Preparation before practicing calligraphy as an adult

Although you have stepped out of school, you still have not developed good calligraphy. As you grow older and meet the needs of making friends and working, you will naturally find that being able to write beautiful and fluent pen calligraphy is a kind of capital. With it, you can often win the favor of friends and leaders; Life brings many conveniences. So when you see that your calligraphy is like an earthworm, crooked and high, like a tadpole, you decide to practice calligraphy.

Note that not everyone can achieve results by practicing calligraphy. Because they have gone astray. The so-called misguided approach means that it was originally written for practicality and convenience, but in the end, writing became slower, less practical, and more inconvenient. Looking at the characters he has learned, he thinks the strokes have twists and turns, those that are restrained and frustrated, those that are learned from official script and seal script... So at best, you lose patience and give up halfway; at worst, you try to imitate others, and the more you practice, the worse you get. Investigating the reason, a very important point is that I did not set a clear goal for myself before practicing calligraphy.

Therefore, the first thing to prepare before practicing calligraphy is to ask yourself what the purpose of practicing calligraphy is and set a destination for yourself. If you practice calligraphy for practicality and convenience, then the goal of practicing calligraphy is to write correctly, clearly, and fluently. Only by knowing the purpose of practicing calligraphy can you avoid detours when practicing calligraphy.

After setting the goal, the second thing is to ask you to "study" the pen. If your purpose of practicing calligraphy is to be clear, correct and fast, then do not choose a dip pen as a tool for practicing calligraphy. And you must also know that the characteristic of a pen is that it is hard. If it is hard, it is easy to write "straight" and "horizontal" strokes. If you don't believe it, just scratch it on the paper. It is not difficult to write a correct character after making sure that the strokes are straight and "horizontal is horizontal" and "straight is straight". Understanding this can increase your confidence in practicing calligraphy well.

With a target and tools, just like a shooter with a gun and a target, the next step is to load bullets and go to the battlefield. The bullet for practicing calligraphy is to choose posts, which is the third thing.

Perhaps, you admire those artistic fountain pen copybooks. They use pens carefully and have different thicknesses. You think that only practicing this kind of calligraphy can be called practicing calligraphy; maybe you think that since you spend time practicing If you are already familiar with calligraphy, it is better to practice calligraphy that you have never learned before, such as official script and seal script. This can completely change the look of your handwriting and abandon the old and start with the new. Maybe you have never thought about what kind of calligraphy to practice, thinking that just buying one on the street will do the trick. It's the same. Then you are on the wrong track.

First, those artistic copybooks are not suitable for beginners to learn. Secondly, official script and seal script are not commonly used in actual work and study, which violates the purpose of practical calligraphy practice. Thirdly, there are so many copybooks in today’s society that it is inevitable that people will be confused with others. If you don’t go through selection, you will make mistakes.

Having said this, you may be in a dilemma, what kind of copybook should you choose? Remember, you must choose the posts based on your purpose of practicing calligraphy. The purpose of your writing is to write clearly, correctly and fluently. Then go to the bookstore and ask the salesperson to take out various fountain pen copybooks and compare them one by one. Choose one with a simple pen, tall and straight lines, and most of the strokes are even in thickness and structure. A compact copybook with elegant fonts serves as a template. This kind of copybook best suits your purpose of practicing calligraphy.

Of course, there must be many people who have higher goals in practicing calligraphy and want their calligraphy to have an artistic flavor. This can't be said to be a bad thing. However, have you written correctly, clearly, and standardizedly? This is like running. If you haven't even learned to walk, how can you run? Writing words correctly, clearly and standardly is the basis for practicing all calligraphy well.

The calligraphy practice for adults is different from the calligraphy practice for teenagers. Practicing calligraphy is a must for teenagers. Many schools have included it as a compulsory course; adults can practice it or not according to their own circumstances, and it all depends on their own consciousness. Therefore, it is more important to ask yourself the purpose of practicing calligraphy before practicing calligraphy. This way you can reasonably arrange your time for writing.

If you don’t want to be a pen calligrapher, and you don’t want to make pen calligraphy a lifelong career, when you practice calligraphy, in order to achieve results, you should carefully choose a destination that you can reach! Otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of time?