Zero foundation first learn thick or flat paint

Flat paint. Usually what people call flat paint is also called thin paint, which is the coloring technique of celluloid crazy painting. Generally, the flat paint from the effect, the individual color is relatively smooth, clean, and the shadow edge is clear, the outer outline has a clear line draft.

Because when the artist paints, he or she sketches the entire line first, then fills in the outline with a single color like a grid, and then paints the shadows, highlights, and so on. So its biggest feature is that the coloring is fresh and flat, and the modeling is based on Japanese anime characters with clear lines on the outline and hair borders.

Thick paint method, is like the traditional oil painting, the performance technique, compared with other digital coloring, the picture has more three-dimensional, real sense, thick sense, and traditional painting-like visual effect.

The advantage of the thick paint method is to make the picture have a sense of volume, but also has its limitations, the use of thick paint method of coloring, because it is in the same layer of repeated paintings, and other coloring methods, compared to the final correction step is more troublesome, we have to be in the shape of only choose to liquefy or manipulate the deformation of the modification, or to re-painting.

The thick paint method of coloring is basically in accordance with the order of the darker and then the brighter colors, the brighter the last place to deal with. Because thick paint focuses on ambient light, it is usually necessary to paint the background together with the subject in front. Pave the dark color, pay attention to the main color of the environment, so that on the base color, the color is not easy to go out too far, and then gradually stacked bright colors, and finally add highlights.