National wave style illustration tutorial - National wave illustration style characteristics

The thing about national trend illustration

What is national trend? Simply from the word can be understood as China's national characteristics of the trend of culture. The characteristics of "national trend" are mainly manifested in two points, firstly, the core is traditional culture, and secondly, it has a sense of fashion which is integrated with the current trend.

"Tide" is the distillation, deconstruction and reorganization of a certain cultural element through the brand's coat as a carrier. It is used to satisfy contemporary young people's pursuit of culture and fashion. With the Chinese people's confidence in traditional Chinese culture, in recent years the "national tide" has become the favorite of young people. Where are the "national trends"?

Tide brand, the earliest from the United States of America's street culture. Stussy and Supreme are the most representative brands, and Stussy's iconic signature epitomizes the graffiti culture of the 1970s. Supreme, on the other hand, pays homage to skateboarding culture.

In the 1990s, the American wave traveled across the ocean to Japan. The collision of Asian introspection and this trend produced a chemical reaction, represented by the emergence of the "Japanese wave" of workwear. The widespread popularity of the U.S. and Japanese tide on the one hand from the pioneering, personalized design style, on the other hand, also originated from the brand's deep understanding of the connotation of the local culture and manifestation. It can be seen that a mature national trend brand, its external must be avant-garde, unique, can catch the appetite of the young generation, but the core is also deep, heavy, inseparable from the precipitation of the cultural genes of the millennium. Culture is not only able to stimulate the national individual ****ming, will also give value to the brand, so that the cold design symbols become alive.

Application of national trend in illustration

The style of national trend illustration is characterized by the use of Chinese elements combined with current popular techniques to express modern people and objects. The color scheme, composition and elements of the picture have a strong Chinese style.

Types of Chinese wave illustration: fine line type and bold graffiti type

A--Fine line type

1. Composition: running clouds and flowing water, this type of illustration mostly uses auspicious clouds and tides to divide the picture. There will be white space in the picture to highlight the mood of the Chinese painting.

2. Color: Morandi color, color span is small, saturation is relatively low. The overall tone of the picture generally use neighboring colors, such as red-orange, blue-green tones, etc.

3. Technique: the use of Chinese painting in the white technique, with gold, to increase the modern sense of the picture. Fine lines will increase the fineness of the picture

4. Elements: auspicious clouds, tides, green mountains, traditional patterns, lanterns, etc.

Representative Illustrator: Ni Chuanjing

For some newbies, I recommend copying Ni Chuanjing's work with Chinadaily, which is worthy of our patience to learn and think about, both in terms of composition and color.

Another style of national wave, relatively speaking, will be much more exaggerated, is a combination of street graffiti and Chinese elements of the product.

B--Graffiti type

1. Composition: the theme is prominent, there is no very clear requirements. Generally similar to the graffiti style, the picture will be much fuller.

2. Color: high saturation, strong contrast, the same color control in 1-3 kinds

3. Technique: thick lines + bright colors + exaggerated shape

4. Elements: auspicious clouds, tidal waves, green hills, traditional patterns, lanterns, etc.

Chinese wave illustration style characteristics

Chinese wave illustration style characteristics are as follows:

1. Common Chinese wave style Illustration picture lines are rich and delicate, the picture color is more uniform, less saturated, the overall Chinese style is heavy but also very delicate and durable, the use of a wider range.

2. More lines in the picture, and the lines will be a little more fine, basically the lines for the skeleton, to shape each object, the color is more uniform.

3. Line is a very important part of the number of lines, determines the fine degree of your picture.

4. There are 1-3 general color schemes in a picture to make up an illustration.

5. The color is not fixed, can be light or bright, pay more attention to the ink sense of expression and the picture of the paper texture, so as to reflect the characteristics of the Chinese style.

6. The texture of rice paper or kraft paper base for the creation of the Chinese style will give people a stronger flavor, the background with the ink sense of treatment.

7. Picture color some partial ancient style, the overall color is less, low saturation, some colorful, high saturation, but the overall color will not be too much, there is a rough range of colors, to control the number of their own color.

Chinese tide wind illustration is the use of Chinese elements and trend elements of the combination of illustration, the use of Chinese elements, to draw the current people and things, the picture of the color scheme, composition and elements should have a clear flavor of the Chinese style.

Recommended Chinese style illustration tutorial

Single illustration of painting, the current national wind painter more and more ~ ~ (gratified ~ ~ TT)

Recommended several works with a considerable amount and quality of the painter to you ~ ~ ~ ~

Ibuki May (which has been too famous, many sword three of the same widely circulated ~)

Cat Jun Dabai (a book of the "beauty of flowers -")

Cat Jun Dabai (a book of the "beauty of flowers -")

Cats Jun Dabai (a book of the "beauty of flowers -")

De Zhen (Taiwan's well-known painter, brushwork heavy color realistic style.)

Zhang Wang (personally found the real most national style of the painter ~)

Zhang Lu (a combination of Western painting based on the national style, in the composition, dynamics, human body structure, etc., there is a clear Westernized style ~ ~ he has a few avatar video tutorials are very good, you can find to look at it ~ ~)

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I am basically a self-taught illustrator, if you really want to work in this field, then the following things are very important. If it is just a simple hobby, if you really want to draw well, the following is also very worthy of reference ~ ~

If it is zero basis, then the basic skills or to play, the human body structure is one of the key points to grasp, in addition to the composition and color. These things are directly related to the level of painting, do not grasp is not possible.

Human structure, the professional recommended "Berryman human structure", which is recognized as a classic. In addition, in fact, the Japanese manga style of the human body is also a concise summarization of the recommended "super manga sketching techniques," although there are many things are wrong, but used to get started will be faster.

Composition and color, although there are professional theory, but I feel more focused on their own understanding and experience.

Basically understand the basic things (such as a variety of basic composition mode), and then you can collect more pictures to accumulate experience and inspiration. The beauty of the picture is not only the painting, but also photos, design and other fine, not limited to the national style, other styles can also bring inspiration.

These basic things can only be mastered by drawing and practicing more, there is no shortcut.

If you really want to draw well, sketching and other things that seem to have nothing to do with Chinese style are actually quite important.

I am also a self-study, the foundation has been at a disadvantage, so I had to make up for

Personal advice to practice is: a large number of sketches form copying + a moderate amount of complete copying + a small number of attempts to original ~ ~ ~

Secondly, the tools.

Currently, illustration is based on computer graphics, and the future development trend should be the same, after all, it is convenient and easy to modify.

So the drawing software is needed to master, I do not know your situation in this regard, briefly.

Drawing board, WACOM has been the mainstream. Professional is the shadow of the top series, but I personally think that beginners do not need to be so extravagant. Now a few hundred dollars of the kind of shadow top a few years ago with a pressure sensation

Software, national tendency, at present should be PhotoShop is the main (personal is always ps), painter should also be able to, but the specific situation is not clear

Personally, at present, to see the national tutorials are ps brush is also ps

If There is no basis for this, then you need to have a basic grasp of the functions and use of the software, the Internet to find basic tutorials or go to the bookstore to buy basic textbooks can be.

And the national style of ps painting tutorials I know not much, you can try to search in the major video sites.

In addition, the style to the obvious illustration, brush is more important.

To put it plainly, the ink color and ink halo, as well as the kind of brush strokes, as long as the right amount of some, you can put forward a bit of "national style" feeling. So a good ink brush can save a lot of effort.

Recommended a set of national style PS brush "Ling Hua ink brush", but also a few days ago I just found something. The full version is not under, can only buy, but it should be said that really worth it. However, since it is a beginner, the free version can be used, 25 yuan of the lite version can also be considered.

Finally, I strongly recommend, want to go the way of the national style, the real national painting is the root.

Recommended a few personal favorite masters of Chinese painting~~

Figure painting:

Fan Zeng (writing, worthy of worship!)

Yang Shutao (very typical of the work of the ladies)

Peng Lianxi (another classic of the work of the characters)

Liang Qide (there are a considerable number of white figure painting spectrum, it is worthwhile to refer to)

Shanshui paintings:

Shanshui paintings of a lot of people, but landscape paintings pay more attention to the overall mood and layout of the illustration can be expressed in not many. So only recommend a personal feel very worthy of reference to the master - Zeng Gang. Very fine brushwork landscape, even if it is localized, but also very can learn from.

Flower and bird painting:

Flower and bird, especially flowers, should be said to be the most commonly used to match a kind of

Because of the classic style of painting a lot of good people, it is not difficult to find, so I recommend these two masters:

Zou Chuanan (personal most appreciated work of art flowers and birds)

Zhou Zhongyao (work of art flowers and birds, works a lot of works, bookstores also have a variety of albums). Bookstores also have a variety of albums)

This recommendation is with a strong personal tendency, these two work of birds and flowers, the style can basically be said to have been removed from the classic work of birds and flowers, may not be applicable to a large number of those who appear in the current national style of illustration, but I believe that their work is very worthwhile to learn from the things.

And if you simply want to accumulate material in this area, you can consider looking for some white drawings for reference.

Chinese painting professional things, online can find in fact not much, really interested in the national style, you can often go to the bookstore area to see the real national painting, those are the real roots of things.