Character full-body sketching step by step

The basic content and requirements of character sketching are to express the characteristics of characters and vividly reflect their mental outlook and inner world. In the face of different objects, how to shape and performance, for beginners, is a new subject. Below we will introduce the proportion of the whole body of the character in the sketch and the steps of the whole body sketching method.

Figure full-body sketching

Figure full-body proportions are divided into the following:

The first is the ratio of the upper and lower, the standard adult body of the countryside proportion of the length of 6.5-7 head, and the head is a length, the second is from the jaw to the chest, the third is from the chest to the navel, and the third is from the chest to the navel. The third is from the chest to the navel, the fourth length is from the navel to about 1/3 of the thighs, the fifth length is from 1/3 of the thighs to the knee part, and the sixth and seventh length is from the knee to the sole of the foot.

The second is the proportion of limbs, in general, the upper limbs (refers to from the shoulder to the middle finger tip of the hand) for three and a half steal the length of the lower limbs part of the nearly four head length.

The third is the left-right ratio, the left-right ratio refers to the width between the two shoulders, the width between the two shoulders is the width of the two heads. According to this proportion of the figure of the whole body sketching, and then the line drawing more beautiful, you can complete a better figure of the whole body sketching.

Methods and steps for sketching characters

Sketching is achieved through the observation method of "whole-local-whole". The whole process of sketching is usually composed of the following three stages.

First, composition

Can not simply determine the position of the understanding of compositional creativity, it should be through careful observation of the object of a creative passion and desire to perform, and can use dynamic, proportion, form and environmental factors to combine, interspersed, take the realization of the composition. Of course, sketching should first determine the position of the character in the picture, through the "vertical, horizontal, three volume, four limbs" of the corresponding relationship to find out the dynamic characteristics of the model and physical characteristics, and then briefly outline the surrounding scene.

Second, the shape of the body

The creative stage of the composition has made the author of the model has a preliminary understanding, and further attention to the "reasonable space" in the human body shape. To the dynamic so that the human body between the parts of the "obvious" and "hidden", "real" and "virtual", "big" and "virtual", "big" and "big", "big" and "virtual". "big" and "small", "long" and "short", "tight" and "loose". "and "loose" and other changes for in-depth portrayal. Especially the physical characteristics should not be spared, so that the shape of the shape of the real credible.

Third, spatial modeling

The stage of shaping the form is mainly for the local structure of the in-depth carving, easy to paint "broken", "over" the error, which requires the author to return to the whole, the overall situation, the previous shaping to unify, boldly organize the structure and shape. At this time, the author is required to return to the whole, the overall situation, to unify the previous shaping, to boldly organize the relationship between the structure and form, so as to make it conform to the position of the space in which it is located and to match the image feeling. The whole is the principle of moderation for the main points, the shape of the stage of the use of more "addition", and this stage is more "subtraction", minus the tedious description, unnecessary details, so that the theme is more prominent.

Fourth, adjust the unity

In addition, there are several issues must be emphasized. First of all, the edge of the shallow relationship with the space can not be painted "dead", "stiff", or cause the edge of the line away from the space outside, and secondly, the tone, background and spatial atmosphere is consistent. Once again, the subject of the carving of the relationship between the local and local harmony.

Drawing figure sketching must pay attention to a few issues

(a) the performance of the character

The figurehead not only has a complex structure, but also has a rich expression. In the step-by-step sketching, the first training to grasp the "shape", in a more skillful grasp of the basic laws of the shape, and then gradually reach the "shape to write God, the shape of God," so that it is required to pay attention to the shape of the head of the model's image characteristics.

Rudolf Asheim in the book "Art and Visual Perception" has proved that there are two habitual tendencies in human vision, namely, the leveling and sharpening, in the leveling tendency tends to emphasize the symmetry of the people, eliminating details, eliminating the tilted, sharp tendency to produce separation, strengthen the differences, emphasizing the tilted. Both tendencies are not conducive to modeling, and the drawbacks of leveling are even more harmful; its tendency to be dull is a serious obstacle to the personalization of portraits.

The capture of the vivid demeanor of the head depends largely on the delineation of the expression zone of the five senses. Angell says: "When painting a head, an artist's primary concern is to let the eyes speak, even if they are general, and the eye sockets should be painted first, then transition to the bulging nose. The direction of movement of the eyebrows is also key to expression, with the corners of the mouth reflecting more detailed and accurate changes in subtle expressions.

(ii) In addition, the reaction of the hand in a certain mental state of consciousness will also reveal what the face is trying to hide. What the painter does is to unify his idea of the hand with the concept of the real hand - to use the concept of the real hand to study the purpose of the hand, the method of use and the law. To paint the hand one must first understand its structure, the method of the pair in terms of its geometry, i.e., in terms of the cylinder, the cube, the hand and expression, the hand and gender, etc.

(C) clothing pattern: the appearance of clothing pattern from the structure of the human body and its own texture, the causes of clothing pattern: (1) consistent with the structure of the human body's form, is the role of the force, and the human movement or external forces; (2) by the style of the garment itself; (3) the formation of the long-term folding; (4) the clothes themselves drape force produced by the drape.

(D) line with the texture of the material

By a material. Texture is different, affecting the shape of the clothes line such as silk class of thin texture of the clothes, the clothes line is more dense, the line is also more soft and round. Hemp cloth and other hard class clothing pattern more folded line, straight line, line type square and short, tweed and chemical fiber fabrics, clothing pattern less and quite. China's traditional painting on the modeling of clothing, but also has a high opinion, and summed up a set of different from the Western painting of the complete performance style and system, Shen Zongqian in the "mustard seed drawings of painting compilation - character talk" said: "around the skeleton to be seen from the outside of the clothes, where is the shoulder, to protect the elbow ......, all of which are bone of the skeleton are hidden in the clothes, and they are written out with the brush when the pattern is made." "The bones of the naked body are agreed upon first, and then the clothes are applied." The relationship between the structure of the clothes and the structure of the human body.

Line-based painting clothes, must pay more attention to the clothes of the refinement, generalization and trade-offs. Sketching to give full play to the lines of sparse, short and long, the rhythm of reality and other effects, and sometimes with a certain degree of decorative. This point in the Chinese and Western paintings have the same consistency.

(E) full-body figure dressed sketching

It is a kind of portrait painting, but also an important means of collecting creative materials, it is on the basis of the bust, and push further, requiring the painter to understand and master the whole, the whole figure of the body of the various parts of the delineation and coordination of the ability to improve. The embodiment of the character's personality will be comprehensive, even including the scene.

(F) the specific drawing of the hand

The hand consists of twenty-seven pieces of bone and sixteen relationships, the back of the hand and the shape of the hand is almost determined by the bone, the hand bone has a wrist bone, metacarpal bone, phalangeal bone composition. There are eight carpal bones, which are irregularly shaped like the tarsal bones of the foot. They combine to form a whole.

When depicting the hand specifically, it is important to grasp the proportions, volume, and bulk of the hand. The volume of the hand has two parts, (1) palm; (2) thumb, hand flat from the side, wrist joints high, from the knuckle tilt, known as the "price reduction" like a lower step.

(VII) Summary

Sketch (line drawing) figure sketching, comprehensively speaking, it is the first by the head, bust, bust, full-body like four stages of sketching training, each stage of the requirements are not the same, but from the whole to the local, from the local and then added to the whole of the method is unchanged, more training, more research, more comparisons, in order to step by step to make progress.