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.
Ps hand-drawn illustration tutorial steps details:
The purpose of PS hand-drawn illustration is to draw a blessing bag of Spring Festival atmosphere. The core knowledge points are the shaping of volume and the control of the overall atmosphere. The tool used is the combination of ps(cc20 14) and tablet.
Open the software PS, Ctrl+N to create a new canvas, and then create a new layer. First, draw the sketch lines of the picture with the brush tool.
Then create a new layer, use the Elliptic Selection Tool to hold down the Shift key to draw a circular selection, adjust the color to yellow, Alt+Delete fill the selection with color, Ctrl+J copy three layers, and adjust the position of the circle.
Then Ctrl+J copies a yellow circle, adjusts the color to red, fills it with the paint bucket tool, selects Ctrl+T to shrink the circle, and Ctrl+J copies three layers to adjust the position of the circle. Align them with the alignment tool.
Create a new layer as the cutting layer of the red circle layer group, use the brush tool to deepen the lower color, and then copy a group of yellow circles. Ctrl+E merges the layers, and Ctrl+U adjusts the hue saturation to deepen the color and move it down.
Copy the red circle in the same way. Ctrl+E to merge layers, Ctrl+U to adjust hue saturation, the color darkens, move up a little, and select layer Ctrl+G to merge layers.
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Continue to create a new layer, draw a circular selection with the ellipse selection tool, fill it with red, select it with Ctrl+T, and right-click to select deformation to adjust the shape of the circle.
Then use the brush tool to adjust the color, draw the shape of the blessing bag mouth, and create a new layer as the cutting layer of the blessing bag layer. Use the brush tool to select a variegated brush, draw the color of the dark part, create a new layer, and use the brush tool to select yellow to draw the shape of the bag mouth rope.
Continue to create new layers, draw the shape of the rope with the brush tool, use the new layer as the cutting layer of the rope layer, select positive superposition as the layer mode, and draw colored bars in the dark with the brush tool.
Create a new layer, draw a circular selection with the Elliptic Selection Tool, fill it with yellow, lock the transparent pixels of the layer, choose a variegated brush with the Brush Tool, draw a texture on it, and then Ctrl+J copies two layers of circles to adjust the color of the circle.
Create a new layer, draw a square with the brush tool, lock the transparent pixels of the layer, draw gradient colors with the brush tool, then create a cut layer and draw a red rectangle inside with the brush tool.
How to draw a simple illustration pattern: brush, colored pen, white paper.
1. Draw an arc and an arc hook on the paper first.
2. Then the arc continues to draw an arc and an arc hook on the other side.
3. Connect the two arcs together. The big body of the rabbit has come out.
Draw two short ears on the rabbit's head, which is even cuter.
5. Then draw the rabbit's eyes and the other hand.
6. Finally, add a bow tie as decoration. Fill the bow tie with your favorite color, and then draw a few dots in pink under your eyes as blush. The whole simple hand-painted small pattern is completed.