Illustration waves-how to draw watercolor illustrations?

Do you know these six common styles of illustrations and posters? 2020 can be said to be the world of illustration.

Long time no see, Regan Noodles who has touched countless people.

To recent posters of various holiday brands.

You can look at the illustrations.

Do you know what are the common illustration styles?

Xiao A will pass this article.

Take you to understand the common styles of illustrations and posters!

Graphic style illustration is mainly color blocks, geometric modeling, smooth outline and more intuitive information, which makes people understand the information conveyed by the interface at a glance.

The flat interface can also better realize the transformation of pictures, and the webpage loading speed is faster. Therefore, graphic style illustrations are widely used in various fields.

Stroke style is an extension of plane style.

Adding outline and brush strokes to plane elements and adding brush strokes to the outline of line-drawing illustrations are more three-dimensional and lovely than plane styles, and are often used in posters, guide pages, logo, etc.

Texture style illustration, also known as grain noise style, is another branch of plane style. The page is superimposed with grain texture, showing a matte texture, which is a bit like sand painting, but more delicate than sand painting.

The main manifestation is the use of a large number of color blocks. Elements are single and clean, and textures are often superimposed on highlights and shadows of elements. Increase the details in the picture through graininess, the picture is natural, three-dimensional and vivid, and the painting style is relaxed and casual.

Ukiyo-e painting refers to "a prosperous and empty world" in Buddhist language. Ukiyo-e painting shows the ups and downs of the world in the form of painting.

Ukiyo-e painting style is based on traditional prints, emphasizing the plane painting of lines and color blocks, with bright colors and birds, fish and waves as the main forms of expression.

MBE illustration is a style created by the designer of Dribbble. It depicts elements with thick black lines, removes unnecessary elements in the picture, and the color blocks are clearly distinguished, round and lovely. With small elements, it is often used in boot page, startup page, logo, etc.

Watercolor illustration is a popular painting method in recent years. Simple lines, gentle colors, quiet and natural, simple and casual lines. Watercolor illustration is particularly creative, which can not only express various styles such as realism, abstraction and magic.

Illustration is one of the most common design elements in our life.

In recent years, it has gradually become the mainstream of poster design.

Different styles of illustrations bring people different visual feelings.

Which one do you like?

How to draw a good watercolor illustration? Watercolor and gouache, like other paintings, should pay attention to methods and steps, from the whole to the part, from the part to the whole, so that the works can be deepened and improved step by step. Generally, there are five stages: left drawing, sketching, coloring, in-depth description and adjustment. In the order of coloring, it is generally better to start with a large area of color or the main objects in the picture, which is conducive to determining the tone of a painting and keeping the general relationship of the whole painting correct. Some authors are used to starting with light colors, or starting with deep parts like oil painting, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, which should be decided according to specific conditions and personal painting habits. Pay attention to planning when coloring. For example, one part of the picture needs to be colored when the background color is dry, and the other part must be colored after the background color is completely dry. This should be done step by step, which is very helpful for depicting different characteristics of objects and expressing the sense of space and texture of objects.

The techniques of watercolor painting and gouache painting are quite diverse, but generally nothing more than dry painting and wet painting. The so-called dry painting, that is, using less water, does not mean dry cleaning with only pigments without water. When painting, you should wait for the previous layer of color to dry before painting the second layer of color, adding layer by layer. The color of the previous layer and the color of the second layer are clearly defined, so it is also called multi-layer painting. Dry painting should strive to be positive and accurate, in order to show clear modeling, diverse levels and decent turning points. Attention should be paid to dry painting: when the background color is not dry, don't rush to cover it to prevent the background color from flooding; And the number of color coverage should not be too much, most of the coverage or color pile is too thick, which will make the color gray and greasy. Dry painting is not limited by time, easy to draw calmly and master, which is very helpful for beginners to exercise their rigorous modeling ability. However, the dry painting method is not easy to play the characteristics of watercolor flow, and it will be dry and stiff if it is not used well.

Wet painting is a method to combine two colors naturally by using the dissolution of water. When painting, the back pen is connected before the color of the front pen is dry, so that the connection between the pens is soft and the edges are wet. Wet painting is used to represent smooth and delicate objects, and it is also suitable for painting the foreground, dark parts and reflective parts of objects. Wet painting should pay attention to mastering the amount of water and the timing of writing, how much water to use, and how wet the background color is before it can be properly colored. These should be studied well. In addition, when the background color is dry and still needs to be wetted, you can wet the color with clear water before painting, or after painting, lightly brush the edge of the color block with a clean pen dipped in water, which can also achieve the effect of wet painting.

In gouache painting, Yu is good at thick painting and wet painting. The so-called thickness or thinness is also relative, and the corresponding expression methods should be flexibly adopted according to the specific objects and painting ideas. Many authors often use dry and wet paintings alternately, and dry and wet paintings are presented side by side with good thickness. In some places, more water is used for rendering and infiltration, while in others, color blocks are used for covering or juxtaposing, so as to achieve the unity of various pictures and make the works more perfect. Spring in Pujiang is an example of the combination of dry painting and wet painting.

This paper introduces several figures and landscape works completed by dry painting and wet painting respectively. Some of them mainly use blocks to represent objects, while others use lines and faces to represent objects, which can be used as a reference for beginners to draw.

Dry painting, using the method of gouache thick coating, shows the ups and downs of characters' faces, with obvious brush strokes and strong picture effect.

Wet painting, with watercolor Bo Tu as the main method, contains more water in the pigment, and the color permeates and flows obviously. The combination of line and surface makes the main body of the picture clearer.

Mainly dry painting, watercolor and gouache are used together, and some decorative effects are used in modeling and color setting to show the magnificence of the object.

Watercolor wet painting is used to paint the sky, distant mountains and water surface. They are all expressed by the method of color infiltration, which makes the scenery in the painting skillfully and naturally combine together, showing the endless and smoky atmosphere of the fishing ground after the rain.

In addition to the above two main techniques, watercolor painting and gouache painting are also based on the sketch of the picture and apply light colors. For example, pencil watercolor is popular now. Pen watercolor and charcoal watercolor are also popular forms of expression. This method is usually suitable for fine images. Firstly, the author draws the outline, physical structure and black-and-white relationship of the object with sketching tools, and adds transparent and bright large colors to make the picture rigorous and vivid, thus producing a special aesthetic feeling. Such works are often used by many authors to collect creative materials and record life because they can fully express the characteristics of object shape and color; This method of combining sketch with color is also widely used in architectural renderings, stage art costumes, modeling, scenery and other design drawings. In the production order, it is generally to draw a sketch of the foundation first, and then paint it, or both can be repeated (charcoal watercolor can be fixed by spraying glue first, or let its charcoal powder and watercolor pigment melt naturally. Both methods are wonderful). Among them, pen watercolor is to prevent ink from seeping out and polluting the picture, and there are also lines that are painted with pen and ink. Pen watercolor ink is suitable for painting ink. Besides black, other colors of ink can also be used.

In addition, there are many specific techniques to choose from when using materials and tools to fully and perfectly depict objects:

Dip paper method. Just put the drawing paper in clear water, soak it, and take it out to draw when it is wet. This method is easy to achieve the effect of moistening luster and smooth writing. Due to the natural infiltration of colored liquid in the picture, the depicted objects are subtle and vivid, similar to painting on raw rice paper.

Paste color method. That is, a painting method of adding thick or thin paste to color, which is characterized by smooth pen and thick but impermeable color liquid, which is helpful to better express characters and use brush strokes. The works painted by paste color method are rich and colorful, and the shapes are clear and powerful. It has some advantages of oil painting and fully embodies the advantages of watercolor painting.

Washing method. It means to get the desired effect after washing in the painted place. This method can also be used to modify and adjust pictures. Sponge can be used for large-area washing, and some parts can also absorb washed colored liquid with absorbent paper.

Blank method. Refers to the method of leaving those blank and bright parts in the picture. Some use the method of "flying white", that is, inadvertently leaving blank points in the pen for painting; Some use wax or oil pastels to draw blank points and lines in the needed parts before coloring; Others, when the color is about to dry out, use a knife or pen to "scrape" the required blank on the painted picture, such as exposing trunk, splash, beard, glass or metal highlights, and the effect is good.

The application of these methods, only through practical exploration, can gradually achieve handy and produce ideal results.

Watercolor and gouache are a kind of color painting, and colors should be used to shape the image. For the knowledge of color application, please refer to the chapter of oil painting in this book, which is omitted here.

Watercolor painting and gouache painting have basically the same materials and tools and can be used universally. The difference is that their pigment components are different. Watercolor contains a small amount of gum and has strong transparency. And gouache contains more powder and has hiding power. Many authors often paint with two kinds of pigments at the same time. In watercolor painting, individual bright parts, especially small areas, are white or light-colored, and sometimes white powder is used (some people are used to leaving blank white paper or washing the bright parts of the picture with water). In gouache painting, watercolor pigments are often used to enhance the transparency of some parts of the picture, especially when depicting objects like dark parts, the effect of dark watercolor pigments is better than water pink.

Watercolor and gouache painting are suitable for white paper with solid and compact texture, moderate water absorption and impermeability (but colored paper is also used to show the specific content). Paper that absorbs water too quickly is not smooth in color; Too smooth paper, pigment is not easy to attach, go with the water. Commonly used watercolors and gouache paper, various drawing paper and watercolor papers with thick lines and thin lines. When painting gouache, in order to set off bright colors, white cardboard and white paper are also used for painting. All kinds of paper have different textures and different performance effects. You can choose according to your own painting habits. When drawing a big picture, you should mount the paper on the drawing board in advance to avoid wrinkling, so that the picture can be kept flat and easy to express smoothly.

Brush, commonly used is a flat pen and a round pen made of wool or wolf hair, which is more elastic and has a large water storage capacity. The size of the pen depends on the size of the picture frame. Generally, it is enough to have three or four different types of brushes when painting. In addition, you can also prepare a Gou Xianbi and a shading pen with big colors.

Other tools, such as color mixing box, water bowl, picture clip, drawing board, easel, etc. , there is no certain specification, you can choose according to the practical principle. The color mixing box is used to hold the extruded pigments and display them in the picture frame. Pigments should be placed in the order of depth and temperature, and the general order is:

White, lemon yellow, medium chrome yellow, khaki, orange yellow, vermilion, scarlet, crimson, rose red, ochre, mature brown, olive green, grass green, ultramarine blue, purple and black.

A flat plate for color adjustment is attached to the color mixing box. When mixing colors, if it is too mixed or not white, the remaining pigments on the palette should be washed with water, and the newly mixed pigments should be prepared separately; For example, when making large-scale works indoors, you can use porcelain pots or glass (with white paper at the bottom) to color.

In addition, some artists also use auxiliary tools such as scraper, towel gourd tendon, sponge and crayon to show various artistic effects. Such as flashing water, tiny branches, snowflakes and other places that are not easy to fly, are often scraped out with a knife, and the effect is very realistic. Crayons are also used for local and fine printing that is not easy to empty. Because the oil and water of crayons can't be combined to leave a natural blank, you can boldly put pen to paper when coloring. Absorbing some wet colors on the screen with sponge and towel gourd tendon can produce nourishing and rich effects. Flapping the towel gourd tendon on the painted gouache color bottom layer can produce rich and mottled light and shadow special effects. Of course, this kind of auxiliary tool can only be used appropriately, especially for beginners.

Illustrator Dream Support Team | Creative Painting Phase II One person draws a story in one style, and painting is a spiritual journey.

Issue 2 _ Sharing Guest: Sheena Myth

She has bright eyes, bright smile and a lark-like voice. Gentle and quiet personality, giving people the warmth like spring breeze;

English majors, non-art students, studied from scratch, and started the road of illustration with their love and persistence in painting.

Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; Full color+modeling and texture, simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; The characters are exaggerated and interesting, full of creativity, more story-telling, showing a modern fashion side and unique style.

She has many labels:

Founder of Sheena Illustrator/Member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association.

Vision china signed a contract with the founder/illustrator of Sheena Illustration Studio.

Teaching style: natural, cordial, unpretentious, smooth and silent. Combining the thirst, exploration and simplicity of illustration knowledge with my own experience in learning illustration, this paper summarizes and designs an innovative and efficient illustration punching activity-Sheena Illustration Punching.

Comments and guidance on students' homework, direct and meticulous recognition, give students the greatest enthusiasm for teaching, and her love for painting exerts a subtle influence on every student.

Up to now, more than 65,438+0,000+students have participated in punching in.

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April's creative sharing was full of dry goods, which was very wonderful and brought us too many surprises and touches. The most important thing is to open our eyes. It turns out that you can draw like this, an outline, two words, an animal extending into a story;

Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. Learning here does not mean imitation or copying, but learning by watching, remembering and drawing.

The first is to look, and looking is to carefully observe the characteristics of other people's excellent works. From the layout and composition, observe how the works use space and elements to form a picture.

Followed by the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark, cold and warm colors, density and size in the picture. Finally, the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work.

There are no two identical paintings and no two identical people in the world. Everyone is a unique and irreplaceable individual. Even if everyone draws the same element, the state presented in the pen is completely different.

First, the course "on-site" review

Second, the creative painting course "essentials" explanation

1, creative painting materials and methods

Practice in stages:

The first stage: draw an outline, draw an imaginary picture (9 squares) according to the outline, and draw your own elements through the limited outline;

Case 1 (original: the method of Sheena myth)

Try to break away from the original shape and show some objects with limited contours. In this way, we can find that because of some restrictions, we can draw more interesting graphics.

Case 2 (original: glasslinda's method)

Try to set some themes for yourself. Every time you draw a theme-related (9 squares) through this shape, you can also inspire a lot.

The theme of divergent thinking is set as follows:

1. Related to daily necessities;

2. Eat, drink, be merry, eat, wear, live and travel;

3. Animals and plants;

4. Human head, chest and body movements;

5. Different forms of expression (head up, head down, head up);

6. The combination of positive form and negative form;

7. Think about the outline (silhouette);

8. The internal articles are combined into the required shape;

9. Have an epiphany and paint freely;

The second stage: draw a picture by combining completely unrelated keywords. (9) Break the conventional thinking and draw unexpected scenes.

Case 1 (original: method of seven sauces)

The key word of this picture is spring+time.

Divergent thinking: spring outing-spring outing-flying kites outdoors-have a good day; Associating related elements through divergent thinking and extracting+combined elements;

Creative process: In the creative process, I seek inspiration from generation. In these references, I think the girl who flies a kite in the clock points to spring. Later, hair and kites were connected in an exaggerated way.

Case 2 (original: meatball method)

The key words of this picture: spring blue+lock.

Make a mind map through keywords, write out all the elements you can think of, and then extract+combined elements from them;

Divergent thinking: head-key-vast sea of people-find yourself-open your heart-unlock.

Creative process: Turn your head into a key through divergent thinking, and the black line around the lock represents floating waves, struggling to find your own lock in the vast "lock sea".

The third stage: make up a story with an animal element.

Case 1 (original: Alina Alan's method)

Creative concept of story series:

Picture books are designed to express an emotion, convey an idea and tell people some truth, so I considered the story and emotional expression of picture books when I created them.

My Story is a dream, expressing my inner desire. People living in fast-paced cities, due to the pressure of work and life, occasionally have negative emotions, sometimes feel depressed and become restless, leaving too little time and space for themselves outside work.

I want to have more time to paint, feel the tranquility and beauty of nature, and express my feelings in the form of dreams. The theme of the story is "sika deer and me". I like sika deer very much. Sika deer is also my lucky pet. )

2. Two steps to improve creativity:

(1) usually accumulates

Creative inspiration book: record anytime and anywhere. What happened around us, dreams, whimsy, points of interest, museum inspiration, dreams, books, movies, poems and warm sentences can all be sources of inspiration for later creation.

Photo album: Collect favorite pictures, photos and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The material library of illustration creation can be specifically classified, such as color, brushwork, modeling, scene, decoration and so on. In the subsequent creation, you can try to start a new creation with these accumulated colors and strokes.

Skada: A video about "the creative storage method necessary for illustration creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and bookshelves is particularly helpful.

There are contents and skills in the bookshelf: the contents record your diary, reading notes and collected articles; Collect colors, strokes, shapes and scenes, and decorate the methods you are interested in and want to try.

Shelf: 1. What should I draw? 2. What skills did you try? You can use this method at the beginning of creation.

(2) Practice (action)

There are three ways to practice: visual diary: the method of creation is particularly useful, and you can accumulate materials for learning creativity by doing visual diary. (Weibo @ Hi Blow)

Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiment, telling stories with pictures; Copy works, collages and other interesting ways to record and learn.

3. Three practical ways to practice creativity:

(1) Learn to paint quickly.

The following are very practical creative practice methods extracted from imagination, composition and creative thinking, three of which are also practiced by us this time and are very practical.

1. After seeing one object, think of another object and relay in turn. (enhance your imagination, the same object, after 9 days, everyone's final result will be very different. )

2. Combine completely unrelated things and draw a picture. (Break away from conventional thinking and draw unexpected scenes)

3. Two different figures, combined to draw a portrait. (Try all kinds of interesting portraits)

4. Draw your inner feelings through a photo-expand different variants. Try to practice drawing your feelings, not the painting itself.

5. Draw an animal and draw your own animal. Provide words, and each of you can draw this animal in your own imagination. )

6. Try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc. ) Use different painting materials. Turn out all the existing painting tools at home and use them to find out more possibilities.

7. For an object: concreteness-abstraction (using different painting materials to distinguish style differences). Learn the generalization ability of specific things, generalize a little every day, and the more you draw, the easier it is.

8. Draw an outline and draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (draw your own elements through a limited outline).

9. Make up a story with an interesting little thing. An object, such as a fish, revolves around the fish every day and unfolds its own story.

10. Draw the same elements. Everyone listens to different music they like, and uses this element to draw their feelings in different music ~ (draw their feelings in music and learn more abstract expressions)

(2) Learning by sketching

Another creative practice method is sketch, from which we can get many ideas. The following is an excerpt from "Learning from Uncle Philip-Creative Sketching", which will be of great help to start practicing sketching.

1. Leave blank drawing paper and let yourself play freely. Empty your head, what you draw depends on the brush.

2. Blind drawing:

-close your eyes, feel the five senses with your left hand and pick up the strokes with your right hand;

-find a model, observe the five senses by yourself, and don't look down at your own paintings during painting.

Blind painting can help you learn how to observe things better and improve your painting level. )

3. Draw your feelings: The stronger a painting is endowed with personal feelings, the stronger its artistic appeal will be.

4. Attract your attention (imagination will fill the remaining blank)

-Create a visual focus for the work, focusing on the most important part of the picture, and filling the rest with imagination.

5. Collect materials: collect things that look inconspicuous and can't be drawn alone. (for example, go to the museum and fill it with drawing paper)

6. Natural scenery: Pay attention to the grotesque shapes that can be seen everywhere and explore their unique places.

7. Make good use of multiple perspectives: record everything around you in 360 degrees; Observing the same place from different characters' perspectives can also splice different time and space fragments from the same perspective.

(3) Learn from artists

When copying and recreating artists' works, we can better understand their expressions, emotions and colors in the picture. You can also play freely according to your own artistic masterpieces and your own imagination.

In April, I mainly studied the painting forms of artists such as paul klee, Kandinsky, Matisse and Van Gogh. In the future, we will have the opportunity to learn from other artists.

4. Recommended reading books

The books shared below are books related to creativity purchased before the start of school, and some useful points are extracted by combining practical exercises and other platforms' views on creativity.

Experience in reading creative books;

1. Imagination, composition and creative thinking

The composition and creativity mentioned in this book are particularly grounded and very practical. There are many creative methods in the book, and it is also a reference book for April's creative painting practice.

2. Creative sketch

Many sketches in the book deserve special attention, which will be of great help and inspiration to those who want to start sketching.

3. Lai Shengchuan's creativity

Teacher Lai Shengchuan's analysis of creativity is very in-depth. He analyzed the whole process of creativity from his own creative experience.

4.52 Creative Painting Practice and Creative Sketch Laboratory

These two books mainly talk about how to use different painting materials and creative methods to extract creative inspiration, which will be very helpful for people who want to try various materials, especially suitable for children's painting training institutions.

If the research direction is board drawing, it will not help much; Part of this book is about getting creative inspiration from artists' ideas.

There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of them, such as lines, colors and tones, are particularly wonderful in how to tell stories with illustrations.

6. Freestyle painting: 84 creative skills of illustrators.

There are 88 creative techniques such as background and space, alternative reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective, digital collage, etc., which can obtain many different creative methods and give you more inspiration and creative direction.

Third, the creation of painting summary and work display

Editor's Note: In April, Mr. Sheena read seven books about creative illustrations and watched eight hours of drama sharing. Take its essence and organize it into courseware, which is very serious, dedicated and efficient; (There should be applause+praise here)

If you see here as "unfinished" as I do, you can go to (Weibo: @ Sheena Myth) to share more dry goods about illustrations;

Illustrator Dream Team is a painting world similar to utopia. The atmosphere in the group is very good and full of positive energy. It's a pleasure to see the pictures posted by everyone in the group every day, and it's especially pleasant to learn and grow with friends of the same frequency.

The love of painting makes us look forward to life more.

The dream of painting lies in the brush in your hand;

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I'm Lindsay. I'm slow in reading and writing.

Please call me Miss Snail.