Hard-pen calligraphy writing tools include pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, pencils, plastic-tipped pens, bamboo pens, wooden pens, stylus pens, etc.
Learning hard-tipped calligraphy should not only pursue high-level artistic standards, but also pay attention to its practical value. To reflect its practical value, it is necessary to achieve correctness, standardization and symmetry in writing.
Chinese characters written with a hard pen are still the Chinese character fonts created with a soft pen. This cannot be violated, otherwise they will not be recognized. Therefore, Chinese characters written with hard pen can still more or less express the traditional style of Chinese characters.
Soft pens and hard pens have their own characteristics. When we use a "fuzzy" way of thinking and regard the strokes written by the soft pen as "surfaces", we can also regard the strokes written by the hard pen as "surfaces". Wire".
The writing strokes of hard pens are regarded as "lines" because they basically cannot express the expressiveness of soft pen strokes in the contrast of line thickness changes (except for special-shaped hard pens). The hard-pen strokes are just lines, and the traditional "turning" technique has lost its meaning. In this way, Chinese characters written with hard pen are just a combination of lines, which is a bit like the "steel wire seal script" created in the Qing Dynasty.
Classification characteristics:
Hard-pen calligraphy is divided into the art of hard-pen calligraphy 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 feelings of the art of calligraphy through changes in lines and structures. It pursues beauty, emotion, interest, artistic conception, personality, etc.; Practical hard-pen calligraphy, that is, daily writing, is mainly practical and easy to write and recognize. The key is to write quickly and standardly, so practical hard-pen calligraphy is mainly based on running script.
The characteristics of hard-pen calligraphy are mainly compared with brush calligraphy.
First, because the material of the hard pen tip is relatively hard, its line changes are not as big as those of the soft pen - the brush; second, because the generally used hard pens are mainly fountain pens, ballpoint pens, pencils, etc., so The lines are much finer than those of a brush, so the fonts are much smaller, even smaller than the regular script of a brush; 3. Due to the material of the pen, a hard pen is easier to control than a brush.