What are the basics that you should start with in learning hardcopy calligraphy?

Worship a good master, choose a good character post. This is very key, worship good master is not really to recognize a master, I mean to choose a good you like the word of modern masters, let after more browsing more learning more copy. Beginners should not choose the ancient calligraphy posters, to choose the modern masters of hard-copy calligraphy. For example: Liu Huipu, Xie Feimo, Zhao Yanliang, Luo Hengguang, Wang Zhengliang, Ren Ping, Lu Zhongnan, Tian Yingzhang, Ding Qian, Shen Honggen, Pang Zhonghua, Sima Yan, etc., to look at the works of these famous artists, to see who you like to write the word, who are more able to impress the word you choose to choose who to be a teacher, choose his post as their own copying of the word post.