Illustration and Process of Small and Fresh People —— How do ordinary people learn illustration from scratch?

How to draw photos into illustrations? This picture is about my relatives and friends. She is a super beautiful girl and a great photographer. The final picture is as follows:

Let's share a tutorial on painting relatives and friends!

First of all, to draw an image, a character must have her own characteristics. The eyes of relatives and friends are round and big, and they are all lovely girls' faces. Of course, generally speaking, you can also draw cartoon faces, and use clothes and hairstyles to reflect the characteristics of relatives and friends. The easiest way is to ask friends and relatives to send you a nice photo!

The photo is in the ginkgo forest in the park, and friends and relatives are smiling at a leaf, which is very warm and fresh.

Graphic tablet (wacomctl67 1)+Photoshop software

A draft is a quick summary of what you want to express. This manuscript summarizes a girl with short hair wearing a beret, a black sweater and white trousers, and a ginkgo leaf in her hand. At this time, we should also know the style of the whole picture and express a warm feeling. Brush is ps's own hard edge ring pressure.

Reduce the brush size, create a new layer on the draft layer, and check the draft. The draft is a quick record of the overall feeling, and the line draft should consider some details.

Spread out a large color block and set the color tone of the painting. In order to highlight the warm feeling, I imagined a warm yellow-brown illustration. I like to use this uniform adjacent color very much. The harmonious picture is not easy to make mistakes, and it is also very suitable for novices. Considering the influence of the environment on the inherent color, in this warm color painting, the black sweater and black hair are actually expressed in brown, while the white pants are expressed in light yellow.

Carefully depict the details of the characters. I thought the face was not cute enough, the color was too heavy and the face was too sharp, so I made a modification and refined the clothes.

A lazy person like me must be good at using the copy-and-paste solution. Draw two ginkgo biloba, and the rest is copy and paste+free transformation (Ctrl+T), and a large piece of ginkgo biloba is drawn. There is a detailed introduction in the previous article, so I won't repeat it here.

Draw the light and shadow of the tree with the soft-angle brush that comes with ps, and draw the fuzzy ginkgo tree shadow on the background casually. Drop a dark gradient on the canvas. Feel free to do some highlights for the characters, which is also a soft corner brush.

Draw a few beams of light with a soft angle brush. Create a new layer on top of all layers, fill it with brown, set the mode to "Overlay", and adjust the opacity according to your feeling. This step is to further unify the tone. Finally, add words and signatures, and the painting is finished. Friends and relatives are very happy to receive it ~

Put a process animation to summarize:

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How do ordinary people learn illustration from scratch? I believe everyone has a dream of being a writer and a dream of being a painter.

We are always used to looking for pictures on the Internet. When we see some beautiful pictures, we have an impulse to draw them, but because we have no foundation, we habitually give up. Let me talk about my personal painting experience and how to learn illustration from scratch.

First, let me talk about input.

Input is to cultivate a certain appreciation ability, in addition to imitating your favorite painting methods and styles, try to draw some interesting illustrations.

I can't find the input and method. What should I do if I copy the object? Here are some illustration websites for you, and there is always one suitable for you.

0 1 _ jump

I believe most people are no strangers to Petal Net, which contains a large number of design works and illustrations, and has gathered many excellent illustrators. The overall style is more literary and fresh.

Huang Bojun tapir

This website is a good choice if you are a secondary lover and want to learn hand-drawn illustrations of cartoon characters. It provides painting courses, which is a good choice for those who want to learn Japanese comics and cartoon animation.

03 _ Installer

A social software abroad, mainly used for pictures and videos, in which many illustrators share their works, as well as tutorials on shooting painting process. There are many kinds of illustrations, and illustrators from various countries and regions gather here. With different cultural styles, you can choose the works of illustrators you are interested in to pay attention to. Personally, I prefer it But this is a bit troublesome, that is, to log on to the external network.

04 _ Interest

This is a global design website with various styles of illustrations, and each illustrator has his own working interface, which is convenient for attention and copying. There are more kinds than INS, and you can find any painting style in it. Is a professional art website, the most important thing is that you can log in without climbing over the wall and surfing the Internet, but the whole website is in English, which is also a problem for students with poor English, such as myself.

05_ shirt flag

There are many picture books and dry goods tutorials in better and more systematic painting institutions in China. It is a very good learning website for people with zero foundation. The tutorial inside is very detailed and can be done step by step.

06 _ Often (Happy)

Leju is the home of young artists in China, and many illustrators share their paintings. At the same time, there are also many edited manuscripts, and friends who want to take the road of free illustration in the future can pay attention to it.

The six websites mentioned above share illustrations. Let's talk about how to make good use of these websites to learn.

You can choose one or two websites that prefer your own style, and then browse a lot to find your favorite style, pay attention to the illustrator and copy all her works. Because everything starts with imitation, and what makes you most motivated is to imitate your favorite style.

People often talk about the law of ten thousand hours. What I want to say here is that you can copy at a fixed time according to your free time, such as one or two hours a day.

Newcomers are inevitably not sure about lines. They can find a piece of paper and draw straight lines and circles in their spare time every day to practice their pen control ability.

We talked about input above. Let's talk about how to output.

Stick to a painting every day and imitate your favorite works, so where and how to output it?

You can choose several platforms to publish and share your works, such as Weibo, WeChat and LOFTER. As long as you can share the place, someone will come to see it. Sometimes a person will feel very tired and want to give up. But letting more people see it and get recognition will give you the courage to stick to it.

I personally set up a special illustration sharing Weibo, and shared illustrations on Lofter. After more than two months, I gained sixty or seventy praises. Although it is very small, I have an indescribable satisfaction when I look at the finished product and draw it with strokes. If you want to learn illustration, please act. (Attach several study works)

Dodolog, chief illustrator of Little Fresh Girl:

The illustrator Dodolog is a young illustrator in China. Cocoa in Wonderland is an illustration series that she started to create on 20 12. The characters are distinctive, unforgettable and infectious. All the beautiful girls in her works are different, but they are all a girl named COCO.

According to Duo Duo Ge, because she likes white camellia and Coco Chanel best, she named her illustration image Coco. I hope she can do it in many ways, but don't lose yourself. Always keep it simple and generous. Cocoa is loved by many people. These girls are enchanting, lovely, charming, playful, elegant or sad. There are endless amorous feelings lingering in my heart.

There are many of her works here, I hope to adopt them ~