Colored lead illustrations of hand-drawn pictures of flowers-how to make good illustrations?

Are these paintings painted with gouache? Or water-soluble colored lead?

This is the work of the new domestic illustrator group "Snow Doll". They are a pair with extremely high output. The drawing tools are computers + hand-drawn tablets + drawing software. The painting style is to imitate the feeling of gouache. It’s not really gouache painting with paint.

The following is an exclusive interview with the author by Chengdu Evening News:

Otakus and Otakus interpret fairy tales with paintbrushes

In less than a year since its establishment, the number of visitors has reached nearly 10,000 ! Yang Xue, who lives on Yulin South Road, was very happy to see that her and her boyfriend Chen Xi's online blog was so popular, with fans even calling themselves "Snowflakes." The blog run by Yang Xue and Chen Xi is called "Snow Doll's Children's Illustration World", which displays all the illustrations they provide for children's books. Now friends prefer to call them "Xue Xue" and "Baby". They are the "Snow Baby", a well-known freelance illustrator group in Chengdu.

○Community·Characters

It’s normal not to go out for a week to catch up on drawings

The reporter visited the home of the “Snow Doll” the day before yesterday, and it was the “Snow Doll” who opened the door. . "Doll" welcomed the reporter into the room and hurriedly returned to the computer on the left: "I am working on a manuscript, so I can only chat while drawing." After that, "Doll" started operating the writing pad and followed his strokes. , a "lion" gradually became more vivid. He was drawing characters for Aesop's Fables. Two months ago, a local children's publishing house came to them with the manuscript of this set of masterpieces and asked them to write 150 illustrations. "There have been too many manuscripts recently, and I am really busy. I have been putting it off for a few days." "Baby" has only slept three or four hours a day for a week in a row, and this night is destined to be another all-nighter. This time, the illustration style requested by the other party was more realistic, so "Wawa", who had more solid basic drawing skills, was the main author, and "Xue Xue" assisted from the side, responsible for composition reference and image adjustment. Whenever there is a large number of orders, "Snow Baby" will work side by side like this. After finishing the manuscript, I would sleep for a few days. "It's normal not to go out for a week."

All freelance business depends on online negotiation

There are 365 days a year, and "Snow Baby" is at home for almost 300 days, either working on manuscripts, sleeping, or playing games. "Snow Baby" calls their living situation "home", so naturally they are "home boys" and "home girls". "Snow Doll" is a frequent visitor to shopping websites, and even the illustration business is contacted through the Internet. "Snow Doll" is an illustration for classic fairy tales and children's literature. Princes and princesses, kittens and puppies, exotic scenery, and fantasy worlds are the main contents of the "Snow Doll" illustrations. The first thing they do every day is to turn on their computers and check their emails, QQ and MSN for requests for children's books. If the cooperation conditions are OK, they use chat software to discuss it in detail with the other editor. "Snow Baby" has cooperated with many editors for many years, but most of them communicate through online chats and rarely meet offline.

With a high income, it is no problem to earn 10,000 yuan a month

"Xuexue" and "Wawa" met in 2001 and marveled at the "genetic attraction" of the two young illustrators. I quickly got the right look. Although "Xue Xue" and "Doll" are different between men and women, the various images in the paintings are all round and very cute.

In 2002, the "Snow Doll" group was established. The couple are both idealists and agreed to only draw illustrations for children's books, depicting the beautiful and simple things in the world. Today, the painting skills and reputation accumulated over the years have made "Snow Doll" somewhat famous. With enough confidence, "Snow Baby" is more cautious when choosing clients to cooperate with, and tries its best to create some high-quality illustrations. This year, they turned down most of their invitations, retaining only seven or eight regular collaborators, and used the free time to study and recharge. Although the workload has been reduced, the income is still considerable. The starting price for a single illustration of "Snow Doll" is among the highest in the industry, and the monthly royalties are at least RMB 10,000.

Recently, the two have a new plan. They are going to follow their idol and master illustrator Tony Wolfe and spend a year or more to independently plan a children's picture book.

○Community · Dynamics

The competition is fierce, and there are people who accept the price of just a few yuan a piece

“Now in Chengdu, black and white illustrations are more than ten yuan a piece, or even "There are people taking the job for just a few yuan a piece." "Wawa" told reporters that illustration is an emerging fashion profession. Some illustrators work as freelancers, such as "Snow Doll", while others work in studios or companies. According to "Xuewawa", young people born after 1975 are the main force of illustrators in Chengdu. There are currently dozens of local illustration studios in Chengdu and thousands of freelance illustrators. Nowadays, many colleges and universities have opened illustration majors, and various commercial illustrator training courses are emerging one after another in the society. A large number of people have begun to enter this emerging profession. There are more people competing, and there are still people who accept the lowest invitation price.

○Extended reading

Illustrators, also known as commercial illustrators, are professionals who draw illustrations for companies or products and receive compensation while giving up ownership of their works. Commercial illustrations are further divided into advertising illustrations, publication illustrations, cartoon mascot illustrations, film and television illustrations, game illustrations and other categories.

How did trainee reporter Chen Zhuo and Feng Shi draw the illustrations?

一_寤Mo posthumously surrendered to the Tuoxin Temple? Why do we need to learn software? Is it difficult?

Illustrations are drawn on paper, which is a traditional illustration painting method that uses paper pigments, etc. This is what we usually call hand-drawn illustrations, and learning software to draw illustrations refers to

Digital tablet

Illustration, also called

tablet drawing

Illustration, is to draw an illustration on a computer. Is this form necessary to learn? ?Of course it is necessary. Nowadays, when accepting orders online, drawings are basically required to be done with a digital tablet. Because it is easy to modify and the drawing efficiency is fast, it is the mainstream demand in the current market, so it is necessary for everyone to use software to create an illustration. draw. You can understand what the following board drawing is, and you will know why software is used to draw illustrations.

The popular understanding of tablet painting is to draw on the digital tablet of an electronic device. The painting effect is presented on the computer.

ps software

and sai software are used. , instead of using traditional brushes and paper. As a product of scientific and technological progress, the obvious advantage of board painting is that it is very easy to modify and adjust repeatedly, which helps painters save a lot of time and energy. Board painting works are also easy to save, and there is no need for paint or paper, so it is basically zero cost. The picture below shows the effect of painting with a digital tablet.

二__安夑瑑 Moutongtantanjiaoê芗軻, but it is difficult to know the design thinking of software.

Many friends will wonder, I know how to operate the software, why when I go to paint, I feel very powerless and can't draw any decent works? The paintings are simply terrible. , on the one hand, it is because you are not proficient in using the software, on the other hand, you do not have the design thinking through the software, and you have not mastered the software from a real level. We usually say that learning things must start from two levels, Tao and technique. At the level of art, art is the method, and Tao is the thinking and foundation. Just like using the same seasonings, the dishes cooked by the chef are more fragrant than those cooked by us. This is because the chef has a way of thinking about cooking and knows how to use the proportion of seasonings to achieve the right state.

In order to help everyone improve the technical operation of learning illustration software, improve design thinking, and truly improve their ability to control the software, students can learn from an expert teacher and enrich themselves. , to broaden your horizons, he will give free live broadcasts on the original painting course of board drawing and illustration at 8 o'clock every night. Even many students with no basic knowledge like to listen, because the teacher's lectures are easy to understand and quite humorous, and he has a good understanding of everyone's thinking. Improvement will have a very good guiding role. If you want to learn truly useful board drawing illustrations, you should find an expert teacher to continue learning. This is the true meaning of learning. Students who want to learn can go to Teacher Yu Rou's Wei Xin (homonym): the first one is: w9, the second one is: kaka, just combine the above two sets of letters in order.

Success in life is not success for no reason. There is no success like

pie in the sky

. It can only be achieved through continuous learning, continuous encouragement and replenishment of oneself. Only with energy can you truly clear away the clouds and see the moon. Putting things in other people's heads into your own head to make yourself stronger is a wise man.

Three_Three commonly used computer illustration and painting software.

1._S:

PS is recognized as the most powerful image editing software. Because it is so powerful, it has many functions and is too bloated. The functions that painters can use only account for A small part of its functions have the advantages of powerful deformation tools, layer modes, curve adjustment tools, etc. Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious. First of all, many operations must be combined with the keyboard

Shortcut keys

Use, a large number of operations require entering and re-entering without leaving the keyboard, which is really unfriendly to patients with digital screens, and the learning cost for laymen of the software is high; secondly, it has been updated to 2019CC, and the long-awaited jitter correction (anti-slip) It's still very difficult to use, and color blending is still difficult. Its powerful brush creation and popularity determine that most painters are in the PS ecosystem, so PS is called a must-learn 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, made up for many shortcomings, and perfectly inherited many of the former's Advantages: The anti-shake lines are still as smooth as silk, and the color fusion is still natural and touching. This is a painting-specific software designed specifically for painters. Let me focus on the key points. It is a painting software, while PS is an image editing software. The big brother of PS only does some painting functions while editing pictures, while SAI2 is a small but sophisticated software that specializes in painting.

3.CSP:

It is a drawing software with strong advantages in comics. It has all the advantages of SAI and some functions of PS. Of course, even the bloated PS Improve

work efficiency

. The birth of this software truly shows that only Japanese engineers can make software that truly serves artists. It is the best choice for cartoonists and Japanese illustrators.

Summary of these three software:

(1) PS is good at thick coating, showing thick and real texture and light and shadow, or using powerful brushes to expand and imitate the texture of paper or cloth. The painting and curve tools are also very easy to use for adjusting the picture. Even if other painting software is used as the main tool, PS still needs to be used as an auxiliary tool for final adjustments of the final draft. It must be learned and rated ten stars. (Main tool)

(2) The advantage of SAI2 is to draw illustrations on

celluloid

. The line drawing is smooth and stretched, and the colors are clear and clean. SAI2 itself She is just a pure and lovely little girl.

CSP, needless to say, he is the right choice for cartoonists.

四_有什么意思

The two best APPs on the IPA DiOS system: Procreate, ArtstudioPro

Procreate is easy to learn and has a concise layout , very friendly for beginners. It is currently one of the best apps on the iPad. People I know

Moments

who use IPAD basically use this software by default. The biggest problem is that it cannot import third-party brushes, so veterans who are accustomed to PS and SAI will inevitably feel a little overwhelmed and frustrated.

ArtstudioPro is currently the software closest to PS on the IPAD. The layout design and functional layout are very similar. You can even directly import PS brushes and brush presets into the APP. The default grouping is very refreshing. . Even the anti-shake function of this product perfectly inherits the useless features of PS. However, its deformation tool is not as imaginative as PS. The delay of large brushes is actually better than PS. If it were not all in English, this product would be useless. There is no doubt that it is the best APP on iPad at present, bar none. It is said that Artstudio Pro will soon launch a Chinese version, Procreate has fainted in the toilet, and it is said that the full-blooded and non-castrated version of PS will also be logged into the IPAD, and all the painting apps on the IPAD will faint in the toilet together. How to make a good illustration?

Illustrations, also known as illustrations, are illustrations drawn in the form of hand-drawing, mouse-drawing and computer board drawing. They have different styles due to their wide range of uses. The film, television, animation and game industries are called CG illustrations, which are widely used in Design industry, film, television, animation, and game industries.

Illustrations use pictures to express image, life and appeal. The main difference from graphic design can be simply understood as "illustrations focus more on telling stories rather than attracting attention." Illustration is also a form of visual expression art, which mainly includes three categories: photography/painting/three-dimensional illustration. Illustration has a specific status in the art field and is closely related to the publishing industry. It is required for both e-books and physical books. There is room for employment in other directions such as the music/film and television/media industries.

Extended information:

Common tools for illustration:

1. Hand-drawn illustrations are drawn with paper and pens - common tools: markers, colored pencils, watercolors .

2. Mouse-painted illustrations—common tools: PS, AI, etc.

3. Tablet drawing illustrations—commonly used equipment: hand-drawing tablets, digital screens, iPads, and mobile phones.

4. The hand-drawing tablet needs to be connected to a computer to draw in PS, AI, and SAI. The digital screen and ipad can draw directly without connecting to a computer. You need to purchase a capacitive pen for mobile phone to draw.

The basic standard for learning illustration whether it is reliable or not: whether there is a trial class.

There are indeed many places to learn illustration now, and they are all mixed up. This makes many students confused. How should they choose? There is a saying that it is not possible to just say it. To practice fake tricks and judge how good a learning place is, you must at least check out the other person’s strength first, and the trial class is to see where the other person’s strength is best, and at the same time see how the quality of the course is. If you don’t even have the trial class If the teaching is not good, then the other classes will be useless. And if you choose to study, you should choose a big school, so that you are guaranteed.

If you don’t know where to look, you can go to the online class I studied before. That’s where I studied. Every night at 8 o’clock, a master painting teacher will give a free live broadcast on illustration boards. The painting course is online. The teacher’s lectures are easy to understand and humorous. He can also explain the painting techniques that trouble everyone in a simple and clear way. Watching the teacher’s video is much better than reading a book. One class can solve many of your problems. You can also learn about the development issues of the entire industry. Anyway, it is free, so you can listen to it. The lectures in the evening will not delay your work or study during the day. Students who want to listen can enter Weixin (homophone):

The first group in the front is: gon_浯文膤蟟叟曟蔭：699_ Just combine the above two sets of numbers in order. Note: Illustration.

Since students like to learn board drawing and illustration, then give it a try and give yourself a chance. Only by trying can you know whether you are the material, instead of always wandering around in your inner world and wasting your talents. It is irresponsible to oneself.

The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of prints. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, "disguised" illustrations of scriptures were used in scriptures to promote doctrines. Current historical records record the earliest printmaking work in my country, the "Dharani Sutra Mantra" published during the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty.

The exact date is recorded on the title page of the "Vajra Prajna Sutra" written in the ninth year of Emperor Yizong's Xiantong reign (868).

In the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, book illustrations made great progress. The scope of application expanded to medical books, historical geography books, archaeological catalogs, daily encyclopedias and other books, and color overprinted illustrations appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can be said that ancient illustration art developed greatly, and there was a book engraving industry all over the country. Different regions have developed different styles.