How to draw big fish in Chinese painting

The method of drawing carp is gradually summarized and refined on the basis of long-term observation and sketching. In order to make it easier for scholars to remember, a formula has been compiled: "A fish has two tails, three strokes with eyes and mouth, then a belly line and scales, shark's fin, and finally a spiny fin, both body and mind." You can see it at a glance from the following steps. Scholars can learn and practice the charm of dipping in ink and writing from template painting. There is a saying in the old painting theory that "sweetness is unnatural, cleverness is not expressive, weakness is not useful, recklessness is not old, stupidity is not ancient, ugliness is not magical". This may be valuable for beginners.

The steps of drawing goldfish: first touch the body one by one, lift the pen slightly and then draw the tail;

At the same time, with the same pen, draw the other three strokes of the tail continuously to complete the whole tail;

Secondly, draw the head, belly line and eyes; Draw pectoral fin and anal fin again;

Finally, the spine fin and whiskers are drawn with heavy ink, all of which are completed.

"Fish" and "fish" are homophonic. Traditional fish paintings contain the meanings of "fish" and "wealth", such as "fish is auspicious and festive" and "fish jumps over the dragon gate".

Goldfish is homophonic with "golden jade", and "Nine Chapters of Laozi" has a sentence "Happiness from now on". In addition, the goldfish itself is beautiful in color and its long tail will float, which constitutes the reason why people like it.

Chinese painting, also known as "Chinese painting", is a kind of Chinese painting (different from "western painting"). Scroll painting mainly refers to painting on silk, rice paper and silk with brush, ink and traditional Chinese painting pigments and mounting them. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Techniques are divided into brushwork and freehand brushwork, and its spiritual core is "pen and ink". Traditional Chinese painting emphasizes "the nature of foreign teachers, the heart is in the source of China", requires "the meaning should be kept first, and the painting should be satisfied", and emphasizes the integration of things and the creation of artistic conception, so as to achieve the purpose of describing the spirit with form, having both form and spirit and vivid charm. It emphasizes spirit rather than modeling, and artistic conception rather than scene.