Chinese style marker pen repetition
Mark pen can also draw beautiful ancient style
Tangguo painting
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2021-2-309:39
I came into contact with markers at the beginning of last year, and it was also the first time I drew with markers. In the past, I always thought that markers were specially designed for drawing anime two-dimensional drawings, the kind of cartoon characters with big eyes. I don't really like that kind of painting. At first I just wanted to use the marker as an auxiliary drawing material. One day I saw an illustration and wanted to draw it. When I saw the marker pen in front of me, I used the marker pen to color it. I didn’t have high expectations. I just tried the effect. As a result, the skin in the first picture was painted. The color failed, there are many strokes, one is darker and the other is lighter. But I found that the effect of marker pens is quite different. It is different from watercolors and colored pencils. The picture is clean and fresh, and the mixed colors are clean and very translucent. I instantly fell in love with the effect of this picture, so I took the time to start the draft and drew another one. I also paid attention to the skin color. After all, I had a little experience the second time. After I finished the drawing, two words came out: Super beautiful. Moreover, markers paint quickly, and the same work is usually much more efficient. Wow, isn't this awesome? Later, I drew some ancient-style works with marker pens, some of which were my own creations and some were copied. I searched for some information on the Internet and found that almost no one uses markers to draw ancient style illustrations. I can only learn slowly by myself. Here I will show you some of my ancient style illustrations with markers.
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2023 Year of the Rabbit themed paintings A post-90s girl painted 160 paintings with the theme of the Book of Songs. What is your biggest feeling from her works?
The biggest feeling that her works give me is that Chinese culture has a long history and is worthy of our repeated study to help our young people understand Chinese culture.
There is an illustrator born in the 1990s from Beijing who wrote "Guan Guan Jiu Jiu, in the Island of the River. A graceful lady, a gentleman likes to fight." This is the well-known "Book of Songs" The poems in it are drawn out, which is very powerful. Her real name is Wang Xiaoyi. She was born in 1992 and graduated from the School of Art and Design of Beijing University of Technology. She has new works. In addition to "Guan Ju", she has painted 160 paintings with the theme of "The Book of Songs: Guofeng" in the past two years.
Wang Xiaoyi combines classical Chinese landscapes with various traditional utensils to create a unique illustration style - "Boshan Pictures". She said, "The Book of Songs is a bridge between us and the ancients. I hope that my works can convey the beauty of Chinese classical culture." She has a very big imagination, and during the epidemic, she had a lot of time to settle down her understanding of Chinese culture and use her own understanding. Isn’t it very imaginative and interesting to interpret the Book of Songs in this way?
In life, Wang Xiaoyi likes animals and plants, and loves to go out and get close to nature. In her opinion, every tree or stone in life can provide her with inspiration. She has a series of paintings in which cats and other small animals she encounters in daily life are painted into the appearance of ancient-style villains, either playful and cute, or gentle and generous, full of whimsical ideas. For Wang Xiaoyi, the "Illustrated Book of Poetry" series is just a summary of a stage. Her biggest wish is to be able to continue painting as she pleases and to continuously improve her painting skills. "There is a big difference between board painting and hand painting. Hand painting requires more solid basic skills and Skills. I am practicing and studying hard, hoping that one day I can accurately express the picture I want to express on the drawing paper."
Finally, I hope that young people will use traditional culture. Pass it on. I also hope everyone can learn from him. How to become an illustrator?
First of all, you must have professional abilities. This actually just requires you to study hard and practice hard. If your skills are in place, people will naturally come to you to make an appointment. When learning illustration, it is inevitable to come into contact with board drawing. If you have some basics, you can actually get started quickly.
It is recommended to use Photoshop software to learn board drawing. Just read more tutorials and practice more. Here are some ways to use Photoshop to draw Chinese style illustrations.
1. Photoshop software
Photoshop is a graphics and image processing software launched by Adobe. It has powerful functions and is widely used in printing, advertising design, cover production, web page image production, and photo editing. and other fields. Photoshop can be used to perform various plane processing on images, such as drawing simple geometric figures, coloring black and white images, converting image formats and color modes, etc.
What we mainly use is its drawing function.
Photoshop’s work interface
2. Digital tablet
Another essential “magic weapon” for CG drawing is the digital tablet. Good software requires good hardware support. As a hardware input tool, the digital tablet, combined with drawing software such as Photoshop and Painter, can create works of various styles: oil paintings, watercolors, and sketches, so you must choose a good digital tablet. Most people choose WACOM’s Intuos series of tablets.
WACOM tablet
WACOM tablet
The pressure sensitivity level is an important parameter when choosing a tablet. It refers to the weight of the pen when drawing with the tablet. Sensitivity.
There are three levels of pressure sensitivity, namely 512 (entry), 1024 (advanced) and 2048 (expert). Simply put, the higher the pressure sensitivity level, the more precise it can be sensed.
As shown in the picture on the right, there are two stroke effects with pressure and without pressure. Depending on the pressure sensitivity, the lines can show various ups and downs accordingly, increasing the flexibility of the lines. The strokes without pressure sensitivity are rougher, the pressure is always the same, and the lines appear more rigid.
With pressure feeling
No pressure feeling
3. Photoshop toolbox and control panel
The Photoshop toolbox contains more than 40 To select a tool, click the icon or press the key combination that selects the tool.
Not all tools are displayed in the toolbox. As long as you observe carefully, you will find that there is a small triangle symbol in the lower right corner of some tool icons, which means that there are other related tools in the tool. tool.
Move the mouse pointer over the tool icon with a triangle, right-click to open the hidden tool, and then select the required tool.
Photoshop’s control panel can complete various image processing operations and tool parameter settings, including navigator, information, color, swatches, layers, channels, paths, history, actions, and tool presets , styles, characters, paragraph styles, etc.
Toolbox
Control Panel
4. Other commonly used panels and tools
Because Photoshop has too many functions, we will not go into details here. Listed above, I will introduce a few functions commonly used in daily painting.
Navigator
It is used to display thumbnails of images. By scaling the display ratio, the display content of the image can be quickly moved to intuitively display the overall effect of the screen.
Swatches
Its function is similar to the color control panel. When you usually paint, you can also pre-place your favorite colors here for easy access.
Layers
Used to control layer operations. Layers are the most frequently operated panel in PS. Creating multiple layers helps to partition the picture, making it easier to change and adjust the picture effects.
ToolPresets
Used to set the default parameters of various tools such as brushes and text. Here, we usually store our commonly used brushes and erasers.
Brush
It is used to set and adjust different parameters of the brush. It can make brushes of various styles, such as brushes used to draw ink effects and oil painting effects. .
Layer properties and styles
The control of color mixing mode is a more prominent feature in Photoshop, which can achieve some unexpected effects by mixing various colors. , complete some difficult operations.
Find the blending mode on the layer's toolbar, and then we take a small daisy to debug the effect.
Normal mode
Multiply mode
Spot light mode
Overlay mode
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High light mode
The general steps for drawing in PS are as follows.
Composition
Line draft
Apply large colors
Complete details
5. Picture saving format< /p>
PSD and JPEG formats are generally used to save images.
(1)PSD
When saving in PSD format, the file will be compressed to reduce the disk space occupied. However, since the PSD format contains a lot of image data information, such as Layers, channels, clipping paths, guides, etc., so it is much larger than image files in other formats. Since the PSD file retains all the original image data information, it is more convenient to modify, which is also the advantage of the PSD format.
(2)JPEG
JPEG format images are usually used for image previews and some hypertext documents (HTML). The biggest feature of the JPEG format is that the file is relatively small and can be compressed at a high rate. This is the format with the highest compression rate among all formats currently. However, the JPGE format will have some distortion during the compression and saving process.
(3)TIFF (*.TIF)
The TIFF format is also widely used. It can be converted between many image software and platforms and is a flexible bitmap. Image format. The TIFF format supports RGB, CMYK, Lab, Indexed, Color, bitmap mode and grayscale color modes, and also supports the use of Channels, Layers and Paths in the three color modes of RGB, CMYK and Grayscale. .
6. CG Brush Production
As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.