1. Practice hard and copy hard.
2. Consult famous teachers and learn skills from them.
3. Participate in competitions and win big prizes.
4. Open your own exhibition of calligraphy and painting works.
5. Create your own font and be recognized by the world.
How to practice calligraphy well
1. Combination of copying and copying
Copying is the most basic method of learning calligraphy. Not only do beginners need to copy calligraphy, but they also have a certain foundation. Then you need to copy. Learning regular script requires copying, while learning seal script, official script, running script, and cursive script still requires copying. A calligrapher spends his life in copying, learning in copying, thinking in copying, and creating in copying.
Copying is to cover the copybook with tissue paper, and then the pen follows the shadow and writes according to the revealed handwriting. It is also called "imitation" or rubbing. There is another method of copying called "drawing red", which is to fill in the words printed with double hooks and red lines.
How to copy: the first step is to draw red. That is, select clear and complete characters from a book of calligraphy, cover them with transparent and ink-proof thin paper, such as typing paper, glossy paper, tracing paper, etc., and follow the outline of the characters with extremely thin paper. The lines are hooked into hollow characters, which is called "double hook". Then use the hooked words as a tracing book, fill it in with red ink, then with blue ink, and finally with ink. Writing in this way can not only deepen your memory, but also save paper.
When copying the calligraphy, you should pay attention to the brush strokes and avoid losing shape. You should pay close attention to the ins and outs of the strokes and figure out its brushwork and structure. The copying should have the meaning of "writing". Write the strokes one by one, full and precise, and do not follow the gourd and the gourd to fill in and smear.
Copying the calligraphy is to write against the calligraphy after having a basic understanding of the rules of writing and knotting the characters on the calligraphy. There are three ways to write a post: face to face, close to face, and back to face.
Opposite copywriting means placing the copybook on the opposite frame and writing accordingly. This is the most convenient and commonly used copywriting method.
Ge Lin, that is, use transparent paper to draw a grid (field grid, rice grid, nine palace grid, etc.) and write according to the pattern. Mainly used to grasp the structural parts of calligraphy.
Back-up means putting the post away and writing the words in the post from memory, not only for its shape, but also for its spirit. After the backing, you can collect the words into couplets or into articles, and then enter the creation stage.
The imitation pen follows the shadow. How the ancients wrote is how we write. The size, length, width, thickness, square and circle, slant, etc. must be written according to the requirements of the calligraphy. There are certain standards. and constraints. The characteristic of copying is that it is easy to learn the structural positions of the ancients. However, because the rules are too rigid, the writing style of the ancients is lost. The writing style is rigid and inflexible, making people feel unable to let go and unbearable; , or Yilin, adding a lot of the calligrapher's own personality characteristics, so it is easy to get the ancients' brushwork, but easy to lose the ancients' structural position. I write freely and pursue individuality, but get very little.
Therefore, copying must be combined with copying, copying first and then copying, so as to obtain both the ancients’ writing methods and the ancients’ structural rules. When practicing, you can copy first and then review, then copy in reverse, and then review after copying. Or use the "double hook" method to study structural laws. Copying and copying are interspersed to learn from each other's strengths, and the effect is excellent. When copying, you should look more, think more, and ponder more before you start writing. The writing must be accurate, first similar in form, then similar in spirit, so as to achieve both form and spirit. After copying, you should repeatedly check and compare, summarize experiences and lessons, improve through negation, and mature through lessons.
2. First in, last out
Copying is the most basic and effective way to learn calligraphy. Copying is inheritance, that is, learning from the ancients, learning the beautiful brushwork, beautiful knots, beautiful composition, beautiful charm and momentum in the excellent inscriptions of the predecessors. But there is another key issue in copying: entry and exit. If you don't enter the post, can't write it, or the writing doesn't look like it, you can't have a dialogue with the ancients and learn the beauty of ancient calligraphy. But if you don't post, you can't come out even if you go in. It's too much like the ancients, and you've become a slave to the ancients. You don't have any personality of your own. Writing in this way will not form your own calligraphy style in the end.
As for entering and leaving posts, Yao Mengqi of the Qing Dynasty said it well: When entering posts, "I can't be there, because it's customary to have me."
""Not with me" means that we must study the ancient Dharma calligraphy wholeheartedly and grasp the spiritual outlook of the calligraphy. "Every word must come from the ancient calligraphy." If you don't follow the calligraphy, you will have no basis; What I mean is that on the basis of the portrait, we should absorb the strengths of other inscriptions, integrate them, combine them with our own artistic qualities and creative talents, gradually form our own style, have personality and creativity, and gradually move towards a new era of free creation. Realm.
3. Read the posts and be good at enlightenment
It is not only important to read the posts, but also to read and learn from the posts. That is to understand some excellent Dharma posts from the ancients. You don’t have to come, as long as you read it carefully, appreciate it repeatedly, and understand the rules and charm, you will naturally integrate it into your own calligraphy creation.
Reading the inscriptions does not mean reading the inscriptions aloud. Text content. The so-called reading of calligraphy is a specialized term for calligraphy, that is, the calligrapher reads the calligraphy and scans the ink before copying the calligraphy, or in the break of normal work, that is, carefully analyzes, studies, and ponders the meaning of each word in the calligraphy. The strokes, structure, and composition, momentum and charm of the whole work, I can't help but draw it with my fingers while reading it, and I am very excited.
The ancients read the posts very seriously. However, he was a famous politician, military strategist, poet, and calligrapher. There is an official script inscription of "Gunxue" written by him in the Hanzhong Museum of Shaanxi Province. It is said that he liked Liang Hu's calligraphy, so he hung Liang Hu's calligraphy. In the tent, he read whenever he had time, even when he was marching and fighting. It is said that Zhong Yao, a great calligrapher in the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, "painted the ground while sitting and the quilt while lying down." He studied calligraphy very hard, paying special attention to reading and silent writing. Famous calligraphy. Ouyang Xun, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, once found a stele written by Suo Jing, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty. He read it over and over again. His legs felt sore when he stood, so he simply sat down and read it for three days before reluctantly leaving. .
Reading posts is like having a conversation with the ancients, making friends, and achieving intellectual and emotional resonance. Reading posts starts from one point to another, and carefully studies and ponders the ancient people's writing, wording, and composition. And the beauty of momentum and charm. Through reading, you can deepen your understanding, exercise your visual memory, and enrich and improve your art appreciation ability. Reading a book is not limited to one book. Two books, the practical experience of many calligraphers in ancient and modern times proves that reading the calligraphy is better than copying the calligraphy. We may not necessarily copy some inscriptions, but we can read them and deeply understand the three flavors in the ancient calligraphy works. Benhui's wrists are enriched on the paper, and the hands will naturally follow the eyes, the eyes will guide the hands, and the hearts will come out. The heart and hands will respond, and you will get twice the result with half the effort.