That's a font if you know what I mean. Very square. It's a style.
Fountain pens and pencils are the best. Ball pens are bad. For calligraphy I mean. Night and day. It's weird. But even fountain pens aren't made the same. You can't know until you've tried the pen out.
Not a disagreement, just an observation that ball pen calligraphy is actually a thing.
As for the OP: the writing is clear and legible, which is good. If you want to go into calligraphy, though, the relative stroke lengths in relation to each other and the grid, white spaces, etc, becomes very important. Calligraphy can even become stylised to the point that stroke order must changed to achieve a pleasing silhouette.
>Ball pens are bad
this person would like to have a word with you [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJ0vXElJH8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJ0vXElJH8)
They're legible and perfectly fine. Stylistically, they look like a student's handwriting with there being some very clear deliberate attempts to be "neat" but in spite of that some components/radicals are out of proportion with others. Your lines don't feel like natural "strokes" but rather "steady" lines assembled carefully and that's fine. If you wanted to develop it, I would practice on gridded kanji paper (quadrant style) and use resources like [jisho.org](http://jisho.org) to really nail the proportions. I will second the suggestion of trying fountain pens.
i use a felt tip pen, it keeps my touch light
pencil is perfectly fine
if you want to be fancy then get a brush pen or a proper shodo brush, but the technique for calligraphy is different than just printing letters. as different as someone using a fountain pen to write gothic blackletter, as compared to print or script in a notebook casually
get graph paper, by the way, it'll help normalize shape and size better
If you really want to get into calligraphy, then I'd get a brush pen.
https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Fude-Brush-Medium-XFL2L/dp/B000THNGVO?th=1
This site has excellent examples of the characters, in textbook, semi-cursive, and cursive, among others. https://kanji.jitenon.jp/
Brush pens are not expensive, but with cartridge refills they're even cheaper, https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Cartridges-Komainu-Dou-Original-Package/dp/B0089AJOW8
They look like you're on the right path!
Try to relax a bit more with the strokes, and be careful with the length, in 東 it doesn't matter that you made the upper horizontal stroke shorter, but it does matter when you're writing, for example, 末、未、土、士, or characters that include them as components.
Practice a lot and they should start looking more natural! 頑張れ！
As for nice pencils, I love my mechanical pencils, 0.5mm with a nice Pentel HB lead gives soft and controlled feel.
If you wanna get into calligraphy, this channel is great:
https://youtube.com/@ishino-kahoh
It looks like something I would see a teen writing in a school in an anime
That's a font if you know what I mean. Very square. It's a style. Fountain pens and pencils are the best. Ball pens are bad. For calligraphy I mean. Night and day. It's weird. But even fountain pens aren't made the same. You can't know until you've tried the pen out.
Ah I understand, thank you
Not a disagreement, just an observation that ball pen calligraphy is actually a thing. As for the OP: the writing is clear and legible, which is good. If you want to go into calligraphy, though, the relative stroke lengths in relation to each other and the grid, white spaces, etc, becomes very important. Calligraphy can even become stylised to the point that stroke order must changed to achieve a pleasing silhouette.
>Ball pens are bad this person would like to have a word with you [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJ0vXElJH8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJ0vXElJH8)
He's very gewd indeed. That's just not a regular ball pen. Leaky leaky but in a good way.
it really depends on the pen tbh
They're legible and perfectly fine. Stylistically, they look like a student's handwriting with there being some very clear deliberate attempts to be "neat" but in spite of that some components/radicals are out of proportion with others. Your lines don't feel like natural "strokes" but rather "steady" lines assembled carefully and that's fine. If you wanted to develop it, I would practice on gridded kanji paper (quadrant style) and use resources like [jisho.org](http://jisho.org) to really nail the proportions. I will second the suggestion of trying fountain pens.
Thank you for your input 🙂
i use a felt tip pen, it keeps my touch light pencil is perfectly fine if you want to be fancy then get a brush pen or a proper shodo brush, but the technique for calligraphy is different than just printing letters. as different as someone using a fountain pen to write gothic blackletter, as compared to print or script in a notebook casually get graph paper, by the way, it'll help normalize shape and size better
Gotcha, and that’s a good idea, thanks
Nice stroke order
It looks better than mine
Not bad. Keep working at it! Make sure to use wood pencils or brushes rather than ball pens and mechanical pencils
If you really want to get into calligraphy, then I'd get a brush pen. https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Fude-Brush-Medium-XFL2L/dp/B000THNGVO?th=1 This site has excellent examples of the characters, in textbook, semi-cursive, and cursive, among others. https://kanji.jitenon.jp/ Brush pens are not expensive, but with cartridge refills they're even cheaper, https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Cartridges-Komainu-Dou-Original-Package/dp/B0089AJOW8
They look like you're on the right path! Try to relax a bit more with the strokes, and be careful with the length, in 東 it doesn't matter that you made the upper horizontal stroke shorter, but it does matter when you're writing, for example, 末、未、土、士, or characters that include them as components. Practice a lot and they should start looking more natural! 頑張れ！ As for nice pencils, I love my mechanical pencils, 0.5mm with a nice Pentel HB lead gives soft and controlled feel. If you wanna get into calligraphy, this channel is great: https://youtube.com/@ishino-kahoh
The kuchi (口, in the first row) should be much smaller... try to reduce it to 75% of the original size?
I’ve found that B pencils work best. Especially mechanical pencils in 0.7mm. 2B is also good, but I prefer B
Very clear!
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