Illustration is commonly known as illustration in China. Nowadays, popular commercial illustrations in foreign markets include publications, cartoon mascots, advertisements, cartoons, picture books, greeting cards, calendars, decorative paintings, packaging and other forms. Virtual objects and related visual applications that extend to the current network and mobile phone platforms. The course of hand-drawn illustration mainly includes the steps of material collection, sketch drawing, clear line drawing, color tone determination, software modeling and so on. Illustration is a visual communication art, and hand-drawn illustrations need to have high hand-drawn ability, and at the same time can perfectly express the content and creativity of illustrations.
Material collection
Choose materials related to the theme in various ways. There are two ways to get the material: one is to go to various websites to collect some illustrations or posters of your favorite style in your spare time. The other is to go to various design websites to find high-quality works related to the theme.
sketch
Sketching is equivalent to expressing creativity in the form of painting. You can record your instant inspiration through sketches, especially when you are doing commercial illustrations. You can show what the illustration originally wanted to convey to customers in the form of accurate sketches, and then go to the next details, thus avoiding repeated rework.
Transparent line draft
Don't be afraid of making mistakes when drawing a line, it will be revised repeatedly when drawing. Attention should be paid to the perspective, color and internal structure of the object when describing it. When drawing perspective, we should understand the essence of perspective, such as horizon, apparent horizon, one-point perspective, two-point perspective, three-point perspective and so on. Internal structure includes the mastery of lines, structure, dynamics and picture expression. Good lines can improve the visual effect of illustrations, and different lines show different effects. It is also necessary to clarify the structural characteristics of different objects.
set the tone/keynote
Determining hue means defining hue, which requires mastering the basic composition of color and color psychology. Different colors bring different visual feelings to people, and good color matching can stimulate people to sing and produce special emotional reactions.
Software modeling
You need to use the software according to your own habits. The software you need is basically PS, SAI, AI, etc. Every software has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is better to use PS to deal with speckles and textures, SAI to deal with lines, and AI to draw geometric figures.
Seek the common composition (illustration) in comics →→→→! There are many and complicated composition forms, and all kinds of painting forms have their own composition rules. As far as still life silent painting is concerned, the basic forms of composition are mostly horizontal, vertical, oblique, straight, straight, pyramid, triangle, circle and cross. These compositions have their own aesthetic characteristics: horizontal composition has a sense of quietness and peace, vertical composition has a sense of seriousness and grandeur, oblique composition has a sense of movement, straight and straight composition has a sense of soft change, pyramid composition has a sense of stability and solemnity, triangle composition has a sense of stability, circular composition has a sense of compactness, and cross composition has a sense of quietness in motion.
The following are various styles drawn in these composition forms, which are very intuitive and vivid, and basically summarize the general law of formal beauty of sketch still life composition. Candidates should choose the appropriate composition form to improve their homework according to the content of the sketch still life exam questions. Of course, careful management and continuous creation of new composition forms are inevitable for the development of art, which is also the goal we hope to directly guide students to achieve.
Illustration hand-painted tutorial, let's study together! 1, software practice
Technical proficiency requires scholars to try to express their works with different tools. The use of different tools will bring different effects to the work, and find out the effect that best suits the style of this work. In the study of CG illustration, brushes and layers are the most commonly used. Brush is the main tool for drawing CG illustrations, and general drawing software has its own brushes with various strokes. You can choose brushes according to your own needs and preferences, and try to express various styles with different strokes; The second is to make full use of the function of the layer. Establishing different layers according to needs and painting in the corresponding layers can not only speed up the drawing, grasp the overall level of the work, but also facilitate the modification of the work.
2. Sketch practice
It is suggested to go to the bookstore to buy some books sketched in the art college entrance examination. In fact, there are many sketch books in animation major now, because sketch books in animation major are more suitable for daily picture book creation. If you haven't painted before, sketching can quickly develop lines, while painting is a taboo: lines are not smooth. When sketching, you should practice according to the methods taught in the book, pay attention to the strength of lines and lines, and improve your ability to grasp modeling while practicing lines.
3. Writing exercises
The essence of creativity is the subversion of tradition and people's inertial thinking, and creativity is full of innovation. Creative composition gives people a novel and unique feeling and can deeply grasp the audience's sight. A good example. The harmonious blend of body language and scene is the focus of composition.
4, color practice
First of all, we should choose the right color course, study according to the software we are good at, give priority to learning software, and then refer to other people's coloring steps.