How to draw the lines of the figure

To summarize the ancient Chinese figure painting, in the technique of expression can be roughly divided into three categories,?

White drawing method. For the brushwork and heavy color painting method. Three for the writing method (simple brush painting method), are briefly described as follows: white drawing method

? White painting method is the earliest, the most concise form of painting expression, China's ancient called "white painting", also known as "line drawing", such as the Warring States Chu tomb unearthed two of China's earliest painting on silk, that is, the white painting method performance, the early white painting, its line drawing technique to the main even and smooth lines, to the Tang dynasty Wu Daozi, in order to the white line to the development of the changes in the weight of the thick and thin line, to be able to vividly express the folds of the sense of movement and thickness. and thickness of the folds.

During the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty, Zou Dezhong summarized the rich creative experience of his predecessors, and in his book, "Painting and Enlightenment," he mentioned the term "eighteen strokes," which refers to the following eighteen strokes: 1. the stroke of running clouds and flowing water, 2. the stroke of ancient silk, 3. the stroke of iron wire, 4. the stroke of willow leaves, 5. the stroke of zither strings, 6. the stroke of ants and locusts, 7. the stroke of blending, 8. the stroke of pegs and nails, 9. the stroke of CaoYi, 10. the stroke of the nails and mouse-tail, 11. the stroke of the folded reeds, 12. the stroke of the reduced stroke 13. Battle Brush 14. Bamboo Leaf 15. Olive 16. Earthworm 17. Date Kernel 18. Withered Wood

Working Brush Painting Methods

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Working-brush and heavy-color painting is a kind of neat and detailed modeling, colorful and slightly decorative painting method, the late Tang Zhou's hairpin painting of ladies is a typical work

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? Painting brushstrokes in heavy colors is suitable for use on cooked paper or silk, usually divided into six steps:

? (a) Drafting: First, use a pencil or charcoal to draw the correct shape of the figure on the paper, and after perfecting it, put the paper over it to cover the drawing.

? (B) hook line: hook line there are two methods, one is called the hook method, that is, first hook the outline line with light ink, color and then heavy ink or heavy color to the main lines of the hook once again, this method is not afraid of coloring the original line cover, easier to draw Another method is called the hook method, that is, with light or dark ink to the line hooked inside the outline, do not cover the color of the ink line, this method hooked out of the line smoothly, but fill the color more laborious. But fill in the color is more laborious.

? (C) dyeing base: In order to show the face and folds of the concave and convex changes in the dark place first dyeing a heavy color, the face can be used ochre dyeing, the method is to bead a pen dipped in ochre, a pen dipped in water, the first part of the dyeing with the color pen, that is, with the water pen to push away the cheeks of the maiden can be used to magenta dyeing.

? (D) coloring: the traditional coloring method of the ladies is similar to the Peking Opera characters, known as the three white method, that is, the forehead, nose and jaw three parts of the halo white powder eye sockets and cheeks with more exaggerated color, more use of magenta Zhu fat Garcinia cambogia, a little white powder The man's face with ochre Zhu fat and Garcinia cambogia, plus a little white powder.

? (E) cover color: After rendering and coloring, in order to make the hue unified or remedy some parts of the incongruity, such as the face is often used in light ochre flat paint one or two times.

? (F) color enhancement: before the final completion of the key parts of the processing, such as the eyes, mouth, corners or nose, etc., so as to make it more prominent Painting the face of the ladies in the three white part of the white powder, and sometimes from the back of the paper dyeing powder to strengthen the face of the powder of the powder of the powder effect, the generally used in the heavy color figure painting dyeing method are: cover (flat color) narrow dye (narrow range of dyeing) wide dyeing and dyeing overlapping dyeing hollowing (dyeing the background color and leave the front figure) dyeing method: the background color is not the color of the figure, the color of the figure is not the color of the figure. Dyeing (dyeing children's or women's cheeks, rotating the brush when applying the color, so that the color gradually becomes lighter and lighter, without leaving brush marks).

Drawing method

? In the Fifth Dynasty, Shi Ke's "Two Ancestors' Heart Attunement Drawing" was a work of Zen with a wildly cursive brushwork. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Liang Kai developed reduced-brush figure painting, pioneered a new style, and created the large-brush splash-ink method, which made him a representative painter of realistic figure painting, whose works such as "Splash-Ink Immortal Drawing" and "Li Taibai's Recitation of Chanting Drawing" used bold and simple brushwork and ink to vividly express the charm of the figures. In recent times, since the Eight Monsters of Yangzhou, there have been many painters who specialize in ink and wash figure painting, which has gradually formed a major trend in Chinese figure painting.