Brushwork should be the most important factor in the art of calligraphy, and it is a difficulty that cannot be bypassed in learning the art of calligraphy. However, learning about brushwork is not just about training, but also requires stimulation. The brain learns, which not only makes memory deeper, but also produces muscle and brain memory at the same time, which is very beneficial to the development of learning. For calligraphy, the first step is not to practice but to learn. How to learn? In the middle school of calligraphy, the main performance is analysis, analyzing the length, size, position, angle of strokes and their influence with other strokes. What is also needed is to learn some of the more common methods of using brushes. As long as you learn these, Only by practicing writing will you have a certain basis and will you be calm and composed!
No matter what kind of inscriptions you are studying, you must first understand its overall characteristics, and then practice the regularity of dots and dashes, and the style of Chinese character structure. With this in mind, you can then write, ensuring that "the writing is accurate and has a reason." It will definitely not be timely at first, but you will get it through practice over and over again. As long as the mind and hand are used at the same time, it will not take long to be able to combine the mind and hand until the post is written in time. When we learn a calligraphy style, we should not just focus on ourselves, but also need to refer to how others have done it, especially the work of celebrities. Studying their works will not only solve your doubts in writing practice, but also learn their excellent methods. You will be like a fish in water and develop rapidly!
The art of calligraphy can be learned, not practiced. This makes sense. I think the biggest difference between learning and practicing depends on whether you are serious or not. The practice may be passive, or it may be a reflex action of the brain. And practicing calligraphy is different. Learning must use your brain. Wang Xizhi once said in "The Theory of Calligraphy": "Experts and scholars can see their merits in two months." This means that people who study the art of calligraphy can see it in two months if they study seriously. When your time is up, the test results will appear. So the important point here is to "pay attention to scholars", that is, study seriously and use your brain. Therefore, the ancients said: "A book cannot be written in a hundred days." If you've been practicing for three months and still don't see any development, then there's something wrong.
Consumer reading, immersing yourself in calligraphy practice copybooks, just reading quietly. I habitually read before going to bed. Sometimes I look at the calligraphy practice copybooks. When I’m tired, I don’t want to think too much about the calligraphy practice copybooks. I just slowly read the specific content of the post, just like reading a book, reading and appreciating the specific content. Its the art of calligraphy. If you read this kind of post for a long time, the feeling of the Dharma post in your mind will become stronger. Summary reading, we say that a calligrapher has the characteristics of a calligrapher, and different links and different dharma stickers of a calligrapher also have different characteristics. Summarizing is to find these characteristics, that is, to find this exercise Copybooks are the most homogeneous things and characteristic items. By grasping this correlation, it is very easy to write words that have the characteristics of the original calligraphy. By grasping the characteristics, you can learn some of the calligrapher's methods of solving problems.