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Chinese Calligraphy for beginners (English explanation) (Udemy.com)

Chinese Calligraphy for beginners with detailed English explanation and PDF materials

Created by: Wú Chinese Art Workshop

Last updated May 2020

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What you will learn

  • Have basic knowledge about Chinese calligraphy
  • Know the right feeling of practicing Chinese calligraphy

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Course Description

Chinese calligraphy is a kind of art based on Chinese characters. How should we learn Chinese calligraphy? What's the right method to learn Chinese calligraphy? These are what this course focus on. We‘ll start from our calligraphy learning from the very basic knowledge, then gradually move to more complicated things. From one stroke to more stokes, from simple characters to compound characters. You will also know some Chinese culture in this lesson.

This course includes about 30 videos.

Last but not least, a continuation of this course "The Beauty of Symmetry in Chinese Calligraphy(English) " was published in June, 2020.

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Instructor Details

Wú Chinese Art Workshop

Hey,

My name is Becky. I've been teaching for 13 years,  I would like to share with you more about Chinese calligraphy and painting!

Chinese calligraphy and painting are a combination of Chinese brush writing skills and artistic conception, which covers Chinese history, philosophy, life, and beauty appreciation. With natural writing materials, Yin and Yang traditional philosophy, it's a way to show up the writer's inner culture.

Learning Chinese calligraphy and painting helps us to learn more about our culture and ourselves. Hope my courses can help you to explore more into this old art and the mindset it is based on.

Please visit my blog for more information about Chinese calligraphy and painting.

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Reviews

4.3

56 ratings on Udemy

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By Amanda Lance-Sexton on 6/13/2026

Great class! Engaging and learned so much.

By 马丁云山 Martin Johnson on 2/21/2025

Am enjoying the course and am learning much.

By Richard You Shen Tan on 3/12/2024

Good for beginner who has zero knowledge with Chinese Calligraphy

By Van Tuan Dam on 11/25/2023

Simple and easy to follow.

By Maggie W. on 4/7/2022

Thank you Becky, I didn't expect to learn ancient xiaozhuan character but must say i really enjoyed your course and learned about seal style. So thank you very much. Now i am looking forward to some more and if possible also the kaishu course -:)

By Thomas Seifert on 1/18/2022

I wouldn't have purchased this course if I know beforehand this was about seal script calligraphy. Who needs seal script? What I wanted and had expected was a course in kaishu, a script that almost everyone I know started with and still uses.

By Daniel Bedoy on 11/5/2019

It was very interesting seeing different styles of Chinese calligraphy. I had no idea that each region of China had different ways of writing a character.

By Nadthakrich Yongpaisarnsahp on 9/5/2019

Easy to understand

By Daniel Bedoy on 4/22/2019

It was very interesting seeing different styles of Chinese calligraphy. I had no idea that each region of China had different ways of writing a character.

By Carmen Velloso on 3/9/2019

The teacher is very good and the content is precious. She makes it easy to learn this Chinese ancient style of calligraphy.

By Miyah Liddell on 11/25/2018

It's been a pleasure so far and more helpful than anything that I have managed to find online so far.

By Janice Johnson on 8/31/2018

I’m enjoying this course so very much. I’m actually recognising 小篆 Xiao Zhuan style writing and I’m able to write a few words. Becky’s lectures have helped me to select better brushes and paper to use. I use liquid ink for convenience. I’m hoping that Becky will do further courses after this one. I’d love to learn more words and some phrases. Becky’s calligraphy lessons are addictive. They are fun. I simply watch the video and then try to copy how Becky uses her brush. I’m still not very good with my brush, but I’m getting more confident. I’d like to learn how to write 马 ma (horse). I will have to be patient to see if we cover this word in this course

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Overall Score : 86 / 100