Pen calligraphy, like brush calligraphy, has no fixed requirements for the posture of holding the pen, but there are two principles to be paid attention to: first, holding the pen should conform to the most basic laws and not be curious; The second is to keep the most comfortable pen state in the senses.
Practicing calligraphy is a boring and interesting process. It is always boring at first, but with the passage of time and familiarity, its fun will make you memorable. Therefore, it is necessary to be calm and tolerant of loneliness when practicing calligraphy.
Pen calligraphy is easy to practice from regular script, because regular script is slow to write and easy to master. Pang Zhonghua's copybook is especially recommended. Because Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy has great atmosphere and backbone, this font has been the orthodox style of China's calligraphy for a long time. Never practice the calligraphy of Lu Zhongnan and others. Because practicing handwriting is actually a kind of mind and spirit, practicing other people's handwriting will have an impact on your life.
Pupils and young people with amorphous fonts are generally easier to practice pen writing than adults. This is because they are easy to accept new fonts. Once they have the right guidance, the right font, the right method and a persistent attitude, they can achieve good results in a short time.
It is not so easy for adults whose fonts have been finalized to practice pen writing well. Because we didn't pay attention to the quality of words before, some ugly or even misspelled words have become a bad habit, which is difficult to correct. They want to practice calligraphy now, but they often just tinker with the existing fonts and choose fonts similar to their own. This is often the case, the good ones are not learned, and the bad ones are not lost, so that the more you practice, the uglier you get.
So how do you get these people to practice calligraphy? My experience is: first of all, let them completely forget the previous fonts, start from scratch, and start practicing from the most basic point strokes. Then practice the structure. For pen words, the most important thing is structure, and the quality of structure directly affects the beauty of words. Therefore, it is most important to write a good pen and ink structure. But now there is a difficult problem to solve, that is, it is difficult to forget the previous fonts, and old habits are often brought into new fonts during the posting process. To change this situation, the best way is to choose block letters different from your previous fonts for copying. Practice orthography in block letters. Practice for a week or two or more, and you can achieve orthomorphism. When the shape is straight, I also want to choose a running script copybook that is completely different from my original font and I think it is very beautiful to copy. If the font was stiff before, choose a bold copybook; If the font is sloppy, choose a rigorous copybook; If the font is plain, choose smart copybook; If the font is soft and smooth, choose a solid copybook; If the font is bloated, choose exquisite copybooks ... If you practice for two to three months, you can learn new fonts. I often encounter such problems in my study. I made rapid progress in the first few days, but after a while I felt that my writing was getting worse and worse. This is a normal phenomenon. At this time, as long as you just hold your horses and keep practicing, after a period of hard work, you can get out of the predicament and get on the right track. The purpose of copying is to forget the previous words, remember the words in the copybook and use them. After that, we should sort out the relationship between words and lines, which is the so-called composition. For people who just want to write beautifully, but don't want to make achievements in this respect, it is enough to do the above. This is the experience I got in my study, and I also introduced these experiences to others, and the effect is good.
You can't achieve something in the art of pen calligraphy overnight. We should not only learn to use the pen, structure, composition, charm, etc., but also give full play to the inherent characteristics of the pen. Only in this way can the art of pen calligraphy flourish and make her have strong and permanent vitality. Otherwise, pen calligraphy can only be a vassal of brush calligraphy, and it will not develop and innovate, and it will not have strong and permanent vitality.