How to practice pen control?
About pen control
When you start writing a post, have you ever noticed that your writing hand is shaking?
What should be straight is shaken horizontally and vertically? Sometimes I am lucky enough to write one or two and then I find that I am back before liberation.
Most of all this stems from one thing: your "pen control" is poor.
Pen control is the ability to control a pen. The significance of pen control cannot be underestimated in the writing of every font.
Strokes are the basic unit of combining a character. To write a character well, it is impossible to write well with strokes. You can write better strokes by practicing good pen control.
How to improve pen control ability?
Just one word, practice
Next, I will introduce to you how to practice pen control. It is best to spend time every day doing pen control exercises, as there are many benefits.
Preparation tools
The tools we need to prepare are a 0.7 gel pen (1.0 is also acceptable) and square practice paper. (The square practice paper referred to here can be a field grid, a rice grid, or a rice-back grid.) You can place a piece of newspaper, toilet paper, mouse pad, or other relatively soft paper under the practice paper, or buy a practice paper. Word pad. Doing this can increase the contact area between your practice paper and pen, making it easier to practice calligraphy.
Practice method
Our grid has horizontal and vertical lines. Using the horizontal lines as a reference, we can do horizontal exercises.
1. Horizontal exercises (thick and thin cross)
●We choose a grid and use the horizontal lines on it as a reference to practice horizontal strokes.
●For the first stroke, press down hard with the pen to write the thickest horizontal line that your pen can write. The length you write can be consistent with the length of a grid.
●For the second stroke, lift your pen slightly so that it is about to leave the paper but not yet leaving the paper. Write the lightest line you can.
●For the third stroke, repeat the process of the first stroke.
Cross-training, write the first one, and then the most detailed one. In this process, it is difficult to learn to write fine strokes for the first time, but you must persist, find the feeling, and practice more.
2. Vertical exercises (thick and thin cross)
●We choose a grid and use the vertical lines on it as a reference to practice vertical strokes.
●For the first stroke, press down hard with the pen to write the thickest vertical line that your pen can write. The length you write can be consistent with the length of a grid.
●For the second stroke, lift your pen slightly so that it is about to leave the paper but not yet leaving the paper. Write the lightest stroke you can.
●For the third stroke, repeat the process of the first stroke.
The practice method is the same as that of horizontal strokes, but it is not simple because vertical strokes are easy to write crookedly, so it is necessary to do such exercises.
3. Combination of thickness and thickness
●We choose a grid, use the horizontal lines on it as a reference, and practice alternating the thickness of horizontal strokes.
●First we press the pen hard and write the thickest stroke. Note that the length of the writing is one-third of the grid.
●Then, we follow this stroke and write the thinnest stroke you can, which is also one-third of the length of the grid.
●Finally, we press the pen hard, and then write the final thickest stroke after the thin strokes. Note that the length of the writing is one-third of the grid.
In this way, the grid is filled.
Practice repeatedly and feel how the subtle changes in strength from thick to thin and from thin to thick change on your hands, and eventually reach the point where you can connect them together.
