Different regions and landforms have different regional cultural characteristics, which have different constraints on the modeling and style of folk art, which will inevitably lead to the differences and diversity of the modeling characteristics of folk art. Even the same craft variety has its own modeling characteristics in different regions. As far as folk houses are concerned, the modeling characteristics of folk art works are also different. The soft language of Wunong, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, has cultivated a beautiful and colorful Taohuawu New Year picture. Northern New Year pictures are unique, and Shaanxi paper-cut is mainly characterized by its simple and bold modeling. The creation of folk art has accumulated people's life characteristics because of adapting to the changes of regional and natural conditions, and also contributed to different national psychology and personality characteristics, which eventually subtly led to different modeling characteristics and expression techniques of folk art in various places.
The simplicity of the image of a work of art is often more expressive. From the visual experience, the concise image is the most eye-catching. Capturing the object is the author's most basic thing, so it can also leave a deep impression on people. For example, folk paper-cutting is limited by its own materials, which restricts it from being good at expressing complex pictures. Simplicity does not mean monotony. This is one of its highest realms. When the author created the paper-cut "Weaving Step" on the bank of the Yellow River, he deliberately shaped the powerful dynamics of the shuttle sitting machine and made an extremely bold summary of the loom. Its creative form is simplified, the thick lines are concise, and the beauty lies in the fact that the sparse place is not empty and the dense place is not dead, thus achieving a high degree of unity of content and form.
Folk art serves people's lives. In order to decorate and beautify the environment, adapt to people's aesthetic psychology and acceptance in modeling and composition, and boldly exaggerate in expression. Something symbolizing auspicious content boldly penetrates into the picture, and the theme of the picture is prominent, without any disguise, revealing the simple decorative art characteristics. Sichuan Mianzhu New Year Pictures have outstanding artistic style, simple composition and exaggerated modeling. Folk artists are used to boldly exaggerating and deforming characters when creating, such as drawing a military commander and exaggerating horizontally without drawing the neck; Beauty should be gentle and graceful, slim and narrow-shouldered, that is, "a hero has no neck and a beauty has no shoulders." Limited by practical purposes and materials, folk art often only pays attention to plane composition, ignoring the sense of depth and space. With the combination of images and the rhythm of lines and colors, the rich layered aesthetic feeling of the picture is formed, and the unique hungry plane decoration effect is formed.
Folk art creation is very free, it is a true and natural expression of emotion and a materialistic expression of working people's subjective feelings about life. Therefore, ordinary people often proudly say, "I can draw whatever I like, as long as I have something in my heart that I can't see on paper" and so on. Various shapes in folk art are not limited to the reality of objective things, but a kind of subjective and random creation, which integrates all kinds of beautiful things and imagination in the world into folk art works one by one. The creation of auspicious animals and birds fully shows the imagination of folk artists. "Kirin", "Dragon" and "Phoenix" are not in the world, but in folk art, they are both sacred and vivid, with visible shapes and colors. This is created by folk artists who combine their knowledge, experience and the needs and imagination of social life in their creation, expressing the eternal theme of the people.