One of the things Learning to Write Chinese Characters emphasizes which I’ve been having difficulty with is keeping the paper straight. English writers slant the paper and it’s perfectly acceptable to slant the writing as well. It is very important that the Shu4 (豎) strokes be straight up and down, which is hard to accomplish […]
Now I’m starting to get somewhere with shu4 (豎) suspended needle. It’s just a matter of being fast with the pen. I still have a bit too much of a starting “Nail’s head” though. There’s a tiny bit of a turn at the top, and I make it too large. I can now write 一 […]
I started practicing today and decided that I need to find some of the Chinese/Japanese practice writing paper. They have large grids which you can use to accurately size things. I can’t even consistently size the basic strokes, there’s no way I’ll be able to combine the characters and have them be sized appropriately for […]
All posts in the category ‘85-392′ are for my Human Expertise class.
The skill I have chosen to learn is writing Chinese characters. In my initial assessment, I wrote out the 8 basic strokes. I have absolutely no practice with any of these strokes except for one of them, so I doubt I even wrote them […]