Detailed steps of gouache painting

First of all, of course, shaping, pencils or gouache can be used directly. Everything is the foundation and the most important. Unless you take the imagist route. In other words, the impressionist master's modeling ability is top-notch.

The second is to divide the dark side, the gray side and the bright side, and spread them out with light colors first. Then it's the color of the dark side. Starting with the heaviest color, this is to set a tone for the overall color of the picture, the color chromaticity should be saturated, and the color tendency should be clear. Similar colors should be painted together, such as red and orange, red first, and yellow and orange together. Both the dark side and the gray side should be colored as a whole to grasp the needs of the whole. Finally, there is a bright face, watercolor is white, and gouache is white. It should be noted that there are also differences between light and dark on the bright surface, including bright parts such as bright and gray, and the gray light is slightly darker. Add the inherent color of the object appropriately, and white can be used to stand out.

At first, I mainly painted according to the object, that is, I painted whatever color I saw. Now I'm going to practice adding my own subjective feelings, because the scenery in reality is not necessarily the most beautiful in your picture, and painting is to achieve beautiful effects, so you need to adjust the colors appropriately, not the colors in reality. From the brightness contrast between colors, the contrast of colors themselves and so on. It is a long-term practice to improve one's self-cultivation slowly.

It should be noted that the dry coating method does not add less water, but less water. Don't be too thick and stuffy. If the dry painting method is not well mastered, the color will be very boring, and the color superposition should not be too dirty.

All paintings should pay attention to the overall practice, especially color paintings. In the whole painting process, we should always pay attention to the overall color contrast and master the most important and shallow color distribution as a whole.

Painting should be persistent and keep practicing thinking. I wish you the better.