Graphic illustration course-how illustrators teach themselves

In fact, it's very simple: iPad Illustrator procreate software beginner 1 1 Q: Every time I collect information online, the most troublesome thing is that the information is scattered, or I can't find the answer, or some questions are asked but no one answers. In order to make it easier for everyone to learn illustrations with pro software, or to draw their own thoughts and feelings with illustrations, we have specially compiled a beginner's learning collection, hoping to help everyone. If you have any questions about reproductive software, please leave a message. Learn together and make progress together ~

Usage: You can read the outline of the question first, and then jump to the questions and answers you want to know.

The most basic article:

1. How to adjust the brush size and transparency?

2. How to change the size of the original canvas?

3. How to draw common lines and shapes quickly?

4. How to quickly complement colors?

5. How to make the color scheme look better?

6. How to choose and choose your favorite brush?

7. How to be familiar with practicing common gestures?

Functional items:

8. How to use the shearing mask?

9. How to make good use of perspective function?

Other articles:

10, how to record your own works?

1 1. How to learn to make beautiful gradient fonts?

The size and transparency of the brush are in the toolbar on the left. Slide up and down to adjust the size and transparency.

Different combinations of brushes and transparency have a certain influence on our composition. Proper control of thickness and depth will add icing on the cake. The common usage is to draw lines. Its process is like cultivating our mentality. The length and continuity of a line, the strength of turning and imagination are all related to one's state of mind and artistic attainments. The lines drawn by impatient people are intermittent, the lines drawn by hesitant people are drawn, and the pictures drawn by people with insufficient grasp ability are somewhat scattered, all of which are related to their ability and experience level and their mood when drawing. Using a good brush is also a process that needs long-term tempering.

If you don't think the brush looks hard and need to increase the hardness, there are two ways to try.

1, select the hard brush. Brush-air brush decoration-hard brush. There are also shades of painting. With the increase of pen strength, the trace of the pen gradually becomes deeper.

2. Modify the opacity parameter of the pencil mark in the brush.

Open the software, create a new canvas and start painting.

First, choose the canvas size to draw at first.

If you want to draw a postcard for yourself, you need to know its standard size is 148× 100MM and165×102 mm.

If you want to draw a picture book for yourself, the common frame size of children's picture books is a rectangle of 20 (about 200X225MM) or 16 (about 2 10X260MM).

For 1~3-year-old children's picture book readers, the format of 16 is more suitable, because children's attention and observation are poor. A picture book is 145X 1 10MM, which is equivalent to the size of an adult's palm, so it is a small picture in a pocket-sized picture book. The size can be determined according to your own needs.

If you just want to draw casually, there are many options in the software.

Click the+sign at the top right to select the size for creating a new canvas.

If there is no suitable canvas, you can also define it yourself.

Common sizes are also listed below for reference.

Second, if you find that you need to replace a larger canvas in the middle of painting, how should you copy the existing picture? Simply put, how to change from big to small or from small to big?

There is a function of copying canvas in the software, just find this function in the image-copy canvas and copy it to another artwork.

Straight line: it will automatically form a straight line without stopping writing until the end point stops, and the direction of the line can be adjusted without lifting the pen.

Wave line: Draw a curve first, and then modify and adjust it by selecting-bending-advanced network. If there is something inappropriate in the middle, you can erase it with an eraser and then copy and splice it. If you need thicker lines, set the brush to the maximum.

There is one of the most convenient and quick drawing methods.

Choose a brush to draw shapes at will. Don't leave the interface to Chang 'an nib. The words "Edit Shape" will automatically appear in the middle of the menu bar. Click Edit Shape, and many optional shapes will appear, which can be adjusted according to actual needs. This method can be used to draw squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses and polygons.

Besides the shape of stick figures, we sometimes need three-dimensional patterns.

Solid circles: If you want to draw many circles at once, it is faster to use a brush. Just use a brush, and there will be a chapter on making a brush. For example, you can use a single-line brush, or you can use other brushes without burrs. Adjust the parameters of the brush, and then click General-Size Limit-Maximum.

Semi-circle: Draw a circle first, and then drag it to the edge of the canvas. There will be automatic cropping function, and a semi-circle will be obtained soon.

Square, rectangle, triangle: draw the shape by the first method, and then fill the color quickly.

Love shape: first draw a solid circle, then click Select-Bend-Advanced Grid, and then adjust according to the points. If you need love more than once, save the picture and make a brush.

Rounded rectangle: as above, draw a circle or square first, then click Select-Bend-Advanced Grid, and then adjust according to the points.

The first step is to choose your favorite color (that is, the palette) from the dot on the upper right.

Step two, press the dot with a long pen and don't leave the screen. Drag it to the position of the pattern you want to color.

Precautions:

1. The fill pattern must be a closed area.

2. Don't leave the screen when dragging.

Charge together:

About color composition:

The colors of the surrounding objects are red, yellow and blue. This is also the three primary colors we often say. This is the simplest color. How did you get the complicated colors? This is through their mixed colors.

Simply put, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple can show the relationship between them.

Red+yellow = orange, red+blue = purple, yellow+blue = green. This is the relationship between their synthetic colors. You can synthesize more colors according to your own imagination, and finally form a color wheel.

About color mode:

RGB mode red, green and blue

CMYK stands for four colors used in printing, C stands for cyan, M stands for magenta, Y stands for yellow), and K and K stand for black.

If the image is only displayed on the computer, use RGB mode, so that a wider color gamut can be obtained. If the image needs to be printed or printed, the CMYK mode must be used to ensure that the printed color is consistent with the design. When we want to start making a new image, we must first determine the color mode according to the actual use of the image to create a new file.

Method 1: Draw lessons from the colors of excellent illustrations and extract the color wheel.

As shown in the figure, insert a picture and click the plus sign in the upper right corner to create a new palette.

Press and hold the color you want to choose, and then click on any small black box area in the color wheel.

Choose more colors to form a special color wheel.

Method 2: One, Two and Three Principles

Color matching is a process of mutual echo and harmony between different tones. If the colors in the color circle are close together, they will be comfortable, and if they are far away, they will have certain influence. In order to facilitate memory, it is summarized into three simple principles.

Principle 1: Color is also its own unique emotion.

Excellent color matching can play a role in rendering emotions. Warm colors such as red and orange convey warm, energetic and impulsive feelings, while cool colors such as blue and green give people a stable, rational and reliable feeling. Black and purple can create a mysterious atmosphere, and color matching needs to be chosen according to different emotional needs.

Rule 2: You must know two colors.

Here we need to know two colors: intermediate color and complementary color.

According to the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, the interval color is the middle color, red+yellow, orange+green, yellow+blue, green+purple and blue+red.

According to the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, the complementary colors are the two colors in the middle, red+green, orange+blue and yellow+purple.

The collocation of complementary colors can show a kind of strength, momentum and vitality, which has a strong visual impact and is also a very modern and fashionable collocation. Properly used, the effect is very good, and improperly used, it will produce uncoordinated, implicit and unstable effects.

Principle 3: Three colors are suitable.

Japanese designers put forward the golden ratio of color matching, 70:25:5, in which 70% is the main color used in a large area, 25% is the auxiliary color and 5% is the decorative color. In general, it is suggested that there should be no more than three colors in the picture, and three refers to three tones, such as deep red and dark red, which can be regarded as one tone.

The less color you use, the better. The fewer colors, the simpler the picture and the more mature the work will be. The fewer colors, the easier it is to control the picture, unless there are special circumstances, such as some holiday posters, which need a lively and energetic atmosphere.

Multiple images of colors are very active. The more colors there are, the colors should be allocated in strict accordance with the color matching ratio, otherwise, the image will be chaotic and the aesthetic feeling will be insufficient.

Generally speaking, light color gives people a light feeling, while dark color has a heavy feeling. If you want to give people visual comfort, you need to pay attention to the balance of light and heavy, and the distribution of light and dark colors in the picture should be as uniform as possible to avoid the "weightlessness" of the picture.

Brush, brush tool. A treasure has a special brush for PS or Pro software, which can be purchased, tried and screened. The more brushes, the better. Even if there are more than 100 or 200 brushes, you will eventually find that there are only a few commonly used and easy-to-use brushes. Just use your favorite brush smoothly.

Brushes can be made by yourself.

For example, the way to make a round brush quickly is to make a single line brush, and other brushes without burrs can be used. Adjust the parameters of the brush and click General-Size Limit-Maximum Quantity to maximize the value.

If you want to make brushes with other shapes, such as squares and hearts, the method is as follows:

Take a square brush as an example, click the brush library, click the plus sign, and select Shape-Shape Source-Insert Picture-Particle Source-Insert Picture.

Then adjust the parameters in the normal place. You can try to adjust the edges on the canvas, and the size limit can be adjusted appropriately. Remember to give the brush a memorable name.

After finding the right and favorite brush, you can start painting. The easiest way is to imitate beautiful and fancy English fonts, which makes it easier to have a sense of accomplishment. Please refer to the following figure:

1, tap with two fingers

Undo the current operation

Press it and cancel it all the time.

In the gallery, two fingers can rotate the picture freely, and enlarge or reduce the picture to fit the current screen.

Layers can be merged in the layer area.

2. Tap with three fingers to return to the current operation.

3. Slide three fingers left and right to clear the current screen.

When the three fingers slide down, the copy and paste interface will be displayed.

4. Tap with four fingers once to hide/display the software operation interface.

A clipping mask is an object that can cover other artwork with its shape. Using a clipping mask, you can only see the area within the mask shape. By using the shape of the lower layer to limit the display state of the upper layer, the clip art effect is realized. In terms of effect, it is to cut the artwork into the shape of a mask. Very interesting masks can often produce some special effects.

Cutting the mask can play the role of matting.

Methods: layer mask was selected.

Click the eraser tool and smear it where you want to cut the picture. You can adjust the size of the eraser.

Click Invert in the layer mask, and the image of the object to be cut will appear.

There are many different reference lines in the perspective function.

It can make our works look neat and beautiful as a whole. Helps align various elements and calibrate their positions. When it is necessary to limit the size of a certain part in the design, you can use the reference line as an aid, and then operate only on a specific area. It can be found in Settings-Canvas-Drawing Guide.

The software itself has a screen recording function. Open the software, which can be found in Settings-Video.

Click on the slow-motion recording, play it back in slow motion after recording, and finally export the slow-motion video, which will usually be saved in the photo album.

Charge together:

Apple's own screen recording function, and then add the screen recording function to the control center. Press the Home button twice to make the record button light up, and then click to start recording.

Making gradient fonts is very simple, and there are three methods for reference.

Method one

Choose your favorite brush and write the words you want to write on white paper first. Slide the layer of this word to the right to make it transparent. Then choose the color directly and paint it on the words.

Method 2

Color the white paper first, and then create a new layer. Choose an eraser with brush properties to write words. The gradient color will be redrawn and it will follow the trajectory of the brush.

Method 3

Large chunks of color are painted on the white paper, and this area is used as the background. You don't need to create a new layer, just write with an eraser with a brush.

It is difficult to write fancy English words, and so are modifiers.

Stylistic English word conversion network

In addition to this website that can be converted into reference, we can also search some beautiful English pictures online to copy and learn.

Stay tuned ~

How do illustrators teach themselves? Illustrator zero-based self-study method is as follows:

First, prepare painting tools.

1, ipadpro+ drawing software (procreate, MedibangPaint, SketchBook).

2. Computer+drawing board+drawing software (ps, sai, ai, sketch).

Second, solid basic skills.

There is no shortcut to painting. To be an illustrator, it is essential to lay a solid foundation, constantly polish the feel and practice repeatedly.

Practice direction: line, perspective, sketch, modeling, composition, color, etc.

Find a big touch you like in the early stage and copy his works, and you will make rapid progress. We must pay attention to improving our original ability in the future.

Try not to choose the self-study exam.

First, there are various tutorials on the Internet, which can't provide targeted guidance.

Secondly, in the process of self-study, influenced by factors such as self-control, people are likely to give up in the middle of study.

Third, people are not sages, who can be confused? As long as they study, there will be problems, and online tutorials can't solve all your problems. It is difficult to guarantee such a learning effect.

How to do illustration well? Illustration, also known as illustration, is an illustration drawn by hand-drawing, mouse drawing and computer drawing. Because of its wide use and different styles, the film and television animation game industry is called CG illustration, which is widely used in design industry and film and television animation game industry.

Illustrations use pictures to express vividness, life and appeal. The main difference from graphic design can be simply understood as "illustration highlights the story rather than attracting attention". Illustration is also an artistic form of visual expression, which mainly includes photography/painting/three-dimensional illustration. Illustration has a special position in the art field and is closely related to the publishing industry. Both e-books and physical books are needed, and there are also employment opportunities in other fields, such as music/movies/media.

Extended data:

Common tools for illustration:

1. Hand-painted illustrations are drawn with paper and pen-common tools: marker, colored lead and watercolor.

2, mouse illustration-common tools: PS, AI, etc.

3, board drawing illustration-common equipment: hand-drawn board, digital screen, ipad, mobile phone.

4. the hand-drawn board needs to be connected to a computer to draw pictures in PS, AI and SAI. Digital screens and ipad can draw directly without connecting a computer. The mobile phone needs to be painted by capacitance pen.

The basic standard of learning illustration is whether there is an audition class or not.

There are indeed many places to learn illustration now, and it is really a mixture of good and evil people, which makes many students spend their eyes. How should they choose? There is a good saying, to judge how a learning place is, at least we should first look at each other's strength, and the audition class is to look at each other's best strength, but also at the quality of the course. If even the audition class is not good, then other classes are even more useless. And choose to learn this piece, choose a big school, and have security.

If you don't know where to find it, you can go to the online class I took before. That's where I study. Every night at 8: 00, there will be a free online course of illustration and board painting by the master painter. The teacher's speech is easy to understand, humorous and witty, and can explain the painting skills that plague everyone simply and thoroughly. Watching a teacher's video is much better than reading a book. A class can solve many problems for you and understand the development of the whole industry. It's free anyway. You can listen to it. Giving lectures at night will not delay your work or study during the day. Students who want to listen can enter Weixin (homophonic):

The first group in front is: gon _ WEN-WEN-BANG-BANG:699 _ Just combine the above two groups of numbers in order. Remarks: Illustration.

Since students like to learn board drawing illustrations, it is irresponsible to try and give themselves a chance. Only by trying can they know if they are the right material, instead of always wandering in their inner world and wasting their talents.

The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of printmaking. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, they used "disguised" illustrations in the scriptures to publicize their teachings. At present, China's earliest prints are recorded in historical materials, namely "Dalagni Curse" published by Tang Suzong. The title page painting of King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the 9th year (868) is the exact date.

In the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, book illustrations developed greatly. The application scope has expanded to medical books, historical geography books, archaeological catalogue books, daily encyclopedia books and other books, and color overprint illustrations have appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can be said that the ancient illustration art developed greatly, and there were book engraving industries all over the country. Different regions have formed different styles.