Popular watercolor self-study course

"Self-study Course of Character Watercolor" is a set of painting skill courses that use watercolor to interpret the theme and deformation elements of characters. The course is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter mainly explains watercolor tools, including the introduction of brushes, pigments and paper, eight conventional techniques of watercolor, and the skills of blending deformed elements with portraits. The next six chapters, supplemented by rich case demonstrations, intuitively show you the transformation process of a work from conception to manuscript. Whether for professional watercolor workers or enthusiasts, it is of great guiding significance. Abundant case studies allow you to fully grasp the performance essentials of figure watercolor painting, feel the infinite charm of water and color, and open your creative inspiration.

The first chapter introduces tools and basic technologies.

Understand that watercolor pigments can be divided into big categories. Watercolor pigments can be divided into transparent watercolor pigments and opaque watercolor pigments. Whether it is transparent watercolor pigment or opaque watercolor pigment, or even oil painting pigment and traditional Chinese painting pigment, the basic components of painting pigment are similar. Generally, painting pigments are named according to the difference of cement or the difference of pigment quantity and quality.

Understanding conventional painting techniques This lesson demonstrates six conventional watercolor painting techniques with simple cases, including: overlapping method/rendering method/flat painting method/light color method/dry brush method/opacity method/wet color method/splicing.

The second chapter is the fusion of characters and deformation element "flame"

Demonstrate the basic painting steps and skills of drawing characters through practical cases. Painting steps are generally divided into three steps: the first step, composition and draft, the second step, drawing a light draft to determine the general light and shade, and the third step, drawing the whole picture deeply.

The third chapter is the fusion of characters and deformation element "feather"

The steps of watercolor painting are basically the same as other painting steps. At first, they were composed and drafted. However, the difference is that watercolor is a faint layer-by-layer relationship at first, and watercolor is best painted from the bright part to the dark part, so there will be some room for revision. First, draw the large scale and structure of the characters. It will be mentioned here that the pencil sketch of watercolor can be simplified as much as possible, because watercolor is light, and if the pencil sketch is too heavy, watercolor will affect the overall effect and it is a bit difficult to erase. Therefore, in watercolor painting, line drawings should be as simple as possible without affecting their own painting. After the sketch is roughly drawn, you can simply color it, starting with the skin color of the face of the person and expanding the color to the primary color. (explained with pictures)

The fourth chapter is the fusion of characters and "branches" of deformation elements.

The fifth chapter is the fusion of characters and deformation element "smoke"

Chapter VI Direct Deformation of Characters' Hair

Chapter seven: the fusion of characters and deformation element "butterfly"