The basic stippling and brush-using methods of seal script are as follows:
Since seal script is an early type of writing, its basic strokes and brush-using methods have not yet reached the level of official script and regular script that appeared later. So rich and complex. As for large seal script and small seal script, there are only three writing methods: dot, straight and arc. Taking Deng Shiru's works as an example, we introduce the basic stroke writing methods of seal script as follows:
1. Dot
There are fewer dots in seal script, and they are often connected with other strokes as other strokes. A part of a stroke that is either extended into a short horizontal or vertical stroke. There are fewer individual dots, and the writing method is: start the pen from the center of the dot, rotate from left to right, and move the pen while turning until it turns into a circle and then close the pen. However, Deng Shiru's dots are extremely varied, and the dots of the same characters in the same work are treated differently.
2. Straight
Straight includes long or short horizontal and vertical lines. The basic writing method is to hide the head and protect the tail, with the two ends rounded and the middle part of the same thickness. There are also a few horizontal or vertical ones that go in against the direction and come out flat, revealing the front. The horizontal and vertical lines of Deng Shiru's seal script are not all straight lines. Except for the vertical straight line in the center, the horizontal lines are often slightly arc-shaped. Very dynamic. Its brushwork can be seen from the horizontal drawing of the character "上" and the horizontal drawing of the character "十" in the picture.
3. Arc
The arcs in seal script can be divided into angular arcs, semicircular arcs, circular arcs, square arcs and irregular arcs. Except for some irregular arcs, arcs are written with two strokes, taking arcs as an example; the method of writing is basically the same as the horizontal or vertical strokes. The stroke is drawn from the top of the circle to be written, and the semicircle is written to the left first. Then draw a semicircle from the top of the upper stroke to the right, and meet at the bottom of the circle, leaving no trace at the intersection. As shown in the picture below, the arc above the character "月" is written in two strokes. The irregular arc in the lower part of the character "月" and the arc of the character "多" are written in one stroke.
How to start and end the calligraphy of seal calligraphy
Use the inverse stroke and stop the stroke, paying attention to restraint and implicitness; The two ends of the painting are rounded when going up and down, and when going in and out flat, the starting stroke is round and thick, while the closing stroke is slightly pointed. However, the brush calligraphy in seal script is still mainly hidden, and occasionally exposed to show the spirit.