If you haven’t practiced regular script, can you just practice running script?

Yes.

But when practicing running script, it is better to practice regular script first. Laying a good foundation with regular script will make it much easier to practice running script.

1. In fact, calligraphy is all about how to use the pen, whether the pen is used well, whether the pen is used stably, and whether the pen can be controlled. Once you solve these problems, your calligraphy will naturally be a little successful.

2. Regular script can be regarded as the beginning and introduction to calligraphy. Generally when we learn other fonts, we will learn regular script first. Not for anything else, because regular script can help people learn to control penmanship very well. Regular script is no different than other fonts. It can be casual or unrestrained. In comparison, regular script is more neat and formal. Every stroke and every stroke of regular script has requirements, and writing requires effort.

3. When every calligraphy teacher teaches students calligraphy, the first thing they teach them is to write capital letters. The correctness and neatness of capital letters are also a test for students. After you learn regular script well, you will already have a certain level of control over the pen. Of course this is a calligraphy brush, but the calligraphy is all the same, the pen writing is the same, the weight and pauses between strokes are the same.

4. We usually use regular script as the foundation, and then start to learn other things, such as official script, running script, etc. Generally, calligraphy teachers teach running script after learning regular script, and then cursive script. The reason why we don’t teach running script first is because we don’t have the foundation yet, just like a house that doesn’t even have a solid foundation, how can this house be stable? No matter how much effort you put into your house, it still doesn't feel that solid.

5. Furthermore, the relationship between running script and regular script is quite big. We learn from the simple to the difficult, which can also make it easier for us to learn running script. At least the previous foundation is still there, no matter how you practice, it will be faster than practicing running script directly.

6. Practicing calligraphy is just like doing anything. It is better to do it step by step. This way, you will be down-to-earth and feel more at ease. Of course, you can also skip a level, but you will have to spend more effort.

Extended information:

The connotation of calligraphy mainly includes the following aspects:

1. Calligraphy refers to the art of expressing emotions using the four treasures of the study as tools Art. The particularity of tools is an important aspect of the particularity of calligraphy art. Using the Four Treasures of the Study as tools to fully reflect the performance of the tools is an important part of calligraphy techniques. Without the Four Treasures of the Study, the art of calligraphy would be out of the question.

2. The art of calligraphy uses Chinese characters as its carrier. The particularity of Chinese characters is another important aspect of the particularity of calligraphy. Chinese calligraphy is inseparable from Chinese characters. The shape of Chinese character stipples and the combination of radicals are all things that writers pay more attention to. Different from other pinyin characters, Chinese characters are a combination of form, sound and meaning, and the form has a strong meaning.

The so-called "six books" of the ancients refer to the six methods of creating and using Chinese characters: pictograms, referring to things, understanding, pictographs, annotations, and borrowings. It is a great guide for the analysis of the physical structure of Chinese characters. significance.

3. The background of calligraphy art is traditional Chinese culture. Calligraphy is rooted in the soil of traditional Chinese culture, and traditional culture is the background on which calligraphy depends for its survival and development. The calligraphy theory we can see today since the Han Dynasty has its own system, completeness and organization. Like other literary and artistic theories, calligraphy theory includes not only the technical theory of calligraphy itself, but also its aesthetic theory, and in these theories, the wisdom of ancient Chinese literati shines. For example, the theory on how to express "spirit, energy, bone, flesh, blood" and other categories in calligraphy, the theory on brushwork, calligraphy, composition and other techniques, as well as creation theory, quality criticism, etc., all have their own systems.

4. The essence of calligraphy art includes brushwork, calligraphy, structure, composition, inkwork, brushwork, etc. Calligraphy brushwork is the core content of its technique. Brushwork is also called "pen use", which refers to the method of using the pen and the sharp edge. Calligraphy, also known as "knotting" and "structure", refers to the relationship between the matching, interspersing, echoing, avoiding and so on of the stipples within the characters. Chapter method, also known as "clothing", refers to the overall layout of a piece of characters, including the processing of the relationships between characters and lines.

Ink method refers to the method of using ink, which refers to the processing of thick, light, dry, dry and wet ink.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Calligraphy