Sketch is regarded as a basic course by all majors in today's art colleges, although the emphasis of each major is different. Oil painting emphasizes volume and tone, while Chinese painting emphasizes lines, prints and designs emphasize structure. But the sketches are similar.
Generally speaking, sketch is very rational, and the process of sketch is an activity that people combine their brains, eyes and hands highly. Understand the unique growth process, artistic concept, style difference and skill expression of the masters, and only by constant evaluation and thinking can we correctly position ourselves.
Sketch is the foundation of plastic arts, and the purpose of sketch learning and training is to cultivate learners' correct cognitive ability, observation ability, modeling ability, expression ability and aesthetic ability. A generous and solid foundation has become a necessary quality to enter the art palace, just like the foundation of a high-rise building, which is thick, hidden and unpretentious. It's like standing in a pile in the martial arts. You can't stand still, "Kung Fu" is just a flower shelf. Beginners must hold their horses, endure loneliness, endure hardship and have a sense of difficulty. Rome was not built in a day, nor was it built in a day by the ancients.
Get in position and open:
The content of "in place" includes composition, structure, characteristics, shape, proportion, orientation, rhythm, strength and so on. Being in place is a basic skill and an ability, which is not exactly the same as the "accuracy" and "trust" we usually hear. "Being in place" refers more to the subjective feeling and artistic being in place, with a higher level and greater subjective development space, and even "truth" is only artistic truth. "Openness" is a humanistic quality and a subjective means. The content of "Kai" includes artistic language, physical characteristics, black and white gray, primary and secondary, virtual reality, strength, rigidity, shade, straightness, front and back, density and so on. It is a simplification and induction in a higher sense, more subjective and free than "in place", and it is the spiritual expression of the artist's personal subjective initiative.
The importance of "black, white and gray";
Introducing the generalization of "black, white and gray" into the study, design and creation of sketches or all colors will get twice the result with half the effort, especially for beginners. The specific operation is as follows: the complex and disorderly objects are summarized as black, white and gray in brightness, which is a subjective grasp and orderly organization of the macro whole. Any piece contains many levels (tone and decency), but it must be under the absolute rules of "black", "white" or "gray"; Generally, "grey" blocks are rich in hierarchy, while "black" blocks are simple in hierarchy. The areas of the three blocks are specific, but they must be available. In this way, we can easily overcome the common problems of beginners such as "gray", "chaos" and "dirty" in the picture, thus making the picture structure of the work more powerful, vivid and orderly.
The meaning of line:
Art is art and the product of human spirit. Although it is scientific, it can never be equated with scientific "truth". One plus one does not equal two. Art has no standard answer. Line is the product of the artist's spirit reflecting the subjective and objective world. Line is the most basic language of visual art, and it is a kind of generalization and "abstraction". It is both ancient and modern, and will never be out of date. Therefore, in the world of sketch, artists and lines are inseparable, and the first hand is the line, which can be fully utilized according to subjective and objective needs. The artistic expression of lines is very strong. Up to now, we are all impressed by the flying and elegant lines in Dunhuang murals and the magnificent lines in Yongle Palace murals thousands of years ago. Lines not only express contours, regions, structures, features, turning points (between forms and two colors), rhythms, etc. An object, but also expresses the artist's subjective feelings. Impulse and passion at that time is a subjective refinement, which sometimes becomes the soul of the work, so there are tough and powerful lines, flowing lines, line movements and line melodies. In fact, the use of lines is very particular, both rational and emotional, not as simple as "outline". Lines should pay attention to expressing the ins and outs of objects: where should the front and back sides of lines and the strength of lines be used? Where should I not use it? How to penetrate the air and how to compare the density? Everyone is learned. Only one sideline embodies the connotation of modeling, characteristics, space, reality, strength and so on. Line should be higher than tone (plane), because it is the subjective product of the artist and a kind of "spiritual expression".
Well ... since I'm a beginner, that should be enough ~ I should be able to master it ~
I wish you success in your studies! The more you draw, the better!