The pictures above show the different regular script writing methods of "Ling" by three calligraphers.
How to practice calligraphy well
1. Combination of copying and copying?
Copying is the most basic method of learning calligraphy. Not only do beginners need to copy calligraphy, but they also need to have certain skills. After the basics, you still need to copy. Learning regular script requires copying, while learning seal script, official script, running script, and cursive script still requires copying. A calligrapher spends his life in copying, learning in copying, thinking in copying, and creating in copying. ?
Copying is to cover the copybook with tissue paper, and then the pen follows the shadow and writes according to the revealed handwriting. It is also called "imitation" or rubbing. There is another method of copying called "drawing red", which is to fill in the words printed with double hooks and red lines. ?
How to copy: the first step is to draw red. That is, select clear and complete characters from a book of calligraphy, cover them with transparent and ink-proof thin paper, such as typing paper, glossy paper, tracing paper, etc., and follow the outline of the characters with extremely thin paper. The lines are hooked into hollow characters, which is called "double hook". Then use the hooked words as a tracing book, fill it in with red ink, then with blue ink, and finally with ink. Writing in this way can not only deepen your memory, but also save paper. ?
When copying the calligraphy, you should pay attention to the movement of the pen and avoid losing its shape. You should pay close attention to the ins and outs of the strokes and figure out its brushwork and structure. The imitation should have the meaning of "writing", and write the strokes one by one, full and precise, and do not follow the gourd and the gourd to fill in and smear. ?
Lining the calligraphy, that is, based on copying the calligraphy, after having a basic understanding of the rules of writing and knotting, then writing against the calligraphy. There are three ways to write a post: face to face, close to face, and back to face. ?
Opposite copywriting means placing the copybook on the opposite frame and writing accordingly. This is the most convenient and commonly used copywriting method. ?
Ge Lin, that is, use transparent paper to mark a grid (field grid, rice grid, nine-square grid, etc.) and write according to the pattern. Mainly used to grasp the structural parts of calligraphy. ?
Back-up means putting the post away and dictating the words in the post from memory, not only seeking its shape, but also its spirit. After backing up, you can collect the words into couplets or into articles, and then enter the creation stage. ?
The imitation pen follows the shadow. We write how the ancients wrote. The size, length, width, thickness, square and circle, slant, etc. must be written according to the requirements of the calligraphy. There are certain rules. Norms and constraints. The characteristic of copying is that it is easy to learn the structural positions of the ancients. However, because the rules are too rigid, the writing style of the ancients is lost. The writing style is rigid and inflexible, which makes people feel unable to let go and unbearable; , or Yilin, adding many of the calligrapher's own personality characteristics, so it is easy to get the ancient writing style, but easy to lose the ancient structural position. I write freely and pursue individuality, but gain very little. ?
So in copying, copying must be combined, copying first and then copying, so as to obtain both the ancients' brushwork methods and the ancients' structural rules. When practicing, you can copy first and then review, then copy in reverse, and then review after copying. Or use the "double hook" method to study structural laws. Copying and copying are interspersed, and the effect is excellent. When copying, you should look more, think more, and ponder more, and then write. The writing must be accurate, first similar in form, then similar in spirit, so as to achieve both form and spirit. After copying, you should repeatedly check and compare, sum up experience and lessons, improve through negation, and mature through lessons. ?
2. First in, last out?
Copying is the most basic and effective way to learn calligraphy. Copying is inheritance, that is, learning from the ancients, learning the beautiful brushwork, beautiful knotting, beautiful composition, beautiful charm and momentum in the excellent inscriptions of the predecessors. But there is another key issue in copying: entry and exit. If you don't enter the post, can't write it, or the writing doesn't look like it, you can't have a dialogue with the ancients and learn the beauty of ancient calligraphy. But if you don’t post, you can’t come out even if you go in. It’s too much like the ancients, and you’ve become a slave to the ancients. You have no personality of your own at all. Writing like this, you won’t be able to form your own calligraphy style in the end. ?
As for entering and leaving posts, Yao Mengqi of the Qing Dynasty said it well: When entering posts, "You can't have me here, and it will be common to have me." .
""Not without me" means that we must study the ancient Dharma calligraphy wholeheartedly and grasp the spiritual outlook of the calligraphy. "Every word must come from the ancient calligraphy." If you don't follow the calligraphy, you will have no basis; What I mean is that on the basis of the portrait, we should absorb the strengths of other inscriptions, integrate them, combine them with our own artistic qualities and creative talents, gradually form our own style, have personality and creativity, and gradually move towards a new era of free creation. Realm. ?
3. Read the posts and be enlightened?
It is not only important to read the posts, but also to read them. To learn books and be enlightened means to understand some excellent things from the ancients. The inscriptions do not necessarily come to you. As long as you read them carefully, appreciate them repeatedly, and understand the laws and charms, they will naturally be integrated into your own calligraphy creations. ?
Reading the inscriptions does not mean making a sound. Reading aloud the text content of the inscriptions. The so-called "reading inscriptions" is a specialized term for calligraphy, that is, the calligrapher reads the inscriptions and scans the ink before copying the inscriptions, or in the break of normal work, that is, carefully analyzes, studies, and ponders each word in the inscriptions. The strokes, structure of a word and the composition, momentum and charm of the whole work, while reading and memorizing it, I can't help but draw it with my fingers, copying it with my heart and hands, and I am very excited.
The ancients were very excited when reading the posts. Seriously. Cao Cao was not only a famous politician and military strategist, but also a famous poet and calligrapher. There is an official script inscription of "Gunxue" written by him in the Hanzhong Museum of Shaanxi Province. It is said that he liked Liang Hu's calligraphy, so he wrote it to Liang Hu. The calligraphy of "Hu" is hung in the tent, and he reads it whenever he has time, even when he is marching and fighting. It is said that Zhong Yao, a great calligrapher in the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, "painted the ground when sitting and painted the quilt when lying down." He studied calligraphy very hard, especially when he was on the march. Pay attention to reading and dictating famous calligraphy. Ouyang Xun, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, once found a stele written by Suo Jing, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty. Reluctant to leave. ?
Reading the posts is like having a conversation with the ancients, making friends, and achieving ideological and emotional resonance. Reading the posts starts with one point and one painting, and carefully studies and ponders the ancient people's pen. , word structure, momentum, and charm. Through reading, you can deepen your understanding, exercise your visual memory, and enrich, accumulate, and improve your art appreciation ability through reading. Reading calligraphy is not limited to one or two books. The practical experience of many calligraphers in ancient and modern times has proved that reading some calligraphy is better than copying it. Only when it is absorbed and digested can it flow to the bottom of the wrist and be enriched on the paper. The hands will naturally follow the eyes, the eyes will guide the hands, and they will blend into the heart.
Calligraphy
Calligraphy is an art form of text expression in the world, including Chinese calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy and English calligraphy. Among them, "Chinese calligraphy" is unique to Chinese characters. A traditional art. In a broad sense, calligraphy refers to the writing rules of characters and symbols, which refers to writing according to the characteristics and meaning of characters to make them into beautiful works of art. . Chinese calligraphy is an original expression art created by the Han people. It is known as: wordless poetry, lineless dance, pictureless painting, and silent music.