Differences between Children's Painting, Gouache, Comics and Traditional Chinese Painting

Children's painting, gouache, comics and Chinese painting are all common forms of painting, and there are some differences between them.

1. Children's painting: Children's painting is a non-academic painting genre, which is characterized by its modeling not always in accordance with the actual proportion of objects, and also has its own characteristics in modeling, color composition and other forms of expression.

2. Gouache painting: Gouache painting is a form of painting in which water is mixed with pigments. It changes greatly under dry and wet conditions, between opaque and translucent. Its coverage ability is very strong, and it can be described in great detail. Both the richness of oil painting and the beauty of watercolor painting.

3. Cartoon painting: Cartoon painting is a popular form of painting, which usually expresses people or things in a concise, exaggerated and humorous form with distinctive personality.

4. Traditional Chinese painting: Traditional Chinese painting is a kind of traditional painting in China, which was created by using China's unique pen and ink and pigments in accordance with long-term expression forms and artistic laws. Chinese painting can be subdivided into ink painting, heavy color, light crimson, meticulous painting, freehand brushwork, line drawing and so on. According to the subject matter, there are figure paintings, landscape paintings, flower-and-bird paintings and so on.

Generally speaking, these painting forms are different in expression, theme and style, and each has its own characteristics.