1, material collection
After the theme is clear, it is best to find some materials related to the theme and draw inspiration from various materials. There are two ways to get the material: one is to go to various websites to collect some illustrations or posters of your favorite style in your spare time. The other is to go to various design websites to find high-quality works related to the theme.
Step 2 sketch
Sketching is equivalent to expressing creativity in the form of painting. You can record your instant inspiration by sketching, especially when you are doing commercial illustration. You can show your customers what the illustration originally wanted to convey in an accurate sketching form, and then you can deal with the details in the next step to avoid repeated rework.
3. Software modeling
You need to use software to further deepen the sketch, and use the software according to your own habits. The software you need is basically PS, SAI, AI, etc. Every software has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is better to use PS to deal with speckles and textures, SAI to deal with lines, and AI to draw geometric figures.
Step 4 set the tone
In other words, to determine the overall tone, different illustrators must have different colors for the same picture. When matching colors, we must abide by the rules of color matching, and the composition of colors, the use of cold and warm colors, and the use of complementary colors need to be taken into account. When matching colors, you can refer to the matching pictures.
5, miscellaneous point processing
Use spots or various brushes to make the sense of volume, light and shadow and texture of objects. Speckle used in the visual center can be multi-layered with strong contrast. The weaker the contrast is, the less layers there are, so the picture can be divided into virtual and real, and there are layers.
6, color correction
The illustration is exported to a large picture format, and then the color correction is carried out with the picture processing software PS, mainly to adjust the brightness and contrast.
How to learn hand-drawn illustration 0 1 The learning process of hand-drawn illustration is from shallow to deep. First of all, you should determine a specific theme and creative direction, and then try an abstract theme after you are proficient. The choice of composition will affect the presentation of the theme, so the composition should be matched with the theme and convey the content. Observe the angle of the picture through perspective principle, followed by the relationship between negative space and the bottom of the picture, the relationship between visual guidance and dynamic potential, point, line and plane. Finally, control the color matching ratio, and the quality is greater than the quantity during training.
Illustration is commonly known as illustration in China. Nowadays, popular commercial illustrations in foreign markets include publications, cartoon mascots, 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 course of hand-drawn illustration mainly includes the steps of material collection, sketch drawing, clear line drawing, color tone determination, software modeling and so on. Illustration is a visual communication art, and hand-drawn illustrations need to have high hand-drawn ability, and at the same time can perfectly express the content and creativity of illustrations.
Material collection
Choose materials related to the theme in various ways. There are two ways to get the material: one is to go to various websites to collect some illustrations or posters of your favorite style in your spare time. The other is to go to various design websites to find high-quality works related to the theme.
sketch
Sketching is equivalent to expressing creativity in the form of painting. You can record your instant inspiration through sketches, especially when you are doing commercial illustrations. You can show what the illustration originally wanted to convey to customers in the form of accurate sketches, and then go to the next details, thus avoiding repeated rework.
Transparent line draft
Don't be afraid of making mistakes when drawing a line, it will be revised repeatedly when drawing. Attention should be paid to the perspective, color and internal structure of the object when describing it. When drawing perspective, we should understand the essence of perspective, such as horizon, apparent horizon, one-point perspective, two-point perspective, three-point perspective and so on. Internal structure includes the mastery of lines, structure, dynamics and picture expression. Good lines can improve the visual effect of illustrations, and different lines show different effects. It is also necessary to clarify the structural characteristics of different objects.
set the tone/keynote
Determining hue means defining hue, which requires mastering the basic composition of color and color psychology. Different colors bring different visual feelings to people, and good color matching can stimulate people to sing and produce special emotional reactions.
Software modeling
You need to use the software according to your own habits. The software you need is basically PS, SAI, AI, etc. Every software has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is better to use PS to deal with speckles and textures, SAI to deal with lines, and AI to draw geometric figures.
How to learn to draw illustrations from scratch? If you know what illustration is and what tools you can use it, you can practice directly with pictures. After taking the first step, the next operation will be much easier.
This is a picture I drew when I first studied illustration. It belongs to flat style and is easy to use among many illustration styles. Next, I will take this picture as an example to tell you how a complete illustration is made.
This illustration is actually made up of several small objects.
Because of space reasons, here I will take the simplest mobile phone as an example to show the whole painting process.
The first step is to open the digital drawing software AI and create a new canvas. Students who don't have a software foundation should first go online to find free courses to familiarize themselves with software, such as Netease Cloud Classroom and Youyou.com, which all have complete introductory tutorials.
After creating a new canvas, a window will pop up. You will see several commonly used canvas sizes. You can select one of them or create a new size in the list on the right. If it is a new size, it is best to change the name of the canvas first, then adjust the width and height of the canvas, and then adjust it vertically or horizontally. The color mode is generally RGB mode, so don't change it casually.
After creating the canvas, drag the picture on the desktop into the created canvas window.
The first step after dragging in is to adjust the brush. There is a brush tool at the bottom of the menu bar. Click the drop-down box with the word "basic". There is a list box on the right side of the drop-down box. Click to create a new brush. Click.
A new calligraphy brush appears, and then click OK.
The Calligraphy Brush option appears. Now we just need to change the size and change the brush size to 3pt.
Next, change the stroke color, because the mobile phone is composed of color block filling and strokes, and the strokes are unified, so change the strokes first.
Press the shortcut key m to pull out the shape of the mobile phone.
Press the shortcut keys Ctrl+C and Ctrl+F, and paste a rectangle in place to make a mobile phone screen.
Continue to paste in place to make the top layer of the mobile phone screen.
Locate the rectangle tool in the toolbar, and then click the rounded rectangle tool.
Use the mouse to pull out the rounded rectangle and fill it with blue color. You can also directly use the color absorption tool I to absorb the color of the reference object next to it.
Similarly, click Change Tool to Polygon Tool on the rectangular toolbar.
Click in the blank space to pop up a window and adjust the number of sides to 3.
Click OK, and a triangle will pop up immediately.
Adjust the size of the triangle, and put the triangle at the lower right of the rounded rectangle to make a dialog style.
Select rounded rectangles and triangles with the selection tool V, and find the path finder in the window of the menu bar.
The figure behind the path finder completes the dialog box.
Then ctrl+C, ctrl+V, copy three dialog boxes, rotate one of them, and lengthen the dialog box.
According to the previous method, copy the shape of a mobile phone and fill it with gray as the shadow of the mobile phone to give it a three-dimensional effect.
Press the shortcut key L, and then press alt+shift. Don't let go of your left hand. Press the left mouse button with your right hand to pull out a perfect circle, which is the home button of your mobile phone.
The size of the mobile phone came out. If you want to be more detailed, you can add shadows and other details of the phone.
Other small objects are similar. Many simple and interesting flat objects can be drawn by using shortcut keys, strokes and padding.
Therefore, illustration is not as difficult as imagined.