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龍 dragon
Wonderful dynamic on the long stroke, especially the "specks of light" effect because of fast movement.


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thanks protheus, glad you like it.

龍清祥 - spirit/energy of the dragon

oracle bone script

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thanks protheus, glad you like it.
oracle bone script
The thanks should be from me, for sharing these with us.

The bone script has a unique antique feeling to it, I just love it.


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my pleasure

Oracle bone script was considered to be the cradle of Chinese writing till discovery of Yangshao culture in early 20th century. Today we know that Chinese characters is the oldest writing system on Earth, 1500 years older than Sumerian cuneiform.

Oracle bone goes back to Shang dynasty (1600-1046BC) and it was used mainly for divination purposes, although not exclusively. Its unique form can be attributed to the surface it was incised on - hard bones and turtle plastrons.

That is also why the lines that characters are composed of are thin, with pin-like ending s and canoe shape structure. Also curved lines are often composed of short straight cuts.

Oracle bone was linguistically immature, but thanks to that its raw and pure. Its highly pictographic nature also shows how close to nature and its untamed forces humans once lived.

I am considering specializing in seal script in the future (seal script is further divided into great seal and small seal scripts, where great seal embraces oracle bone script, kinbun (incisions on bronze ware) and great seal sensu stricto). I find it most fascinating.



海闊  wide sea
(clerical script)

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another calligraphy for a tattoo, 正勝吾勝 (true victory is the one over self)
small brush calligraphy on a raw xuan paper (high blur ability)


standard script


semi cursive script


cursive script

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same text as 2 posts above, just different character forms

龍清祥 - - spirit/energy of the dragon

oracle bone script

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those are great, can you tell me what is the differences between chinese calligraphy to japanese, if any?
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