The video of how to write the word "福" with soft pen is as follows: Video of how to write the word "福" with soft pen. I think before writing the brush calligraphy of the character "福", one must understand the eight methods of the character Yong, namely "side, le, crossbow, 误, ce, plunder, peck, and 甔". Point means side (like a bird flipping over and down); horizontal means rein (like the reins used to rein in a horse); vertical means push (strength); hook means Qiao (jumping appearance, the same as leaping); pick means policy (such as Ce A whip for a horse); a short stroke for plundering (like a grate for plundering hair); a short stroke for pecking (like a bird pecking an object); a flat stroke for a ding (Zhe Yin Zhe, splitting an animal into a ding, and opening the tip of the pen).
If you practice writing with a brush, you can use water-based writing paper, which is paper that can produce ink effects with water. After it dries, the ink will disappear and can be reused. As a practice, you can save a lot of paper and ink.
The word "福" is first of all dot, which is the side in the eight ways of the word "Yong", just like a bird turning upside down. First push it upward slightly, then fold it down and then lift it up slightly. Then there are the "LE" and "Qi" tactics among the eight methods of Yongzi. Start the pen against the front, turn to the right, pause slightly at the fold, and then sweep straight down, that is, "like using a grate to sweep hair."
After that comes the vertical stroke, which is the "nu" in the eight methods of Yongzi. It refers to the vertical strokes of Yongzi, but at the end the vertical stroke is down, and the tip of the stroke is gradually raised. The subsequent strokes are dots, horizontal, vertical, and horizontal folds (it can be seen as horizontal and vertical, just written continuously, and the bends can be slightly turned back and then downward). Compared with the character Yong, the character "福" still has some fewer strokes, so the traditional calligraphy practice is to practice the character "yong" first (at least when I was in elementary school, my teacher asked me to write the character "yong" first).