Illustration of Chinese Wind Scenes —— Style Characteristics of Illustration of National Tide

The characteristics of Chinese illustration are as follows:

1, Chinese style illustration can also be called antique illustration, which is antique hand-drawn illustration. This illustration has strong China characteristics, including painting contents, figures, costumes, decorations, scenes, etc. It's all related to China's ancient style and expression.

2. The simple picture naturally reveals the painter's truest feelings, and also embodies the painter's basic painting skills. The vivid picture and visual impact expressed by hand painting can't be described by any language.

3. Illustrators often use traditional decorative elements, patterns, scenes and other traditional elements to express scenes, and also often use traditional expression techniques, such as rendering and line drawing of Chinese paintings, mural-style story narration and so on.

The Style and Characteristics of Illustrations in "The Tide of the Country"

Illustration style features are as follows:

1. Common illustrations of the national tide, with rich and delicate lines and uniform colors.

Saturation capacity

Lower part, whole

Chinoiserie

Heavy but exquisite and durable, with wider application range.

There are many lines in the picture, but the lines will be thinner. Basically, lines are used as bones to shape every object, and the overall color is more unified.

3. Lines are an important part, and the number of lines determines the fineness of your picture.

4. A picture has 1-3 general color systems to form an illustration.

5. The color is not fixed, but it can be light and bright, paying more attention to ink painting.

technique of expression

And the paper texture of the picture, thus reflecting the characteristics of Chinese style.

6. Use rice paper or

kraft paper

The texture of the background color will give people a stronger taste of Chinese style, and the background is treated with ink and wash.

7. Some colors in the picture are antique, the overall color is less, the saturation is lower, some are gorgeous, and the saturation is higher, but the overall color is not too much, and there is a general color range. You should control the number of your own colors.

National tide style illustration is an illustration that combines Chinese style elements with trend elements, and uses Chinese style elements to draw people and things that appear in the world. The color matching, composition and elements of the picture should have obvious Chinese flavor.

What software is used to draw this kind of illustration design similar to Chinese style, and what should I do afterwards? Photoshop and SAI can be used, and they prefer PS. Need to download some special brushes, pencils and other brushes, and choose your favorite brush. Then, like painting, it is convenient to draw on the computer by layering, and some inappropriate places can be repeated. You can also adjust the color tone and add mechanism and noise.