Learning illustration is a tug-of-war with time, and the key depends on your efforts. There is only relative time to learn illustrator, not absolute time. Learning illustration from one level and from another level, time can't define everything. If you spend three days fishing and two days surfing the Internet, you will be an illustration waste after studying for ten years. If you can work hard wholeheartedly, even if you study for half a year, your illustration will have a strong overall strength. Of course, this half year refers to learning through graphics tablet +ps software. The use of these two tools will greatly improve the efficiency of painting, and you can draw very beautiful and high-quality works in a short time. The process of learning illustration is a tug-of-war with time. You should have your killer weapon, that is, work hard, work harder, three points are doomed, and seven points depend on hard work. Give yourself half a year to conquer illustrations, go all out and win wholeheartedly. After half a year, your illustration level will be excellent. If you have a good teacher to take care of you, you can save at least half of your time to learn illustration. In fact, the most time-consuming thing to learn illustration is self-study. Many times, you scratch your head and look for information about a small problem. Painting for a day or even a week may not find a very suitable answer. If an excellent illustrator takes you, the other person can solve your problem very simply and thoroughly in a few words. This is the value of a good teacher, which not only brings you confidence, but more importantly saves you. I know a very good illustrator. He takes a free online illustration class every night. You can interact with him online if you have any questions. His lecture is very easy to understand, grounded and humorous. He can explain complicated knowledge very simply and thoroughly. Many zero-based friends also came to listen. If you want to listen, you can go to his WeChat (homophonic): The first group is: the group behind w9. You must be willing to work hard and not be lazy when learning illustrations. The harder you work, the faster you will learn illustrations. If you always grind your feet, you won't learn. If you work hard, you will naturally be rewarded. Third, how should we learn illustration? These conscientious suggestions can't be missed. A person's success depends not on his wisdom, but on his perseverance. No one is born a good illustrator. Only by laying a good foundation can 1 climb higher and go further. This is why students with zero foundation should start with the basic art, that is, sketch. Just like building a house, if the foundation is not solid, it will be difficult to continue later. The higher the level, the more dangerous it is and even unable to continue. Understand black and white, composition, perspective, human anatomy/musculoskeletal, color argument, shadow contrast and so on. Without these foundations, you'd better not call yourself a painter. If you want to go further, you should not only learn the basics, but also learn the essence and learn thoroughly. Many students are eager for success, so they spend a little time on the basis of art, because they think the basis of art is boring and want to go to the computer. When they draw on the computer to a certain extent, they still feel that the foundation is not solid, which leads to the bottleneck period. When I went back to learn the basics of fine arts, I knew that I had laid a good foundation, and then I could climb higher and go further in painting. 2 Broad vision. When you broaden your horizons, you will have more daydreams. Never be a frog in the well. High vision can completely open your broad mind, keep up with the times and the trend of the times, constantly explore new styles and different painting methods, and learn to draw inferences from others. In fact, all the cultures in the world and the artistic movements in history are the sources of your inspiration. Combining the artistic styles of different times and cultures may produce unexpected effects. 3 learn to think. Painting, like language, is a way to express one's heart. I say what I think, I write down what I mean, and I draw my feelings. But occasionally I will stop writing and think about whether my works express my true thoughts or reflect on the world. The thoughts you put into your work will make your work more profound and meaningful. 4 cannot be mechanically repeated. Simple things are not easy to repeat. Why do people make mistakes is because they are unfamiliar, just as people don't think that one plus one mistake is two. Yes, art comes from life and is higher than life. Your painting should tell a story, express an emotion and reflect a mood. Don't just make superficial remarks, seek truth from facts. No one can take the shortcut to success, and success cannot be copied. Successful people have one thing in common: realism and pragmatism. Novices generally like endless soft skin textures, all like porcelain dolls. It is necessary to exclude the good and the bad. In fact, whether the surface texture is perfect or not is not important. It's true that the surface painting is good. It looks like your work is very shiny. However, if the composition ratio and perspective ratio of the human body are wrong, it is useless for people to draw beautifully and have delicate skin. Like a multiple-choice question. If you make the wrong choice, no amount of explanation will help! Wrong direction will only be the opposite! Have confidence in yourself and keep learning! Masters need time and experience. Rome was not built in a day. You can't be a fat man in one bite, and you can't be a good painter in one day. Many people like to brag about how talented they are. They never take a brush, and they draw as well as Leonardo da Vinci as soon as they come up. Even if you draw a sketch book or two, it is just two small steps in the Long March. How to learn illustration well? Do this 12 well, and the illustration will be by going up one flight of stairs! 1, sense of fusion: this kind of "fusion" is to combine all the features of the picture into a single performance or a whole performance, that is, the ingenious arrangement of patterns, colors, lines, light and shade, texture and theme, and combine them into a one-sided performance. Here you can look at the works of the great god Liu Yuan. Personally, he is a super boss who has achieved the ultimate sense of integration. His line layout, depiction of decorative background and imagination all exude rich humanistic temperament, which is very gorgeous and charming. 2. Conciseness or clarity: turn all materials and details irrelevant to the theme into secondary ones, and simplify the theme into the most basic design, form and pattern. 3. Design: refers to the overall relationship between block surface, shape and color. The picture is designed. Screen design: I like Dong Longdong, a teenager who is good at drawing IPAD. The painter's illustrations are colorful and romantic, full of joyful and dreamy feelings, novel in composition design, rich in imagination and full of bright feeling of love. I like them very much. 4. Proportion: refers to the harmonious relationship between the themes and parts in the picture. The scale distortion is not harmonious, but some distortions may be reasonable, because the painter may want to emphasize a certain idea or emotion. In proportion, Weishang thinks that many Chinese paintings are excellent in the proportion of freehand brushwork and blank space. One of my favorite painters is good at adding small-scale colors and contrasting graphics to the big scene to form high-intensity contrast and make the audience pay more attention to the smaller parts depicted. 5. Color: This is one of the most influential elements of beauty. When using this element, the painter should not only take taste and likes and dislikes as the judging criteria, but also understand the relationship between color and lightness, as well as the basic principles of color collocation, so as to create realistic and harmonious effects. 6. Rhythm: It can also be called rhythm. Although this element is often despised or misunderstood, it makes a great contribution to the aesthetic feeling of painting. All living and non-living things have rhythms, from the smallest form to the cycle of the universe without exception. Without rhythm, the body is static and lifeless. Just like the operation of nature, the repetition of similar colors or lines, or the gradual expansion or contraction of shapes can create rhythm for painting. 7. Form: The relationship between formal structure and the whole is a basic artistic principle. The existence of all things is nothing more than the reality of form or space, both of which are indispensable and cannot exist alone. When the shapes of the objects in the painting are ingeniously described and combined, and form an appropriate contrast with the open area, such as the contrast between trees and the sky, the painting will have a "shape". (First promoted by Lin Ran) 8. Texture: refers to the description of the surface. All forms have their surface features, which are as important as their own physical structures. Describing all forms with the same surface features, as if everything is made of the same material, is of course impossible to draw true beauty. This is a common problem in many mediocre works. 9. Brightness: Brightness and color are inseparable. To draw beauty, both are indispensable. Proper lightness relationship can create a sense of light and add a sense of integration to the picture. Incorrect lightness relationship will cause the greatest damage to the aesthetic feeling of the picture. 10, light sense: This element is the most important. However, the light sense in the painting is integrated with the light actually shining on the picture and becomes a part of the whole painting. There are many kinds of light, indoor light, outdoor light, sunlight, diffused light and reflected light. The light source must be related to the shape of the body, the nature and brightness of the color and the texture. If the painter doesn't really understand the principle of light, what he draws may only be a plane depiction of the pigment on the canvas (drawing paper), but he can't create a sense of space in the picture. (The first one is Shen) 1 1. Choice of theme: This element provides an excellent opportunity for the painter to give full play to his personal taste. Painters can find countless themes from life and nature, choose, design and create their own special themes, and show their appreciation of beauty. 12, technique: refers to the way of expression rather than the expression itself. Technology includes the understanding of the surface and texture of objects, as well as the understanding of media and many methods used by media. Skill is a personal expression that combines other elements of beauty. Theme selection and techniques are both personal subjective preferences and mappings, which are nothing more than aesthetic extension and continuous pen precipitation.