It's popular to draw on the computer with a drawing board now! Photoshop, PT, are both good computer illustration and drawing software (drawing on the computer is more economical, personal view). The drawing number is board, and the general price is within 1000.
In fact, I think illustration has three stages: 1. This is a simple realistic painting (game characters, animation).
2. Freehand brushwork (for example, like Jimmy, observing life and seeing illustrations that can give people a buzz)
3. The third is the neutralization of the first two (a realistic illustration art that can give people a buzz).
According to your situation, you can learn to draw illustrations in the same style as Jimmy first, and then draw some realistic ones!
I hope my humble opinion can help you! Self-creation: Maybe you don't pay enough attention to life. Read more philosophical books, look at things around you from different angles and modes of thinking, and raise your illustration to a spiritual height. It is suggested to see how some modern (oil painting) abstract painters use painting language to express spiritual meaning. (Dali ~ Picasso, my favorite)
2. The line is not smooth: the problem of the line is mainly practice, which can be solved through long-term practice. Don't worry. There is such a process in learning painting. )
3. Color matching: it is the problem of adjacent colors and complementary colors. You may understand that if doing a color circle exercise is 80% to 90%-simply give an example of red+blue = purple, then you can get that purple is the adjacent color of red and blue, and the three primary colors in the color are red, yellow and blue, and red+blue = purple, so yellow and purple are complementary colors. In fact, these are the principles of physical optics. Understand these in order to better grasp the color relationship, so that you can. It's better to see more and feel more. It should be very helpful for you to draw illustrations by looking at the colors used by classical painters and the proportion of colors in the pictures. After all, painting is an illustration handed down from generation to generation, and it is also the development of painting.
Oil painting skills: Oil painting and gouache painting are similar in painting methods. If you have gouache foundation, you should be able to get started quickly, but oil painting is definitely not as fast as gouache, so you should use some tips when covering it: you can dry it before applying it (not completely dry, as long as it does not affect the color cover), that is, apply it layer by layer, make the base first, use quick-drying oil when making the base, and then reduce the amount of quick-drying oil layer by layer. If you find it necessary to modify the color stack, scrape it off with a scraper. Watercolor skills: Watercolor pays attention to neatness.
When painting, it should be molded at one time, clean and tidy. Paint the color a little lighter. Free and easy can show people's temperament,
Exquisiteness can express people's taste and painting skills.
Palette, brush, brush Personally, I feel that the hair of the pen is a little harder to use, such as howling, and it is best not to buy hard nylon.
It is a coincidence that how to learn the color (collocation) of illustrations systematically. We have painted colorful compositions around this semester. It can be said that it is deeply experienced!
First of all, color structure theory has a guiding role in design and illustration. For example, while studying the basic theory of color, the purpose of color structure practice is to exercise a color matching ability and a deep understanding of color from perceptual to rational. Taking the knowledge of color scale as an example, we can know the 1 1 color scale of a color through the color structure. The colors arranged from top to bottom are getting darker and darker, and the numbers are getting smaller and smaller. This knowledge will indirectly or directly guide you how to match colors and how to match colors. Another example is the training of color perception in color structure, which has very important guiding significance for illustration and various paintings in art!
How to solve the problem of color matching in illustration design? The purpose of illustrations is to convey some information. In the process of creation, in addition to clearly expressing the information conveyed, emotions should also be generated in this process. Emotion plays a positive role in the transmission of illustrations, making it easier for users to accept and accept the information conveyed by illustrations. Because the emotion of illustration is the most touching, the trigger of emotion can cause imagination and association, and then lead to emotional creativity. For example, in illustration design, the study of emotion and ability plays a key role, which closely links emotion and ability and establishes the relationship between them; In the process of creating emotional cognition, emotion plays an extremely important role in the emotion expressed by people. .. the relationship between people and products is the direct emotion to people and products.