Learning Illustration-How to Learn Drawing Illustration

How to get started if you want to learn illustration? The above two pictures are illustrations I drew for my family, which were made into derivative tableware and bags.

Many people ask me what illustrations are. How to learn? Does it work? Starting today, I will share my understanding of illustration and my experience on how to teach illustration by myself without foundation for non-art majors.

First, the definition of illustrations

The first two pictures.

You should be familiar with these two pictures, illustrations in primary school Chinese textbooks. In fact, this is illustration, commonly known as illustration.

Illustration is to emphasize and publicize the meaning of the article or create a visual effect, and then visualize the text content.

Second, the types of illustrations

Classification by application

1. Poster publicity belongs to outdoor advertising, which is mainly distributed in a series of public places such as urban streets, commercial areas, parks and stations.

Public welfare category

film

2. Illustration of product packaging

3. Children's picture book field

4. Comedian

5. Publications, WeChat official account headlines, Weibo articles.

6.CG animation

All of the above can be classified as commercial illustrations. One more thing, commercial illustration is just one of many art forms, which is short-term and efficient, and is essentially different from professional painting, which is why even zero foundation can quickly enter the world of illustration.

According to tool classification

1. Colored lead

2. Watercolor painting

3. Oil painting

4. Needle pen

5. Digital illustration, which I want to focus on, because most illustrations are made of digital illustrations, that is, software. For example, PS, AI, SAI these mainstream design software. These two paintings are made of AI.

Let's call it a day. The next article will share the tools and resources related to drawing illustrations, and how to become a commercial illustrator with zero foundation. Welcome attention.

How to learn illustration based on zero? First, the illustration industry will not treat you badly.

At present, the market for illustrators is still very scarce. As long as you have the strength, finding a job is not a problem. Before looking for a job, you should practice your skills and lay a good foundation for your promotion. It doesn't matter if the salary is lower at first, it's important to improve yourself at first. When you are really mature, salary will not be a problem. It is very understandable that you can't always generate electricity for love and study illustrations for life. Below I will explain the industry prospect of illustration in detail, and also give you a reassurance. Just learn, and the illustration industry will not treat you badly.

Second, I want to make an appointment with you. I hope you can have a great teacher.

If you teach yourself completely? Do you think you can learn well?

You go online to pull information everywhere? Do you think you can learn?

Are there any illustrations? Can you handle it yourself?

However, if you have a master to take you, do you have a feeling of hope in learning illustration? Yes, when we first learned illustration, the easiest thing to give us hope was an awesome teacher. We have a great teacher as our teacher, and we are particularly confident in our hearts. Although we can't do anything, we are always at a loss and have inexplicable confidence. So the best prospect of learning illustration is to have a good teacher to take you.

Of course, students may be worried about not finding a good teacher. The theory is like this, but the reality is very skinny. It doesn't matter. I'll introduce you to an online illustrator. He will make a free live broadcast on the Internet at eight o'clock every night, and many people on the Internet will listen to it because it is very humorous and easy to understand. It sounds very enjoyable and makes people feel that their brains are wide open. Students who want to learn can go to Yu Rou's core (homophonic): the first one is w9, and the last one is Kaka. Just combine the above two groups of letters in order. Smart people know how to absorb the essence of others and use it for me. Don't wait any longer, start your way of illustration learning.

Three _ _ _ Tuodao is even more embarrassing.

Illustrator liberates the traditional painting art from paper and pen, and achieves the best visual effect through a computer, a graphic tablet or an ipad. The strong demand of advertising, media, film and television, animation games and other industries makes commercial illustrators a very scarce talent in the design industry. The market can be said to be in short supply, and wages are of course rising. It also makes commercial illustrator one of the most potential and "money" occupations in the future. Commercial illustrators are known as "golden rice bowls".

Four, and so on. Reduce capital and steal chimneys?

Any occupation is to support the family by meeting a certain demand and then getting paid. The same is true of illustrators. Before learning to draw, it is best to start with the illustration industry and get to know the general situation of this circle. In this way, we should start from the European and American environment where the market is mature and standardized, and credit is guaranteed. In fact, the circle of people also has its own operating mode, such as not charging by the piece, but timing.

(1) The minimum hourly wage of American imperialists is $7.25 (for reference). In western society, high-paying jobs are nothing more than doctors, lawyers and corporate executives. The hourly wage of surgeons with knives is $ 175-285. What is the painter's income? The specific hourly wage ranges from $25 to 100. The average price of the whole illustration is about $65,438+000-500. Need a higher cover, the price will be more than 2000 dollars. More specifically, for example, detailed, complicated and demanding illustrations used for publicity may rise to several thousand dollars. In fact, it is already difficult to evaluate here. Different project requirements, different levels of artists, and different personal efficiency, but usually the faster you draw, the higher your income. For example, if people ask you to finish it in 10 day, you don't have to paint for 12 hours every day. In an environment where you are paid on time, you will definitely get more money.

(2) Illustrators don't have jobs every day, and the salary is not that simple. Strictly speaking, efficiency, level, style, education, etc. It's all useless The only standards in the industry are works and qualifications, especially the latter. What projects have you participated in? What did you show? What are the specific responsibilities? This is the key to determining income. In short, the "average annual salary" of game painters in Europe and America is around $50,000.

(3) As for freelance illustrators, they just wait for the job and do it when it comes. I ask you to draw something, you dawdle for ten days to submit the manuscript, pass the acceptance, calculate the money and settle the bill, and the guest officer walks slowly. Freedom of working hours and attitude, such as bumper harvest in the first half of the year and laziness in the second half; For example, gay friends mixed a big job and then divided the rain and dew;

(4) Most painters started their careers from freelance illustration. Just waiting for work may not have so many lists. So it is better to enter the company. The game industry has always been one of the big consumers of illustrations.

On the basis of working for five nights, I am glad to see my body swelling.

(1) Unlike the aforementioned European and American markets, commercial illustration started in China around 2000, when the game industry in Chinese mainland was not an industry at all. There are American and Japanese game predators outside, and there are scattered CDs inside, so the situation will not be mentioned. People who can mix game illustration and conceptual design are rare.

(2) Around 2005, many commercial illustrations gradually matured. The wooden bridge of online games has made many painters find their goals. There are also some people who are connected to the European and American markets through the internet and can receive thousands of dollars of jobs. But most people don't know the market environment of others, and there are not a few foreigners who have been cheated. Only a few lucky people can really participate in the production process of European and American game manufacturers.

(3) Around 2065438+00, while online games, page games and social games flourished, smart phones also began to explode. Based on this platform, an unprecedented game market followed, and the domestic game market was instantly ignited. Smart phones and related applications have given birth to the demand for illustration art, which is the really fierce demand gap. Since then, full-time, part-time and freelance illustrators are willing to work hard, with tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Fourth, the income of illustrators.

(1) Monthly income of 4,000 yuan: Can you draw an excellent cover illustration every week?

If you can, you can try to find a magazine or weekly magazine with a cover of 1K or so. If four magazines sign contracts at the same time. After two months, your payment income will be stable at 4K per month.

(2) Monthly income of 8,000 yuan: Can you master a variety of mainstream painting styles and be familiar with comics, illustrations and advertising illustrations?

If possible, sign contracts with magazines and publications, and sign contracts with animation, games and advertising companies to do external illustrations. After two months, the income stabilized at 8 K.

(3) Monthly income 15000 yuan or more: can one third of the income be used as social expenses?

If you can, you can contact the heads of TV stations, film and television companies, film crews and event planning companies to establish cooperative relations and promise business commissions. After half a year, the income will be stable above1.5w.

(4) Monthly income of more than 20,000 yuan: Can you run a large-scale project and pay the start-up fee in advance?

If you can, you can find a planning project or company to cooperate with. Active income is high, but it is also risky. However, it is easy to earn more than 2W a month.

Can I be an illustrator all my life?

There is no denying that the painter's career will fluctuate under the influence of the market. But the life span of a painter can actually be very long. Many people will say that being older is not as good as an intern who just graduated. They can stay up late to catch up.

In fact, the more experienced painters, the higher the efficiency, the more recognized by customers, and the higher the pass rate of project completion. Some popular painters have even become well-known brands of the company and become one of the core competitiveness of the company. Especially those painters with high influence in the circle, their appeal even far exceeds the value of the works themselves.

Can an illustrator work all his life? To take a step back, in fact, after the painter retires from the first-line work, he has rich project experience, and can also control the quality of art for the company, guide new people, participate in planning and so on. You can also independently develop, open studios, hold training courses, hold art exhibitions, publish personal collections, sell the copyrights of your own works, and so on. As long as your work is recognized by everyone, you can do it for a lifetime.

Can an illustrator work all his life? As long as you really like painting, you should boldly devote yourself to this industry. As long as you really paint and polish your work, painting won't let you down.

How to learn to draw an illustrator? You need to practice lines, sketches, lines on the app, composition, color, light and shadow, etc.

1, practice line

Find a simple line draft to copy. Angle can draw lines smoothly, simple stick figure can copy, and then draw the human body.

Step 2 learn to sketch

It is mainly to master some very important basic sketch knowledge in the five major (perspective, bright surface, dark surface, reflection and projection).

3. Practice line on the application

According to the copy on the paper, you can try to draw lines on the computer after you have a certain feeling about the lines. While mastering the computer line draft, you can also learn hand-drawn software.

Step 4 study composition

If you don't understand composition, it may be that you are uncomfortable and the elements in the page are unbalanced. At this time, you must learn the fine composition method.

Step 5 learn color tones

First find a few simple color maps to analyze, and then copy them. If you still don't understand why you want to match this way, you can search the color matching website and automatically give a lot of color matching for your reference.

Step 6 learn light and shadow

Just like learning mobile phone photography, where there is light, there is shadow, and light and shadow are inseparable. If a painting wants texture, it should have light and shadow as much as possible. Only by knowing where the light comes from can we know how to draw highlights and shadows.