Introduction to illustration tutorial

The introductory tutorial to illustration is as follows:

Tools/raw materials: brush, paper

1. First paint with a red brush Santa's big belly is the most prominent.

2. Then use different shades of red brushes to paint Santa’s legs.

3. Use dark red and paint to create the shoes.

4. Use dark red and a paintbrush to draw Santa Claus’s belt.

5. Use light to draw a thick edge for the top to reflect the thickness of the clothes.

6. Use a paintbrush and a red paintbrush to paint the basic outline of the head.

7. Use a white paintbrush to draw a beard for Santa Claus.

8. Finally, use a paintbrush and a red paintbrush to draw the arm movements.

9. Use a black brush to paint shadows and modify the details to increase the three-dimensional effect.

10. Finally, use a gold paintbrush to draw a gift bag carried by Santa Claus and it is completed. How to learn to draw illustrations

The zero-based self-study method for illustrators is as follows:

1. Prepare drawing tools

1. ipadpro + drawing software (procreate, MedibangPaint, SketchBook) .

2. Computer + digital tablet + drawing software (ps, sai, ai, sketch).

2. Solid basic skills

There is no shortcut to drawing. If you want to become an illustrator, you must solidify basic skills, continuously polish your touch, and practice repeatedly. This process is essential.

Practice direction: lines, perspective, sketch, shape, composition, color, etc.

In the early stage, find a great person you like and copy his works, and you will make rapid progress. In the later stage, you must focus on improving your originality.

Try not to choose self-study

First, there are many kinds of tutorials on the Internet, and it is impossible to provide targeted guidance.

Secondly, in the process of self-study, affected by factors such as self-control, it is likely to give up halfway through the study.

Thirdly, no one is a saint, and no one can be confused. As long as you are learning, there will definitely be problems, and online tutorials cannot solve all your problems. It is difficult to guarantee such learning effects. . An introductory tutorial for hand-drawn illustrations

The introductory tutorial for hand-drawn illustrations is as follows:

The foundation of hand-drawn illustrations: The basics of sketching are the stepping stone and cornerstone of all art and painting. I started out learning sketching. If they have a good foundation in sketching, they can draw, create and express fluently. The four most basic parts of sketching: proportion of black and white, sense of volume, sense of space and sketching practice. Copying is a shortcut, but copying should not be blindly described, but should be interpreted and described based on the knowledge structure.

Spray painting steps: Deal with the relationship between black, white and gray in the entire picture. Create a sense of volume, pay attention to the relationship between spaces, adjust the relationship between spaces, and pay attention to the objects in front.

Scientific hand-drawn illustration training method: first, sketching, a lot of sketching exercises, enhance your muscle memory and exercise observation ability; secondly, comic line drawing turns drawing lines into the instinct of the hand, allowing the hand to It has been drawn before the brain reacts, so that the line passes; finally, there is watercolor practice. Watercolor can exercise our color matching ability and enhance the sense of color, which will be of great help in later hand-drawn illustrations.

Key points of hand-drawn illustration characters: When we draw characters, if we don’t have a thorough understanding of the structure, it may be fine to keep one action, but once we draw, the character’s structure may deform, so we need to practice characters of.

For the structure of , we can grasp it through sketching. First, draw different angles based on the character drawing and capture the key frames. After mastering it, you can try to draw different movements on your own using space, increase the difficulty of practice, and try to understand it thoroughly. When learning hand-drawn illustrations, you must keep a calm mind.