If you want to learn seal carving, do you have to learn calligraphy first?

Look at some famous seal carvings and more ancient seals, according to the pro.

"If you learn a small seal, because the seal book wire frame is relatively single, there is no size change, the penmanship is relatively simple, and the maintenance of the middle guard line pen can be trained, and it is not beneficial to grasp all kinds of penmanship, distinguish the main and secondary, etc. If there is no calligraphy foundation to learn the big seal, just in vain, even the meaning of the words is not clear, especially the long-term contact is all simplified characters, can quickly understand and understand all the problems, calligraphy art is also impossible to say.

The seal script wire frame is relatively single, and there is no change in size, the penmanship is relatively simple, and the maintenance of the middle guard line pen can be carried out to carry out training, and it is not beneficial to grasp a variety of penmanship, distinguish the main and secondary, etc.

Summary. Learning to learn seal, in fact, is a shortcut to learn calligraphy, the deep accumulation of pen ability, the grasp of the rules of the knot are the most concise and easy to learn from the beginning of the seal.

Fu Shan said: "I don't know the seal and the Zhou, but I talk about calligraphy and learn calligraphy, and I can't sleep." In fact, this is not an exaggeration at all, I don't understand the rules of the seal book with a pen and the seal book, and I can't understand it in other book styles.

On the one hand, you can apply for some tutorial classes, first of all, you must master some basic brush skills, such as how to hold the brush correctly, for the writing of the various radicals of the brush words to be proficient, after mastering the basic skills, you can persevere in practice every day, at the beginning of the use of some calligraphy, with the improvement of their own ability, you should get rid of the calligraphy, you can buy some more famous calligraphy books, and then copy yourself, in addition to looking at some online calligraphy teaching**, It is also a great help to improve my calligraphy ability.

First of all, you should learn to hold the pen posture, and then pay attention to your standing posture, your head should be slightly lower, facing the table, your eyes should be straight, your body slightly bent forward, your arms tend to be coordinated, your feet are naturally open, you must stand with the same width as your shoulders, and you must choose a brush that suits you, and then you must practice the stroke order of the brush words and the way of pausing the pen.

I think that if you have not been in contact with calligraphy, if you want to learn calligraphy by yourself, the first thing is to read more about calligraphy, or to apply for a special calligraphy training class for systematic training, if there is no systematic training, it will also have a serious impact on their learning in the future.

It is recommended not to practice the brush character first write the seal book, the seal script is the oldest form of calligraphy font, it is the unified text form when the Qin unified the six countries, it is very difficult for modern people to write, the beginner who practices the brush character first writes the regular script, with the foundation of the regular script, master the structure and penmanship of the regular script, and then write the seal script, you can get twice the result with half the effort. Regular script is the basic skill of writing various styles of calligraphy, cursive script, etc.

Beginners should use regular script as the basis for practicing calligraphy. The arrangement of the regular script structure is exactly in the middle stage. It evolved from the official script, if the regular script is flat and flat, the Gabo penmanship is the official script.

Writing is simple and flowing, that is, the line of writing, and then writing is simple and grassy, that is, this grass. If you start from the official script, it is difficult to master the penmanship of the regular script, because the penmanship of the regular script is richer and more complex than the official script. It can be seen that practicing the basic skills of regular script can be used as the basis for practicing and writing.

Calligraphy has seal, official script, regular script, line script, cursive five bodies, the vast majority of people and I think that beginners should be based on regular script, but some people think that should start from the official script. The arrangement of the regular script structure is exactly in the middle stage. It evolved from the official script, if the regular script is flat and flat, the Gabo penmanship is the official script.

Writing is simple and flowing, that is, the line of writing, and then writing is simple and grassy, that is, this grass. If you start from the official script, it is difficult to master the penmanship of the regular script, because the penmanship of the regular script is richer and more complex than the official script. It can be seen that practicing the basic skills of regular script can be used as the basis for practicing and writing.

Here's how:

1. Prepare the tools and materials to be engraved with rubber stamps, as well as the patterns to be engraved.

2. First put the tracing stove paper on the pattern and trace the pattern with a pencil.

3. Put the drawn button on the rubber and scrape it back and forth with a scraper.

4. The pencil drawing on the tracing paper is printed on the eraser.

5. Use the carving knife to tilt the angle of 45 degrees, the direction is outward, and the carving is deeper, and the middle part of the knife is shallow. When carving in the middle, the lower knife is to the left, so that you can cross the lower knife and take out the useless part of the carving.

6. When carving the surrounding blank, place the carving knife horizontally, carve a circle along the perimeter, and the depth of the knife is subject to not cutting off the pattern, and the depth is about one millimeter. When you are not proficient, you can try to engrave, never carve the pattern in the middle.

7. After carving, if you feel that the blank part is uneven, use a carving knife to make up for it, and then use a brush to brush off the eraser shavings.

8. Put the engraved rubber stamp on the printing pad and stick it in the printing oil.

9. Gently put it on the white paper, press it, and press it all around to make the pattern color uniform.

10. Pick up the rubber stamp, and the pattern will be printed on the paper. As long as beginners master these methods and practice more, they will get better and better.