#HOW HE COPIED THE THIN CURVE OF THE FINAL HORIZONTAL STROKE

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As a Chinese person from Hong Kong I'm going to officially say this absolutely blows my mind. Here's why.

In the video, Charles and Carlos were plainly copying calligraphy stroke-by-stroke from a large image in front of them. What makes Carlos' attempt so impressive is that he's effectively gotten nearly all the proportions, starting and ending brush pressures and tail-offs, and the structure right. It's not perfect. But it's damn well near perfect.

Compare it to Charles': Charles didn't do a bad job at all, and has successfully copied many of the requisite features, but he has seen each stroke as a line, as many people who write Chinese characters with ballpoint pens do nowadays - point A to point B, with natural loss of shape and flow in between. It's not necessarily a problem. Charles is writing the characters. But interestingly, Carlos isn't writing at all.

On rewinding the video you see why Carlos' was shaped so perfectly. He doesn't know Chinese. He doesn't know anything about stroke order, or speed. But he knows detail.

If you look at his hands as he writes he separated each stroke into a shape. Then he did his level best to recreate each shape as carefully as he could by pressing the brush until he could see it formed the right thickness of the line.

He didn't write, like Charles did. He painted.

If this is how good Carlos is at copying a language he does not know I wonder how amazing he would be at painting if he actually spent time to learn.

#For reference I and a lot of other native Chinese dialect speakers and writers do what charles did #we process the characters as words and the strokes as components of that word and sacrifice specific brushtroke shape #it's one of the first things you have to de-learn if you didn't do calligraphy as a child #seriously as a Chinese person from Hong Kong this is the hottest thing Carlos Sainz has ever done I'm in love #f1 #carlos sainz #charles leclerc #charlos #chinese gp 2024 #my post #I AM YELLING OK #A recurrent mistake that Carlos made was the angle and continuity of the 2nd stroke of 力 #that's his only obvious mistake #but the 觉 blows my mind #and the FREAKING LAST STROKE OF THE 星 RADICAL #HOW HE COPIED THE THIN CURVE OF THE FINAL HORIZONTAL STROKE #I AM LOSING IT AT 1:50 AM ON A TUESDAY MARRY ME