns.
Pen calligraphy generally uses hard pen calligraphy special paper. Because pen writing has certain damping, it is best to choose paper with smooth paper surface and good ink absorption. In fact, I have used a lot of copy paper and the effect is very good. If it is a gel pen, the paper surface can be a little rough, because the ballpoint pen head is slippery, just neutral and easy to control! Like Monken paper is a good choice.