Hard pen calligraphy can be written with pens, pencils and gel pens.

Hard-pen calligraphy is divided into hard-pen calligraphy art and practical hard-pen calligraphy. The former mainly emphasizes artistry, while the latter mainly emphasizes practicality. The artistry of hard-pen calligraphy mainly shows the writer's understanding and feeling of calligraphy art through the changes of lines and structures, and it pursues beauty, emotion, interest, artistic conception, personality and so on;

The practical hard-pen calligraphy, that is, daily writing, mainly meets the needs of practicality and can be easily written and recognized. The key is to make writing fast and standardized, so the practical hard-pen calligraphy is mainly based on running script.

The characteristics of hard pen calligraphy are mainly compared with brush calligraphy.

first, because the material of hard pen tip is relatively hard, its line change is not as big as that of soft pen-brush pen; Second, because the commonly used hard pens are mainly pens, the lines are much finer than those of the brush, so the fonts are much smaller, even smaller than the small letters of the brush; Third, due to the material of the pen, the hard pen is easier to control than the brush.

Basic stroke writing skills of hard-pen calligraphy:

1. Long horizontal direction

Low left and high right, slightly inclined to the upper right. The long horizontal direction is not horizontal, so it should have an inclined angle. Add a pen at the beginning and the end of the pen (the pen is the dot at the lower right, it must be small). The stroke process should be smooth, and the stroke in the middle is slightly faster, showing a state of being thin in the middle and thick at both ends.

The inclination angle of the long horizontal varies from character to character. For example, the inclination angle of the long horizontal is larger in the character "Seven" and smaller in the character "Wang" whose last stroke is long horizontal.

2. Short horizontal

The left is low and the right is high, slightly inclined to the upper right. The short horizontal is not horizontal, and it should have an inclined angle. Don't add a pen at the beginning, you can add it at the end. The stroke is from light to heavy, and after writing, it is in a state of thin head and thick tail, and it should be straight horizontally.

3. Hang the needle vertically

Add a pen at the starting point, and write vertically directly below. The pen should be carried slowly first and then quickly, from heavy to light. When writing in two thirds, gently accelerate the pen and lift it out of the tip. It must not be accelerated too early or too hard. The hanging needle vertical must be vertical. When the last stroke in a word is a long vertical, it is generally better to write it as a hanging needle vertical.