There are two theories about the study of calligraphy, one is that to learn calligraphy, you must learn from a teacher, and the other is to learn calligraphy to practice inscriptions, both of which emphasize the importance of teachers in the process of learning calligraphy, one is to worship others as teachers, and the other is to take the inscriptions as teachers.
Do you know the two meanings of self-taught calligraphy copying inscriptions?
Now I will talk about the study of calligraphy with the inscription as a teacher. The calligraphy learning method of taking the stele as a teacher is popularly speaking, self-learning calligraphy.
In the process of self-study of calligraphy, Linti is the first level of calligraphy introduction. For self-taught calligraphy, the first level of this entry is the most difficult and the most boring, and many people will give up halfway without a very resolute learning attitude.
Self-study of calligraphy is completely dependent on personal ability but from a variety of calligraphy-related books to learn the experience accumulated by predecessors through practice to help themselves, to find answers to the problems they encounter in the process of learning calligraphy.
For people who learn calligraphy on their own, the first problem encountered in practicing calligraphy is how to use the brush, only to master the correct pen, that is, the use of the brush, after learning the correct pen, begin to gradually go into the post, the post is like reading a reference book, the stele has the experience of writing by the ancients, which includes the method of running the pen and the law of the structure of the word group, which also needs to be gradually understood and epiphanized through the learning process of repeated pro post.
The Pro-Ti is the basis for the progress of self-taught calligraphy and is also a necessary condition for improving writing skills. Therefore, talking about calligraphy and learning calligraphy cannot leave the pro-post.
Calligraphy is through continuous practice, so it is very important to insist on practicing, learning calligraphy is a process of quantitative change to qualitative change, and there can be no qualitative change without a certain amount of accumulation.
Through practicing different inscriptions, learning the writing styles and fonts of different famous artists, learning seals, subordinates, lines, grasses, and letters, and gradually forming their own writing styles.
Therefore, for self-taught calligraphers, there are at least two meanings of the post: first, the necessary process; second, effective method.