Making illustrations-how illustrations are drawn,

How to do illustration well? Illustration, also known as illustration, is an illustration drawn by hand-drawing, mouse drawing and computer drawing. Film and television animation game industry is called CG illustration because of its wide use and different styles, 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.

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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.

How are the illustrations drawn? What's the name of this temple? Why do you want to learn software? Is it difficult?

Illustration is painted on paper, which is a traditional illustration painting method, using paper pigments and so on. This is what we usually call hand-drawn illustration, and learning software to draw illustration refers to graphic flat illustration, or board illustration, that is, drawing an illustration on the computer. Is it necessary to learn this form? Of course it is necessary. At present, online ordering of manuscripts basically requires drawing with graphic tablet, which is the mainstream demand in the current market because of its convenient modification and fast drawing efficiency. So it is necessary for everyone to draw an illustration through software. You can understand what the following board painting is about, and you will know why you need software to draw illustrations.

The popular understanding of board painting is to paint on the graphic tablet of electronic equipment, and the painting effect will be presented on the computer, and the traditional brush and paper will be replaced by ps software and sai software. As the product of scientific and technological progress, the board painting has obvious advantages of being very convenient for repeated modification and adjustment, which helps the painter to save a lot of time and energy. The board painting works are also easy to save, and there is basically no cost without pigments and paper. The following figure shows the effect of drawing on the tablet.

Two Ann's eyes are drying peppers, but it is difficult to know the design idea of the software.

Many friends will wonder, I know how to operate the software. Why do I feel weak when I go to paint and can't draw any decent works? These paintings are simply terrible. On the one hand, you are not skilled in the use of software. On the other hand, you didn't pass the software design thinking, and you didn't master the software from the real level. We usually say that learning things should start from two levels: Tao and technique, in which technique is the method and Tao is the thinking and foundation. Just like using the same seasoning, the dishes cooked by the chef are more fragrant than those cooked by us. This is that the chef has the thinking of cooking and knows how to use the matching seasonings to achieve the right state.

In order to help you improve the technical operation of illustration software, improve your design thinking and really improve your ability to control software, students can find a master teacher to learn, enrich themselves and broaden their horizons. He will broadcast the original painting course of board drawing illustration on the Internet for free at 8: 00 every night, and even many students with zero foundation like to listen to it, because the teacher's easy to understand is quite humorous, which will be a good guide for everyone's thinking improvement. Students who want to learn can go to Mr. Yu Rou's Wei Xin (homophonic): the first one is w9, and the last one is Kaka. Just combine the above two groups of letters in order.

Success in life is not without reason, and there is no success in heaven. Only by constantly learning, constantly cheering for yourself and replenishing energy can we really get rid of the clouds and see the light. Smart people will put things in other people's heads into their own heads to make themselves stronger.

Three kinds of commonly used computer illustration software.

1._S:

PS is recognized as the most powerful picture editing software, which is too bloated because of its powerful functions. The functions that a painter can use actually account for only a small part of its functions. Advantages are powerful deformation tools, layer styles, curve adjustment tools, etc. Of course, the disadvantages are obvious. First, many operations must be combined with keyboard shortcuts, and a large number of operations need to be re-entered after leaving the keyboard, which is really unfriendly to digital screen patients, and the software learning cost is high for outsiders. Secondly, after updating to 20 19CC, the long-awaited jitter correction (anti-slip) is still difficult to use, and color fusion is still uncomfortable. His powerful pen-making and popularity determine that most painters are in the ecology of PS, so PS is called the necessary software for image editing or production.

2.SAI2:

Note that it is SAI-2, which has completed earth-shaking changes on the basis of SAI, filled many shortcomings and perfectly inherited many advantages of the former. The lines are still smooth as silk, and the color fusion is still natural and touching. This is a painting software specially designed for painters. The key point is painting software, and PS is picture editing software. PS, the big brother, just did some painting functions when editing pictures.

3.CSP:

It is a drawing software with strong comic advantages. It has all the advantages of SAI and some functions of PS. Of course, even people with bloated PS have improved their work efficiency. The birth of this software really shows that only Japanese engineers can make software that really serves painters. It is the best choice for cartoonists and Japanese illustrators.

Summarize these three softwares:

(1)PS is good at thick painting, showing heavy and true texture and light and shadow, or using powerful brushes to imitate the texture of paper or cloth to start painting, and curve tools are also very easy to adjust the picture. Even if other painting software is used as the main tool, PS is needed as an auxiliary tool for the final adjustment of the manuscript, and the index is required to be ten stars. (main tool)

The advantage of SAI2 lies in the illustration of celluloid, with smooth lines and clear colors. Sai 2 is a pure and lovely little girl.

CSP, needless to say, the cartoonist must have chosen him.

Four _ still only milling S screen.

The two best apps on IPADiOS system: Procreate and ArtstudioPro.

Procreate is easy to learn, simple in layout and very friendly to beginners. At present, one of the best apps on the iPad, all my friends use this software by default. The biggest problem is that it can't import third-party brushes, so the old birds who are used to PS and SAI will inevitably feel a little frustrated.

ArtstudioPro is the closest software to PS on IPAD at present, which is very similar in layout design and functional layout. You can even directly import PS brushes and brush presets into the APP, and the default grouping is very sour. Even the anti-shake of this product perfectly inherits the chicken ribs of PS, but its deformation tool is not as imaginative as PS, and the delay of big brush is actually better than PS. If it is not in English, this product is undoubtedly the best APP on the IPAD at present, and there is no one. It is said that the Chinese version of ArtstudioPro will be launched soon, and Procreate has fainted from crying in the toilet. It is said that PS that is full of blood and not castrated will also log on to IPAD, and all the painting apps on iPad will cry together in the toilet.

How to use PS to draw illustrations, and ask for steps! 1, open PS and select 300 resolution to draw a new file, which is convenient if you want to print it later.

2. Create a new layer, choose a square brush, remember to save the file at any time and download the brush to the network disk.

3. Fill the background with draft color and put it on top. Fill it according to the main color you want to draw. The color is a little gray and the saturation is not too high. When you draw a silhouette, you will initially match colors, and you can also look for reference.

4. Then draw a silhouette in layers and draw it with the hard pen+pen tool (you can also use the lasso tool to hook out the shape and then fill in the color. I tried many schemes for preliminary color matching, and finally chose the one I was most satisfied with for in-depth study. Create a new black-and-white adjustment layer above the layer, which can open the sketch relationship of the observation picture at any time to avoid too many colors and ignore the picture level.

5. Lock the transparency of the layer and draw directly on the current layer with a spray gun brush; Create a new layer, create a clipping mask, and then draw on the new layer.

6, add auxiliary elements, leaves, swallows interspersed to add, leaves with a hard-edged round brush, pay attention to adjust the brush size and color when painting. Draw the approximate shape of leaves at the bottom with lasso tool, then draw the color change with airbrush brush, and then use eraser tool to select hard-edged circle to trim the shape.

The middle and top are drawn directly with a hard-edged circular brush. Swallow uses the pen tool to check the shape and then copy it. The top leaves and swallows are resized and colored to make dynamic blur and Gaussian blur, and the depth of field effect enhances the picture level.

7. Copy the layer to be reflected, then use Ctrl+T to flip the layer vertically, then adjust the position, lock the transparency, absorb the darker color fill in the picture, and then draw the transition with the airbrush. Choose painting tools, choose volume painting, and then gently draw the reflection close to the deer, pay attention to the degree and direction, and draw changes.

8. Strengthen the visual center, create a new layer (the mixing mode of the layer is changed to strong light), and then select the spray gun to darken the periphery of the picture with a deep tone, and brighten the middle with a bright color to increase the contrast (for the strong light layer, change the dark part with a dark color and the bright part with a bright color).