The culture of calligraphy is profound, and what I want to talk about here is probably a book. If you like calligraphy, you should naturally understand the origin of calligraphy and some allusions about calligraphy. Learn how to choose a brush that suits you and which style of font suits you. All these require us to learn the culture of calligraphy, to find hobbies and interests in calligraphy in allusions, and not to study blindly, with enthusiasm for three minutes and no goal.
The culture of learning calligraphy occupies a large proportion in learning calligraphy. No matter how good a person's calligraphy is, it's useless not to know his inner food. The real brush calligraphy is about one's own emotions, and enthusiasm is not blindly imitating things without soul. Therefore, before learning brush calligraphy, we must read some allusions to enhance our understanding of ancient calligraphy culture in China. This will get twice the result with half the effort.
Second, the writing method of brush.
You can't practice brush calligraphy like a pen. The writing brush is very important, so you must master it well. It will definitely be uncomfortable to write after the meeting at first, but after a long time, you will naturally get used to this feeling of random planning and splashing ink. Writing method:
Pinch the pen holder with the fingertips of thumb and forefinger (at an appropriate height) to ensure that the pen holder will not fall off; The middle finger is placed on the outside of the pen under the index finger, which not only strengthens the power of the index finger to pinch the pen, but also plays the role of hooking the pen in; When the nail of the ring finger touches the inside of the pen, it plays the role of pushing the pen outward; The little finger is attached to the lower part of the finger belly of the ring finger to help the ring finger push the pen outward. When holding a pen, as the ancients said, it is convenient to carry a pen.
Third, practice basic strokes.
To learn writing brush, you should often practice holding the pen, returning the hook, pushing out and rotating the pen holder (plus the role of the wrist) and drawing an arc. The level of writing and whether to hang your wrist or elbow depends on the size of the written words. Small print low, wrist pillow. Hold high the big characters and hang your wrists; No matter how big you are, you need to hang your elbow.
It is very important to practice basic strokes such as horizontal, vertical, left hand, right hand and horizontal folding. Don't rush for success. You must practice your handwriting after you have laid a good foundation. We must lay a good foundation before we start, otherwise we will achieve nothing in the end, but the result of blind practice is not very satisfactory.
Fourth, copy the structure of learning fonts.
At first, you should learn regular script or subordinate fonts with neat strokes. Follow the words on the copybook and master the exercises between various pens. Persistence is the only way to practice Chinese characters well. If you don't stick to your post and write freely according to your own ideas, you can't practice good fonts. Practicing calligraphy well requires a gradual process. Only by persevering, avoiding arrogance and rashness, and studying hard, can we get good grades. The ancients once said: "As long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle." As long as you stick to the law of learning, you will certainly learn something.
Fifth, the practice of brushwork.
Brushwork is also a basic concept. What kind of strokes need what kind of strokes have basically formed a certain routine. We need to remember these fixed brushstrokes firmly. Only in this way can we be stable when writing at ordinary times, and sometimes we can't write well and sometimes we can't write well, which is very unstable. Therefore, the practice of brushwork is very important. Good brushwork can make us feel flowing when writing.
Sixth, the basic content of brushwork.
Brushwork mainly refers to how to shape ideal lines (stippling).
1) to press. When the pen is pressed, the strokes are thick, and when it is lifted, it is thin. Just like when people walk, their feet keep alternating, and when they write, their pens keep pressing. Only in this way can lines with different thicknesses be produced. Every time you write a stroke, there are three processes: input, writing and receiving.
2) There is a method of "exposing the front" when writing, so that the pen tip is pointed or square;
3) "Hidden Front Method", writing with a pen facing the front, horizontal painting should be straight first, vertical painting should be down first, so that the front of the pen is hidden in the stroke, and the beginning of the stroke is basically round. Learn to "use the pen from the middle" when writing, so that the front tip often runs in the middle of the strokes. In order to make strokes more powerful, we should learn to use the pen unsmiling, leaving lines in the middle and lines in the middle to avoid glitz.
4) When closing the pen, there are "exposed front" (the pen is gradually lifted off the paper, and the tip is drawn, such as hanging the needle vertically, skimming, pressing and hooking) and "hidden front" (the pen tip is retracted into the painting, such as hanging vertically and the pen tail is round).