Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles

Overview

“I will show you a very frequent component in Chinese calligraphy: the hook. Note that it doesn't appear alone you'll find it combined with the other strokes that you have learnt previously. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Hooks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles. Explore modern calligraphy techniques, expressive lettering styles, and creative compositions to develop your own calligraphic style.

Partial transcription of the video

“Hooks Basic Components In this lesson I'm going to show you another basic component which frequently appears in Chinese characters, it's hooks. Hooks can appear in different ways. Actually, it's an additional component for the previous strokes that you have learned, like this one. It's the vertical one but you add a hook at the end. This one as well. Similarly, the horizontal stroke, and you have a hook at the end. Here are a few examples with the hook component. Here is the vertical long hook. In Chinese, we call it "shu gou". As you can see, it combines two components. The first one is th...”

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Course summary for: Calligraphy Specialization: Cross-Cultural Techniques and Styles

• Level: Beginner
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• 192 students
• 7 units
• 90 lessons (15h 27m)
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• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography

• Areas

  Calligraphy, Hand Lettering, Lettering