Creativity and Design of Chinese Characters

1. Teaching Objectives

1. Understand the characteristics of font decorative art, learn font design methods, and be able to learn from the meanings and meanings of Chinese characters. Starting from the shape and structural characteristics, we make reasonable associations and deformations to the strokes and structures of Chinese characters to create beautiful and artistic calligraphy.

2. From the process of designing and creating artistic calligraphy, students’ image thinking is developed so that students can fully understand that art is closely related to their own study and life. Learn to use the language of art to express ideas and improve aesthetic and cultural literacy.

3. Understand the history and composition of ancient Chinese characters, and feel the mystery and artistic charm of Chinese characters. Enhance students' understanding and love for the excellent traditional culture of the motherland and inspire patriotism.

2. Textbook Analysis

Chinese characters are one of the oldest writing systems in the world. Starting from the legend of Cangjie's creation of characters 5,000 years ago, to the "oracle bone inscriptions" carved on tortoise shells and animal blades during the Yin and Shang Dynasties more than 3,400 years ago, to the unification of China by Qin Shihuang

China, unification of characters, and ancient Chinese characters Carrying the long history of Chinese civilization; the evolution of the different fonts of the Chinese characters Seal, Li, Xing, Kai and Cao formed a self-contained art of calligraphy and became a treasure in the treasure house of Chinese plastic arts; from ancient times Up to now, the shape of Chinese characters has undergone great changes. The evolution of Chinese characters also directly promoted the invention of papermaking and printing, making great contributions to human civilization.

3. Key points and difficulties.

Key points: Understand the history of Chinese characters and master the basic knowledge, skills and methods of fine font art design.

Difficulty: creativity in font design. Cultivation of students' analytical ability, adaptability and image thinking ability enables them to grasp the basic characteristics of Chinese characters such as meaning, glyph shape and structure, and flexibly and reasonably carry out variations to make the original font more vivid, beautiful and lively, achieving the goal of The purpose of innovation.

First lesson

Preparation before class

(Students) collect calligraphy, rulers, crayons or watercolor pens from various trademarks, advertisements, and printed materials

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(Teacher) courseware, pictures of artistic calligraphy in trademarks, advertisements, and printed matter

Teaching process

1. Appreciate the introduction and reveal the topic.

(1) The teacher writes the calligraphy word "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" on the paper to stimulate students' interest in learning. Take "车" as an example to understand the history of Chinese characters.

(2) Summary: Artistic calligraphy is a type of font that has been artistically processed. It has beautiful and eye-catching characteristics. We can see it in books, advertisements, packaging, etc. If every one of our classmates can write It would be great to create beautiful calligraphy!

(3) Unveiling the title: "Creative Design of Words".

2. Understand how to design creative words.

(1) Let’s pass the level together. In the first level, guess the word and talk about the creativity of the word.

1. By changing the strokes of the characters.

2. Change the word by replacing part of the word with graphics

3. Creatively design the word according to its meaning

4. Make patterns, colors and Adding shadows

(2) A quick test,

Design the "bird" according to several methods introduced by the teacher

1. Try according to the methods introduced by the teacher Let’s try designing the word bird.

2. Teacher Demonstration

Design and choose colors for the "bird" to fill in. Generally, draw the outline first and then fill in the middle.

3. During the design process, it may happen that children use graphics instead of words, so for example, you can know from the comparison that you should pay attention to retaining the shape of the words, and only use corresponding strokes for certain strokes in the design.

(3) Student homework, teacher inspection and guidance.

(4) Exhibition evaluation: Compare the key points of "whether the shape of the strokes is uniform, whether the structure is stable, whether the text is full within the grid, and whether the size is consistent", and the *** will evaluate the pros and cons.

(5) After-class extension and expanded research.

Collect artistic calligraphy in various trademarks, advertisements, and printed matter.

Design words to beautify and decorate our lives.