About Calligraphy: What is meant by copying and what is meant by tracing

Copying: the process of imitating calligraphy and painting works according to the original is called copying. Pro, is to write or draw according to the original; copy, is to use thin paper (silk) masked in the original above writing or drawing.

Tracing red: refers to copying on paper printed with red characters or hollow red characters, is one of the best training methods for beginners to learn how to write. In the past, when practicing brush lettering, it was red characters, every other page was red standard regular characters, above a thin transparent paper, practicing calligraphers tracing that red characters, called tracing red.

Expanded Information:

p>The method of copying and tracing:

1, the method of copying:

First of all, pick a favorite, more neatly dotted and drawn, more proportional to the form of the character post to copy. If it is a brush post, then you should pick a smaller font post, so you can save the work of narrowing.

Secondly, when practicing calligraphy, you have to copy it first, and then copy it. The so-called facsimile, is to put the post on the more transparent exercise paper, with a pen according to the post on the word a little bit of "red". Requirements for pen strokes do not go beyond the brush outside the word, are written in the word post on the word in the middle of the dots and drawings. In this way, over time, it will be easy to learn the structure of the characters on the post.

The so-called pro, is to put the word post on the exercise paper; according to the post on the word in accordance with the drawing of gourds. Requirements for the dots and drawings written like, there are light and heavy rhythm and thickness of the changes. In this way, over time, it is easy to learn the word post on the word meaning. Because the book is more difficult than copying the book, so you have to copy after copying, because of the two complementary means of learning the word and copying, so you have to copy the combination, step by step.

And then, before copying, read the post carefully. The word on the post, how to write its points and drawings, how to arrange the structure, how to arrange the chapter, should be carefully pondered and find out the rules, so that it is easy to write with interest, but also easy to write like, write well. Copying, can not be greedy greedy fast, but should focus on the war of annihilation, every day, insist on one or two hours, repeatedly copy a few words, so that there will be a real gain.

In addition, the light copy is not enough, but also will be back, nuclear, with. Back, that is, do not look at the post, back post to write, do not look at the post can also write the post on the word, and strive to form God Bishop; nuclear, that is, the back of the word and the post on the word to check. To see if there is any error, to be good at discovering their own shortcomings, so as to correct the shortcomings; with, that is, practice, the things learned, used in real life, in practice to consolidate and improve the things learned.

Finally, after copying a good word post, should also be like a bee picking flowers to brew good honey, like a wide range of other word post. Of course, learning to write the word post is also the most taboo to see different ideas, today copy this post, tomorrow the post, like a lantern like a rotation of writing, so, is not good word. Beginner pen calligraphy must pay attention to.

2, the method of tracing:

Tracing practice need to read the post, after writing. First look at the shape of the pen and remember the pen road, and then a written, do not stop in the middle of the pen. Before you write, you can also use your fingers to make a "book empty" practice, so that the weight of the pen, fast and slow, start and stop, etc. to do a good idea. When you write, you have to use your brain, and you have to make sure that the "feel" that you experience in the tracing exercise is strengthened to form the actual writing ability.

Can be traced with light ink, to be dry and then traced with thick ink; can also be written or copied to improve the utilization rate of the tracing book. It can also be practiced with single and double hooks. "Single hook bone" to enhance students' understanding of the structure of the frame; "double hook flesh" to deepen students' grasp of the shape of the strokes. The combination of "bone and flesh" complements each other.

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