What's the difference between hard pen calligraphy and brush calligraphy?

The most obvious difference between hard pen calligraphy and soft pen calligraphy is the difference in stroke thickness.

The pens used in hard-pen calligraphy are made of hard materials, such as pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, pencils and gel pens commonly used in hard-pen calligraphy, while soft pens are all kinds of brushes that we usually see, and Chinese characters are written on paper with ink.

Soft-pen calligraphy and hard-pen calligraphy have different application scopes except using pens. Hard pen calligraphy is much more widely used than soft pen calligraphy, because hard pen calligraphy is fast, easy to carry and easy to popularize at one time. For example, we usually write hard-pen calligraphy and so on. Although everyone writes different words, everyone knows its writing skills.

Soft pen calligraphy is a writing skill, which needs to be studied in a training class or a professional teacher.

Their holding posture is also different. Soft pen holds real finger, guilty hand, round back, vertical palm and hanging wrist, mainly relying on arm strength and wrist strength; Hard-pen calligraphy is three-finger writing, mainly relying on wrist strength.