European and American Watercolor Illustration —— How to practice European and American Illustration?

What are the styles of illustrations? What are the common illustration styles? Illustration styles can be roughly divided into the following categories:

1. Japanese and Korean winds

Features: The most typical Japanese style is celluloid, with beautiful painting style, slender figures and little change between men and women. But at the same time, it is slightly different, such as Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, Korean style is more gorgeous and romantic, basically similar to realistic style.

2. European and American styles

Features: European and American style illustrations are mostly realistic, emphasizing the real texture and texture, and depicting delicately. I like exaggerated expressions to make the characters look more vivid and energetic.

3. China ancient style

Features: Compared with the illustrations of the above two artistic styles, the original Chinese painting also has its own distinctive features, which are reserved but full of tension. Although China's original paintings are more or less influenced by those of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, its profound classical art, elegance and mystery are still its characteristics.

4.q version illustration

Features: The Q version of illustrations is the most prominent, with figures and animals as the mainstay. The figures are cute, exaggerated or funny, and the proportion of the human body is short. Although the lines are simple and the color blocks are clear, the characters have distinct personalities.

5. Graphic style illustrations

Features: mainly composed of color blocks, geometric modeling, smooth outer contour, almost no contour line, diverse visual expressions, amiable and rigorous. A popular style that conforms to modern screen media and contemporary aesthetic trends.

6. Humorous style illustrations

Features: commonly used exaggerated modeling, which is very common in European and American styles. It is often found in news magazine illustrations, and the pictures contain humorous and ironic charm, which is more related to political, social and cultural issues. The choice of color is also exaggerated, which makes people feel ridiculous at first glance.

7. Realistic illustrations

Features: the most common style, what is it, what is it, is like painting. Make clear what needs to be expressed most.

Flower girl in meditation-watercolor illustration steps are busy writing manuscripts every day, and only when they are finished do they have time to draw. Usually, brushes, paints and paper are all carried with you. I copied an illustration in the coffee shop and shared it with you.

1, determine the position of the main flower and the characters, and draw them with a pencil first.

2. It's much easier to finish all the line drafts except the main flower.

3. The back of the petal is pink with red and water, and the inside of the petal is red and khaki in full bloom. Be sure to faint when you are wet, or there will be water marks at the transition place.

4. After all the petals are finished, start drawing leaf buds and branches. Buds are blue and dark green, and leaves and branches are dark green and light green. It won't look boring.

5, girls' hair, I first spread a layer of background color with khaki, dry it, then spread a layer of black, and then gently wipe off the highlights. The clothes are made of light blue with water and lightly covered.

6, the overall completion. It's casual to shoot while painting in front, and the coffee shop is dimly lit, so the shooting effect is not very good. After the finished product is shot, the brightness of the mobile phone is improved and it looks much better ~

I hope you like it. Come on together ~

How to practice European and American style illustration? It is suggested to copy and understand the style of European and American illustrations first, then find a painting style that you like to study, and then pay attention to collecting more relevant practice materials and reference materials.