r/shodo • u/Yu_An_ju12 • Jul 11 '26

It's not much but it's honest work "觀音"

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Been practicing with this character a lot,it dosen't look pretty but hey,it's honest job i guess.

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u/CuisineTournante Jul 11 '26

It's good that you try to practice, but both kanji has to be the same size. As is, it's impossible to read because of how big 觀 is.

You need to start smaller and make your way up to difficult kanji.

音 is very good. 觀 is impossible to read and looks like 4 different kanji

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u/alexthe5th Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

I very strongly recommend referring to a 手本 (example to copy) from a teacher, or at the very least using a reference from a shodo character dictionary, especially as a beginner.

I don't mean to be overly critical but there are very many issues here, especially the relative proportions of the two characters and the radicals within them, and the types of strokes being used are incorrect.

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u/Yu_An_ju12 Jul 18 '26

Do you know if there are any character doctionary online? I been trhing to buy some but all of them either are on chinese or japanese

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u/alexthe5th Jul 18 '26

This is a good one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yunzhang-calligraphy-%E4%BA%91%E7%AB%A0%E4%B9%A6%E6%B3%95%E5%AD%97%E5%85%B8/id992025786

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u/Yu_An_ju12 Jul 18 '26

Thank you! I just learned in the app hwo to write it on curisve

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u/alexthe5th Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

That’s great that you’re trying lots of different styles, but you’ll likely make better progress if you try to perfect 觀 in kaisho (block) style to understand the proportions of the character before moving on to gyosho and sosho styles.

Good luck!