The first step is to sketch every day.
If you want to improve your painting skills quickly, you'd better have at least five paintings a day. We can start with copying. Copy a few copies and you can start drawing entities. The time should be controlled within 5 minutes, and the later the shorter. Finally, when you can control the modeling, you should start to practice sketching.
(For example, at the railway station, you watch people around you draw pictures, and they won't stop for you. Remember the action with your eyes and then realize it on the brush. Practice this for a while, and you will find that no matter what kind of action you think of, you can draw it even if there is no real person posing in front of you.
The second step is fantasy sketch.
Of course, you still can't let go of sketching in the second exercise, but at this time, the modeling direction of sketching needs to be changed, that is, instead of drawing real people and things, start sketching in fantasy and draw your favorite style. Determine one of your styles, such as comic book style, Q version style, realistic style, etc. And start targeted sketch training. You can choose to copy first in the initial stage.
The third step is color practice.
First of all, you should choose a good tutorial, learn according to the software you are good at, give priority to learning the software, and then learn the coloring steps of others. Remember that it is impossible to learn the specific methods of coloring in the early stage, but the steps can be used completely (for example, draw a draft first, then tick the line, then tile the background color, then add dark colors and highlights, etc. )
After getting familiar with the painting steps, close all the books and close all the tutorials. Draw a color draft according to the existing level, XDDD. You'll find that OMG draws badly by himself. At this time, open the tutorial, carefully look at other people's specific coloring methods, and compare the retouching. The final picture will still be very bad, but it will be improved compared with before.
After a while, I suggest you copy the color illustrations. To what extent did you copy them? The action, background and color are all others', but the shape is different, that is, the face looks different, or the hairstyle and clothes are different. This can avoid the risk of losing style after copying for a long time. Of course, if you haven't found your own style, you can totally copy it.
Then in the coloring stage, you must absorb the color of the original image with a straw (including every inch of different colors of the highlight shadow). Then recall the coloring steps and specific methods I learned before, and restore the painting with reference to the original picture as much as possible. Practice like this for a while, and you will find that your coloring level has advanced by leaps and bounds.
Zero-based illustration steps Zero-based illustration steps: 1, sketch practice
The practice of over-sketching plays a great role in the painter's modeling ability and the control of light and shadow effects. Can fully understand the structure, but also improve the writing ability.
2. Sketch practice
Mainly practice the use of lines in sketch. Illustrations involve the use of various lines. Therefore, lines are the most basic, and the relationship between strength, length, thickness and reality of lines should be mastered skillfully. Different parts should be represented by different lines.
It is best to practice and copy lines in combination with related books. After copying for a period of time, I will practice sketching figures or animals.
Understand the structure, proportional relationship and relationship, and sketch must be drawn according to the normal proportional structure relationship. After mastering sketch, you can slowly explore your own painting style. Learn to draw with a drawing board while doing sketching exercises.
3, color practice learning color matching methods, learning hue, hue, lightness, saturation, cold and warm tones, complementary colors, adjacent colors, similar colors, etc. , and various color combinations. At the beginning and early stage of color practice, you can practice color by referring to other people's color matching methods. While learning color, you should also be proficient in computer painting software, brush use and color blending on the software.
4. After basic practice, I basically mastered modeling and coloring, and slowly learned to create my own. The creative stage can not form its own style in a short time, and it needs a lot of practice and practice to explore slowly.
There are many things to master in learning illustration, and the most common practice method is to find reference works to imitate.
How do ordinary people learn illustration from scratch? I believe everyone has a dream of being a writer and a dream of being a painter. We are always used to looking for pictures on the Internet. When we see some beautiful pictures, we have an impulse to draw them, but because we have no foundation, we habitually give up. Let me talk about my personal painting experience and how to learn illustration from scratch. First, let me talk about input. Input is to cultivate a certain appreciation ability, in addition to imitating your favorite painting methods and styles, try to draw some interesting illustrations. I can't find the input and method. What should I do if I copy the object? Here are some illustration websites for you, and there is always one suitable for you. 0 1_ò Hui I believe that most people are familiar with Petal Web, which contains a large number of design works and illustrations, and has gathered many excellent illustrators. The overall style is more literary and fresh. 02_ Huang Bojun Tappi If you are a fan of two-dimensional animation and want to learn hand-drawn illustrations of cartoon characters, this website is a good choice. It provides painting courses, which is a good choice for those who want to learn Japanese comics and cartoon animation. 03_nstagram, a foreign social software, is mainly used for pictures and videos. There are many illustrators who share their works, and there are tutorials on shooting the painting process. There are many kinds of illustrations, and illustrators from various countries and regions gather here. With different cultural styles, you can choose the works of illustrators you are interested in to pay attention to. Personally, I prefer it But this is a bit troublesome, that is, to log on to the external network. 04_interest This is a global design website with various styles of illustrations, and each illustrator has his own working interface for easy attention and copying. There are more kinds than INS, and you can find any painting style in it. Is a professional art website, the most important thing is that you can log in without climbing over the wall and surfing the Internet, but the whole website is in English, which is also a problem for students with poor English, such as myself. 05_ Shirt signing There are relatively good systematic painting institutions in China, and there are many picture books and dry goods tutorials to learn. It is a very good learning website for people with zero foundation. The tutorial inside is very detailed and can be done step by step. 06 _ oft (le le) le le is the home of young artists in China, and many illustrators share their paintings. At the same time, there are also many edited manuscripts, and friends who want to take the road of free illustration in the future can pay attention to it. The six websites mentioned above share illustrations. Let's talk about how to make good use of these websites to learn. You can choose one or two websites that prefer your own style, and then browse a lot to find your favorite style, pay attention to the illustrator and copy all her works. Because everything starts with imitation, and what makes you most motivated is to imitate your favorite style. People often talk about the law of ten thousand hours. What I want to say here is that you can copy at a fixed time according to your free time, such as one or two hours a day. Newcomers are inevitably not sure about lines. They can find a piece of paper and draw straight lines and circles in their spare time every day to practice their pen control ability. We talked about input above. Let's talk about how to output. Stick to a painting every day and imitate your favorite works, so where and how to output it? You can choose several platforms to publish and share your works, such as Weibo, WeChat and LOFTER. As long as you can share the place, someone will come to see it. Sometimes a person will feel tired and want to give up. But letting more people see it and get recognition will give you the courage to stick to it. I personally set up a special illustration sharing Weibo, and shared illustrations on Lofter. After more than two months, I gained sixty or seventy praises. Although it is very small, I have an indescribable satisfaction when I look at the finished product and draw it with strokes. If you want to learn illustration, please act. (Attach several study works)