Did you win all the 9 common misunderstandings of novice watercolor?

The novice Xiao Bai must have stepped on many pits when he first came into contact with watercolor painting.

Which pit do you think is the worst?

Plain paper and sketch paper are thin and soft. No matter whether you try watercolor with sketch paper, gouache paper or sketch paper, you will be surprised to find that a manuscript written for more than 1 hour will be broken as soon as it touches water! If the quality of paper is better, it won't rot, but it won't push away!

Ordinary watercolor paper 200-300g. The heavier the gram, the better the water content of the paper, the higher the water absorption, and the thicker the paper, which is not easy to break and pilling because of repeated smearing.

Watercolor needs a lot of water, but the paper is wrinkled after painting. If you buy a watercolor that is sealed on all sides, it may not be obvious, but a single piece of watercolor paper will definitely wrinkle, especially when the frame is large.

There are two ways to mount paper: dry mounting and wet mounting. Dry mounting is to seal the four sides of the paper with masking tape. When the watercolor paper is too thin or the frame is too large, it must be wet mounted: the paper will be completely wet and will not wrinkle even if it is rendered in a large area.

For beginners, the more pigments, the better. There is absolutely no need to follow suit. Pick any one, and then find the one that suits you after you are familiar with the materials.

Usually choose solid and tubular: solid pigment tape box is easy to carry, suitable for sketch and illustration; The tubular shape is cost-effective and convenient for color selection, which is suitable for large-scale rendering of watercolor.

Using the pigment directly or diluting the pigment with too little water will make the picture very dim. The charm of watercolor lies in the coordination of water and pigment. Without water, the sense of transparency of the whole painting does not exist.

The correct way to dip in the pigment is to let the pen drink enough water first, then dip in the pigment, and repeatedly adjust the amount of pigment equal to or greater than the coloring area. If the mixed pigment is not enough, either paint it thinner or repaint it. If there is too much paint on the pen, you can scratch the edge of the palette or suck it out with a paper towel/sponge to adjust the paint.

Watercolor is different from oil painting sketch. Oil painting sketch can be modified and covered repeatedly, but when painting watercolor, the color will be locked on the drawing paper, and some traces will appear, so it is difficult for water to smudge.

Maybe you are a beginner, but you don't know that watercolor painting has a brush stroke even if it is flat. When painting watercolor, you can imagine the movement track of the pigment when it falls from the pen to the paper, slowly lift the pen, apply force evenly, draw horizontally in one direction, so that the color will be even.

When you first touch the white liquid, use a watercolor pen to take it directly. The white liquid left on the brush will hurt the pen.

The correct way: first soak the cheap brush in a little soap solution, then dip it in white liquid, or sharpen chopsticks instead of pens, and straws can also be used instead. It's not useless, but you can't think of it. If you feel troublesome, you can also directly choose the pen-type blank solution.

Some beginners use a pencil to make a draft, which is blunt, repeatedly smeared and modified, and the picture is dirty.

Being unable to accurately finalize the design is a certain situation that beginners will encounter when typing. It is suggested that the pen should not be too heavy when drawing the line draft, and the plastic eraser should be used to the extent visible to the naked eye before coloring, so as not to affect the later coloring.

Overlapping colors will reveal the underlying color according to different colors. Small area overlap refers to the painting method of overlapping colors in local areas, which is usually used to increase the level and volume of objects and pursue richer and more three-dimensional picture effects. Watercolor has weak concealment, and it is easy to fail to superimpose light color on dark color.

When overlapping colors, only when the background color is dry can a small area of overlapping colors show the difference between them. If the background color is not completely dried, it will overlap in a large area, and it is easy to mix colors, resulting in water marks, making the color look dirty and stuffy.

Blind copying without thinking will always stay in the beginner's stage, and you can't draw what you see.

Show your picture relationship through thinking, get rid of copying, create, improve your painting quality, and slowly you can draw better and better.

Gradually, copying no longer needs other people's steps, because you can adjust all the colors in the world, and you don't even need to copy other people's paintings, because you already know how to draw well.

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