What are the general styles of drawing cartoons? Does every style of painting have different painting methods?

Classification of Comics —— On the Classification of Painting Styles

When we read comics, the first impression we can get is not the plot, not the ideology, but the style and skill of painting. The so-called painting style is the painting style. Every successful painting must have its own unique style. Painting style can reflect the author's personality and inner thoughts, and we can also infer the overall style of his works from the painting style. Therefore, if we can fully understand the painting style of comics before reading, we can understand this work more dialectically and actively, so as to further sublimate its ideological connotation during reading. Let's take Japanese comics as an example to see how painting styles are classified.

Realistic school

According to the truth, the form of "comics" can't be described as "realism" at all. But relatively speaking, there are many cartoons in painting style, and the realistic effect is very good. What I mean by realism here is that the characters in comics are painted like real people, and the shape of the five senses, the proportion of the body and the effect of the clothes are all presented according to the real appearance; In addition, the environment in which the characters live, such as the house on the street, is painted like the real world. There is no deliberate fictional exaggeration, which is called "realism". Works of this style can often give people a real sense of shock and make people wholeheartedly follow the author's ideas, because we already have this "real" view on the first impression. Realistic works are no longer the mainstream, but there are many successful classic works. The most famous is City Hunter. This work is ups and downs, plus

The outstanding painting skills of authors from all over the world can be called classics. Besides, Boxing of the Big Dipper is also a realistic masterpiece.

Shuangxian painting school

Modern Chinese Dictionary defines "line drawing" as "a drawing method of Chinese painting, which is drawn purely by lines without color rendering." There is really no obvious line drawing feature in comics. Painting techniques tend to be simple, mostly based on lines; There is not much modification on the facial features and face, and the picture is not gorgeous; But the painting is still pointed face, big eyes, handsome men and beautiful women-this is what I call "line drawing school" Using sketch style is a smart choice, which not only saves labor, but also often gets better results. The successful author of this school is Rumiko Takahashi, and Messing Horses is a classic, and Inuyasha is also very popular. In addition, some girl cartoons belong to the sketch school, so here are not many examples.

Sanweimei school

"All for aestheticism" is the style of most aesthetes. The strong pursuit of gorgeous pictures makes them the biggest feature; Generally speaking, aestheticism painters often pursue not only the aestheticism of the picture, but also the plot, artistic conception and connotation. Sometimes, in order to pursue aesthetic effect, even the logic of the plot is sacrificed, so some people will feel puzzled when reading such cartoons, which is also the main reason why aestheticism works are often not popularized. But there are many people who support them, and most of them are die-hard fans, which also makes their aestheticism works last forever. Speaking of aestheticism, CLAMP's works were the first to be popularized. Over the years, clamp has always adhered to the aesthetic line, and their stories X and X "KINOMOTO SAKURA the Catcher" are both very popular works. Besides, authors like Kaoru Yuji and Tomoko Nakamura all belong to aestheticism.

Four simple schools

Simplicity, as the name implies, means simple painting style and monotonous painting skills. Sometimes, it doesn't pursue the beauty of the picture at all, but expresses the meaning. This kind of work, although there is no advantage in the picture, often has a very wonderful plot to ensure that it can also become a masterpiece, and the popularity of such works is often quite high. For example, robot cat and crayon Shinchan are so popular that I don't need to say it again. One piece? ... the picture is not too simple, let's call it "simple".

Wugao school

I believe that no painter will show his unformed draft to readers, but some works look like drafts-shadows are drawn with diagonal lines, radiation and pictures are rough, and sometimes the edges of characters are not cleaned up-not drafts, but also semi-drafts. Most of these works also have good plots. Although the mass base is not as good as that of purists, they are much more popular than other cartoons. Naruto is familiar to everyone; Hunter ... its author Fu Jianbo is really awesome. He just took out the manuscript and published it, but the hunter was really good.

Liu keai school

There are many short-lived cartoons that take a lovely route. In this kind of works, the bigger the eyes of the characters, the bigger the eyes of the protagonists; Then the mouth is small, the chin is pointed, and the better the figure, the better. There are not many masterpieces of this style, but there are many, so they are classified as one category.

According to the style of painting, Japanese comics can basically be roughly divided into the above six categories. There are still many cartoons whose features are not obvious. You can try to make a transition in the above categories. It should be mentioned that the style of some cartoons will change in the process of serialization, such as Hiruta Tatsuya's Kung Fu Cyclone. The painting style in the early stage was rough, and it tended to be realistic in the later stage. We have said so much about the style of painting, but we must make it clear that the style of painting serves the plot and ideology. When we read comics, we still have to put the plot first.