Huang Daozhou is also considered as one of the most creative calligraphers in Ming Dynasty. His calligraphy is good at regular script, running script and cursive script. His running script and cursive script are vigorous and powerful, and his style is vigorous and unrestrained. Strength and posture are the main melody melody of Huang Daozhou's cursive script.
Huang Daozhou used Li Shu to brush and fold pens, and stippling took more Li Yi; Although the characters are long, they emphasize the horizontal winding to the right, which makes stippling dense. Although a little habitual, it is strange and vigorous, forming its own unique formal language, especially showing its outspoken personality.
For example, Huang Daozhou's representative works of vertical axis include cursive script "Poem Axis of Giving Brother Fern a Listen to the Police and Poem Axis of Listening to the Slave Police", both of which are continuous cursive scripts, with the tendency of rushing down, burning paper with passion and vibrating eyes, such as listening to the bells and hooves in the road.
Huang Daozhou's regular script mainly studies Zhong You, which is more delicate and elegant than Gu Zhuo in Zhong You. Huang Daozhou is good at regular script, running script, cursive script and other styles, and also works as an official script.
His regular script, such as Xiao Jing Juan and Zhang Pu's Epitaph, is square and nearly flat in font, vigorous in brushwork and simple in Gu Zhuo, which is very similar to Zhong You's regular script. The difference is that Zhongshu is vigorous and powerful in Gu Zhuo, while Huangshu is clear and vigorous, which is obviously influenced by Wang Xizhi's Kaifa.
Huang Daozhou's cursive script, such as Five-character Ancient Poetry Axis, is similar to its regular script style, with a turning point in brushwork, gorgeous words and a concise style close to that of Zhong You. His official script is characterized by simplicity and elegance, not as elegant as Gu Zhuo's regular script.
From Huang Daozhou's calligraphy theory, we can see that he paid more attention to the calligraphy of Wei and Jin Dynasties, especially the simple calligraphy of Zhong You and Suo Jing, but paid less attention to his contemporary calligraphy, such as Dong Qichang's.