How to draw a simple and beautiful New Year picture?

The painting method of New Year pictures is as follows:

Take out the prepared paper and pen and draw the corresponding year zodiac.

Draw the outline of the mouse with Gou Xianbi.

Color the mouse's face and hands with a brown marker.

Just color the hat and clothes with a red marker.

New Year picture is a kind of painting in China, which originated from the ancient "door-god painting", one of the folk crafts in China. New Year pictures are unique to China, and they are also an art form loved by rural people in China. Most of them are used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment and wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name New Year Pictures.

Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods. The whole New Year picture is called "Gongjian" and the paper is called "Sancai". Many meticulous crafts are called "painting the palace tips" and "painting three talents".

The colors of gold powder coating are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Tricks". Products before June are called "green edition", and products after July and August are called "autumn edition".

The moral of New Year pictures:

New Year pictures are decorative pictures used to decorate the living environment of China people during the Spring Festival. New Year pictures began with the ancient "door-god paintings", which were closely related to the two themes of exorcism and blessing in the early days. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of woodcut watermarks.

With the rise of printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to the theme of door gods, but has become rich and colorful. After thousands of years of development, New Year pictures have gradually developed into the decorative art of New Year's Day, which is mainly attached to decorate the environment in the New Year, with the meaning of wishing the New Year and being auspicious and festive.

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art of Han nationality in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. In the long years, with the evolution of festival customs, the unique symbolic decorative art of China folk has been formed, and its origin can be traced back to the ancient concept of nature worship and belief in gods.

China's early New Year pictures are closely related to two themes: exorcism and praying for good luck. In the process of praying for a bumper harvest, offering sacrifices to ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and other holiday customs, the corresponding New Year decorative arts gradually appeared.