In China's calligraphy art, hard-pen calligraphy is usually written with a pen.
Hard pen calligraphy with a pen can write better strokes and the written words look better. Pens, like brushes, can better show the charm of Chinese characters. For those who learn hard-pen calligraphy, it is easier for pens to master the use, structure and composition of Chinese characters, which is beneficial to writing other hard-pen calligraphy.
Pen has the characteristics of convenient carrying, fast writing and wide use value. The visual difference between it and brush calligraphy is that the strokes are thick or thin, just like removing their bones and muscles.
Characteristics of hard pen calligraphy
Hard pen calligraphy is divided into hard pen calligraphy art and practical hard pen calligraphy. The former mainly emphasizes artistry, while the latter mainly emphasizes practicality. The artistry of hard-pen calligraphy mainly expresses the writer's understanding and feeling of calligraphy art through the changes of lines and structures. It pursues beauty, emotion, interest, artistic conception, personality and so on.
Practical hard pen calligraphy, that is, daily writing, is mainly to meet the needs of practicality and facilitate writing and identification. The key is to make the writing fast and standardized, so the practical hard pen calligraphy is mainly running script.
Extended introduction:
The pens used in hard-pen calligraphy are made of hard materials, such as pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, pencils and gel pens commonly used in hard-pen calligraphy, while soft pens are all kinds of brushes that we usually see, and Chinese characters are written on paper with ink.
Soft-pen calligraphy and hard-pen calligraphy have different application scopes except using pens. Hard pen calligraphy is much more widely used than soft pen calligraphy, because hard pen calligraphy is fast, easy to carry and easy to popularize at one time. For example, we usually write hard-pen calligraphy and so on. Although everyone writes different words, everyone knows its writing skills.
Soft pen calligraphy is a writing skill, which needs to be studied in a training class or a professional teacher.
Their holding posture is also different. Soft pen holds real finger, guilty hand, round back, vertical palm and hanging wrist, mainly relying on arm strength and wrist strength; Hard-pen calligraphy is three-finger writing, mainly relying on wrist strength.