Illustrator Dream Support Team | No.2 "Creative Painting" is a spiritual journey with one person and one painting style, one painting and one story. No.2 _ Sharing Guest: Sheena myth, her eyes are bright, her smile is flowery, and her voice is like a lark. Gentle and quiet personality, giving people the warmth like spring breeze; English majors, non-art students, studied from scratch, and started the road of illustration with their love and persistence in painting. Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; Full color+modeling and texture, simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; The characters are exaggerated and interesting, full of creativity, more story-telling, showing a modern fashion side and unique style. She has many labels: founder of Sheena Illustrator/vision china, member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association, signed illustrator/founder of Sheena Illustrator Studio. Teaching style: natural and cordial, unpretentious, smooth and silent. Combining the thirst, exploration and simplicity of illustration knowledge with my own experience in learning illustration, this paper summarizes and designs an innovative and efficient illustration punching activity-Sheena Illustration Punching. Comments and guidance on students' homework, direct and meticulous recognition, give students the greatest enthusiasm for teaching, and her love for painting exerts a subtle influence on every student. Up to now, over 1000+# Weibo's topic, Sheena's illustrations are hot for 7 million+April's creative sharing is full of dry goods, which brings us too many surprises and touches, and the most important thing is to open our eyes. It turns out that you can draw like this, an outline, two words, an animal extending into a story; Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. Learning here does not mean imitation or copying, but learning by watching, remembering and drawing. The first is to look, and looking is to carefully observe the characteristics of other people's excellent works. From the layout and composition, observe how the works use space and elements to form a picture. Followed by the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark, cold and warm colors, density and size in the picture. Finally, the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work. There are no two identical paintings and no two identical people in the world. 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 course "on-site" review Second, the creative painting course "Essentials" explanation 1_ Creative painting materials and methods are practiced in stages: the first stage: draw an outline and draw an imaginary picture (9 squares) according to the outline. Draw the elements you want through the limited outline; Case 1 (Primitive: The Method of Sheena Myth) tries to break away from the original shape and show some objects with limited contours. In this way, we can find that because of some restrictions, we can draw more interesting graphics. Case 2 (original: glasslinda's method) tries to set some themes for yourself, and drawing the theme-related (9 squares) through this shape can also inspire a lot of inspiration. The theme of divergent thinking is set as follows: 1. Articles related to life; 2. Eat, drink, be merry, eat, wear, live and travel; 3. Animals and plants; 4. Human head, chest and body movements; 5. Different forms of expression (head up, head down, head up); 6. The combination of positive form and negative form; 7. Think about the outline (silhouette); 8. The internal articles are combined into the required shape; 9. Have an epiphany and paint freely; The second stage: draw a picture by combining completely unrelated keywords. (9) Break the conventional thinking and draw unexpected scenes. Case 1 (original: how to make sauce) The key words of this picture are spring+time divergent thinking: spring-spring outing-flying kites outdoors-having a good day; Associating related elements through divergent thinking and extracting+combined elements; Creative process: In the creative process, I seek inspiration from generation. In these references, I think the girl who flies a kite in the clock points to spring. Later, hair and kites were connected in an exaggerated way. Case 2 (original: the method of meatballs) The keywords in this picture: Chunlan+Lock makes a mind map through keywords, writes out all the elements that can be thought of, and then extracts+combination elements from it; Divergent thinking: head-key-vast sea of people-searching for self-opening mind-unlocking the creative process: turning the head into a key through divergent thinking, the black line around the lock represents floating waves, and struggling to find your own lock in the vast "lock sea". The third stage: make up a story with an animal element. Case 1 (original: Alina Alan's method) Creative thinking of story series: The picture book is to express an emotion, convey an idea, and also to tell people some truth, so I consider the story and emotional expression of the picture book when creating. My Story is a dream, expressing my inner desire. People living in fast-paced cities, due to the pressure of work and life, occasionally have negative emotions, sometimes feel depressed and become restless, leaving too little time and space for themselves outside 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 "sika deer and me". I like sika deer very much. Sika deer is also my lucky pet. ) 2_ Two steps to improve creativity: (1) Accumulate creative inspiration books at ordinary times: record them anytime and anywhere. What happened around us, dreams, whimsy, points of interest, museum inspiration, dreams, books, movies, poems and warm sentences can all be sources of inspiration for later creation. Photo album: Collect favorite pictures, photos and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The material library of illustration creation can be specifically classified, such as color, brushwork, modeling, scene, decoration and so on. In the subsequent creation, you can try to start a new creation with these accumulated colors and strokes. Shi Kaida: A video about "Creative Storage Methods Necessary for Illustration Creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and bookshelves is particularly helpful. There are contents and skills in the bookshelf: the contents record your diary, reading notes and collected articles; Collect colors, strokes, shapes and scenes, and decorate the methods you are interested in and want to try. Shelf: 1_ What should I draw? 2_ What did you try? You can use this method at the beginning of creation. (2) There are three ways to practice (action): visual diary: the method of creation is particularly useful, and we can accumulate materials for learning creativity by doing visual diary. (Weibo @Hi Blow) Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiments, telling stories with pictures; Copy works, collages and other interesting ways to record and learn. 3_ Three Practical Ways to Practice Creativity: (1) Learn from Sketch The following are very practical creative practice methods extracted from imagination, composition and creative thinking, three of which are also practiced this time and are very practical. 1. After seeing one object, think of another object and relay in turn. Enhance imagination, the same object, after 9 days, everyone's final result will be very different. Combine completely unrelated things and draw a picture. Break the usual thinking and draw unexpected scenes. Two different figures combined to draw a portrait. (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 painting itself. Draw an animal. Draw the animal in your own mind. 6. Try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc. ) Use different painting materials. Turn out all the existing painting tools at home and use them to find out more possibilities. Aim at an object: concrete-abstract (use different painting materials to distinguish different styles). Learn the generalization ability of specific things, generalize a little every day, and the more you draw, the easier it is. Draw an outline and draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (draw your own elements through the defined outline) 9. Make up a story with an interesting little thing. Draw an object, such as a fish, and tell your story around the fish every day) 10. Draw the same elements. Everyone listens to different music they like, and uses this element to draw feelings in different music ~ (Draw music, your feelings, and learn more abstract expressions) (2) Sketching is another creative practice method, from which we can get many ideas. The following is an excerpt from "Learning Sketch from Uncle Phil-Creative Sketch", which will be of great help to start practicing sketching. 1. Leave blank drawing paper and let yourself play freely. Empty your head, what you draw depends on the brush. 2. Blind painting:-Close your eyes, feel the five senses with your left hand, and pick up the strokes with your right hand; -find a model, observe the five senses by yourself, and don't look down at your own paintings during painting. Blind painting 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 part of the picture, and fill the rest with imagination. 5. Collect materials: collect things that look inconspicuous and can't be drawn alone. (For example, go to a museum and fill it with drawing paper) 6. Natural scenery: pay attention to the grotesque shapes that can be seen everywhere and explore their unique places. 7. Make good use of multiple perspectives: record everything around you in 360 degrees; Observing the same place from different characters' perspectives can also splice different time and space fragments from the same perspective. (3) When artists learn to copy and recreate artists' works, we can better understand their expressions, emotions, colors, etc. You can also play freely according to your own artistic masterpieces and your own imagination. In April, I mainly studied the painting forms of artists such as paul klee, Kandinsky, Matisse and Van Gogh. In the future, 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 you started studying. Combined with practical exercises and other platforms' views on creativity, some useful points are extracted. Experience in reading creative books: 1. The content of composition and creativity mentioned in the book Imagination, Composition and Creative Thinking is particularly grounded and very practical. There are many methods related to creativity in the book, and it is also a reference book for creative painting practice in April. 2. Many sketches in Creative Sketch are particularly noteworthy and will be of great help and inspiration to those who want to start sketching. 3. "Creativity in Lai Shengchuan" Teacher Lai Shengchuan's analysis of creativity is very in-depth, and analyzes the whole formation process of creativity from her own creative experience. 4. Two books, 52 Creative Painting Practices and Creative Sketch Lab, mainly talk 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 will not help much; Part of this book is about getting creative inspiration from artists' ideas. There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of them, such as lines, colors and tones, are particularly wonderful in how to tell stories with illustrations. 6. "Freestyle Painting: 84 Creative Skills for Illustrators" There are 88 creative skills such as background and space, replacement reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective and digital collage, which can obtain many different creative methods and give you more inspiration and creative direction. Third, the summary of creative painting and the editing postscript of works display: In April, Teacher Sheena read seven books about creative illustration and watched eight hours of drama to share. Take its essence and organize it into courseware, which is very serious, dedicated and efficient; (There should be applause+praise here) If you see that this place is as "unfinished" as me, you can go to (Weibo: @ Sheena Myth) to share more dry articles about illustrations; Illustrator Dream Team is a painting world similar to utopia. The atmosphere in the group is very good and full of positive energy. It's a pleasure to see the pictures posted by everyone in the group every day, and it's 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; Text//Lindsay loves reading and traveling; Love poetry and guitar; ; Love painting and writing; I'm Lindsay. I'm slow in reading and writing. Please call me "Miss Snail" _ _ What's the order taking rate in your class? Your class is quite reliable.

My college classmates and I are studying illustration and graphic design in your class. The teacher assigns homework, comments on homework, explains homework one by one, and each student tells corresponding questions. You can ask the teacher any questions after class and answer them one by one. Teachers and teaching assistants will recommend private mailing lists according to students' progress and ability, and the private mailing lists will be designed by teachers and teaching assistants. Tuition can be earned back. Generally speaking, it's not bad. My college classmates and I are studying illustration and graphic design in your class. The teacher assigns homework, comments on homework, explains homework one by one, and each student tells corresponding questions. You can ask the teacher any questions after class and answer them one by one. Teachers and teaching assistants will recommend private mailing lists according to students' progress and ability, and the private mailing lists will be designed by teachers and teaching assistants. Tuition can be earned back. Generally speaking, it's not bad. During the winter vacation, the student dog always likes Japanese illustrations. It seems that the oral illustration class with blue pencil is not bad. Have you ever taken a class? When I was still in high school, I signed up for a blue pencil, which was also in Dingding class. At that time, I had some foundation, and the progress was a little faster, but later, because of my studies, painting was intermittent, and the teacher couldn't help but urge me to do my homework. The final course is due. This is what happened that time. To sum up: 1. Online classes can really learn systematically and step by step. 2. Online classes have high freedom, so you must have the motivation and time to draw. Then I go to college now, have an ipad, and can draw at any time. I went on to take Codin's class (half price). Targeted crazy painting practice, (awesome), the progress is still obvious. The courses include live lessons, homework guidance, group lessons, and you can also watch small tutorials sent by teachers on the platform. The live class is also a big lecture, mainly some basic and general things. One-on-one tutoring on homework is what I value more. It is helpful to point out the mistakes directly.