It is recommended that children learn calligraphy with a hard pen first.
Because hard pens are easy to use and highly practical, they are currently the most helpful to children. Secondly, it takes a long time to learn and practice soft pens well, and it is slow to have an impact on hard pens. Therefore, it is recommended to learn hard pen first and then soft pen. The second common answer is that it is recommended to learn the soft pen first and use the soft pen to drive the hard pen. The child's ability to grasp the structure will be better.
As far as hard pens are concerned, modern parents send their children to learn hard pens mainly for practical purposes, which means that hard pen learning is mainly to solve problems. Sloppy writing, big and small words, and scattered structure are all problems that children tend to have when writing. Many parents choose to let their children learn calligraphy from an early age in order to ensure that their children can write well without losing the paper points.
The hard pen is actually more of a practical purpose. The impact of the hard pen on the paper is more direct, and if there is a good teacher who is good at guiding, the results will be quick. Because in hard-pen learning, writing tools are easier to control for modern children who are used to sitting on the table and writing with hard pens in school.
Techniques of hard-pen calligraphy:
1. Follow certain writing tips. For example: Tighten the left and right, keep the center of gravity stable, tighten up and tighten down and wide. This means that characters with a left-right structure should be compact on the left and stretched on the right, while characters with an up-and-down structure should be compact on the top and stretched on the bottom.
2. Pay attention to the key strokes and main strokes (sometimes the two are the same strokes). Then, the whole word will become the icing on the cake! For example, the diagonal hooks like "goose" and "drag" are the key strokes and main strokes.
3. Pay attention to the overall proportion and frame structure of Chinese characters. When we practice calligraphy, we often focus on practicing basic strokes and ignore the matching. These strokes are beautiful when written individually, but when combined into a word, they still lack charm. Therefore, writing the strokes well is the second most important thing, and the most important thing is the placement.
4. When practicing calligraphy, don’t always copy, but learn to focus on copying. Tracing is equivalent to following the writing trajectory of others. No matter how well you write on transparent paper, you will not have your own style or trajectory. But copying means creating according to one's own writing habits and trajectories, which is of great benefit to children's overall control of their writing style in the future.
5. It is best to use a pen when practicing calligraphy, because the pen has a strong natural feeling when writing, and the written words are as refreshing as a brush, which is conducive to improving the level.
6. When practicing hard-tipped calligraphy, the first thing to focus on is quality, but it won’t work without quantity. Therefore, in the process of practicing calligraphy, if you practice calligraphy at least three times a day, and if you can persist for a month, there will be a big difference.