CG in CG illustration is ComputerGraphics, and its core meaning is digital graphics. Computer is the main tool for visual design and production industry. It is a combination of art and technology. Drawing a CG illustration well requires not only mastering the illustration software skillfully, but also solid expression ability and unique creative thinking.
As an art form, CG illustration is an important visual communication form in modern design. It occupies a specific position in modern design with its intuitive image, true sense of life and virtue appeal. Add WeChat official account WeChat: Dong Fei, a famous animation teacher, and get 40,000 minutes of learning tutorials for free! An excellent CG illustration has the characteristics of very individuality, rich imagination, changeable angles, bright colors, clear characters, strong three-dimensional sense and realistic pictures.
In the learning process of CG illustration, first of all, let learners know the development history and present situation of illustration, so as to grasp the essence and development trend of illustration. At the same time, we should understand and analyze different illustration styles, representative works and technical characteristics, and design rich colors, exquisite shapes and illusory worlds in CG illustrations according to the needs of the market. In concrete operation, CG illustrator mainly uses computer drawing software and handwriting board to create works. Through the pressure-sensitive effect of the stylus, smooth and realistic lines can be easily drawn, which brings the same hand-drawn experience to CG designers. CG illustration is mainly simple in design and production. Illustration software can simulate traditional painting techniques, and at the same time, it can design effects that cannot be reflected by traditional techniques.
In the primary stage of learning, it is suggested that scholars should first be familiar with lines, which are the soul of illustration. Secondly, observation methods and basic description skills, such as copying mature animation works, are helpful to master the learning methods of CG illustration. When masterpieces can be copied well, scholars can create at various levels at this stage. For example, you can change clothes and gestures for the copied characters. Add WeChat official account WeChat: Dong Fei, a famous animation teacher, and get 40,000 minutes of learning tutorials for free! In short, we should make bold changes, and at the same time, we can practice our works with the help of communication platforms such as the Internet. In the process of learning CG illustration, we should focus on the following aspects.
1, the improvement of sketch ability
Sketch is closely related to the creation of CG illustrations. In CG illustration creation, scholars can extract their feelings about the works through sketch, which is the basis of all painting forms and the life of illustration art. In sketch training, we should pay attention to using perceptual vision to capture learners' ability to summarize images, strengthen their perceptual knowledge, and complete the description of objects in a short time. A good sketch is generally characterized by conciseness, delicacy, vividness and image. Sketch should adhere to long-term training, pay attention to the image of characters, and show the charm of characters well.
2. Master the modeling ability
The most important thing to learn illustration is the modeling ability of scholars. When learning illustrations, scholars should practice their creation on the basis of understanding the structure and accumulate their own inspiration, so as to design good illustrations. At the same time, we should be able to portray the characteristics of people of different ages and sexes, and portray the perspective performance and material texture of different buildings and landscapes.
When learning illustration, you should use good lines to express your head and facial features. It also explains the expressions and differences between head and five senses in traditional art and animation, as well as the proportional relationship between men and women, head and five senses. And the method of expression. At the same time, we should practice drawing the expression of characters' personality on facial expressions, such as emotions. Add WeChat official account WeChat: Dong Fei, a famous animation teacher, and get 40,000 minutes of learning tutorials for free! In physics, we should pay attention to the difference between cartoon characters and actual characters, and summarize the effect of exaggerated performance. Proportion and expression of key parts: neck, trunk, limbs, hands and feet. Understand the characteristics of various body shapes of men and women as a whole, as well as the changes and performances of parts, and perform exercises on the overall body shapes of characters: fat, thin, tall and short.
3. Consolidation of color foundation
Marx once said: "The feeling of color is the most common form of aesthetic feeling". In CG illustration, color affects the atmosphere of a work, whether it is fresh, comfortable, fearful or dangerous, it is closely related to the adoption of color. For example, the whole picture is composed of one color, only the difference between lightness and purity. This kind of picture is simple and soft, giving people a sense of tranquility, comfort and unity. On the contrary, the colors of the works are composed of similar colors or adjacent colors, and the differences in hue area, position, size, purity and lightness of various colors in the composition constitute color contrast. The strong color relationship makes the picture eye-catching and shocking, and such works give people the feeling of excitement, fiery, enthusiasm or irritability. Add WeChat official account WeChat: Dong Fei, a famous animation teacher, and get 40,000 minutes of learning tutorials for free! There are also bright colors, which are generally used in cheerful scenes. Dark and gloomy illustration colors and dark and dignified tones are usually used to express mysterious, horrible and sad atmosphere effects. Illustrations of this color are often used in stories about myths and magic, and the pictures are mainly cool and gray.
4. Creative expression of composition
The essence of creativity is the subversion of tradition and people's inertial thinking, and creativity is full of innovation. Creative composition gives people a novel and unique feeling and can deeply grasp the audience's sight. A good example. The harmonious blend of body language and scene is the focus of composition. At the same time, we should pay attention to these points in the specific composition: First, don't blindly start with "the horizontal plane is up", but always try the angles of "looking down" and "looking up". Second, the movements and expressions of the characters should be full, so that they can jump from the page. Third, the background should set off the characters, and don't let the characters decorate the background, unless the literati draw landscapes and illustrations, it is mainly for people to see. Finally, they should be clear and hierarchical. Only in this way can they design excellent works.
5. Be proficient in software skills
Technical proficiency requires scholars to try to express their works with different tools. The use of different tools will bring different effects to the work, and find out the effect that best suits the style of this work. In the study of CG illustration, brushes and layers are the most commonly used. Brush is the main tool for drawing CG illustrations, and general drawing software has its own brushes with various strokes. You can choose brushes according to your own needs and preferences, and try to express various styles with different strokes; Add WeChat official account WeChat: Dong Fei, a famous animation teacher, and get 40,000 minutes of learning tutorials for free! The second is to make full use of the function of the layer. Establishing different layers according to needs and painting in the corresponding layers can not only speed up the drawing, grasp the overall level of the work, but also facilitate the modification of the work.
6. Adhere to the illustration style with China characteristics.
Under the impact of western culture, according to the artistic characteristics of our country, how to grasp the illustration style of our country has become particularly important. With the development of illustration market, the level of illustration in China will be higher than that in by going up one flight of stairs. CG illustration should not only show the characteristics of the times, but also highlight the national tradition and spirit. For example, the artistic features of China traditional Chinese painting, paper-cutting, shadow play and New Year pictures are applied to CG illustration, and the unique artistic effect and expression of China traditional art are digitized, which not only enriches the form and content of illustration, but also develops the illustration form with local characteristics.
PS photos to hand-drawn illustrations (with characters) For us who have been obsessed with countless comics, how happy it is to be able to turn photos of our travels and parties into illustrations/comics, as if we could create our own comic world. Let me share my creative process here. Let's put a comparison chart before and after:
There are many photo-to-illustration tutorials on the Internet, but only photos with pure scenery can look good, and people's photos always have the feeling of "knowing at a glance that they are photos". So I added some hand-drawing on the basis of the online tutorial to make the final effect more like hand-drawing.
First of all, we should turn the photos into illustrations. There are many such tutorials, and the better one is: PS saves the hand cancer party for three minutes to learn the hand-drawn illustration style. You can refer to it, so I won't repeat it here. The effect is as follows:
If there is any deviation in the effect made by everyone, it may be that I adjusted the color when I made it (I can't remember it for too long).
In fact, after the first step, it has been very feel, but I prefer the animation style, and the characters above are still partial to oil painting. So, according to the characters in the photo, make a new line draft and color it, and it's done:
Poof, I'm kidding, but the script really needs to be typed first, so you can use your imagination. You don't have to stick to the original picture, just handle the perspective and interaction of the scene. In order to see clearly, I reduced the transparency of the background:
Please forgive my 50-point hand-drawing skill (covering my face). In fact, no matter how you paint it, it won't be too bad after coloring the beautiful scenery.
Here you can refer to some hand-painted coloring techniques. I'm Xiao Bai, so I won't embarrass myself. However, it can provide a simple way to pick some bright and bright colors and draw solid colors for people. The simpler it is, the more hand-drawn illustration it feels. Or refer to the color matching in the works of Miyazaki Hayao and Xinghai City, all of which are very bright. Coloring effect:
Finally, combining characters and scenes, pay attention to the occlusion relationship (in fact, the girl behind the pillar in the above picture has already handled the occlusion relationship), and you can add some shadows to enhance the sense of reality. Ps can only erase a little of the original words in the soap chip. Another very important element is the sky, which can set off the atmosphere very strongly In terms of hue, my scene is a little yellow-green, so I also chose the sky with this hue. There can't be too many clouds in the sky, otherwise it will steal the host's attention and the audience will be attracted to the sky involuntarily. I chose Makoto Shinkai's Sky, and the final draft is as follows:
This article only talks about the basics. Interested children's shoes can be hand-painted after in-depth study, and you can draw more awesome works. But painting in photos is more important than technology, such as the works of Swedish illustrator JohanTh_rnqvist:
Expand your imagination, I believe everyone can create interesting illustrations with your photos.
Want to learn how to get started with illustration? One _ Pan invaded and gave himself a reason to learn illustration.
My major in university is science and engineering. I resigned after working in a state-owned enterprise for two years. How did I learn illustration one year after I resigned?
It's been a whole year since I started to learn illustration at this time last year. Like most people, when I first started to learn illustration, I also received many obstacles, such as: you started too late now ... making illustrations requires a lot of skills, but you didn't ... all these are true, but they still didn't stop me from starting.
The reason is love, of course. If you can do what you love, you are really lucky.
Especially now illustrations have been widely used in all walks of life, including startup pages, banners, special topics, refresh pages, details pages, icons, pop-up boxes, background pictures, holiday splash screens, expression packs, packaging, vi design, book illustrations, and many illustrations. Even now, illustrations in ui design have become a plus item. It is so important to know how to illustrate. Even if it's just a hobby, you will find the whole life better.
Two _ quail coward ≡ pure support шшш appearance! _ A: Yes, it's simple and not difficult.
This year, many people asked me, can I really learn illustration well without taking classes and laying a foundation? Are you really zero-based? My study experience tells me that it is possible! No one is born to be an illustrator. Excellent illustrators learn a little, so can we. And many illustrators are very good at sharing, and I have benefited a lot from it. Although there is still a big gap between my paintings and theirs, I am glad that I have made rapid progress in sorting out my works this year.
Three _ There is no way to teach yourself illustrations. In fact, I am just digging a hole for myself.
At the beginning, when I taught myself illustration, I knew that I was reading with a book or pulling a bunch of video tutorials from the Internet, but I always felt that I was stuck in my study. My study was always in a mess and my mind was in a mess. On the road of self-study, the more you go forward and work harder, the more you have an impulse to give up. My heart really broke down.
Later, I consulted my college classmate Wang. After graduating from college, she made illustrations. She said you didn't even reach the level of half a bottle and less than one bottle. How dare you play self-study You're confused about the most basic concepts. You are not teaching yourself. You are deceiving yourself. Then Wang put me in a large learning resource (skirt) with original pictures and illustrations, in which all kinds of video tutorials are systematic, and teachers share relevant knowledge every day, so I listen to them every day, not to mention really studying illustrations, and my inner doubts are swept away.
Many friends have been asking me how to find a large-scale learning resource (skirt) for original painting illustrations. Let me share it with you. The first set of numbers is: 239, the second set is: 869, and the last set is: 377. Personally, I think I can have a good learning foundation to accompany me on the road of learning.
Four _ I can copy the process of learning illustration, believe in myself and expect the future.
(1) If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.
My usual tools include a computer, PS software and wacom hand-drawn board. My computer is a macbookpro 15 inch notebook. At present, all my illustrations are drawn by PS, which is the most comprehensive software compared with SAI, AI and SKETCH. Hand-drawn board needs some feel, many friends say it is not very good, just practice it a few times. Maybe it's because I just don't have a hand-drawn foundation. The first time I used the hand-drawn board, I felt very good. I thought a few strokes on the board could be presented by PS. It's so interesting. I fell in love with the hand-drawn board, so I didn't transition from paper to hand-drawn board when I came into contact with illustrations, but started to use hand-drawn board directly, and repeatedly checked the missing parts according to the problems I encountered.
(2) Copy-if you can't copy it, copy it first.
Because there is no art foundation, hand-drawing is the most difficult for me. At first, I really couldn't draw it I found some beautiful illustrations from the internet and picked some simple pictures, such as some plants, a small animal and a villain.
(3) semi-copying-imitation is boring, and imitation requires skill.
I copied about three or four. In fact, I have mastered several expressions of board drawing, and I will find that compared with the original, the copied ones are still good. Next, I found it useless to just plagiarize, because even the best plagiarism is the result of others. You are just imitating, and all you can learn is the expression of the original, that is, some software technologies. If you really want to draw by yourself, there is no idea in your mind and you don't know how to write in your hands.
At this time, I began to try semi-copying, that is, adding some of my own ideas on the basis of the original work, which is equivalent to adding some of my own hand-painted ideas to the mastered techniques. By collecting materials (first drawing a draft on paper, then taking photos with my mobile phone and sending it to PS for painting), or changing the composition of the original picture, I replaced or modified what I thought was useful into the original picture. In short, it is to modify the original works according to your own ideas. These are all works of that stage. It is difficult for me to do this step well without an art foundation. At that time, I thought it was difficult to draw anything, so I practiced in my notebook, but I still felt that the progress was too slow behind closed doors.
From the learning foundation mentioned by Wang, I found a set of sketch courses to make up for the artistic skills that everyone has always mentioned. At first, I couldn't draw straight lines, so I began to practice drawing straight lines, shaping geometric figures, tuning, shaping the relationship between light and shade, and so on. By learning sketch, I began to have a systematic understanding of the expression and modeling of light and shadow.
Learn sketch-geometry, still life, landscape, structure and sketch. I will apply what I have learned to my board painting as much as possible, and gradually feel less laborious and hand-drawn will be better.
(4) originality-learn from others and form your own.
The next step is originality. In fact, originality is not completely conceived out of thin air and then drawn, but based on many materials. My method is to collect pictures and photos of what I want to draw online, find out what I like, and then collect the elements involved in the picture in my mind from different fields and combine them into a picture according to my own ideas. This confirms a sentence: innovation is a new combination of old elements.
In addition, at this stage, I also began to learn more board painting techniques. I often ask teachers in the learning base for many video tutorials, and then draw with them, because illustrations have many styles, such as realism, plane, texture and so on. For me, I like the plain and fresh style, so I will analyze how these illustrations are represented, what brushes are used, how the graininess is made, what materials are superimposed, and why the colors are beautiful. Then I began to summarize these techniques and become my own things, but I can't copy them, but use them invisibly to form my own style.
Five _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Learning needs a process and hardship. Don't always think about getting there in one step. This is unrealistic. We should be down-to-earth, pay attention to ways and means, show wisdom in our efforts, and make efforts in wisdom.
(1) About software
There was an episode in the study of PS software, because I studied illustration before, and of course I didn't know what a hand-drawn board was at that time. At that time, I studied photography. Because I like photography better, photography will inevitably be done later, so I began to learn PS retouching or making posters. Well, the episode is over and the real dry goods are here.
I learned PS by reading a book called PS Non-trace. This book is very thick. I just resigned in June last year,165438+1October. I watched it for almost a month, but I really studied very carefully at that time. After graduation, I seldom read reference books so hard, and I also made various marks. I admire myself now. After reading this book, I really felt that I was proficient in PS, haha. In fact, if you just paint, you don't need to master it. What you use is nothing more than those tools.
(2) About the website
The websites I use the most every day are Station Cool and Petals, which have many excellent works that can be used to copy and practice. There are also some design competitions on the China of Station Cool and UI. Interested parties can take part in it. I have participated in poster design competitions and some pattern design competitions, which are all good experiences, mainly because I can learn what ideas and expressions other excellent designers will use under the same topic.
It is also helpful to make good use of petal net. Usually, you can collect all your favorite illustrations or materials into the petal net, and you can go directly to see them when you use them, like a fortune of your own. I also have a special collection of my inspiration library, which is full of some creative materials I have browsed, and basically there will be a point that I can hardly think of. Then, when I am not inspired, I will go through it and often get something.
(3) About books
I used to work in a state-owned enterprise. State-owned enterprises really feel like frogs boiled in warm water. Now think about that time, either going to work or doing nothing after work. On weekends, I think about how to relax, where to go shopping, Taobao and buy all kinds of clothes. The wardrobe is full, but I still have no clothes to wear when the season changes. ......
I have changed a lot since I resigned last year. What buy buy bought was not clothes, but various books, such as design, illustration, photography, learning methods, copywriting, operation, quality of life and so on. Personally, I think it's very helpful to learn some books that the teacher showed me in the resource library.
Principles of color matching design
Practical sketch course
Elaboration of illustration design skills in illustration classroom.
How to be an illustrator
84 creative skills of illustrators.
(4) About creation
Creation is actually an effective presentation after a lot of accumulation. I think the accumulation here is to watch more, practice more and record more.
Look at more optimistic works that stimulate the desire to create.
To practice more is to practice more hand-drawing skills and improve the creative speed.
Remember more is to remember more instant inspiration and increase creativity.
I summarized all the above by myself, I don't know if it's right, but I suddenly found that my summary is quite good, at least very neat, like serious nonsense, haha.
If you watch too much, don't say it. It has written in detail where to go. If you practice more, you won't say it. Just practicing. I am not afraid of too much. I'm also practicing.
Remember that I have to say a few words, because I found that many inspirations are instantaneous. I don't know if you feel this way. For example, when I was cooking, I suddenly thought of drawing a picture, and then I thought, I must write this idea down when I was cooking, but when I was cooking, I suddenly asked myself that I would write it down, so no matter what I was doing or going out, I usually put it in my bag. Of course, if you have a special function that you can't forget, you can ignore this.
These are some of my main learning methods, I hope I can help you. Remember, watch more, practice more and record more!