Outdoor creative illustration-how to make your illustration more valuable

Illustrator Dream Support Team | Creative Painting Phase II One person, one painting style, one painting story, painting is a spiritual journey.

Issue 2 _ Sharing Guest: Sheena Myth

She has bright eyes, bright smile and a lark-like voice. Gentle and quiet personality, giving people the warmth like spring breeze;

English majors, non-art students, studied from scratch, and started the road of illustration with their love and persistence in painting.

Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; Full color+shape and texture, simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; The characters are exaggerated, interesting, creative and more story-telling, which shows that they belong to modern fashion and have a unique style.

She has many labels:

Founder of Sheena Illustrator/Member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association.

Vision china signed a contract with the founder/illustrator of/Sheena Illustration Studio.

Teaching style: natural and cordial, unpretentious, smooth and silent. Combining the thirst and exploration of illustration knowledge with simplicity, and combining with my own experience in learning illustration, this paper summarizes and designs an innovative and efficient illustration punching activity-Sheena Illustration Punching.

Comment and guide students' homework, directly and carefully recognize them, and give them the greatest enthusiasm for teaching. Her love for painting exerts a subtle influence on every student.

Up to now, more than 1000+ students have participated in punching in.

# Sheena Illustration Punch Card # Weibo Topic Hot 7 million+

April's creative sharing was full of dry goods, which was very wonderful and brought us too many surprises and touches. The most important thing is to open our eyes. It turns out that you can draw an outline and two words like this, and an animal extends into a story;

Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. Learning here does not mean imitation or copying, but learning through observation, memory and painting.

The first is to look, and looking is to carefully observe the characteristics of other people's excellent works. From the layout and composition, observe how the works use space and elements to form a picture.

Followed by the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark, cold and warm colors, density and size in the picture. Finally, the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work.

There are no two identical paintings and no two identical people in the world. Everyone is a unique and irreplaceable individual. Even if everyone draws the same element, the state presented in the pen is completely different.

First, the course "on-site" review

Second, the creative painting course "essentials" explanation

1, creative painting materials and methods

Practice in stages:

The first stage: draw an outline, draw an imaginary picture (9 squares) according to the outline, and draw your own elements through the limited outline;

Case 1 (original: the method of Sheena myth)

Try to break away from the original shape and show some objects with limited contours. In this way, we can find that due to some restrictions, we can draw more interesting graphics.

Case 2 (original: glasslinda's method)

Try to set some themes for yourself. Every time you draw a theme-related (9 squares) through this shape, you can also inspire a lot.

The theme of divergent thinking is set as follows:

1. Related to daily necessities;

2. Eat, drink, be merry, eat, wear, live and travel;

3. Animals and plants;

4. Human head, chest and body movements;

5. Different forms of expression (head-up, looking down and looking up);

6. Combination of positive and negative forms;

7. Think about the outline (silhouette);

8. The internal articles are combined into the required shape;

9. Have an epiphany and paint freely;

The second stage: draw a picture by combining completely unrelated keywords. (9 squares) Break the usual ideas and draw unexpected scenes.

Case 1 (original: 7- the method of sauce)

The key word of this picture is spring+time.

Divergent thinking: spring-spring outing-flying kites outdoors-have a good day; Associating related elements through divergent thinking and extracting+combined elements;

Creative process: In the creative process, I seek inspiration from generation. In these references, I think the girl who flies a kite in the clock points to spring. Later, hair and kites were connected in an exaggerated way.

Case 2 (original: Maruko method)

The key words of this picture: spring blue+lock.

Make a mind map through keywords, write down all the elements that can be thought of, and then extract+combined elements from it;

Divergent thinking: head-key-vast sea of people-self-discovery-opening up-unlocking.

Creative process: Turn the avatar into a key through divergent thinking, and the black line around the lock represents the floating waves, struggling to find the lock that belongs to you in the vast "lock sea".

The third stage: make up a group of stories with an animal element.

Case 1 (original: Alina Alan's method)

Creative concept of story series:

Picture books are to express an emotion and convey an idea, and also to tell people some truth, so I considered the story and emotional expression of picture books when I created them.

My Story is a dream, expressing my inner desire. People in fast-paced cities, due to the pressure of work and life, occasionally have negative emotions, sometimes feel depressed and uneasy, leaving too little time and space for themselves besides work.

I want to have more time to paint, feel the tranquility and beauty of nature, and express my feelings in the form of dreams. The theme of the story is "sika deer and me". I like sika deer very much. Sika deer is also my lucky pet. )

2. Two steps to improve creativity:

（ 1）

Creative inspiration book: record anytime, anywhere. Things happening around us, dreams, whimsy, points of interest, museum inspiration, dreams, books, movies, poems and warm sentences can all be sources of inspiration for later creation.

Photo Gallery: Collect favorite pictures, photos and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The material library of illustration creation can be specifically classified, such as color, brushwork, modeling, scene, decoration and so on. In subsequent creations, you can try to start a new creation with these accumulated colors and strokes.

Shi Kaida: A video about "Creative Storage Methods Necessary for Illustration Creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and bookshelves is particularly helpful.

There are contents and skills in the bookshelf: the contents record your diary, reading notes and collected articles; Collect colors, strokes, shapes, scenes, and decorate the methods you are interested in and want to try.

Shelf: 1. What should I draw? 2. What skills did you try? You can use this method at the beginning of creation.

(2) Practice (action)

There are three ways to practice: visual diary: creative methods are particularly useful, and we can accumulate materials for learning creativity by keeping visual diary. (Weibo @ Hi Blow)

Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiment, telling stories with pictures; Copy works, collages and other interesting ways of recording and learning.

3. Three practical ways to practice creativity:

(1) Learn to paint quickly.

The following are very practical creative practice methods extracted from imagination, composition and creative thinking, three of which are also our exercises this time, which are very practical.

1. After seeing one object, think of another object and relay in turn. (enhance imagination, the same object, after 9 days, everyone's final result will be very different. )

2. Combine completely unrelated things and draw a picture. (Break away from conventional thinking and draw unexpected scenes)

3. Two different figures, combined to draw a portrait. (Try all kinds of interesting portraits)

4. Draw your inner feelings through a photo-expand different variants. Try to practice drawing your feelings, not the painting itself.

Draw an animal and draw it in your own mind. Provide words, and each of you can draw this animal according to your own imagination. )

6. Try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc. ) Use different painting materials. Turn out all the existing painting tools at home and use them to find out more possibilities.

7. For an object: concrete-abstract (using different painting materials to distinguish the differences in style). Learn the generalization ability of specific things, generalize a little every day, and the more you draw, the easier it is.

8. Draw an outline and draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (draw your own elements through a limited outline).

9. Make up a group of stories with an interesting little thing. An object, such as a fish, revolves around the fish every day and tells its own story.

10. Draw the same element. Everyone listens to different music they like, and uses this element to draw their feelings in different music ~ (draw their feelings in music and learn more abstract expressions)

② Sketch learning

Another creative practice method is sketching, from which we can get many ideas. The following is an excerpt from "Learning from Uncle Philip-Creative Sketching", which will be of great help to start practicing sketching.

1. Leave blank drawing paper and let yourself play freely. Empty your head, what you draw depends on the brush.

2. Blind drawing:

-Close your eyes, feel your five senses with your left hand, and pick up the strokes with your right hand;

-Find a model, observe the five senses by yourself, and don't look down at your own painting while painting.

Blind painting can help you learn how to observe things better and improve your painting level. )

3. Draw your emotions: The stronger a painting is endowed with personal feelings, the stronger its artistic appeal will be.

4. Draw your focus (imagination will fill the remaining blank)

-Create visual focus for the work, focus on the most important part of the picture, and fill the rest with imagination.

5. Collect materials: collect things that look inconspicuous and can't be painted alone. (for example, go to the museum and fill it with drawing paper)

6. Natural scenery: Pay attention to those strange shapes that can be seen everywhere and explore their uniqueness.

7. Make good use of multiple perspectives: record everything around you in 360 degrees; Observing the same place from different characters' perspectives, we can also splice different time and space fragments from the same perspective.

③ Learn from artists.

When copying and recreating artists' works, we can better understand their expressions, emotions and colors in the picture. You can also play freely according to your artistic masterpieces and your own imagination.

In April, we mainly studied the painting forms of artists such as paul klee, Kandinsky, Matisse and Van Gogh. In the future, we will have the opportunity to learn from other artists.

4. Recommended reading books

The books shared below are books related to creativity purchased before starting to study, and some useful points are extracted by combining practical exercises and other platforms' views on creativity.

Experience in reading creative books;

1. Imagination, composition and creative thinking

The composition and creativity mentioned in this book are particularly grounded and very practical. There are many methods related to creativity in the book, and it is also a reference book for creative painting practice in April.

2. Creative sketch

Many sketches in the book deserve special attention, which will be of great help and inspiration to those who want to start sketching.

3. Lai Shengchuan's creativity

Teacher Lai Shengchuan's analysis of creativity is very in-depth. He analyzed the whole process of creativity from his own creative experience.

4.52 creative painting practice and creative sketch laboratories

These two books mainly talk about how to use different painting materials and creative methods to extract creative inspiration, which will be very helpful for people who want to try various materials, especially for children's painting training institutions.

If the research direction is board drawing, it will not help much; Part of this book is about getting creative inspiration from artists' ideas.

There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of them, such as lines, colors, tones, how to tell stories with illustrations, are still particularly exciting.

6. Illustrator's 84 creative skills.

88 creative techniques, such as background and space, alternative reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective and digital collage, can give you many different creative methods and give you more inspiration and creative direction.

Third, the creation of painting summary and work display

Editor's Note: In April, Mr. Sheena read seven books about creative illustrations and watched eight hours of drama sharing. Take its essence and organize it into courseware, which is very serious, dedicated and efficient; (There should be applause+praise here)

If you see here as "unfinished" as I do, you can go to (Weibo: @ Sheena Myth) to share more dry goods about illustrations;

Illustrator Dream Team is a painting world similar to Utopia. The atmosphere in the group is very good and full of positive energy. It is a great pleasure to see the pictures posted by everyone in the group every day, and it is also a special pleasure to learn and grow with friends of the same frequency.

The love of painting makes us look forward to life more.

The dream of painting lies in the brush in your hand;

Text/Lindsay tidbits

Love reading and traveling;

Love poetry and guitar;

Love painting and writing;

I'm Lindsay. I'm slow in reading and writing.

Please call me Miss Snail.

How to make your illustrations more valuable can be commercial illustrations, commercial illustrations in packaging. Product packaging generally consists of signs, graphics and words. Illustrations on product packaging can be divided into suggestive illustrations and explanatory illustrations. It is necessary to show the relevant information of products through commercial illustrations, establish brand image and enhance the understanding between enterprises and consumers. Improve consumers' cognitive level and stimulate their desire to buy. A beautiful illustration package is conducive to the rise of product prices, so that advertising creativity can reach a higher aesthetic taste, promote the development of fashion culture and bring rich profits to enterprises.

Commercial illustrations in outdoor advertisements. Posters are distributed in various public places, and usually convey visual information through the combination of graphics and words. Most posters take commercial illustrations as the visual center, with flexible and diverse expression techniques, paying attention to the application of design creativity and forms, and being able to have close communication with people, which is an advertising form with public affinity. Excellent street sign commercial illustrations have strong visual appeal, which can make people instantly attracted, and creatively implement different strategies according to different customers' advertisements, so that people can obtain accurate advertising information.

What theme illustration are you drawing now? Modern illustration can be divided into two categories: commercial illustration and book illustration! Commercial illustration is a special form in advertising communication and visual communication design. Commercial illustration is more than just a picture.

Application fields of commercial illustration: commercial illustration in newspapers and magazines; Commercial illustrations in outdoor advertisements (such as street signs and bus advertisements, posters, billboards and neon lights); Commercial illustration of wrapping paper (product manual); Commercial illustrations in annual reports and samples; Commercial illustrations in the network; Film and television advertisements and commercial illustrations cover a wide range.

Painting styles of commercial illustrations: realistic style, abstract style, decorative style and cartoon style.

The themes of commercial illustrations are humor, satire, symbol, fantasy, drama, image, narration, fable and decoration.

Tools and skills of commercial illustration: pencils, crayons and oil pastels, colored chalk, ink pens, watercolors, gouache, markers, computers and application software. Conveying information is the basic element of commercial illustration.

That's about it. There are too many, I can't tell.