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Don't worry if you want to write chalk. If you master five skills, you can write beautiful chalk characters.

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If you want to write beautiful chalk characters, you need to master five skills: chalk characteristics, writing methods, writing posture, writing skills and font structure. The point is to work hard on the skills of writing with a pen. When writing with a pen, we should make clear the inter-frame structure of the font, be good at writing with a pen, learn to be sharp, practice hard, and practice makes perfect. Over time, something will be gained.

You know, chalk writing is a kind of hard pen calligraphy, similar to the writing techniques of pen, pencil and gel pen, and also similar to brush calligraphy. Therefore, in order to have a higher growth and harvest, we must learn the knowledge of hard pen and brush calligraphy and constantly absorb it for our own use.

First, the characteristics of chalk.

Chalk is a writing tool, which is made of limestone, gypsum and a little calcium oxide. It is essentially a soft cylinder. There are dust-free and dusty, colorless and colored. Chalk has no elasticity and is written on a hard blackboard. If you push too hard, it will break easily. If the force is too small, you can't write it, and the strokes are too light. Therefore, when writing, the strength and speed should be moderate.

When making campus blackboard newspaper, you can draw and write with different colors of chalk, so as to better present the publicity content.

Second, the method of writing.

The writing method of chalk is different from that of pen and brush. The writing method of chalk is to hold it with the thumb, forefinger and middle finger at the point of 1.5cm, and the included angle between the nib and the blackboard is 30-45 degrees.

Hold the chalk with your thumb and middle finger, and control the direction of the chalk with your index finger. Squeeze your fingers tightly, keep your palms empty, and don't make a fist, so that the muscles of your whole hand won't be nervous and your pen will be flexible and smooth.

It is not easy to hold the pen too high, such as the middle or the tail. Chalk breaks easily when you write hard. At the same time, it is not easy to write with a pen because of the friction between chalk and blackboard.

Third, writing posture.

When writing on the blackboard with chalk, we should keep several basic postures, namely, standing upright, raising our head and bending our arms steadily. According to the size, height and shape of writing, change it into pitching, lateral lying, squatting and other postures to write better.

At the same time, the posture of body change should not be too big, otherwise it will affect the fluency and quality of writing.

When writing, it is best to keep the horizontal position with your eyesight, so that you can grasp whether the size of the words you write is consistent, whether the font is stable, whether the bookshelf structure is reasonable, and whether the stroke thickness is appropriate.

Fourth, the key to writing.

Chalk is soft, so when writing on the blackboard, we should master the characteristics of realism, softness and stability. According to the different character frame and stroke structure, adjust the strength, control the direction of up-and-down movement, skillfully lift and press the chalk, and relax the whole writing process, and finally achieve the writing purpose of appropriate strength, combination of reality and reality, and clear thickness. The most basic knowledge and skills of writing are to be good at writing and learn to use the front.

1. Good at writing. Chalk is different from pens and brushes. After writing, its nib will become flat, thick and thin. Therefore, when carrying a pen, we should adjust the direction of rotating the nib in time according to the characteristics of the writing font. At the same time, we should master the changes of the pen after writing, twist the pen and write with the edges and corners of chalk. This is the unique way of writing chalk characters, "turning the pen obliquely".

Turn the pen. Writing with chalk wears away easily. In order to make the chalk write finer strokes, it is necessary to turn the chalk and write with the grinded edges and corners. There are two ways to turn the chalk, one is to twist the chalk with your fingers, and the other is to turn your wrist to change the friction surface of the chalk.

Skip the pen. It is to change the angle between the pen and the board surface and tilt one side of the touchpad surface, so that the pen surface of the touchpad changes from round to partial round. Just like the moon from round to short, the touchpad from big to small, and the lines on the pen surface from thick to thin. According to the stroke direction, there are three kinds of warping: forward warping, lateral warping and simultaneous warping.

This technique is also used when writing brush strokes, especially when painting with brush strokes. Zhang Xu, Huai Su and other cursive masters wrote cursive scripts, and all of them applied this writing method to a superb level.

2. Learn to be a pioneer. Chalk writing, similar to writing with a brush, can use the edges and corners of chalk to write strokes, which is an important feature that pens, gel pens and pencils do not have. To write beautiful and changeable strokes, we must learn to change the posture of writing and master the method of using the front when starting, transporting and collecting pens.

The first is to start writing, which can be written in front or profile. Along the front, it is directly along the stroke direction from light to heavy, falling and walking; On the front side is a horizontal potential, which is used to start the pen. First, the pen tip is tilted to the lower right, and then the direction is changed.

Second, strokes are different from pressing, lifting, turning and folding. Press the pen, that is, press the pen downward, and gradually increase the intensity to make the lines from thin to thick; Lifting the pen is to gradually lift the pen upwards, reducing the intensity and making the lines from thick to thin; Turning a pen means that when writing, the chalk body gradually changes direction, forming an arc similar to driving and turning, with uniform strength and speed; Pen folding is a sudden change of direction between strokes, forming edges and corners. The folded place should be paused, clean and tidy, and not sloppy.

The third is to close the pen, which can be done before, after or before the hook. In front, the pen is arranged at the end of the stroke, and the pen is gradually lifted away from the blackboard along the direction of travel; Back to the front, that is, from the beginning of the stroke to the end of the stroke, and then back in the opposite direction, leaving no trace; Hook front is to put the stroke to the end of the stroke, then lift the pen to the first end of the next stroke and bring out the hook.

By studying the front of the brush font, we can understand the reasons and skills of writing chalk characters with the front. At the same time, when writing big characters and long characters, we should use the consistent movement of wrist and elbow, use both hands and feet, and move with the writing direction. Don't stand still in one place.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) font structure.

No matter what writing tools you use, you need to be familiar with the font frame structure and master the layout of a pair of words. The writing of single words should follow the characteristics of tight top and loose bottom, close left and put right, tight inside and loose outside. The strokes should be properly dense, narrow and orderly, and the distance between strokes should not be too large or uneven.

In font practice, you can choose the works of four masters of regular script and Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting as copybooks, and you can also learn the works of contemporary hard-pen calligraphers such as Lu Zhongnan, Qi Gong, Tian Yingzhang and Si Manan. Choose your favorite font, try to ponder and practice.

Sixth, matters needing attention.

Only by writing chalk can we better achieve the purpose of presenting the content. There are several points to pay attention to:

1. The font size is appropriate. To write on the blackboard in the classroom, in order to ensure that the students in the last row can see the words, the minimum font is generally not less than 10 cm.

2. The layout is standardized and orderly. In normal class, when writing on the blackboard, keep vertical columns and horizontal rows, and the font size is consistent. If it is regular script and running script, use cursive script, official script and seal script less.

When making a blackboard newspaper, you can change the size, font and color of the text appropriately, but a blackboard newspaper should not exceed four colors, and generally three colors are the best. You can use different sizes, fonts and colors for themes, titles and lace.

3. Choose chalk reasonably. The choice of chalk should be moderate in hardness. Too hard chalk is not only difficult to write, not easy to carry a pen, but also difficult to erase.

4. Pay attention to personal health. No matter whether there is dust or dust-free chalk, there will be powder falling when writing, and it will breathe into the body if you are not careful. Therefore, when writing, try to hold your breath and keep a proper distance from the blackboard.

Conclusion.

To write a good chalk character, in addition to mastering the above skills, it is especially necessary to practice more strokes such as point, horizontal, vertical, skimming, pressing and folding, and grasp the key points of writing. At the same time, when writing, you should concentrate, follow your own thoughts and follow your own heart, so that you can write beautiful words in one go.