How to use AI to make illustrations
AI drawing illustrations is still very interesting, but the topic is relatively broad, and I don’t know what style the students want? Lines, colors, etc. Gradual, coquettish and slutty~~ So I’ll post the one I made before.
As for this kind of fresh illustration, I am too lazy to use my brain, so I will copy one: you will understand after reading it!
1. Draw the lawn in AI - foreground
p>Just use the pen tool!
2. Draw land
3. Draw trees. There are irregular shapes here, so just follow your own ideas< /p>
4. Middle ground trees and stones
5. Draw a bridge. Here you can draw a rectangle first and then cut it with a semicircle
6. Train, draw a rectangle. Use the direct selection tool to adjust the anchor point above, click the anchor point, and drag the origin point to convert it into a rounded rectangle.
7. Copy the rounded rectangle and it will be ok, then draw a semicircle and place it above the black bridge< /p>
8. In the path finder, select Minus Top Level
9. Repeat this step
The bridge and truck will appear
10. Draw a rectangle for the truck
11. Use the pen tool to draw the mountains in the distance
12. After the basic shape is drawn, we fill it with color
Give the background color a gradient
13. Fill the foreground and middle ground colors respectively
14. Now we still draw the shape of the details first
Start with the mountains
Use the pen tool to draw three different colors;
15. Then draw the shadows and highlights of the middle ground
And copy the train layer. Fill with a light color, and place the lower part of the original layer as the highlight on the edge of the train
16. Background stars and halo
Use a hexagon for the halo and adjust its transparency.
There are many ways to make stars, including prisms, octagons, and pentagrams
The gradient line in ai can be made in the line segment window Selection
17. Add light perception
Use the circle tool to draw a circle
Select Gaussian Blur in the effect
18. Grass Also add an ellipse to the top, also give a Gaussian blur effect, and adjust the transparency to coordinate
Finished!!!
AI illustrations are nothing more than these tools, the most important thing is the color of the picture. Graphic proportions and coordination
The richness of the pictures is different, but the basic principles are the same! How to learn illustrations with zero foundation
There are several steps to learn illustrations with zero foundation: The first step is every day The first step is sketching, the second step is fantasy sketching, and the third step is color practice
The first step is to sketch every day
If you want to quickly improve your painting skills, it is best not to do it every day Less than 5 pictures. You can start with copying at first. After copying a few books, you can start drawing entities. The time should be controlled within 5 minutes, and the time should be shorter as you go. Finally, when you can control the shape, you should start practicing dynamic sketching.
(For example, if you look at the people around you at the train station to draw, they will not stop for you. You have to remember the movements with your eyes, and then implement them on the brush.) Practice this repeatedly After a while, you will find that no matter what kind of action you think of, you can draw it even if there is no real person performing the action in front of you.
The second step of fantasy sketching
Of course, you still cannot put down sketching in the second step of practice, but at this time the direction of the sketch needs to be changed, that is, stop drawing real people and real scenes, and start Make fantasy sketches and draw in the style you like. Identify your style, such as comic style, Q version style, realistic style, etc., and start targeted sketching training. At the very beginning, you can choose to copy.
The third step is color practice
First of all, you must choose a good tutorial and learn according to the software you are good at. Prioritize learning the software, and then follow other people’s coloring steps. Remember what you have done in the early stage It is unlikely that you will learn the specific methods of coloring, but the steps can be used completely (for example, first draw a rough sketch, then outline, then lay out the base color, then add dark colors and highlights, etc.)
After getting familiar with the painting steps, close the books and tutorials first. Let’s draw a color draft based on our current level XDDD. You will find that OMG's own painting is very bad. Now open the tutorial, carefully look at other people's specific coloring methods, and compare the retouching. The final image will still be crappy, but it is somewhat improved compared to the previous one.
In the future, I suggest that you copy the color illustrations. How far can you copy them? The movements, backgrounds, and colors are all the same, but the shapes are not the same. The faces, hairstyles, and clothes are all different. are different. (This can avoid the risk of losing your style due to long-term copying. Of course, if you haven’t found your own style yet, you can copy it completely).
Then in the coloring stage, you must use a straw to absorb the color of the original image (including the highlights and shadows, every inch of the different colors must be absorbed from the original image). Then recall the coloring steps and specific methods you learned before, and restore the painting as much as possible with reference to the original drawing.
After practicing this for a while, you will find that your coloring level improves by leaps and bounds. The 15-year-old nurse recommends books about steam trains
The recommended books about steam trains are as follows:
1. "Steam Locomotive" is a book published by Beijing United Publishing Company in 2017. The author is [Belgium] Fon?ois Skidon.
"Steam Locomotive" is a comic written by the talented Belgian artist Fon?ois Skidon recalling the beauty of machinery in the steam age. Through this graphic novel, he expressed his praise for the talents of the designers of the time and his admiration for the hard-working railroad workers. The story tells the story of steam locomotives and railway workers who once pushed history forward, but were gradually left behind with the development of history; a railway knight, faced with a world destined to be lost tomorrow, chose to be alone and resolutely embark on a journey of no return. way.
2. "The Story of Steam Train" is a book published by China Railway Publishing House. The author is Chen Xi.
In China, even the generation born in the 1980s saw real steam trains on the railway during their childhood, or heard distant railway broadcasts in the dead of night. The long whistle came. Nowadays, the big guy who was once majestic and puffed out smoke is becoming more and more blurred in our memory. I hope this picture can revive some memories that have been lost or are disappearing. Western picture books about the history of trains have always occupied the bedside of Chinese children. Now, for the first time, we tell stories about steam trains to Chinese children in the form of picture books from our Chinese perspective.
3. "Where to sleep on the steam train at night?"
It's dark and it's time to go to bed. After a whole day of clanging and banging, the steam train is about to go to sleep. Do you know where they sleep? Do train babies also have snacks before going to bed? And snowplow trains, passenger trains, monorails, fire trains, streetcars, underground trains? You know what they do before going to bed? What? Do they also need to take a bath while sleeping? Are they still playing when they should go to bed? Does the train mother have to tell a bedtime story before the baby will fall asleep?
4. "Train" "Train Fans: 160 Years of the Train Family"
"Train Fans: 160 Years of the Train Family" is a book that reveals the history of trains. From steam trains in the 1830s to diesel electric trains in the 1990s, it displays the forms of trains in various eras and the stories related to trains of the times.
5. "The Train is Starting"
This book comes from Switzerland. After being approved by the Swiss Federal Railways, the professionalism is beyond doubt. The author Conrad Beck is a Swiss painter who has held many art exhibitions. There are many Easter eggs hidden in the language and images of this book.
6. "Locomotive"
"Locomotive" is a Caldecott Gold Medal certified work. The protagonist takes a train across the United States, telling the history of American railroads and the human geography related to trains.
7. "China High-Speed ??Rail"
The author Zhao Moran graduated from the Visual Communication Department of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. This book won the China Newcomer Award at the Global Illustration Award as soon as it was released. The painting style is delicate and beautiful. In addition, a detailed and in-depth investigation was conducted before writing, from the industrial technology involved in high-speed rail to the reproduction of the actual scene of riding the high-speed rail, everything was done to the extreme.