HOLY CARP. FEATURED 1/14/11. I came home and suddenly, I had 20 messages. Wow. Thanks! Press b for the first page. (Sorry, accidentally uploaded it wrong.) Press space to open the thing where you can select the pages, and press space again to hide it. Press d or the right arrow key to turn the page. Also, the size in Scratch is limited so downloading is recommended. This guide is for Chinese calligraphy, but if you know Japanese or Korean, you can use those. However, those are different so many rules may not apply. Plus, the stroke order and strokes pages are largely useless for Korean. IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE, PLEASE GET A NATURAL BRUSH. They work much better, trust me. However if you DO have a problem with natural brushes (fun fact: the gray ones are wolf hair), go here: http://www.blueheronarts.com/product_info.php?products_id=861 for some ideas on specialty synthetic brushes (sumi-e is ink and wash painting). However, be wary of the ones in stores, as they are made for normal painting. I am most definitely not an expert on this, this guide is what I learned from my teacher (not exactly, but the same general information) and just writing in Chinese in general. Some good websites: Stroke order dictionary: http://www.visualmandarin.com/tools/chinese-stroke-order/a-c Pinyin guide: http://hellomandarin.net/chinese-pinyin/ Edit: Stroke guide: http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-writing/strokes.htm If you want to try your hand at learning: http://www.learnmandarinonline.org/ By the way, to input Chinese characters directly on your computer, you type in the pinyin with the Chinese writing thing and select the word you want from a list (you need to know enough to know what the words mean, though). If you already have Chinese installed (on Windows Vista, anyways), just press Ctrl-Shift. If not, an input system (not the same as on your operating system!) can be downloaded here: http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ime/pinyin/ Be warned. The whole thing is in Chinese, so if you don't have Google Chrome (which translates pages for you) and can't read Chinese, you will need a translator. Edit: minor mistake on the stroke diagram corrected. Edit: I wrote the first word of "rice" wrong. Shame on me.
