Where should self-study painting begin?

First of all, make clear one of your own directions and needs. There are many kinds of paintings. If it's purely for interest, not for exams, there must be one you particularly like. Such as animation, portraits, landscapes, etc. , can also be divided according to the painting materials, such as oil painting, Chinese painting, sketch, colored lead, gouache, watercolor and so on. Beginners suggest starting with simple pencils and colored lead. Whether it is animation, characters or even scenery, these two are relatively easy and can be modified with rubber to better understand the accuracy of the body.

Secondly, explore your favorite style and learn to imitate. If you want to learn to draw, something must have touched you. Maybe it's an interesting painting, maybe it's a beautiful poster, maybe it's a handwritten newspaper compiled by a child at home, maybe it's the moment when you want him to freeze when you see the beautiful scenery. Then the easiest way for beginners to make progress is to choose a painting that they like to imitate. See more and draw more, which is what we often call "feeling".

Artist: Dong Xiaoru

Artist: Ghost Fish

With style and accurate modeling, it is equivalent to the approximate skeleton of a character. Now you can design the character's "meat". Colors and strokes are ways to make the picture fuller. The color mentioned here is not only color, but also the relationship between black, white and gray in sketch. Therefore, the relationship between light and shade is also very important when you want the picture to develop from a plane to a thick and three-dimensional direction.

Finally, I kept practicing, from drawing one object to drawing multiple objects, from small to large, from watching pictures to imitating pictures, to objects, and then to the back. Contact with various styles as much as possible and integrate into your own thoughts. As long as we can persist, we will certainly make progress.