Is white drawing the basis of Chinese painting?

First of all, it is right to define white drawing as the basis of Chinese painting in a broad sense. According to this statement, white drawing is equivalent to the sketching of Chinese painting. White drawing is an important part of brush painting of birds and flowers and brush painting of figures. The white drawing part of the line belongs to the skeleton, while the color belongs to the flesh. In fact, white drawing is line drawing, white drawing in the tradition of eighteen strokes, eighteen strokes is actually a variety of strokes drawn, eighteen different characteristics of the general term of white drawing. White drawing seems to be only suitable for bird and flower figures, but the traditional large green landscape is also based on line drawing.

Learning Chinese painting, in terms of writing birds and flowers, figures, white drawing practice is a great necessity, it can make you better grasp the structure of the object and the relationship between the details of the object. But for landscape, it seems unnecessary. The landscapes in the Mustard Seed Garden are photocopied drafts, and due to the characteristics of photocopying and printing, the drafts that originally had shades and shades of color ended up in burnt black. It is similar to white drawing, the difference is that it adds in various chapping techniques. It is also equivalent to the sketch of landscape painting. So learning landscape painting can start from copying this kind of painting. Practice this painting method is generally used burnt ink, that is, no water or less water pure ink. This kind of painting after the painting, such as direct color, is the landscape painting of burnt ink painting, the famous Chinese painter Mr. Zhang Ding is good at this kind of painting.

Mustard Seed Garden painting manual has white drawing introduction, can be practiced against, but the number is certainly not enough, you can buy some white drawing collection for practice. As for how to learn, mainly from the copying of the beginning of the Pro, read more paintings, see more paintings, pay attention to understand the spirit of the original paintings, and then practiced hard. The first thing you need to do is to get a good understanding of what you're doing and how you're doing it.

Painting requires a lot of recuperation, so there is no question of whether or not you must learn it. The more knowledge and skills you have about painting, the more help you will get from learning to creating. According to the traditional saying, the order of learning to paint is: first brushwork, then small writing, and then to large writing, certainly has its own reason in it.