rate my calligraphy

[shak]

Hello friends of Chinese culture,

 

I dont know, if this is the right place for showing of my calligraphy, but i didnt find any real calligraphy forum in the english internet.

It seems retarded for a Westerner to try calligraphy in a language you dont write and speak, but i decided a year ago to give it a try, because i´m very fascinated by Chinese culture, paintings and history.

A year ago, i wanted to buy a calligraphy, but then i thought in my childish mind to do it myself saving money, because it must be kind of easy. Very bad mistake, but i´m still there practising!

 

But sadly no feedback given by any experts, because i´m from Germany and i dont know anyone who does Chinese calligraphy.

 

If anyone would kindly but honestly say something about the calligraphy i did recently, it would be very pleasant for me. Thank you.

 

Kind regards!

 

shak

 

[honglam]

I'd say you're doing quite well as a foreign learner who don't really have a knowledge of Chinese. The next step is to balance the size of different parts of a character and to balance the size of different characters. 

In the first work, the vertical stroke of 亻 seems to be to short compared with the 弗 part, while the marked vertical stroke of the 弗 part seems to be to long compared with the whole character.

In the second work, the circled part is too vacant. You could elongate the stroke I marked so that the whole character becomes more balanced.

And here's some subtle part of maobi-controlling: when writing those strokes ending with a shape of triangle, you are to control the force of writing so that the triangle shape is smoothly formed by the nib. The end of your strokes are scattered, that means that the force you gave to the pen is either to strong or to weak. The end of those strokes are expected to be as sharp as the tip of a knife. It is actually a very difficult skill to learn. Many native learners do this badly at first as well.

On 10/27/2024 at 5:51 AM, shak said:

But sadly no feedback given by any experts, because i´m from Germany and i dont know anyone who does Chinese calligraphy.

I think maybe you could find some experts at the department of sinology or Chinese language from your local universities, if any. I think an accessible expert helps you most - It's hard to learn any kind of painting or calligraphy without hand-to-hand instruction I think. 

In native context, mimicking the masterpieces of famous calligraphers is a very important part of learning calligraphy, so I find the characters written by a famous calligrapher, Yan Zhenqing, for you. The are special dictionary of Chinese calligraphy actually but of course they are written in Chinese so It could be hard for you to use them. I think a basic knowledge of Chinese may helps you go further.

[shak]

Hello honglam,

 

thank you very much for your time and effort to help me.

I´ill try to find a calligraphy teacher. I have so many questions about the calligraphy, but sadly, i think learning chinese is too hard for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[shak]

PS

I will try to copy Yan Zhenqing and come back!