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Speaking of Ruan Dayong, everyone may be very strange.
But as a generation who grew up watching Hong Kong movies, I believe you are no stranger to the following movies.
Overseas poster of "Raptors Crossing the River"
Crazy money poster
"plan a" poster
Poster of the descendants of the dragon
Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Sammo Hung and Ceng Zhiwei all appointed him to paint posters, and most of the posters of the golden age of Hong Kong film industry came from Ruan Dayong.
During the entertainment restriction, he made the film full of expectations.
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Ruan Dayong, 194 1, from Cixi, Zhejiang.
The first nobleman in his life was his father who was good at painting.
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As a result, Ruan Dayong was the best painter in his class since he was a child.
Even so, in an era of material scarcity and insecurity, his father always thought that painting had no future.
Therefore, Ruan Dayong has never had a teacher, but only likes to study the facial expressions and movements of various characters. This habit has not changed until now.
It is this habit that laid the foundation for him to hold characters.
"To draw a good person, you should not only use your eyes and hands, but also use your brain and heart."
He once joked that he didn't like painting, but he loved painting people he liked.
Only if you really like this person can you draw vividly.
▲ Ruan Dayong likes to nail the drawings on the iron gate and stand up straight before painting, because only in this way can we accurately grasp the proportion of characters and will not draw crooked or out of control. This habit remained until he was over 70 years old.
In the early days of liberation, Ruan Dayong moved to Hong Kong with his father and family after graduating from Shanghai Xuhui Middle School.
After entering the society, in order to find a bite to eat, he first worked in a cotton mill in Tsuen Wan, and later was promoted to draw production charts. In order to write less carbon paper, he developed a strong style of writing.
Later, I went to the art department of Yonghua Studio to whitewash the scenery, then went to the cloth company to specialize in chartered oil painting, and then drifted to a foreign company like Longman Publishing House to draw illustrations for the teaching materials.
From 1966 to 1975, Ruan Dayong spent nine years in an advertising company, from draftsman to art director.
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1975, he met another important person in his life, Xu Guanwen and Samuel Hui.
At that time, a colleague told him that Xu Shi brothers were collecting propaganda drawings for the new film Crazy Money.
Relying on his artistic skills of drawing characters since childhood and years of work experience, Dayong drew his first movie poster, which was unexpectedly selected and posted in major theaters.
▲ The manuscript he took to contribute in those years.
After the posters of Crazy Money were hung all over the front and back yards of major cinemas, Ruan Dayong thought it might be feasible to make movie posters.
He learned that the Xu Shi brothers were about to make a new film, almost exactly the same, so he found a friend to take him into the Jiahe studio, holding a poster of Crazy Money in his hand, and offered to help them draw a poster of the new film.
Samuel Hui agreed, so he had a second cooperation. At that time, a bottle of coke sold for 30 cents, and this poster brought him 2700 dollars.
With the hot sale of two consecutive Xu Shi Brothers movies, the poster image is more deeply rooted in people's hearts, and Ruan Dayong has become famous at one fell swoop. Many film companies invited him to draw movie posters.
During this period, he painted Sammo Hung's Five Lucky Stars series, four overseas posters of Bruce Lee films, Jackie Chan's Plan A and the Dragon Warrior, the descendants of Stephen Chow's Dragon and the new Jingwumen.
At that time, the whole film industry thought,
The movie in which he painted the poster must sell well.
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Ruan Dayong's painting style can be described in four words-Ghost Horse Elf.
He doesn't like conventional things, the golden ratio and white and smooth appearance are not what he pursues, and he loves defective faces.
He is good at exaggerating characters, but he never loses his accuracy.
The picture has both Chinese and western visual aesthetic effects, exquisite ghost horse, elegant and harmonious, with eye-catching fonts, which have been teased before entering the cinema.
"Dragon Warrior" movie poster
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Ruan Dayong had the low-key and practical temperament of the older generation at that time. In all kinds of interviews, he always laughs at himself for "no ambition".
100% of things are usually only 80 points, and it doesn't matter if you eat every day.
He never considers himself a master, but he modestly calls himself a "painter", but he is always very serious and responsible for his own creation.
He really doesn't have any great ambitions, as long as he can always do what he likes.
▲ In order to make Bruce Lee look good, he studied repeatedly, even the slight changes of muscles, and finally became the person who painted Bruce Lee most vividly.
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17 years, he created more than 200 posters.
Zhang Zhang is a work of art and a well-deserved master.
In the early 1990s, Ruan Dayong's family moved to New Zealand.
I have nothing to do with the filmmakers I used to work with.
At the age of 66, his wife died, and he was suffering from depression. His temperament has become unpredictable, he can't sleep all night and can't eat anything. At the age of seventy, he took a sentence engraved on the seal of his idol Li Keran as his motto:
"70 years old, self-knowledge."
Only when you live to be seventy years old can you truly appreciate the vastness of heaven and earth and the depth of truth.
What you have experienced and understood is only superficial, and people have become broad-minded.
He picked up the brush that had been left for a while,
When painting is only based on interest, it has once again become a part of Ruan Dayong's life, making him as happy as he originally expected.
▲ Ruan Dayong's works in New Zealand in recent years.
Now painting has moved from paper to computer screen, and many movie posters are drawn by hand-drawn boards, occupying more than half of the fields such as games, illustrations and comics.
A variety of dazzling movie posters constantly impact the eyes of the audience.
Ruan Dayong's unique poster painting is more realistic in this period.
This is what I'm talking about.
Two years ago, because too many people asked about Ruan Dayong's posters, Xu Guanwen's son Xu Siwei got to know this man who made outstanding contributions to the film industry and made a documentary "Poster Master" for him.
This recently released film was selected for Hong Kong International Film Festival, Singapore Chinese Film Festival and Spain Vic Film Festival.
Hong Kong people's long-forgotten film memories have been turned over again, which has also attracted a large number of young "literary youth" groups.
I haven't realized for a long time that pen is a world that can bring joy and emotion.
I miss their enthusiasm and purity of always being loyal to themselves and only doing what they love enough.
In this impetuous era, it seems more.
Precious enough.
This article was originally written by Juejiang, please contact WeChat official account: juejcy.
What is CG illustration? "CG" was originally the English abbreviation of ComputerGraphics.
With the formation of a series of related industries that use computer as the main tool for visual design and production, the field of visual design and production using computer technology is usually called CG in the world.
It includes both technology and art, including almost all visual art creation activities in today's computer age, such as graphic design, web design, three-dimensional animation, film and television special effects, multimedia technology, architectural design based on computer-aided design, industrial modeling design and so on.
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Scope of application of illustrations:
1, film and television illustration
Refers to illustrations appearing in movies and television. Generally, it appears in advertisements. Movie and TV illustrations also include computer screens.
2, poster advertising illustration
Also known as posters, posters. In the era when advertisements mainly rely on printed media to transmit information, they can be said to be in a dominant position in advertisements. However, with the emergence of film and television media, its application scope has narrowed.
3, newspaper illustrations
Newspapers are one of the best media for information dissemination. It is the most popular, low cost, large circulation, wide spread, fast speed and short production cycle.
4. Illustrations of magazines and books
Including the front cover and back cover design and text illustrations, widely used in all kinds of books. Such as literature books, children's books, science and technology books, etc. This kind of illustration is gradually declining. In the future, it will still exist in a large number of electronic books and newspapers.
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How to draw a picture of an English poster of a Band-4 movie by hand, and draw a beautiful POP poster, you can use the following tools to mix and match, not limited to using a specific tool. These are the basic tools to complete a hand-painted poster of Pop, which can be bought in art stores or bookstores:
1. colored pen: there are two kinds of pens, namely, open-angle pen and round-headed pen.
2. Mack pen: A Mack pen, with two kinds of pens, i.e. corner pen and round pen, and three kinds of solutions, i.e. alcohol, water and oil.
Third, powder and crayons.
Fourth, pastel pen.
5. Colored pencils and sketch pencils.
Six, watercolor, poster color, round or flat marker.
Seven, brush, ink, color Dan.
Eight, pen knife, art knife, round knife, styling scissors, scissors.
Nine, double-sided tape, lipstick glue, transparent tape, paper tape, glue, photo glue, Taiwan Province Province glue.
Ten, cutting board, cutting steel ruler (30 cm, 70 cm, 100 cm each), small ruler, wave ruler, soft ruler.
Xi。 Compass.
Twelve, needle pen.
Thirteen, like white, correction tape, white paint pen, gold paint pen, silver paint pen.
14. Handbags and paper reels.
B. The combination factors of hand-painted posters can be roughly divided into the following categories:
I. Illustrations
(1) Theme Style
(2) Decorative style
(3) the overall question type
Second, the copy
(1) title
(2) Key tips
(3) content
C, the form of production
P Production forms include color printing, printing, hand painting, etc. With the development of computer software technology, it is more attractive and efficient in the application of art design, and even the graffiti effect of hand-painted artistic glyphs can be imitated incisively and vividly, which can be linked.