Methods and Techniques of Writing Brush Characters

Methods and techniques for writing brushstrokes are as follows:

The first technique is to hold the brush like a gun. All rigorously trained snipers know that the correct posture of the gun and aiming position is a prerequisite for accurately hitting the target. Then practice calligraphy is the same, to write a high level of calligraphy works of art, you must master the basic essentials of the pen.

At present, the traditional teaching of calligraphy are respected "five-finger pen method": that is, with the thumb and forefinger belly pinch the pen, the middle finger in the forefinger below the pen on the other side, with the help of the wrist force through the thumb and forefinger, the middle finger and the ring finger of the coordinated force, left and right, up and down, to a few different directions to push the recycling, or mention the pick hook, and finally form the font strokes.

Learning calligraphy must always practice the skills of holding the brush in different directions, pushing, rotating the tip (i.e., the brush) to draw points, vertical, horizontal, folding, hooks, lifting, picking and other basic strokes. To learn to use the big pen (bucket pen) hanging time to write large characters, learn to use the middle pen hanging wrist or pillow wrist to write the middle case or running script font, learn to pillow wrist to write the lower case.

The second technique: familiar with the brushwork. Learn calligraphy, it and painting are through different lines outline the characteristics of the subject art, the same line modeling art. Penmanship is how to create the strokes of the font on the paper through the correct method of penmanship and writing skills. For example, lifting and pressing.

It means that the brush is pressed down, and then write with a square pen or round pen, with back to close the pen or hide the front to close the pen, is a heavy press brush or light to close the brush, to achieve the thickness of the strokes to it? There is a certain skill here. Stroke force is thick strokes, brush up strokes will be fine. This is the same as chopping something with a knife, chopping hard, the knife mark is deep, on the contrary, the knife mark is shallow.

Writing Process

The writing process of calligraphy can be roughly divided into three processes: the falling of the brush, the traveling of the brush, and the closing of the brush. The pen has "exposed" method, with a round or square pen down to the surface of the paper, so that the beginning of the strokes in the shape of a pointed or square; there is also a "hidden" method, that is, against the front of the pen to the surface of the paper, for example, to write the horizontal drawings, want to the left first right, to write the vertical drawings, want to the top first, to make the pen hidden in the lines.

In the actual practice of writing, the most used of the line of the pen is the "center of the pen", that is, to let the tip of the pen in the middle of the strokes run. In order to write out some of the strokes of the outline of the staccato, sometimes it is necessary to pause in the middle of the line, stop and then lift the pen line. There are different ways to close the brush, either by "revealing the tip" or by "hiding the tip". I have specifically mentioned in the previous article, please pay attention to.