Appreciation of English composition and calligraphy
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How to preserve my English calligraphy?
Do you often tremble when you write English? The curve drawn is bumpy without a sense of roundness? Why can't straight strokes be written straight? I finally took a chance and wrote two beautiful articles, and the next one became ugly. The arc of capital letters such as D B C is ugly enough to want to commit suicide? It's all for one reason: yours? Pen control? Very bad. In fact, we can change the control of strokes through training. This kind of training is called. Pen control? In the writing of every font, the significance of pen control can not be underestimated, from simple domestic original, Italian italics to copper plate printing, Gothic, to business cursive script with high requirements for pen control, and finally to decorative calligraphy and traditional Chinese characters with strict requirements for pen control.
Introduction of pen control mode
Since we want to improve the ability of pen control, we must understand the way of pen control. Normal people will use one of the most common pen control methods when writing, that is, finger movement. You can observe carefully. Do you always keep your arms and wrists still and basically move your fingers? This is a kind of pen control. Let me introduce several other pen control methods: the second is wrist pen control, as the name implies, the finger does not move, just turns the wrist. The third is the arm-controlled pen, also called arm movement, which keeps your fingers and wrists still and writes only through arm movement. The moving parts are your elbow joint and shoulder joint. You may ask, what are the benefits of these sports? Why should I study? Practice has proved that when writing curves, the sharp tendency of fingers is the strongest, followed by wrist joints and the most rounded arm movements. On the contrary, for the control of letter accuracy, finger control is the strongest, wrist joint is the second, and arm control is the worst. Why is this happening? Because people have the most flexible fingers and the smallest writing radius. Because the writing radius is small, it will change at high frequency when writing curves, especially curves with many turns and large scales, which can not guarantee the roundness of curves, while the arm's? Numb? It solved the problem perfectly.
Requirements and embodiment of pen control ability in different fonts
How to improve the pen control ability? Different fonts have different requirements.
First, take commercial calligraphy as an example. Next, I extracted the textbooks of Master Mills and Pamler for everyone to see.
As you can see, I mainly practice straight lines and circles. After practice, straight lines can be equally long and straight, and circles can be as big as they want. But not many people can reach this standard. Pen control practice is based on years. When using arm movements, it needs to be repeated frequently to make muscles remember and achieve a natural effect.
Secondly, taking decorative calligraphy as an example, I extracted Zannier's teaching materials to show them.
Compared with bp and op mentioned above, it requires higher control of the pen, which is also an arm action, but more control of the elastic nib of the dipping pen. You need to control the thickness of the pen while writing a rounded curve to produce a harmonious shadow effect, so you can use it. Harsh? To evaluate the degree of pen control required by OP.
Then, take flowers (patterns) as an example. Next, I selected a fragment of the bird painting textbook to show it.
As can be seen from the figure, fluore's pen control requirements are similar to those of op. Looking closely, it can be found that birds are composed of a large number of geometric figures such as ellipses, so the pen control method is the same as OP, and it is also an arm action. At the same time, it is very demanding to master the weight of strokes.
In fact, the flat tip also needs to be controlled with a pen. Take Gothic Old English as an example. What is the first step in learning Goth? Draw a fence? .
The so-called painting a fence is just like a picture. There is an adaptation process for beginners to touch the flat tip. At first, the most obvious problem was that it was difficult for the pen tip to fit the paper (picture), just like the picture. Failure to fit the paper will also lead to obvious sawtooth of strokes, which will affect the appearance. At the same time, the fence can also exercise the sense of straightness and space, and long-term practice of pen control will obviously improve Gothic writing.
In addition, Cadels' writing requires a flat-pointed pen.
As shown in the picture, in fact, like the bird painted above, Cadels can be considered as flowers in a flat tip. How to keep the lines in letters uniform and round is a difficult problem, and the most difficult mosquito-repellent incense (that is, the disk part) can destroy the whole work once it is shaken, so it is also necessary to master the pen control method of arm movement.
For those who don't fully understand what I mean, please see the master's pen control method in this video. You will find that his fingers are not moving, but his arms are completely moving. In addition, his arms are controlled at the same time, which really reaches the real master level. Of course, this is also the result of years of practice.
How to improve pen control
Since pen control is so important, how to improve the ability of pen control?
I believe that friends who have read the above introduction have a good idea, and that is a word? Practice? . This is a long process, even a master will never miss the practice of basic skills because of his superb skills, because it is fundamental, the key to ensuring fonts, and also the feel, just like an old saying of China? Practice makes perfect? . Maybe you will feel awkward when you pick up the pen now, but believe me, if you keep training for even half an hour every day, you will understand the mystery in half a month, and then half a year? A year? How many years? Even for life. At that time, you can wave a pen at will, and the perfect lines will leap from the paper. What are you waiting for? Let's get started!
PS: Since there are different requirements for pen control of different fonts, there are certainly great differences in practice methods, including strict requirements for tools, sitting posture, pen holding posture and paper placement. This article will not elaborate on the practice methods of pen control for each font, but the beginning of each textbook will tell you how to learn the pen control skills of this font, and it is right to follow the textbook step by step.