Calligraphy thread

[Anonymous No.4544956]

also share you're protips about coping without real brushes

[Anonymous No.4544992]

>>4544956
What is the character on the right sheet supposed to be?

[Anonymous No.4544998]

>>4544992
same as the left one
but to be fair, nobody can actually read cursive
https://m.cidianwang.com/shufa/ma664_xs.htm

[Anonymous No.4545003]

>>4544992
its a stylized completion marker. i dont agree with OP's stylization though.. I think it's inspired by cursive 辶 but you can't just take things that you like from one character and add it to another.

[Anonymous No.4545005]

>>4544992
same as the left one
but to be fair nobody can actually read cursive
https://www.cidianwang.com/shufa/ma664_cs.htm

[Anonymous No.4545009]

>>4544998
it's 了

[Anonymous No.4545019]

>>4545009
it really isn't

[Anonymous No.4545022]

>>4545019
okay, it would've been incorrect if it was. look at that. well i am the one with the privilege of learning something new today.

[Anonymous No.4545027]

>>4545022
well again, reading cursive is not something you can just come up with, especially without context

[Anonymous No.4545100]

赵孟頫书胡应青观音殿记 by 赵孟頫

[Anonymous No.4545120]

>>4545100
so what's the appeal of semi-cursive? why not go all the way?

[Anonymous No.4545165]

>>4545120
Cursive is the hardest and you need to understand cursive, clerical and standard to do it well. After I started uni, I stopped learning from my calligraphy teacher and progress just stopped I guess. Plus semi cursive is just super common with a lot of variation.

[Anonymous No.4545256]

>>4545027
true, true. so I've spent the last hour and a half practicing shufa with the ink brush tool in photoshop. set to these settings: 123 and 275, so you wont need to press down on the tablet much. but obviously this will take longer than 90 minutes to master. unironically, all of this time was spent writing this character. felt relevant as i should've thought of using the ink tool earlier.

>>4544956
so to cope without a real brush... i recommend finger painting. regular calligraphy threads should be a part of making /ic/ "great again." definitely good practice for line control.

[Anonymous No.4545418]

>>4545100
Very impressive.

I got decent at yan-style kaishu after a year of grinding, but never graduated to semi-cursive. I'll post a pic if I can find one.

>>4544956
Keep it up! My advice to anons getting into Chinese calligraphy would be:

1. Grind '一': The single most important thing I ever learned was how to draw a horizontal stroke (heng). It took me a month or two of grinding '一's and '三's before I was able to reliably lay one down. Nailing that part of the brushwork will take your calligraphy to a whole new level.

Pay attention to how '一' begins and ends. The ends aren't flat, they're bony, although they are often made sharper or rounder to spice things up. Bony ends are achieved by a twisting motion (pic related) that is unfortunately best learned through a teacher.

2. Play with line weight. Make horizontal lines thinner and vertical lines thicker or vice-versa and keep it consistent. Likewise, play with dots (dian).

3. Know how to hold your brush. It's all in the wrist.

4. Know the stroke order!

5. If you're serious about giving this a go, get some rice paper and a medium size calligraphy brush (supplies are available on Amazon). Copy paper will never give you the effects you're looking for because it doesn't absorb enough ink.

[Anonymous No.4545438]

>>4545418
Pic related after 5-6 months of practice

[Anonymous No.4545440]

>>4545438

[Anonymous No.4545521]

>>4545418
>>4545438
>>4545440
>spends 2 months grinding how to make a straight line
>can't spend 10 seconds rotating a picture before posting it
Classic troglodyte.

[Anonymous No.4546314]

>>4545440
Looks p great to me, I think you can move onto semi cursive now. Or you could try looking into 欧体, which I personally like more.

[Anonymous No.4546731]

书法 turns out to be extremely frustrating
looks extremely simple and straight forward almost child like but is in fact almost impossible to get right not even talking about repoducing the exact model just trying to make it look half good is a chore

[Anonymous No.4548579]

>>4545005
马 is the simplified form of 馬.
The thing is about Simplified Chinese characters is that a lot of them are actually standardised versions of cursive forms. So instead of writing 马 in cursive, try it with the original 馬 form instead.

[Anonymous No.4550630]

>>4546314
欧体 is really pretty. It looks more subtle. I wish I had given it a try back then.

But practicing calligraphy stopped making sense after I moved back from China.