If you just want to write correctly, find something to learn how to write correctly and write straight strokes. It doesn't matter whether it is calligraphy or not, and it doesn't matter how it is written (drawn or painted). (However, don't be like some self-media masters who can't even draw a word well. It's shameful to be a teacher. )
Draw Dafa
The following is ok, it belongs to a mature and beautiful font. If you don't mind writing or not, send it to a circle of friends after writing. No one knows how you are shoddy. Look at the effect, well, it's very good. Like, flowers, comment 666, that effect is just as good.
However, if you want to understand what calligraphy is and hope to enter the door of calligraphy after hard work, at least you can touch the threshold of calligraphy, then you must at least have a clear and basic understanding of calligraphy.
First of all, let's talk about "book", which is both a verb and a noun, that is, a written work. As a verb, calligraphy must be based on the action of writing. We often see the concepts of "brushwork", "lift" and "turn" in the mouth of experts. These are some ways to think about how to use and move a pen on the premise of writing. Once divorced from the premise of "writing", it seems ridiculous or even ignorant to say these concepts.
Therefore, in the previous paragraph, I hope that before you start to choose, you should carefully look at whether your choice is calligraphy or not, and whether the object you want to learn is something within the calligraphy door.
If your choice is still "Yes", then let's talk about another word "Fa". "Law" includes both a complete technical system and a complete theoretical system. On the technical level, the most basic thing is "brushwork".
Shen's Forbidden Sutra in Yutang was written with a brush. So it includes "writing with a pen" and "writing with a pen". There are many ways to write with a pen. It is said that there is no fixed method, but my personal suggestion is to write with five fingers for reference only. In terms of pen use, some specific techniques, such as Feng's pen use, have changed before the Tang Dynasty and after the Song Dynasty, and there are also great differences between the two schools of iron science and stone inscription, but the general principle remains unchanged. The so-called "it's not easy to use a pen through the ages" (Zhao Mengfu said), and the most basic and essential one is the "Eight-character Method" put forward by Zhang Xu in the Tang Dynasty. This amount of information is too large. If you need to know, we can spread it in another place, and we will spread it here.
In addition to brushwork, calligraphy pays attention to the use of ink, the way of writing, the way of layout, and so on. In short, why should calligraphy pay attention to "learning from the ancients" and learn from the predecessors? Because there are too many rules in it, we need to learn from the calligraphy of the ancients and calligraphy.
The front is the psychological construction and basic cognition before learning calligraphy. Here are some tools and materials for learning calligraphy.
Tools mainly include: writing brush, felt, inkstone, pen washer, pen container, etc.
The first and most important thing is the writing brush, which mainly includes wool (mainly goat hair), wolf hair (mainly weasel hair) and purple hair (mainly goat rabbit hair), as well as stones, moustaches, chicken feathers and other materials.
Before the Tang Dynasty, the famous Preface to Lanting was written with purple pen, which was generally not long, so the pen could not be very big, and generally only small and medium fonts could be written, so we can see that the calligraphy works in the Jin and Tang Dynasties were mainly small characters.
After the Tang Dynasty, wolf hair became popular. It is said that Su Dongpo liked pens made of wolf hair and chicken feathers in the Song Dynasty. Due to the slow and steady development of society, the market demand for writing is growing. Since the Song Dynasty, wool has been widely used as a pen, and wool is generally very long, so pens are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more large calligraphy works.
Generally speaking, wool quilt has the best water absorption, but its waist strength is soft; Langhao has moderate water absorption, good waist strength and sensitive front; Rabbit hair has the best elasticity and is more prone to burst, but its disadvantage is weak water absorption. So you can write fine print with wolf hair and rabbit hair, and you can choose according to your own habits. It is best to write big characters with wool pens, such as pure sheep, pig and sheep double-stranded brushes, wolf and sheep double-stranded brushes and various mixed hairs. But there is a premise, no matter what material is used, the nib must be full, the nib must be prominent, and it must be elastic. Don't buy that kind of handwriting that looks thin, even if it is written in thin gold. 100% weak waist, high probability.
Then, let's talk about other things. The important thing about the felt is that it can't be pilled easily, and it's better to be thicker. Durability is very important. If you like a stylish inkstone, you can put a caviar inkstone on it, but if you want to be practical, you'd better buy one with a lid and pour ink on it, and it won't dry for ten days (lazy people are so casual), which is very important for daily classes. You can get a ceramic basin for washing pens at will, not too small. Its main function is to moisten the pen before writing and rinse it after writing. You need a pen container to hang a clean pen. A good brush must be cleaned and hung up every time it is used up. Don't let water and ink remain in the pen tube, which is easy to crack.
The following is about the choice of paper, which is very important! Maybe everyone thought at first: I am a beginner anyway, and I have no skills. It's a waste to use paper well. I'd better take a piece of waste paper (waste newspaper, water-writing cloth) to use first, and then change it after practicing. Don't have this mentality. You can also practice with tassel paper. Newspapers and water books really have no writing experience and will only ruin your dream of calligraphy. Can you imagine Ding Junhui practicing snooker by poking stones with wooden sticks on the beach?
Novices suggest using rice paper directly, medium-cooked rice paper for big characters and tofu for small characters (7-8 minutes cooked). At present, the four-foot medium-cooked rice paper used for online practice is 100, probably in 30 yuan. You are already very good at writing four feet of paper every day, which is 3 yuan a year, less than 100. It is more economical to write lowercase letters. Friends, don't abuse your hobbies, be nice to yourself, and let your dream start at 100 yuan. By the way, be careful to use fully cooked paper. Poor water absorption, easy for zombies to experience. )
If a friend finds it difficult to write without a grid, buy something with a grid first. Anyway, the price is similar. But it's best to use it less. If there is no grid, you can fold it yourself. Just practice your typesetting skills when it's almost ready.
As for using ink, beginners prefer ink. You should play with an ink stick. Using inferior ink is not recommended. Experience is important. We recommend two kinds of conventional "Red Star" inks with reasonable price (one catty in 20 yuan), moderate glue content and good concentration. If it feels light, you can buy medium-thick ink. If you write a small letter, you can try "book club".