Extended knowledge
First, about hard pen calligraphy.
Hard-pen calligraphy is a bright pearl in the hundred gardens of calligraphy art, and its writing tools include pens, gel pens, artistic pens, pencils, chalk and so on. With ink or powdery medium as the main carrier, the writing skills of Chinese characters are expressed.
It has the characteristics of convenient carrying, quick writing and wide use value. The visual difference between it and brush calligraphy is that the strokes are thick or thin, just like removing their bones and muscles. However, the imaging principle and sports skills are very different, and they are two different sports methods.
Second, the classification characteristics
Hard pen calligraphy is divided into hard pen calligraphy art and practical hard pen calligraphy. The former mainly emphasizes artistry, while the latter mainly emphasizes practicality.
The artistry of hard-pen calligraphy mainly expresses the writer's understanding and feeling of calligraphy art through the changes of lines and structures, and it pursues beauty, emotion, interest, artistic conception, personality and so on; Practical hard pen calligraphy, that is, daily writing, is mainly to meet the needs of practicality and facilitate writing and identification. The key is to make the writing fast and standardized, so the practical hard pen calligraphy is mainly running script.
Third, write a good method
If you want to write a good word, you must first improve your aesthetic awareness, that is, know what the word length looks like and why it looks good; Secondly, you can write the beautiful shape you want to write with the pen in your hand. This is your pen control ability, which is the basic skill of writing.
So if you have a certain aesthetic awareness and basic skills, you will be able to write well! Whether it is to improve aesthetic awareness or to strengthen the training of basic skills, it is required to read more, write more and ponder more at ordinary times, so as to achieve eye-to-eye, hand in hand and heart in heart. There is no shortcut to practicing calligraphy.
So what kind of words are good-looking words? The quality of a word is nothing more than its line and frame structure. For a word, besides a single word, it depends on its layout (that is, composition). Beautiful lines should have clear veins, smooth brushwork, appropriate priorities, beautiful forms and expressions, full of vitality, light or heavy, slow or urgent, rigid or soft, and return to nature.
And those lines that are unclear, inflexible, hesitant and impermanent are naturally not good-looking; Shelf structure, that is, the stroke collocation of a word, such as length, straightness, placement angle, stroke spacing, thickness (thickness), context and so on. For beginners, before considering changes according to needs and personal habits (personality), it is advisable to be symmetrical and dignified in the structure of the font frame.