Lishu, also known as han li, is a common solemn font in Chinese characters. Its writing effect is slightly wide and flat, with a long horizontal painting and a short vertical painting, showing a rectangular shape, and paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".

Lishu originated in the Qin Dynasty and was compiled by Cheng Miao. It reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle was called "han li Tang Kai".

Compared with Wei Bei, Tang Kai, Hangshu and cursive script, Lishu is a relatively easy and quick font.

I have always liked official script very much. If you write official script with a hard pen, you can also write the taste of official script.

The word "vernal equinox" in the picture below is written by me with a neutral pen. It is actually easy to write the feeling of official script by applying the brush technique to hard pen writing.

I share two methods about how to practice hard-pen official script.

First, practice writing brush official script first, and then practice hard-pen.

By learning brush calligraphy, you will have a deeper understanding and understanding of brushwork, radicals, shelf structure, rules and other knowledge, and you will also have a more accurate grasp of calligraphy. After studying this way again, you will feel that you just changed a pen, but what you wrote is also an official script, and the effect will be better.

Second, practice hard-pen official script directly

It is recommended to buy hard-pen official script copybooks for study. Because if you use the tablet copybook, many words will be incomplete and unclear, which will affect the learning efficiency, and many of them are enlarged copies, which are not suitable for copying with a pen.

It is recommended to buy "Cao Quanbei Pen copybook", which also contains a demonstration video by Lu Zhongnan! Learn from famous artists, and the effect will be better!

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