Hand-painted Illustration with National Style —— How to Be a Good Illustrator

Chinese wind markers can also draw beautiful ancient styles by repeating mark strokes.

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Marker is something I came into contact with at the beginning of last year, and it is also the first time to draw with marker. Before, I always thought that markers were two-dimensional paintings for animation, the kind of cartoon characters with big eyes. I don't like paintings like that very much. At first, I just wanted to use markers as auxiliary painting materials. One day I saw an illustration and wanted to draw it. When I saw the marker in front of me, I used it to color it. I don't have high expectations. I just tried the effect. Results the skin coloring in the first picture failed, and there were many strokes, some deep and some shallow. But I found that the effect of Mark's painting is very different. It is different from watercolors and colored pencils. The picture is clean and fresh, and the mixed color is clean and very bright. I liked this picture effect instantly, so I took the time to draft and draw another one, and paid attention to the skin color. After all, I had a little experience the second time, and after painting, there were two words: super beautiful. Moreover, the marker paints quickly, much faster than the usual same works. Wow, isn't that great? Later, I drew some ancient paintings with markers, all of which were created and copied by myself. Looking for some information on the Internet, I found that almost no one used Mark to illustrate the ancient style, so I had to study it slowly by myself. Here I will show you some antique works of Mark and me.

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Antique hand-painted pictures of markers

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Theme painting of the Year of Rabbit in 2023

After 90, the girl painted 160 pictures with the book of songs as the theme. What impressed you most about her works? What impressed me most about her works is that China culture has a long history, which is worth studying repeatedly to promote our young people to understand China culture.

A post-90s illustrator from Beijing "told the onion to find garlic" and put "Guan Guan Yu" in Hezhou. The beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. "This is a well-known poem in The Book of Songs, which is very powerful. Her real name is Wang Xiaoyi, born in 1992, and graduated from the School of Art and Design of Beijing University of Technology. She has a new job. In addition to Guan Ju, she also painted 160 paintings with the theme of The Book of Songs and national customs in the past two years.

Wang Xiaoyi combined China's classical landscape with various traditional vessels and created an original illustration style-"Painting on Pottery". She said that The Book of Songs is a bridge between us and the ancients. I hope my works can convey the beauty brought by China's classical culture. She has a big brain hole. During the epidemic, she has a lot of time to deposit her understanding of China culture and use her own understanding. Is it interesting to interpret the Book of Songs in this way?

In life, Wang Xiaoyi likes animals and plants, and likes to go out and get close to nature. In her opinion, every tree and stone in life can provide her with inspiration. She has a series of paintings that depict cats and other small animals she meets in daily life as ancient villains, either playful and lovely, or gentle and generous, full of whimsy. For Wang Xiaoyi, the series of "Painting the Book of Songs" is only a summary of one stage. Her greatest wish is to be able to paint at will and improve her painting skills. "There is a big difference between board painting and hand painting. Hand-drawing needs more solid basic skills and skills. I am practicing and studying hard, and I hope that one day I can accurately present the picture I want to express on the drawing paper like a board painting. "

Finally, I hope young people will inherit traditional culture. I also hope that everyone can learn from him.

How to be an illustrator? First of all, we must have professional ability. In fact, you just need to study hard and practice hard. When the kung fu is in place, someone will naturally ask you for a manuscript. It is inevitable to contact board painting when learning illustration. If you have a little foundation, you will actually get started quickly.

Photoshop software is recommended for learning board drawing. Just watch more tutorials and practice more. Here are some ways to draw national style illustrations with Photoshop.

First of all, Photoshop software

Photoshop is a powerful graphic image processing software developed by Adobe, which is widely used in printing, advertising design, cover making, web page image making, photo editing and other fields. Photoshop can be used for all kinds of plane processing of images, such as drawing simple geometric figures, coloring black and white images, converting image formats and color modes, etc.

And we mainly use its drawing function.

The working interface of Photoshop

Second, the tablet.

Another "magic weapon" essential for CG drawing is the graphic tablet. Good software needs good hardware support. As a hardware input tool, graphic tablet can create various styles of works, such as oil painting, watercolor painting and sketch, combined with Photoshop, Painter and other drawing software, so it is necessary to choose a good graphic tablet. Most people choose WACOM's extension series graphics tablet.

WACOM tablet

WACOM tablet

Pressure sensitivity level is an important parameter for selecting drawing board, which refers to the sensitivity to pen weight when drawing with drawing board.

There are three levels of pressure sensitivity, which are 5 12 (entry), 1024 (advanced) and 2048 (expert). Simply put, the higher the pressure sensitivity, the finer the induction.

As shown on the right, there are two kinds of strokes: pressure and no pressure. According to the different sense of pressure, the line can present various ups and downs accordingly, which increases the flexibility of the line. No pressure, rough strokes, constant pressure and rigid lines.

Feel pressure

No pressure

Third, Photoshop toolbox and control panel.

Photoshop toolbox contains more than 40 tools. Click the icon or press the key combination of selecting tools to select tools.

Not all tools are displayed in the toolbox. As long as you look closely, you will find that some tool icons have a small triangle symbol in the lower right corner, indicating that other tools are related to them.

Move the mouse pointer to the tool icon with triangle, right-click to open the hidden tool, and then select the required tool.

The control panel of Photoshop can complete various image processing operations and tool parameter settings, including navigator, information, color, swatch, layer, channel, path, history, action, tool preset, style, character, paragraph style and so on.

Toolbox

control panel

Four, other commonly used panels and tools

Because there are too many functions of Photoshop, I won't list them one by one here, but only introduce a few commonly used functions in painting.

Navigator (navigator)

It is used to display thumbnails of images. By scaling the display scale, the display content of images can be quickly moved, thus intuitively displaying the overall effect of the screen.

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Its function is similar to the color control panel. When drawing, you can also put your favorite colors here in advance for easy access.

Layer (layer)

Used to control layer operations. Layer is the most commonly used panel in PS. Creating multiple layers is helpful to divide the picture, and it is convenient to change and adjust the picture effect.

Tool preset (tool preset)

Used to set preset parameters of various tools such as brushes and texts. Here, we usually use it to store our usual brushes and erasers.

brush

Used to set and adjust different parameters of brushes, and can make brushes of various styles, such as brushes for drawing ink and painting effects.

Layer properties and styles

The control of color mixing mode is a prominent function in Photoshop. By mixing various colors, some unexpected effects can be achieved and some difficult operations can be completed.

Find the blending mode on the toolbar of the layer, and then we use a small daisy to debug the effect.

Natural oscillation

Positive overlapping mode

Point light source mode

Superposition mode

Color filtering mode

Strong light mode

The general steps of drawing with ps are as follows.

composition

Draft line

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V. Picture storage format

Generally, PSD and JPEG formats are commonly used to save pictures.

( 1)PSD

When saved in PSD format, the file will be compressed to reduce the occupied disk space. However, PSD format contains more image data information, such as layers, channels, clipping paths, reference lines and so on. , which is much larger than other image files. Because PSD file retains all the original image data information, it is more convenient to modify, which is also the advantage of PSD format.

(2)JPEG format

JPEG images are usually used for image preview and some hypertext documents (HTML). The biggest feature of JPEG format is that the file is relatively small and can be compressed at high speed, which is the highest compression rate among all formats at present. However, JPGE format will have some distortion in the process of compression and storage.

(3)TIFF(*。 TIF)

TIFF format is also widely used, it can be converted between many image software and platforms, and it is a flexible bitmap image format. TIFF format supports RGB, CMYK, Lab, index, color, bitmap mode and gray color mode, and also supports the function of using channel channels, layers and paths in RGB, CMYK and gray color modes.

Sixth, CG brush making

As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first.