Business Illustration Skills —— How to learn to draw illustrations from scratch?

Catalogue of Commercial Illustration Design Chapter I Illustration Overview

The first section is the concept of illustration.

Section II Development of Illustrations

Section III Characteristics of Commercial Illustrations

Chapter II Classification of Commercial Illustrations

Section 1 Illustrations of Reading Materials

Section 2 Cartoon Cartoon Illustration

Section 3 Commercial Publicity Illustrations

Section 4 Illustrations in Film and Television Media

The third chapter is the artistic expression of commercial illustration.

Section 1 Artistic Expression of Characters

Section 2 Digital Painting

Section 3 Hand-painted

The fourth chapter is the graphic creativity of commercial illustration.

First, the thinking mode of graphic creativity

Second, the way of graphic creativity

The fifth chapter is about the qualities that commercial illustrators should possess.

First, commercial illustrators should have the basic ability of painting.

Second, commercial illustrators should have design knowledge.

Third, commercial illustrators should have cultural literacy.

Fourth, the inheritance and development of traditional culture

Fifth, commercial illustrators should have a sense of responsibility.

Six, understand the circulation channels

Illustration expression method 1. Japanese and Korean style

Features: Beautiful painting style, slender figure, little change between men and women. But at the same time, it is slightly different, such as Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, Korean style is more gorgeous and romantic, basically similar to realistic style.

2. European and American styles

Features: European and American style illustrations are mainly realistic, emphasizing real texture and texture, and like exaggerated expressions to make characters look more vivid and energetic.

3. China ancient style

Features: Compared with the illustrations of the above two artistic styles, the original Chinese painting also has its own distinctive features, which are reserved but full of tension. Although China's original paintings are more or less influenced by those of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, its profound classical art, elegance and mystery are still its characteristics.

4.q version illustration

Features: The Q version of illustrations is the most prominent, with figures and animals as the mainstay. The figures are cute, exaggerated or funny, and the proportion of the human body is short. Although the lines are simple and the color blocks are clear, the characters have distinct personalities.

What is the range of examples you can think of?

Web page illustration

Book cover/inside page illustration

Poster illustration

Packaging illustration

UI interface

Expression design

Comic design

The above is a tutorial from the Internet compiled and shared by art painting for everyone. Mainly teach you how to learn the skills of illustration, the learning skills of beginners of illustration. The tutorial is very simple. I believe this tutorial will be helpful to everyone. Come and see it ~

How to learn to draw illustrations from scratch? If you know what illustration is and what tools you can use it, you can practice directly with pictures. After taking the first step, the next operation will be much easier.

This is a picture I drew when I first studied illustration. It belongs to flat style and is easy to use among many illustration styles. Next, I will take this picture as an example to tell you how a complete illustration is made.

This illustration is actually made up of several small objects.

Because of space reasons, here I will take the simplest mobile phone as an example to show the whole painting process.

The first step is to open the digital drawing software AI and create a new canvas. Students who don't have a software foundation should first go online to find free courses to familiarize themselves with software, such as Netease Cloud Classroom and Youyou.com, which all have complete introductory tutorials.

After creating a new canvas, a window will pop up. You will see several commonly used canvas sizes. You can select one of them or create a new size in the list on the right. If it is a new size, it is best to change the name of the canvas first, then adjust the width and height of the canvas, and then adjust it vertically or horizontally. The color mode is generally RGB mode, so don't change it casually.

After creating the canvas, drag the picture on the desktop into the created canvas window.

The first step after dragging in is to adjust the brush. There is a brush tool at the bottom of the menu bar. Click the drop-down box with the word "basic". There is a list box on the right side of the drop-down box. Click to create a new brush. Click.

A new calligraphy brush appears, and then click OK.

The Calligraphy Brush option appears. Now we just need to change the size and change the brush size to 3pt.

Next, change the stroke color, because the mobile phone is composed of color block filling and strokes, and the strokes are unified, so change the strokes first.

Press the shortcut key m to pull out the shape of the mobile phone.

Press the shortcut keys Ctrl+C and Ctrl+F, and paste a rectangle in place to make a mobile phone screen.

Continue to paste in place to make the top layer of the mobile phone screen.

Locate the rectangle tool in the toolbar, and then click the rounded rectangle tool.

Use the mouse to pull out the rounded rectangle and fill it with blue color. You can also directly use the color absorption tool I to absorb the color of the reference object next to it.

Similarly, click Change Tool to Polygon Tool on the rectangular toolbar.

Click in the blank space to pop up a window and adjust the number of sides to 3.

Click OK, and a triangle will pop up immediately.

Adjust the size of the triangle, and put the triangle at the lower right of the rounded rectangle to make a dialog style.

Select rounded rectangles and triangles with the selection tool V, and find the path finder in the window of the menu bar.

The figure behind the path finder completes the dialog box.

Then ctrl+C, ctrl+V, copy three dialog boxes, rotate one of them, and lengthen the dialog box.

According to the previous method, copy the shape of a mobile phone and fill it with gray as the shadow of the mobile phone to give it a three-dimensional effect.

Press the shortcut key L, and then press alt+shift. Don't let go of your left hand. Press the left mouse button with your right hand to pull out a perfect circle, which is the home button of your mobile phone.

The size of the mobile phone came out. If you want to be more detailed, you can add shadows and other details of the phone.

Other small objects are similar. Many simple and interesting flat objects can be drawn by using shortcut keys, strokes and padding.

Therefore, illustration is not as difficult as imagined.