The method of practicing calligraphy with gel pen is: choose a good pen and paper, use the correct pen holding posture, master the stroke direction, font structure and overall layout, and practice more persistently. :
1. Choose a pen that works well.
You need to choose a gel pen with smooth water and a certain weight, so that you can feel it when you practice.
2. Choose good paper.
for beginners, it is still necessary to use good paper. After all, if you want to do something, you must sharpen your tools first.
3. Stroke direction.
A word is composed of multiple strokes, so the most fundamental thing of any word is the embodiment of the strokes. The strokes seem simple, but it still needs some practice to write as you like.
4. glyph structure.
strokes are the composition of words. What needs to be seen is how the word is composed of these strokes.
5. Overall layout.
Pay attention to how the size of each word changes. You can find some short poems, write each word 2 times first, and then write it 2 or even 3 times as a whole.
Grasping skills of gel pen:
1. Formula: one touch, two presses, three sets off, flexible fingers and palms, appropriate angle, positive direction, and meticulous strokes.
2. One-touch: refers to touching the pen from the bottom to the top with the nail root of the middle finger, leaving a distance of one inch for the pen holder, usually when the pencil sharpener turns out the conical root.
3. Second pressing: It means that the pen is squeezed with the thumb from the inside and the index finger from the outside, and then gently pressed downwards, and the thumb and index finger exert force, so that the thumb belly is large and the flesh is soft and the eyes are thick, and the pen can be held tightly without much effort.
4. Three sets: it means that the ring finger and the little finger are slightly bent back and forth, and the two fingers are attached to the desktop in a plane, and the palm of the hand should be attached to the desktop, so that the middle finger and the whole pen are held up to form a stable grip posture
5. Fingering refers to that the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger and the little finger are close to each other.
6. Wrist flexibility: it means that the wrist should be relaxed and flexible, so as to achieve the effect of "dexterity" by using the movement of the wrist when writing.