Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy

Overview

“First, I will go into the principles of the stroke order. I will show you how all characters are built up from the strokes we learnt. ”

In this video lesson Thomas Lam addresses the topic: Stroke Order, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy. Learn how to write Chinese characters through artistic practices and brush stroke techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Stroke Order In this lesson, I will go into the principles of the stroke order. After learning all the basic components to build the Chinese characters, it's time for us to start building the Chinese characters. It may be complicated for you to understand how to start writing the characters. It's a bit confusing, there are too many strokes in a single character. So, I will go into the principles of the stroke order for you one by one. First of all, if there are horizontal strokes and vertical strokes, always write the horizontal stroke first and then the vertical stroke. Like this one, we f...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy

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