How to draw the outline of characters with illustrations —— A course of animated illustrations

Outline before painting "Basic Course of Mouse Painting-Preparation before Painting"

I wonder if readers know some illustrators, such as Mo Mo, Chen Shufen, Ordinary, Zhang Yahan, etc. You can download their works from Baidu. They are all classic and beautiful styles, which you personally like. You should collect more similar illustrations, observe their painting skills carefully and copy them more. In fact, we should not think that copying other people's works is a disgraceful thing. No matter which great painter starts, he will copy other people's works, learn from each other's strengths and then form his own style. If you can imitate Miss Mona, you will be the best of the best.

The raw materials needed to draw a work in the background are: a photo (above the neck), and then find a suitable one from your own collection for preliminary synthesis. Then take out the outline of the line and draw it, which can solve the problem of not grasping the outline well without art foundation. Then draw the works according to the routine. The tutorial will be illustrated in the next work.

Green in the final rendering.

Required materials: one photo and one target picture. It should be noted that the facial angles of the characters in the two pictures should be consistent, and the coincidence degree should be above 70%.

Set the new canvas size to 25x 30 150 pixels/cm.

(The computer can be configured with a larger canvas. If you are poor, it will be smaller. It will take half a day to move. )

Place the photo on the target image and set the transparency to 50% (friendly tip: transparency shortcut key-keyboard number keys)

Ctrl+t rotates or zooms to a suitable position, so that the coincidence degree reaches more than 70%. If you can't reach it, change a photo or target picture.

For beginners, goal drawing is essential, because it is too difficult to draw out of thin air without any art foundation, so use this method more before you have enough ability. The target picture can be a painted work or a shot picture, but it is recommended to use the painted picture as the target picture because its light, outline and so on are easier to capture, but it is better to choose the side for personal photos because the lines on the side are more obvious and easier to capture. In the next section, I will tell you in detail how to capture lines.

Two lines of articles

Sketching lines is a very important link, which will affect the final effect. Of course, lines are drawn with a pen tool ~ (Excuse me, teacher, what is a pen tool? Oh, dear! ~ Teacher, why are you vomiting blood? ) I once taught a graphic design course. In the course of ps software 1.5 months, I spent 1 month to let them play CS (shooting game) and 14 days to draw AK47 (a kind of gun) with pen tools. Then my director gave me to AK.

Path-Create a new path (name it Face, or name it if you don't want to search through dozens of path layers).

Then use the pen tool to draw the outline of the face of the person in the above photo.

Draw the outline of eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth in turn with a pen tool.

Hide the photo above and draw the outline of the neck, clothes and arms of the target picture with the pen tool.

After the tracing work is completed, we should pay attention to the accuracy of tracing lines in this process, otherwise the proportion will be unbalanced and the overall effect will be affected. Masters simply omit all the above links and scan them on the computer with pressure-sensitive pen or hand-drawn line. It took so much effort to get these lines. To sum up, the outline is the soul of painting and the pen tool is the soul of photoshop. Playing CS can exercise the flexibility of operating the mouse, so it is very easy to use the pen tool in the future! (Genius Teaching Method ~ Hehe) There are two kinds of paths: closed path and open path. The closed path is mainly to establish an operating constituency, which plays a natural role. Open paths are mainly used as reference lines and stroke paths (what? Play a role? You said a car has only two wheels on one side. Can you drive? )

Three outline articles

We have described all the paths in the above line segment, and now we have to fill in:

Create a new layer (named face, to cultivate a good impression of naming), use the path to establish a face selection, and fill the skin color (about R255G220B200).

(shortcut key tip: ctrl+delete fills the background color alt+delete fills the foreground color)

Use the same method to create new neck, clothes and arm layers and fill them with colors.

At this point, the general outline has appeared, because the facial outline is your own photo and the other parts are the target picture, so you must grasp the general sense of coordination, which depends on how well you prepare before painting. Next, we will enter the detailed description of the face.

What does the illustration line flow point mean? 1. Dynamic: Use points and lines to quickly locate the movement of the characters to be drawn.

Point (or circle) is the key point, and line is the structural trend. The first step is to pay attention to whether the approximate proportion of characters and dynamics is in place and reasonable.

2. Contour: After the figure posture is determined, draw the figure outline on this basis.

The outline is the general shape of the character, which is equivalent to the first step.

3. Find out the skeleton structure trend of several key points.

Human skeleton is the foundation of body shape, which directly affects the rationality and accuracy of skin coloring and the trend of clothing wrinkles.

Perfect draft

When drawing, you can erase the redundant auxiliary lines, and then draw the proportion of the five senses and the general structure of the hands and feet. In the process of constant adjustment, follow the painting principle of "grasping the bones and letting the meat go".

5. Add hair, clothes and main props.

After the whole character matrix is drawn, the subsequent steps can be relatively relaxed, depending on personal painting habits.

6. Take another layer (board painting) or copy desk (paper painting), and sort out the manuscript according to the original manuscript.

At this point, the sketch of the characters is basically completed. When copying line drawings, you can also adjust or add elements according to your own ideas or lack of pictures.

7. Add the main scene

The addition of the scene can also be brought in during the first draft, which is a demonstration step. In fact, before I started writing, the whole picture already existed in my mind.

8. The whole background and foreground and the addition of embellishment elements

Considering the next step of coloring, some details, including leaves, are not shown by lines alone. At this point, the line drawing part of an illustration is completed. Welcome your favorite friends to pay attention to the subsequent coloring exhibition of this work.

Animation Illustration Tutorial Animation Illustration Tutorial is as follows:

First of all, solid basic skills, starting from the art foundation, find some simple line drawings to copy, improve the feel of painting, accumulate reference materials and form good painting habits.

Then, after mastering line drawing, learn sketch, from geometry to plaster, to head and material, step by step, and master the relevant knowledge and skills of sketch.

The next step is to be able to match colors. Color is very important for illustration animation drawing, and good-looking illustration animation drawing is bound to match beautiful colors. In fact, with the previous sketch foundation, to improve the color matching ability of illustrations, we can read more illustrations and animation works to improve the color sense.

The last and most important thing is the human body structure, including the consistency of action and expression of anime characters. In addition to the standard design, we should try to be realistic. Therefore, for students who want to learn animation illustration, they need to master beautiful body proportion and muscle structure, which is a key step to lay the foundation for our future role creation.

After mastering the above skills, you need to keep learning, especially the integration of characters, environment and psychology, so that your level will gradually improve and you will create satisfactory works.