Basic Strokes of Characters

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Whether you use a brush with ink a fet-ltip pen with a brush or square or narrow tip or whatever you use to write sinitic derived characters s in whatever form you need to know and practise basic strokes.

I suspect there are ten year olds who have better calligraphy than me even in kaishu however here's something tp use. Yes there are a lot of basic strokes graphics out there online.

In defence of this graphic I want to point out I used filters that create a shadow because I want to emphasize the "weight" of the stroke and that these characters can be used with colors other than black and with materials that are not ink on paper or pixels on a screen.

SINI When Chinese meets Arabic.

Arabic is usually written with a pen and sometimes with a brush.
The Hui Muslims of China had the cultural dilemma of using and respecting both Arabic script and Chinese characters. This lead to some interesting fusions of Arabic letters with Chinese style brush work known as Sini. Enjoy my selection.

Big Brushes Image

Now this is a BIG BRUSH

Fortunately most brushes are more like this ...

If you've ever been in an art supplies store that has Asian brushes and wondered if those extra large ones are just for props no they do get used as the top image proves!