Hello, according to my experience, it is better to start with Seal Script and Official Script, because Seal Script and Official Script are technically simple, and they are very ancient in flavor.
You can start with the center strokes in Seal Script, and then master the square strokes in Clerical Script. Square and round are the most basic expressions of brushwork, and these techniques provide a good foundation for the subsequent study of the Regular Script, while at the same time addressing the important issue of breath. Then, one can systematically study the Tang Regular Script, learning to spread the brush out at Yan Zhenqing, bone and structure at Ouyang Xun, the expressiveness of the line at Chu Suiliang, and then a kind of emptiness and quietness from the spirit to the end of the brush ...... so on to the running script and the cursive script, all in a sequence.
I will share the order of my learning for your reference.
Starting from the "hillside engraved stone", through a period of practice to make the line to achieve "round, turn, thick, through", for calligraphy to lay a good foundation, and then you can write Deng Shiru's "White's Cao Tang Records" and Wu Jeanzhi's "Song Wudi and Zang Toi Edicts", etc., to feel the works of the seal ink; and then you can practise the classical scribal inscription such as Then you can practice the classical clerical inscriptions such as Zhang Qian Stele, Cao Quan Stele, etc., and then write Han Jian such as Juyan Han Jian, Qing dynasty clerical works such as Yi Bingshou works, etc. to feel the ink clerical works.
Hills carved stone
Zhang Qian Stele
After that, you can choose the appropriate regular script posters to write, such as Yan Zhenqing's "Qinli Monument", Ouyang's "Jiucheng Gong", Yu Shinan's "Confucius Temple Hall Stele", Chu Suiliang's "Yanta Sacred Teaching Sequence", and so on, to learn the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty, and to enhance the understanding of the structure of the characters.
Sacred Teaching Preface of Wild Goose Pagoda
Confucius Temple Hall Tablet
After that, you can study the classic lower case calligraphic postings such as Zhong Cao's "Xuanzhi Tablet," Wang Xizhi's "Huangting Jing," Wang Xianzhi's "Thirteen Lines of Jade Plate," Zhong Shaoging's "Ling Fei Jing," Zhao Mengfu's "Tao De Jing," and so on, to practice the understanding and control of the elasticity of the brush tip.
Declaration Sheet
Thirteen Lines of the Jade Plate
Then proceed with the study of running script, such as practicing the Thousand Character Script by Zen Master Zhi Yong, the Preface to the Sacred Teaching of the Collection of Characters by Zen Master Huairen, the Lanting Preface by Wang Xizhi, and the Luoshen Fugue by Zhao Mengfu, etc., and continue to practice the control of the brushes. After that, you can choose your favorite clerical script, Tang Regular Script, Wei Stele, Running Cursive Script, etc. to write and increase your knowledge. When you reach a certain level, you can start to create your own works off the post.
The Thousand Character Essay
Lanting Preface