China's Tiger Painting Techniques

Methods and steps of drawing tigers according to tiger painter Jiang Hai

Tiger painter-Jianghai

Summarize the basic techniques of tiger painting in Chinese painting;

First, draw a draft on rice paper with charcoal strips. According to your usual observation and sketch impression of tigers, sketch out the tiger image you want to shape.

When sketching, we can improve and beautify the shape according to the artist's own understanding, and at the same time conform to the basic structure of the tiger's bones and muscles.

Second, after the tiger's image is drawn, you can choose an image that the painter is satisfied with, and then improve the official draft.

Third, when drawing the official draft, try to draw the carbon rod lightly and accurately, otherwise it will not be easy to remove the traces of the carbon rod after ink dropping, which will affect the mounting effect.

4. Prepare a brush with tiger stripes, ink trays with different shades and pigment trays. Tigers are usually outlined from the eyes. Painters should master the reality, thickness, dryness and wetness of sketch, and master different pen strength when sketching muscles and bones. At the same time, considering the needs of tiger painting, with coloring to describe the structure and tiger stripes at different positions and depths.

5. When sketching a tiger pattern, we should pay attention to the differences between the sketches of the tiger's head, belly, tail and Tiger Claw, which can better reflect the texture of the tiger and the ink effect of Chinese painting.

6. After writing the manuscript, draw the stripes of tigers and prepare to feed them with color.

Painters should prepare several small plates with different colors, and prepare pigments for painting tigers, such as ochre, gamboge, cyanine, eosin, white, etc., and prepare them in different color plates according to the proportion requirements.

7. Coloring steps: generally, light-colored places should be drawn first, and then dark places, such as the back, belly and forehead of the tiger, should be drawn according to the tiger's structure, so that the color can pay more attention to the tiger's structure, prominent bones and white fur, such as the sides of the tiger's head, the tiger's chin and the tiger's abdomen, claws and tail. When the color is fast-drying, use the diluted white to outline the whitish place of the tiger stripes, so that the surface of the tiger looks more real and vivid.

Eight, after the completion of coloring, after the color is basically dry, draw the white hairs on both sides of the tiger's head and abdomen with thick white, and finally draw the highlights of the tiger's eyes with white. Final completion date, name and seal.