High eyes and low head are not derogatory terms. For painters, only when their appreciation level is improved can they further develop and improve. Narrow-minded and short-sighted people are not suitable for painting.
After reading more, you can know what kind of comics have the most market now, so as to locate your own creative direction.
Read more, you can directly master many comic languages. For example, there are many ways to draw hands in comics. If you design your own hand-drawing from scratch, you will get twice the result with half the effort. On the contrary, we can directly learn from the methods of famous painters, and find our favorite method that suits us among the methods of many painters, which will get twice the result with half the effort. Since our predecessors gave us such a good textbook, why don't we use it ourselves?
Read more, you can better grasp the addresses and publishing styles of major comic magazines in China, and know yourself and yourself. What carrier can you draw for people who don't even know the publishing address of comics or only know that they have read a comic magazine?
Second, start drawing your first cartoon.
You don't want to be just a reader who can only appreciate and evaluate, do you?
Ok, now start drawing your first cartoon. This cartoon doesn't require you to conceive your own story. Copying is also a painting!
Chinese painting, oil painting, didn't these paintings start from copying? Especially in calligraphy, calligraphers can spend decades copying the inscriptions of predecessors.
Copying is learning.
However, note that we imitate to learn skills. Never think that copying famous paintings can be published as your own works, just like learning China's paintings and calligraphy.
Comics, techniques and ideas are equally important. If you copy other people's cartoons and send them out intact, it's plagiarism! Over the years, I have encountered many such things. Some children drew their own pictures based on mine and published them. There are really magazines to publish! However, you will never really become a cartoonist by doing so! On the other hand, if you are used to it, all paintings do it, that is-hooligans!
Find a cartoon that you like very much and start copying it.
After reading a lot of cartoons, we can basically see the level of a painter, so the cartoons we choose will be very good.
We learn from this painter's composition, modeling, lines and colors.
Although he (she) doesn't teach you by hand, we can read the author's thoughts and techniques from the works and use them for me.
Be careful and patient when copying. Try to pursue the same effect as the original.
Copy, I usually take this method.
(1) First, put the manuscript on the left side of your desk, put your paper on the right hand side, draw it bit by bit with a pencil, and then finalize it with a black pen.
(2) Take off the manuscript, copy the manuscript once, and start to draw the second time on your own impression. It is inevitable that many places will be forgotten at this time. When I forget, I will take out the manuscript and observe it carefully, and then continue to draw without looking at the manuscript.
(3) By comparing the manuscript with your own drawings, find your own mistakes and correct them.
(4) redraw the sketch. At this time, the artist's techniques have been basically mastered by me.
Third, find inspiration for comics in life.
Building a car behind closed doors is a dead end.
Some people think comics are funny, as long as others can laugh at my comics, it is successful. Is it? Many vulgar jokes can also make people laugh, but they can never be the subject of comic creation.
Therefore, a successful cartoon should be a humorous or satirical story from one's own life.
However, how can we find the creativity of comics from life?
I'll give you two suggestions. One is to observe carefully. The second is divergent thinking.
Every day, many interesting things may happen around us, which will make people laugh. Well, this is the basic condition of comics, and then, we spread our minds and exaggerate the ridiculous results to the ridiculous. In this way, a cartoon idea will be available!
Draw things around you. Very important.
A child who grew up in the city had to draw his own life of herding cattle. Is it possible? or vice versa, Dallas to the auditorium
The idea of students drawing campus life by themselves is very vivid.
Of course, as a cartoonist, his thinking is developed and he can fly higher with the wings of imagination. This is after you become a skilled cartoonist, because you have mastered the language of cartoons.
Fourth, the network! Use the internet.
(1) Resources on the network.
We can't have all the resource banks. For example, I need to draw a hornbill, but I haven't seen it. What shall we do? Search on the Internet. Baidu is the trophy of many cartoonists ... Bath No.7? /a
(2) Information on the Internet.
Comic information on the Internet is timely and rich.
Successful cartoonists' paintings can be searched out and downloaded to their own computers to watch and learn at any time. Why isn't there such a big comic magazine?
(3) Comics spread on the Internet.
At present, many professional comic websites and large portals in China have animation sections. We can upload our own cartoons and expand our influence. Market economy is eyeball economy. More people pay attention to it, and your cartoons will naturally have an impact.
(4) Publishing cartoons on the Internet.
Now, your cartoons may have been published online. Draft fee? number
Why shouldn't I pay the manuscript fee? Haha, just now, look at Xue Cun. If there were no Internet, would Xue Cun's music have its current influence? Has Xue Cun started asking for the manuscript fee?
There are also measures to prevent online comic piracy.
Or some friends say that we can add watermarks to prevent piracy, but I have seen many magazine editors carefully erase the watermarks of cartoons on the Internet and then use them in their own magazines and newspapers. Ha ha. It's hard to say.
Piracy is a double-edged sword.
There is piracy, which means that your work is still very popular.
I'm not afraid of you stealing, I'm afraid I'll find out, and then I'll ask you for the manuscript fee!
Fifth, contribute!
1, the inspiration of reading comic magazines. Now back to the first step, do you know the use of reading more comics? Each magazine has its own solicitation requirements and its own address, as well as the editor's name and the telephone and email address of the editorial department. It is recommended to contribute by email. Convenient and fast, the key point is-no postage! I was poor at first, hehe.
2. The news that magazine readers participated in the comic contest.
In order to gather popularity, many magazines have some small cartoon competitions, and most of them are aimed at readers, as well as manuscript fees. The most basic thing is a sample magazine. We should pay more attention to this information when we start creating. Even a small painting was published in a national first-class comic magazine!
3. Pay attention to non-professional newspapers and magazines.
Because of the narrow reading range, many friends only stare at several major comic magazines in China and go all out to draw, and they will not give up until they swear.
I didn't say it was wrong. People should have this spirit.
But my opinion is-Guo Jing must never go to Huashan to discuss swords when learning martial arts from the seven eccentrics in the south of the Yangtze River! Going up is also death. Immortals are also vegetarians. Ha ha.
Therefore, at the beginning of creation, you can use a large number of cartoons of life nature for local newspapers, especially newspapers. So it also gave everyone a chance to publish. Think about my verdict.
Sixth, has it been published?
After learning so much, I have mastered the basic knowledge of comics. Has it been published since submission?
Don't worry, the time from the beginning to the publication of my first cartoon is six months. I have been wandering in hope and disappointment for half a year, but don't give up! Disappointed, there is still hope. After giving up, you will get nothing. Failure is not pressure, but motivation.
After receiving the rejection, don't feel sorry for yourself, turn sadness into motivation. Think about why your cartoons have not been adopted, and compare them with the cartoons in this newspaper and magazine to find out the gap.
Others can do it, why can't I? I'm a human being, so am I not as good as them?
Encourage yourself, motivate yourself and believe in yourself.
Success, maybe tomorrow.
Another: talk about adapting jokes.
Many beginners don't master the comic language and can't make up stories, so they start to illustrate jokes and then submit them as their own comics.
It is effective in a short time, but the original spirit of comics is exquisite.
You can imagine what it's like to eat leftovers chewed by others.
Don't quench your thirst by drinking poison.
When adapting jokes becomes your habit, you have no motivation to create.
Remember.
Talk about adapting famous works.
Renaming is a shortcut, but it is not the original spirit.
In addition, when can the adaptation of famous works be adapted? Just those books, those paintings that turn over and over, readers should not be bored, but authors should be bored.
Talk about the tools of comics.
The tools of comics can't be simpler.
A stack of A4 copy paper, a gel pen, a HB pencil and an eraser worth 2 yuan. This is all I have to draw comic books.
Of course, other cartoonists are not necessarily like this, which varies from person to person.
Tools are necessary, but not essential.
Everyone can have tools, the difference is the hand holding the pen and the top brain.
Hands, be skilled. Keep your head clear.
Don't be superstitious about tools