How to learn illustration watercolor?

Watercolor painting is not only an artistic style, but also widely used in books, magazines, advertisements, animation and other fields because of its transparency, water rhyme, carefree, elegant and good at expressing artistic conception. Because of the simplicity and convenience of watercolor materials, it coincides with the timeliness of commercial illustration. The difficulty of watercolor painting is well known. To become a professional watercolor illustrator, you need a systematic and comprehensive learning process to realize your dream. Let's take a look at how to become a professional watercolor illustrator!

A preparation (from Nana, Zhihu):

paper

Watercolor painting can save the cost of pigments and pens. Only paper must be of high quality. The quality of paper can directly affect your painting feeling and fun. It saves you a lot of unnecessary detours. You can buy the ready-made No.4 bottle, or you can buy the largest bottle from the painting tool shop and cut it into small pieces to draw.

Watercolor pigment Mali watercolor

Many foreign forums have given good comments. The price of sex is the highest. I have been painting for a while. If I have more requirements for color, I can try the watercolors of Windsor, Smunk, daniel smith and other brands (of course, there are many more, so I won't list them one by one). Many watercolors are divided into student level and painter level. It is recommended not to rush to buy more and better colors. Being familiar with and making good use of the limited colors at hand will help you better understand the use and collocation of colors. More colors will only make the choice more difficult.

Chinese brush

So many pens will really dazzle people! Need to remind novices that if you just start painting and have limited funds, it is enough to buy a No.6 mink hair round brush. When buying, you should pay attention to the fact that the tip of your hair must be able to form a tip after being dipped in water. No.2 and No.4 can be purchased as needed. 0- 1 can also be considered for extremely detailed paintings.

Fiber brush

It absorbs less water than mink hair and is suitable for applying less pigment. Use a fiber pen when drawing small illustrations, which is less water, easy to control and easy to draw details. I have used Windsor's series of student pen covers, which I personally find very useful.

Sable brush

Mink brush is the most commonly used in watercolor painting. Absorb enough water and feel good. Of course, there are other things similar to squirrel hair, but not as good as mink hair. Find a convenient brush and you can start painting.

Toner cartridge

Cleaning rag

bucket

Second, the learning process:

Week 1 week: geometric still life

Week 2: Monochrome Watercolor Still Life

Week 3: Simple Still Life Watercolor

Week 4: Combination of Still Life Watercolor

Week 5: Still Life Watercolor of Flowers

Week 6: Watercolor Landscape Sketch and Creation

Week 7: watercolor landscape copying

Week 8: Watercolor Landscape Sketch