Outdoor creative illustration-how to make your illustration more valuable

Illustrator Dream Team | No.2 Creative Painting

One person, one style, one painting and one story, painting is a spiritual journey

No.2 _ Sharing guest: Sheena Myth

She has bright eyes, a flowery smile and a lark voice. Gentle personality, gentle and quiet, giving people the warmth like a spring breeze;

English majors, non-art students, started to learn from scratch, and with their love and persistence in painting, they started the road of illustration.

Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; Full color+shape and texture, simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; The characters are exaggerated and interesting, creative and more story-telling, showing that they belong to the modern and fashionable side and have a unique style.

There are many labels on her:

Founder of Sheena Illustrator/Member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association

Signed illustrator in vision china/Founder of Sheena Illustrator Studio

Teaching style: natural and kind, unpretentious, smooth and silent. Combining the thirst and exploration of illustration knowledge with simplicity, and combining with my own experience in learning illustration, this paper summarizes and designs an innovative and efficient illustration punching activity, Sheena Illustration Punching in.

She commented and guided the students' homework, recognized it directly and meticulously, and devoted herself to teaching with the greatest enthusiasm. Her love for painting influenced every student imperceptibly.

Up to now, there are more than 1, students who have taken part in the punch card +

#Sheena Illustration Punching Card # The topic of Weibo is 7 million+

The creative sharing in April was full of dry goods, which brought us too many surprises and touches. The most important thing is to open our eyes. It turns out that you can draw like this, with an outline and two words, and an animal extends into a story;

Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. Learning here does not mean imitating or copying, but learning by watching, remembering and drawing.

first of all, look. Look is to carefully observe the characteristics of other people's excellent works. From the layout composition, observe how the works use space and elements to form the picture.

Secondly, it is the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark, the contrast between cold and warm colors and the contrast between density and size in the picture. Finally, there is the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work.

There are no two identical paintings in the world, nor are there two identical people. Everyone is a unique and irreplaceable individual. Even if everyone draws the same element, the state presented in the pen is completely different.

First, the "live" review of the course

Second, the "essentials" explanation of the creative painting course

1. Creative painting materials and methods

Practice in stages:

The first stage: draw an outline, draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (9 squares), and draw your own elements through the restricted outline;

Case 1 (original: the method of Sheena myth)

Try to break away from the original shape and show some objects with limited outlines. In this way, we can find that because of some restrictions, we can draw more interesting figures.

case 2 (original: the method of glasslinda)

try to set some themes for yourself, and draw the theme-related (9 squares) through this shape every time, which can also inspire a lot of inspiration.

The theme of divergent thinking is as follows:

1. Related to daily necessities;

2. Eat, drink, be merry, have food, clothing, shelter and transportation;

3. Animals and plants;

4. human head, bust and body movements;

5. Different forms of expression (head-up, head-down and head-up);

6. the combination of positive and negative forms;

7. Thinking about the outline (silhouette);

8. the internal articles are combined into the required shape;

9. A flash of inspiration, free painting;

the second stage: totally irrelevant keywords are combined to draw a picture. (9 squares) Break the usual ideas and draw unexpected scenes.

Case 1 (original: the method of 7-sauce)

The key word of this picture is spring+time

Divergent thinking: spring-spring outing-flying kites outdoors-having a nice day; Associating related elements through divergent thinking, extracting+combining elements;

creative process: in the creative process, I look for inspiration from generate. In these references, I think that the girl who flies a kite in the clock points to spring. Later, the hair and kite were connected in an exaggerated form.

Case 2 (original: the method of maruko)

The key words of this picture: spring blue+lock

Make a mind map through the key words, write all the elements that can be thought of, and then extract+combine the elements from it;

divergent thinking: head-key-vast sea of people-searching for self-opening the heart-unlocking

creative process: turning the head into a key through divergent thinking, and those black lines around the lock represent the ups and downs of the waves, struggling to find your own lock in the vast "lock sea".

the third stage: use an animal element to make up a set of stories.

Case 1 (original: Alina Alan's method)

Creative thinking of story series:

Picture books express an emotion, convey an idea and tell people some truth, so I consider the story and emotional expression of picture books when I create them.

"My Story" is a dream, which expresses the inner desire. People in fast-paced cities, due to the pressure of work and busy life, will occasionally have negative emotions, sometimes feel depressed and become restless, and there is too little time and space for themselves besides work.

I want to have more time to paint, feel the tranquility and beauty of nature, and express my feelings in the form of dreams. The theme of the story is "I and Sika Deer". I like sika deer very much, and sika deer is also my lucky pet. )

2. Two steps to improve creativity:

(1) Accumulate

creative inspiration book at ordinary times: record it anytime and anywhere. What happened around us, dreams, whimsy, points of interest, inspiration from museums, dreams, books, movies, poems and warm sentences can all be the source of inspiration for later creation.

photo gallery: collecting favorite pictures, photographs and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The material library of illustration creation can be specifically classified, such as color, brush strokes, modeling, scenes, decoration, etc. In subsequent creation, you can try to start a new creation with these accumulated colors and brush strokes.

Shi Kaida: A video about "Creativity Storage Method Necessary for Illustration Creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and shelves is particularly helpful.

There are contents and techniques in the bookshelf: in the contents, I record my diary, reading notes and collected articles; Collect colors, strokes, shapes, scenes, and decorate the methods you are interested in and want to try.

shelf: 1. what should I draw? 2. What techniques do you try? You can use this method when you start creating.

(2) Practice (take action)

There are three ways to practice: visual diary: the creative method is particularly useful, and we can accumulate materials to learn creativity by doing visual diary. (Weibo @Hi blowing)

Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiment, telling stories with pictures; Replica works, collage and other fun ways to record and learn.

3. Three practical ways to practice creativity:

(1) Learn through quick painting

The following are very practical creative practice methods extracted from Imagination, Composition and Creative Thinking, and three of them are also practiced this time, which are very practical.

1. After seeing an object, associate it with another object and relay in turn. (enhance imagination, the same object, after 9 days, everyone's final result will be very different)

2. Combine completely unrelated things and draw a picture. (break the usual idea and draw unexpected scenes)

3. Two different characters are combined to draw portraits. (Try all kinds of interesting portraits)

4. Draw your inner feelings through a photo-expand different variants. (Try to practice drawing your feelings, not the picture itself)

5. Draw an animal and draw the animal in your own mind. (provide words, and each of you can draw the animal in your own imagination)

6. Try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc.) with different painting materials. (turn out all the existing painting tools in your home and use them to find out more possibilities)

7. For an object: concrete-abstract (use different painting materials to distinguish style differences). (Learn the generalization ability of specific things, generalize a little every day, and the more you draw, the easier it is)

8. Draw an outline, and draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (draw the elements you want through the restricted outline)

9. Make up a group of stories with an interesting little thing. Draw an object, such as a fish, and unfold your own story around the fish every day.

1. Draw the same element. Everyone listens to different music they like, and draws the feelings in different music with this element ~ (Draw music, your feelings, and learn more abstract expressions)

(2) Learn from sketching

Another creative practice method is sketching, and we can get a lot of ideas from sketching at ordinary times. The following is the content extracted from "Learn to sketch with Uncle Philip-Creative Sketching".

1. Leave blank drawing paper and let yourself play freely. Empty your head, what you draw is up to the brush.

2. Blind drawing:

-Close your eyes, feel your five senses with your left hand, and pick up the strokes with your right hand;

-find a model, observe facial features by yourself, and don't look down at your painting during the painting process.

(Blind drawing can help you learn how to observe things better and improve your painting level. )

3. Draw your feelings: The stronger a painting is endowed with personal feelings, the stronger its artistic appeal will be.

4. Draw your focus (imagination will fill the rest of the blank)

-create visual focus for the work, focus on the most important parts of the picture, and fill the rest with imagination.

5. Collect material: Collect something that looks unremarkable and can't be painted alone. (for example, go to a museum and fill it with drawing paper)

6. Natural scenery: pay attention to those strange shapes that can be seen everywhere and explore their unique places.

7. Make good use of multiple perspectives: record everything around you in 36 degrees; Observing the same place from different characters' perspectives, we can also splice different time and space fragments in the same perspective

(3) When artists learn to copy and re-create artists' works, we can better understand their expressions, emotions and colors in the picture. You can also play freely according to your artistic masterpieces and your own imagination.

In April, we mainly studied the painting expressions of artists such as paul klee, Kandinsky, Matisse, Van Gogh, etc. Later, we will have the opportunity to learn from other artists.

4. Recommended reading books

The books shared below are books related to creativity that were purchased before the start of study. Combining practical exercises and some opinions on creativity from other platforms, some useful points were extracted.

Experience of reading creative books:

1. Imagination, Composition and Creative Thinking

The content of composition and creativity mentioned in this book is particularly grounded and very practical. There are many creative-related methods in the book, which is also a reference book for the practice of Creative Painting in April.

2. Many sketches in Creative Sketch

deserve special attention, which will be of great help and inspiration to those who want to start sketching.

3. Lai Shengchuan's Creativity

Teacher Lai Shengchuan's analysis of creativity is very in-depth, and he analyzes the whole creative formation process from his own creative experience.

4. Two books, 52 Creative Painting Practices and Creative Sketch Lab

are mainly about how to extract creative inspiration with different painting materials and creative methods, which will be very helpful for people who want to try various materials, especially suitable for children's painting training institutions.

If the research direction is board drawing, it won't help much; Part of the book is about getting creative inspiration from artists' creative ideas.

There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of them, such as lines, colors, tones, and how to tell stories with illustrations, are particularly exciting.

6. Freestyle Painting: 84 Creative Skills for Illustrators

Among the 88 creative skills, such as background and space, alternative reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective and digital collage, many different creative methods can be obtained, which will give you more inspiration and creative direction.

Third, the summary of creative painting and the display of works

Editor's postscript: Teacher Sheena finished reading 7 books on creative illustrations and watched the drama for 8 hours for sharing in April. Take its essence and organize it into courseware, which is very serious, attentive and efficient; (There should be applause+praise here)

If you see that this place is as "unfinished" as I am, you can go to (Weibo: @Sheena Myth) and share more dry articles about illustrations;

Illustrator Dream Team is a painting world similar to "Utopia". The atmosphere in the group is very good, full of positive energy. It is a very enjoyable thing to see the paintings posted by everyone in the group every day, and it is especially pleasant to learn and grow with friends of the same frequency.

The love of painting makes us look forward to life more.

The dream of painting lies in the brush in your hand.

Wen /Lindsay tidbits

I love reading and traveling;

I love poetry and Guitar;

I love painting and writing;

I'm Lindsay, and I'm slow in reading and writing.

Please call me Miss Snail _ _ How to make my illustrations more valuable

I can be a commercial illustration, a commercial illustration in a package. Product packaging generally consists of signs, graphics and words. Illustrations on product packaging can be divided into suggestive illustrations and explanatory illustrations, which need to show the relevant information of products through commercial illustrations, establish brand image and enhance the understanding between enterprises and consumers. Improve consumers' cognitive level and stimulate their desire to buy. An exquisite illustration package is conducive to the rise of product prices, making advertising creativity reach a higher aesthetic taste, promoting the development of fashion culture and bringing huge profits to enterprises.

commercial illustrations in outdoor advertisements. Posters are distributed in all kinds of public places, and usually convey visual information by combining graphics and words. Most posters take commercial illustrations as the visual center, with flexible and diverse expression methods, paying attention to the use of design creativity and forms, which can generate a close communication with people and is an advertising form with public affinity. Excellent street sign commercial illustrations have strong visual appeal, which can make people instantly attracted, and creatively implement different strategies according to different customers' advertisements, so that people can obtain accurate advertising information. What is the theme of drawing illustrations now?

Modern illustrations can be divided into two categories: commercial illustrations and book illustrations! Commercial illustration is one of advertising communication and visual communication design.