Many people ask me what illustrations are. How to learn? Does it work? Starting today, I will share my understanding of illustration and my experience on how to teach illustration by myself without foundation for non-art majors.
First, the definition of illustrations
The first two pictures.
You should be familiar with these two pictures, illustrations in primary school Chinese textbooks. In fact, this is illustration, commonly known as illustration.
Illustration is to emphasize and publicize the meaning of the article or create a visual effect, and then visualize the text content.
Second, the types of illustrations
Classification by application
1. Poster publicity belongs to outdoor advertising, which is mainly distributed in a series of public places such as urban streets, commercial areas, parks and stations.
Public welfare category
film
2. Illustration of product packaging
3. Children's picture book field
4. Comedian
5. Publications, WeChat official account headlines, Weibo articles.
6.CG animation
All of the above can be classified as commercial illustrations. One more thing, commercial illustration is just one of many art forms, which is short-term and efficient, and is essentially different from professional painting, which is why even zero foundation can quickly enter the world of illustration.
According to tool classification
1. Colored lead
2. Watercolor painting
3. Oil painting
4. Needle pen
5. Digital illustration, which I want to focus on, because most illustrations are made of digital illustrations, that is, software. For example, PS, AI, SAI these mainstream design software. These two paintings are made of AI.
Let's call it a day. The next article will share the tools and resources related to drawing illustrations, and how to become a commercial illustrator with zero foundation. Welcome attention.
What do you need to learn to be an illustrator? Illustrators need to learn the following:
1, simple art foundation.
Sketch is a visual art expressed on two-dimensional materials by using painting tools. Tools used include graphite, pencils, crayons, ink, charcoal, chalk, markers, erasers, etc. , and electronic drawing. The most common carrier of sketch is paper, and other materials such as cardboard, plastic, leather, wood and canvas can be used.
Sketch foundation is the stepping stone and cornerstone of all fine arts painting. A good sketch foundation can be used for smooth painting, creation and expression.
Basic four sketches: black, white, gray, hierarchy, sense of volume and sense of space. Copying is a shortcut, but copying can not be described blindly, but should be interpreted and described in combination with knowledge structure.
Color and knowledge structure are more systematic and abstract than sketch. Many times you think you see color A, but it is actually B. Color should be accurate and knowledge should be experienced; Colors should be gorgeous, fashionable and talented. Too many people draw black and white line drawings, which are passable, but they are easy to color and will soon become ugly. There are also some people who can make a rough line draft look good by coloring.
Sketch, as its name implies, is a method of sketching. Sketch is China's original vocabulary, which belongs to a kind of sketch. Sketch, like sketch, is not only the foundation of plastic arts, but also an independent art form. This independent form was established after Europe18th century. Prior to this, sketch was only the preparation stage and recording means of artists' creation.
2, the software foundation
To be an illustrator, you need to master at least one software: PHOTOSHOP painter; Sai; Widely used, coreldraw and illustrater focus on graphic design and also need some illustrations. There are many drawing software, not limited to this, PHOTOSHOP is the most widely used.
Of course, to be an illustrator, software is just a tool, and basic skills are very important. Sketch basis, human body structure, composition, perspective, color, etc. Everyone needs to master it, and sometimes it will involve some animation professional fields, such as split mirror.
How do beginners start to learn illustration? Beginners learn illustrations by copying.
Copying refers to the process of copying calligraphy and painting works according to the original works. Pro is written or drawn according to the original work; Imitation is to write or draw on the original with thin paper (silk). Copying in a broad sense is not necessarily calligraphy and painting, but also tablet, sticker and so on. Pro and copy have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Especially in calligraphy, the ancients said: "Linshu is easy to lose the position of the ancients, but more ancient brushwork;" Copying books is easy to get the position of the ancients, but it loses the meaning of the ancients. " It means that the strokes of the face are easy to learn, but the shelf structure is not easy to learn; It is easy to learn shelf structure, but not easy to learn strokes. In terms of difficulty, copying is easy and difficult.
explain
Illustration is commonly known as illustration in China. Nowadays, the popular commercial illustrations in foreign markets include publications with pictures, cartoon mascots, movie posters, game characters and artistic scene design built into games, advertisements, cartoons, picture books, greeting cards, calendars, decorative paintings, packaging and other forms. Virtual objects and related visual applications that extend to the current network and mobile phone platforms.
The development of illustration art has a long history. From the world's oldest illustration cave mural to the Japanese folk print ukiyo-e painting in the Edo period, all of them show the development of illustration. Noodles were first developed with the changes of newspapers and books at the beginning of19th century. Its real golden age first began in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
At that time, the illustrations just separated from art works were obviously drawn, and most of the authors engaged in illustrations were professional painters. Later, influenced by the school of abstract expressionism, they turned from concrete to abstract. It was not until the 1970s that illustrations returned to the realistic style.