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 and picture expressive force. 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's resonance 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.
How to do illustration well? Illustration, also known as illustration, is an illustration drawn by hand-drawing, mouse drawing and computer drawing. Film and television animation game industry is called CG illustration because of its wide use and different styles, which is widely used in design industry and film and television animation game industry.
Illustrations use pictures to express vividness, life and appeal. The main difference from graphic design can be simply understood as "illustration highlights the story rather than attracting attention". Illustration is also an artistic form of visual expression, which mainly includes photography/painting/three-dimensional illustration. Illustration has a special position in the art field and is closely related to the publishing industry. Both e-books and physical books are needed, and there are also employment opportunities in other fields, such as music/movies/media.
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Common tools for illustration:
1. Hand-painted illustrations are drawn with paper and pen-common tools: marker, colored lead and watercolor.
2, mouse illustration-common tools: PS, AI, etc.
3, board drawing illustration-common equipment: hand-drawn board, digital screen, ipad, mobile phone.
4. the hand-drawn board needs to be connected to a computer to draw pictures in PS, AI and SAI. Digital screens and ipad can draw directly without connecting a computer. The mobile phone needs to be painted by capacitance pen.
The basic standard of learning illustration is whether there is an audition class or not.
There are indeed many places to learn illustration now, and it is really a mixture of good and evil people, which makes many students spend their eyes. How should they choose? There is a good saying, to judge how a learning place is, at least we should first look at each other's strength, and the audition class is to look at each other's best strength, but also at the quality of the course. If even the audition class is not good, then other classes are even more useless. And choose to learn this piece, choose a big school, and have security.
If you don't know where to find it, you can go to the online class I took before. That's where I study. Every night at 8: 00, there will be a free online course of illustration and board painting by the master painter. The teacher's speech is easy to understand, humorous and witty, and can explain the painting skills that plague everyone simply and thoroughly. Watching a teacher's video is much better than reading a book. A class can solve many problems for you and understand the development of the whole industry. It's free anyway. You can listen to it. Giving lectures at night will not delay your work or study during the day. Students who want to listen can enter Weixin (homophonic):
The first group in front is: gon _ WEN-WEN-BANG-BANG:699 _ Just combine the above two groups of numbers in order. Remarks: Illustration.
Since students like to learn board drawing illustrations, it is irresponsible to try and give themselves a chance. Only by trying can they know if they are the right material, instead of always wandering in their inner world and wasting their talents.
The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of printmaking. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, they used "disguised" illustrations in the scriptures to publicize their teachings. At present, China's earliest prints are recorded in historical materials, namely "Dalagni Curse" published by Tang Suzong. The title page painting of King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the 9th year (868) is the exact date.
In the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, book illustrations developed greatly. The application scope has expanded to medical books, historical geography books, archaeological catalogue books, daily encyclopedia books and other books, and color overprint illustrations have appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can be said that the ancient illustration art developed greatly, and there were book engraving industries all over the country. Different regions have formed different styles.
PS photos to hand-drawn illustrations (with characters) For us who have been obsessed with countless comics, how happy it is to be able to turn photos of our travels and parties into illustrations/comics, as if we could create our own comic world. Let me share my creative process here. Let's put a comparison chart before and after:
There are many photo-to-illustration tutorials on the Internet, but only photos with pure scenery can look good, and people's photos always have the feeling of "knowing at a glance that they are photos". So I added some hand-drawing on the basis of the online tutorial to make the final effect more like hand-drawing.
First of all, we should turn the photos into illustrations. There are many such tutorials, and the better one is: PS saves the hand cancer party for three minutes to learn the hand-drawn illustration style. You can refer to it, so I won't repeat it here. The effect is as follows:
If there is any deviation in the effect made by everyone, it may be that I adjusted the color when I made it (I can't remember it for too long).
In fact, after the first step, it has been very feel, but I prefer the animation style, and the characters above are still partial to oil painting. So, according to the characters in the photo, make a new line draft and color it, and it's done:
Poof, I'm kidding, but the script really needs to be typed first, so you can use your imagination. You don't have to stick to the original picture, just handle the perspective and interaction of the scene. In order to see clearly, I reduced the transparency of the background:
Please forgive my 50-point hand-drawing skill (covering my face). In fact, no matter how you paint it, it won't be too bad after coloring the beautiful scenery.
Here you can refer to some hand-painted coloring techniques. I'm Xiao Bai, so I won't embarrass myself. However, it can provide a simple way to pick some bright and bright colors and draw solid colors for people. The simpler it is, the more hand-drawn illustration it feels. Or refer to the color matching in the works of Miyazaki Hayao and Xinghai City, all of which are very bright. Coloring effect:
Finally, combining characters and scenes, pay attention to the occlusion relationship (in fact, the girl behind the pillar in the above picture has already handled the occlusion relationship), and you can add some shadows to enhance the sense of reality. Ps can only erase a little of the original words in the soap chip. Another very important element is the sky, which can set off the atmosphere very strongly In terms of hue, my scene is a little yellow-green, so I also chose the sky with this hue. There can't be too many clouds in the sky, otherwise it will steal the host's attention and the audience will be attracted to the sky involuntarily. I chose Makoto Shinkai's Sky, and the final draft is as follows:
This article only talks about the basics. Interested children's shoes can be hand-painted after in-depth study, and you can draw more awesome works. But painting in photos is more important than technology, such as the works of Swedish illustrator JohanTh_rnqvist:
Expand your imagination, I believe everyone can create interesting illustrations with your photos.