Among the penmanship skills, the speed of the pen movement is one of the skills that must not be ignored. Pen speed is not only a simple matter of fast and slow, it is very closely related to the ink color and font to be written, the style and rhythm to be expressed. The speed of the pen itself can both perfectly express these aspects and be constrained by them.
1. The relationship between pen speed and ink color
The core skill of using ink is "paper and ink", and the key skill of using ink is ink. Due to the permeability of ink falling on the paper, it is necessary to grasp the accuracy of the ink when applying the ink, otherwise the ink will be defeated and the ink rhyme will be lost if it is out of control.
The law is: "the permeation of the full pen is fast, and the permeation of the thirsty pen is slow" (the water size of the ink and the water absorption of the paper cannot be ignored). In order to make the ink control accurate and appropriate, how to grasp the pen speed is the key link. The essence is: "The pen must be fast, and the thirsty pen should be slow".
For example, in the creation of cursive writing, when the brush is dipped in ink once, a number of words must be written in a row, and the ink contained in the pen has a process of increasing and decreasing, and the speed of the pen must also have a process of increasing from fast to slow. It's a regular process. If you don't move the pen according to this law, the full pen will be slow, but the thirsty pen will be fast, and the ink on the paper will be a mess. The front section is vague, and the back section is pale and colorless, so it doesn't matter about the ink rhyme. The ink color of line and cursive script pays attention to the changes of shade, dryness, dryness, and virtual reality, so it puts forward higher requirements for the speed of the pen. It is necessary to have the ability to control the pen at high speed and low speed in order to express the ink color and ink rhyme of cursive writing.
In the creation of seals, subordinates and Kai, the pen speed is required to be uniform, and the contrast is generally small, and most of them use the speed of medium and low grades. The reason is that the ink color contrast of this type of font is small, and the ink contained in the pen should not be too full or too thirsty when writing. The pen speed and ink color are mutually expressive and mutually restrictive.
2. The relationship between pen speed and font
Different fonts have different requirements for pen speed. The penmanship of seal, subordinate and Kai is independent of the pen, and the portrayal of strong strokes should be strong. In this way, it is difficult to speed up the speed of pen movement in the writing of dot painting. In addition, the chapter of these fonts is basically in rows and columns, a grid and a word, the words are independent, and there is no lingering relationship between the words, so it is difficult to move the pen quickly with a fast pen.
The penmanship of line and cursive writing has a great degree of freedom, the length and thickness of the strokes can be changed randomly, the straight line and arc can be arbitrarily combined, the gesture can be broken and connected, the pen can be connected in a single word, and several words can be lingering. All of these provide favorable conditions for the acceleration of the pen speed, or it can be said that it can be both accelerated and slowed down.
3. The relationship between pen speed and style
Technique expresses style, style restricts technique. Pen speed is a skill in penmanship, therefore, pen speed and style are mutually expressive and mutually restrictive. The style is quiet all the way, the pen speed must be steady, the crazy all the way, the pen speed should be urgent, the simple all the way, the pen speed should be sluggish, and so on. In line and cursive writing, the diversity of this style and the variability of the pen speed coexist and coexist. Xingcao is a dynamic font with great differences in style, especially in the change of pen speed. It requires the writer to be able to control the pen speed of each gear very strong and skillful in order to grasp the style well. It is also Wang Xizhi's work, with different pen speeds and different styles. The pen speed of "Lanting" is relatively slow, and the pen speed of "Moon Ceremony" is fast. The list goes on.
Although seal, li, and kai are static fonts, they are very diverse in style. Taking Tang Kai as an example, Yu Suiliang's pen speed is fast, Ouyang Xun's pen speed is medium, and Yan Zhenqing's pen speed is slow. The speed of the pen has a direct impact on the performance of the style.
It can be seen from this that the style has very strict requirements for pen speed, and the pen speed needs to be proportionate to the performance of style.
4. The relationship between pen speed and rhythm
Strictly speaking, any font must have a rhythmic display in its creation. From the perspective of stippling lines, thick and thin, heavy and light, long and short, sluggish and smooth, steady and unrestrained, etc., are the basic elements that constitute the rhythm. The stronger the contrast, the more the rhythm becomes. The slow and steady pen is bound to be slow, and the smooth and unrestrained pen is certainly fast.
The writing of lines and cursive scripts varies greatly in speed and slowness, weight, weight, weight, and size, so it is not an even pen speed. This is a very important penmanship technique for cursive writing.
The writing of seals, subordinates and regular scripts, although not as large as the rhythm of the grass, there are also problems with rhythm grasping. Or a certain word is dignified, or a certain word is elegant, it must be changed according to the needs of the rhythm of the qi, and the grasp of the speed of the pen should also change accordingly.
The faster the pen speed, the greater the probability of losing control of the force and the sharp change. The so-called pen practice, practice is to solve this contradiction, practice is fast and precise, practice is to be able to control the speed of the pen to write exquisite dot lines and wonderful Chinese character modeling.