Simple Classification and Techniques of Painting (Ⅱ)-Line Drawing

This paper will continue to introduce the significance and simple technical characteristics of learning line drawing, sketch and color. The learning sequence of these three categories proposed by po is a process from simple to complex, that is, describing the outline-describing the relationship between light and shadow-describing the color and spatial relationship of objects.

line drawing

Line drawing, as its name implies, is to represent objects with lines. It can be pencil, pen, charcoal pen, brush, print, paper-cut and other forms. For those who learn to draw from line drawing, the significance of line drawing lies in summarizing and depicting the outer contour of an object and clearly understanding and expressing the structure of the object. This feature is most obvious in the icons in the Dictionary of Animals and Plants.

Each drawing method of line drawing has its own characteristics because of the different materials of pens or media. The charcoal pen is rough, the lines are clear and bright, the printing is tough, and the meticulous lines are generally round and smooth. The introduction of line drawing and the tools needed are very simple. As long as you have a pen and a piece of paper in your hand, you can start painting anytime and anywhere. You can start by drawing small objects around you, or you can find materials to copy online.

In the line drawing stage, in addition to training your own observation and modeling skills, you can also join perspective training in the later stage. The theory and techniques of perspective are relatively mature, and there are relatively clear tutorials on the Internet, so I won't go into details here. You can find it yourself if you are interested.

Po owners have a particularly lazy way to tell everyone that they can get started quickly, that is, use copy paper!

Print out the found materials with a printer, or copy or tear off the bought line drawings, and then directly cover them with translucent copy paper for tracing. Japanese cartoons and China's meticulous paintings are good references. What, you ask me where to start a more complicated painting? Children's shoes, this is a false proposition. Draw three times and you will know where to start writing. Just like when you learned to eat when you were a child, you must have wanted to know how to hold a spoon and eat the first chopsticks, but you wouldn't ask this question at that time because you were not good at talking. Three people draw the same picture three times each, each with its own order and writing method, which is guaranteed to be different, but there is no problem.

Therefore, at the end of each article and chapter, po wants to say the same thing to everyone, cut the crap and start painting!