I'd love a full course on chinese calligraphy. For me learning chinese calligraphy is one of the most exiting and beautiful parts of learning mandarin.
Hope you guys enjoyed this one! I just want to point out the "front loaded, back loaded, and double loaded strokes" are not industry standard terms! 😂 I kind of just made them up... (but the concept is correct). The microfiber cloth can be any brand but it has to be the thin type that you would use on glasses or electronics, NOT the thick, rag type for cars. The paper is standard copy paper. Don't use thicker paper because the pen won't sink in as much. (20 lb weight is good) Microfiber Cloth » amzn.to/3Odn380 Zebra Sarasa Clip Metallic » amzn.to/32MXS9p
I just started the journey with calligraphy, using both gel pens and fountain pens. I see most experts on TH-cam used up to 0.7mm. I think your black pen writes better than the multicolored variants. IMHO, it is the structure you need to practice first than the end points of each line, I know it's addictive.
As a person who uses Chinese as my first language, i think ur writing is actually really good compared to a lot of natives. If you really want to improve your chinese calligraphy to a new level, try writing shufa with a maobi(similar to a paint brush with a tip). After you learn how to use maobi properly, your writing will look even better
I picked up a pack of Yoobi pens from target: it was super cheap, had sparkly ink that got all over my hands and dried out in less than a month but MAN IT WROTE CHINESE SO BEAUTIFULLY
Fascinating! The time and commitment you've made to perfecting your knowledge and skills is commendable. Have you tried a fountain pen with a flexible nib? It's amazing the line variation you can achieve by varying the pressure and even angle with fountain pens. The choice of inks are almost limitless and so much fun to explore as well. Atlas Stationers in Chicago is a cool place with a large selection in stock. I think it's satisfying to have a beautiful pen to go with beautiful writing.
Ah lol, I was just about to recommend fountain pens to him before I saw this comment. I'm not too experienced with Chinese characters but I use them with English calligraphy and they're great for that use. Only issue is that I find that the ink fountain pens use tends to feather a lot with thin paper such as printer paper.
Good video thanks. Please can you explain what you meant by "over" and "under" in the hierarchy for boxes that you discussed towards the end of the video? Does over mean Towards the top of the page? Laid down on top of another stroke? Truncating another stroke, rather than being truncated by another stroke? I couldn't quite understand. Thanks!
Yeah, sorry, so what I meant is that a stroke that is "under" another stroke ends when it hits that stroke. A stroke that is "over" goes slightly past another stroke when they hit. So in the letter "T" the horizontal stroke is over the vertical stroke because the vertical stroke ends when it hits the horizontal stroke. Does that make sense? I don't know how to word it better
Excellent and very helpful! Only one suggestion- please don’t use the orange pen ! It’s really hard to see on the video! Thanks! Content is great though!
The secret is to just get good.. There are no tricks. I've seen dudes writing on the ground with the cheapest chalk that makes your writing look like a pre-schoolers. Its not the pens or inks that is special. Its the hands using the tools. Lastly, before you teach us about Chinese, learn how to actually say the tones.
Go back to history. Ball-point pen is very modern. dip pen > fountain pen > ball-point pen. Go back to history. Chinese is written with a paint brush. I use the Buddha Board to write with a brush stroke. It simulates black ink. When the water dries, the "ink" mark disappears! That is the closest thing to paint brush writing, in the original.
This kind of writing may lack the expressiveness of advanced and artistic calligaraphy, but to say this isn't trying to achieve a skillfull and harmonious writing is selling it short. I don't know about China, but I do know that writing elegantly with a pen is taught as part of the curriculum for calligraphy classes in Japanese schools. It is seen as fundamental to master stroke order and the different types of stroke and their weight in the 楷書 かいしょ kaisho style before you can do cursive and artistics styles. In the mordern world that does include how to do it with a pen.
I'd love a full course on chinese calligraphy. For me learning chinese calligraphy is one of the most exiting and beautiful parts of learning mandarin.
Learning calligraphy has nothing to do with learning mandarin.
Hope you guys enjoyed this one! I just want to point out the "front loaded, back loaded, and double loaded strokes" are not industry standard terms! 😂 I kind of just made them up... (but the concept is correct). The microfiber cloth can be any brand but it has to be the thin type that you would use on glasses or electronics, NOT the thick, rag type for cars. The paper is standard copy paper. Don't use thicker paper because the pen won't sink in as much. (20 lb weight is good)
Microfiber Cloth » amzn.to/3Odn380
Zebra Sarasa Clip Metallic » amzn.to/32MXS9p
Thank you for posting this. I have always enjoyed doing calligraphy Finding the correct and comfortable pen is always an issue. Great video!
your chinese writing is so beautiful!
thank you!
This was an awesome video. I really appreciate you walking through each stroke style!
I just started the journey with calligraphy, using both gel pens and fountain pens.
I see most experts on TH-cam used up to 0.7mm. I think your black pen writes better than the multicolored variants. IMHO, it is the structure you need to practice first than the end points of each line, I know it's addictive.
omg so creative, I would've never thought about that tool. btw nice calligraphy!!
I use ChangeWe GP -B501 black pen. Don't know if you've heard of it but it's all I could find in my at my place
Awesome, I'm learning Chinese language but this was a refreshing elective course. Very cool, thanks for making me think about calligraphy more.
As a person who uses Chinese as my first language, i think ur writing is actually really good compared to a lot of natives. If you really want to improve your chinese calligraphy to a new level, try writing shufa with a maobi(similar to a paint brush with a tip). After you learn how to use maobi properly, your writing will look even better
I picked up a pack of Yoobi pens from target: it was super cheap, had sparkly ink that got all over my hands and dried out in less than a month but MAN IT WROTE CHINESE SO BEAUTIFULLY
Thank you! I sooo needed this explanation! Now I know why my writing is so ugly and what I should do with it
Fascinating! The time and commitment you've made to perfecting your knowledge and skills is commendable. Have you tried a fountain pen with a flexible nib? It's amazing the line variation you can achieve by varying the pressure and even angle with fountain pens. The choice of inks are almost limitless and so much fun to explore as well. Atlas Stationers in Chicago is a cool place with a large selection in stock. I think it's satisfying to have a beautiful pen to go with beautiful writing.
Ah lol, I was just about to recommend fountain pens to him before I saw this comment. I'm not too experienced with Chinese characters but I use them with English calligraphy and they're great for that use. Only issue is that I find that the ink fountain pens use tends to feather a lot with thin paper such as printer paper.
do you have a pdf of that paper?
I get it from this site: www.purpleculture.net/chinese-practice-sheet/
*Just leave it blank to get a blank sheet!
@@ABChinese
Excellent video. Thank you! BTW, where does one get the grid paper?
You can print it off from templates online! I just get mine from purpleculture.net
你的视频非常好
Thanks for sharing 😃🇨🇴
Good video thanks. Please can you explain what you meant by "over" and "under" in the hierarchy for boxes that you discussed towards the end of the video? Does over mean Towards the top of the page? Laid down on top of another stroke? Truncating another stroke, rather than being truncated by another stroke? I couldn't quite understand. Thanks!
Yeah, sorry, so what I meant is that a stroke that is "under" another stroke ends when it hits that stroke. A stroke that is "over" goes slightly past another stroke when they hit. So in the letter "T" the horizontal stroke is over the vertical stroke because the vertical stroke ends when it hits the horizontal stroke. Does that make sense? I don't know how to word it better
@@ABChinese thanks for the fast reply. That’s clear now. Cheers.
好看！
Wow. Thanks
Do you have any suggestions for resources (books, websites, courses) to get more into this? How did you teach yourself? :)
2 years later😔 Asking for the full course
*Cries in left handed*
Thumbs up!
结构不太行但已经很好了
Excellent and very helpful! Only one suggestion- please don’t use the orange pen ! It’s really hard to see on the video! Thanks! Content is great though!
Wow
or use thick paper
Actually that has the opposite effect and the pen won’t sink in at all, so you want to use thin paper on a cushion (the microfiber cloth)
Common 'factor' of character below is ㄅ(L亅)
写compose of 冖与。ㄅsimilar to S。与(众不同)。妈，鸟→＇丶𠃌ㄅ。写。group Chinese character into 100group
Hayyyy
I rather stick to my current stationary........ Faber Castell pencil that cost under 50 cent:)))))
I have a pen almost like that
what's it called?
@@ABChinese I don't know but I will find the name of it
@@ABChinese The pen name is called "Gelly Roll"
Oh, I've tried those before... they're not as good as the Sarasa. Pretty colors though
@@ABChinese Yeah
The secret is to just get good.. There are no tricks. I've seen dudes writing on the ground with the cheapest chalk that makes your writing look like a pre-schoolers.
Its not the pens or inks that is special. Its the hands using the tools.
Lastly, before you teach us about Chinese, learn how to actually say the tones.
Go back to history. Ball-point pen is very modern.
dip pen > fountain pen > ball-point pen.
Go back to history. Chinese is written with a paint brush.
I use the Buddha Board to write with a brush stroke. It simulates black ink. When the water dries, the "ink" mark disappears!
That is the closest thing to paint brush writing, in the original.
I always write better with a pencil. 😅
This isn’t calligraphy. Watch 黃簡講書法 to learn what calligraphy actually is.
This kind of writing may lack the expressiveness of advanced and artistic calligaraphy, but to say this isn't trying to achieve a skillfull and harmonious writing is selling it short. I don't know about China, but I do know that writing elegantly with a pen is taught as part of the curriculum for calligraphy classes in Japanese schools. It is seen as fundamental to master stroke order and the different types of stroke and their weight in the 楷書 かいしょ kaisho style before you can do cursive and artistics styles. In the mordern world that does include how to do it with a pen.