A stroke refers to a line written continuously without interruption when writing Chinese characters
It is the smallest unit of Chinese characters
It can be divided into horizontal folds, horizontal, vertical, vertical hooks, skimming, and dots
The specific subdivision can reach 40 types
(from Baidu Encyclopedia)
How to maintain the balance of strokes?
We always pursue the beauty of squareness and fairness
But how can we achieve it in writing?
Balance
The balance of writing comes from grasping the shape of strokes
When grasping the balance of writing, the key strokes to pay attention to are horizontal, hook, dot, Check these categories.
When writing horizontal strokes, it should be slightly slanted rather than completely flat to prevent the font from looking dull and like acupuncture points.
The horizontal drawings in the picture above are all slanted, but it does not make people feel that the entire word is slanted. When multiple horizontal lines are combined, the short horizontal lines go up diagonally, but there is an arc in the middle of the long horizontal lines (produced by the lift mentioned earlier), which magically balances the entire font.
After all the horizontal paintings were flattened (I couldn’t do all the flattening! I admit my mistake!), this feeling is indescribable!
Wow, I saw you raised your hand! say what? This hook is not balanced to begin with. How can it be balanced? Come on, come on, look down!
Even if there is no balance, we must create balance. Our goal is to find balance in imbalance! (Doesn’t it sound cool?)
Example characters in Jiuzhenggong Liquan Ming
The slope of the middle horizontal section of the upper part is well balanced by the vertical hook at the end
Let’s look at a horizontal fold hook again
The horizontal fold hook in the whole character is also tilted to the right, so that the center of gravity falls on the hook and the whole character reaches balance.
捺, dot
The last 捺, dot in a word often also plays the role of balancing the strokes
What should be paid attention to in the balance of the whole word is probably That's all. A single stroke is like a foundation. Only when the foundation is laid, will the entire word not be crooked, but will be square and well-proportioned.
I originally wanted to write the whole word structure for everyone, but Li Qiu’s hand is disabled, and his brain is probably going to be disabled soon (crying
Then I can’t bend my index finger. Today’s example The words were written with the pen using the middle finger instead of the index finger (the picture was once very beautiful), and the writing was super slow. It will probably be tomorrow after I finish writing the example words for the second half of the article, so I can only owe you all the time. It’s time to run away~ Don’t think it’s too short! It’s really short!