The chief painter from Italy once used a painting.

Omelette

Pictures have exploded the social circle and set off a wave of ultra-realistic colored lead. Some people call MarcelloBarenghi a "texture madman". Indeed, MarcelloBarenghi's shaping of texture has reached the point where people feel numb. If the work is not artistically processed, I believe it is difficult to tell whether it is a photo or a work at a glance.

2. Sislala's colored lead works

The animals written by the British colored lead master Heath Lala seem to be resurrected in the next second. She likes nature very much.

wild animals

She has four cats, four dogs, five turtles, two mice and many fish. She even made many friends with wild animals in captivity, hoping to get in touch with them more and draw their expressions and verve.

3.yvonnegilbert's colored lead works

Yvonnegilbert endowed the color lead with the texture of oil painting with his unique painting skills. In her works, painted lead is as gorgeous and thick as oil painting. She belongs to England.

post office

The designed stamps are not only rated as the most beautiful stamps in the world, but also their works often appear in major illustration exhibitions in Europe.

4. Lawrence's colored lead works

LaureS, a French illustrator, is a self-taught artist who is good at drawing all kinds of lovely and beautiful colorful lead illustrations. She focuses on the creation of children's illustrations, and her style is warm and healing. LaureS bright and warm colors, soft and healing style, warm readers' hearts in minutes.

5. Baker Winnell's colored lead works

Becwinnel, an artist from Australia, is keen on painting exquisite and touching makeup for women. The beautiful girls in her works are delicate, quiet and natural. Her paintings are delicate in brushwork and ethereal in composition, as if glowing with soft light in the morning fog. His creative way is to make other people's photographic works artistic.

re-creation

, through their own description, show a different style.

How to draw a simple illustration with colored lead? Draw a simple illustration with colored lead: prepare work, sharpen colored pencils, prepare 0.5 and 0.7 mechanical pencil, black pen or gel pen, thick and delicate sketch paper or sketch picture book, and compass. Can be used at any time. Take out the compass and put in the refill. Use compasses to draw a circle suitable for your size on sketch paper or picture book. If A4 paper is used, it is recommended that the distance between the top edge of the circle and the edge of the paper is about 2 cm. Draw a draft in the circle with mechanical pencil. Draw the picture you want according to the real thing or copy. Pay attention to writing lightly for revision. Then use a pen or gel pen to determine the lines and draw the outside. The lines should be smooth, even and beautiful. I like to light peony flowers first. The coloring method, using Bordeaux or rose pencil, starts from the root of petals to darken, and then gradually fades to the edge, so that the color has a gradual effect, which has a strong three-dimensional sense and layering. Then paint the leaves with dark green, light green and lake blue colored pencils. The color near the main stem is slightly darker, the root of each leaf is dark green with a little blue, and the tip of each leaf is lightly depicted with a little khaki. Let the color have gradient and transition effects. Make the picture more beautiful. Finally, erase the remaining lines with an eraser and decorate them. Beautiful peony pastel painting will appear in front of your eyes. Note: when drawing a draft, write lightly. It is too heavy to correct, and it is difficult to erase the misplaced pencil lines.

Are these paintings painted in gouache? Or water-soluble colored lead? This is the work of Snow Doll, a cutting-edge illustration group in China. They are a couple with extremely high output. The drawing tool is computer+hand drawing board+drawing software. The style of painting is to imitate the feeling of gouache painting, not to really paint gouache painting with pigments.

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

Otaku and Otaku Deduce Fairy Tales with Brush

Less than a year after its establishment, the number of visitors is close to 1 10,000! Yang Xue, who lives in Yulin South Road, is glad to see that her and her boyfriend Chen's blogs are so popular that fans even call themselves "Snowflakes". Yang Xue and Chen run a blog called "Snow Doll's Children's Painting World", which shows all their illustrations for children's books. Now friends prefer to call them "Melissa Zhou" and "dolls". They are the Snow Dolls, a well-known group of freelance illustrators in Chengdu.

Community and people

It's normal not to go out in a hurry for a week.

The reporter visited the home of Snow Doll the day before yesterday, and the doll opened the door. "Doll" welcomed the reporter into the room and hurried back to the computer on the left: "I'm in a hurry to write a manuscript, so I have to draw and talk." After that, "Doll" operated the tablet, and with the movement of his pen, a "lion" gradually became vivid. He is drawing characters for Aesop's Fables. Two months ago, a foreign children's publishing house found them with the manuscript of this famous book, which contained 150 illustrations. "There are too many manuscripts recently, and I'm really busy. It has been postponed for a few days. " "Doll" has only slept for three or four hours every day for a week, and this night is destined to be another all-night. This time, the illustration style required by the other party is more realistic, so the "doll" with more solid sketching skills serves as the lead writer, and is responsible for the "Melissa Zhou" assistance of composition reference and image adjustment. Every time I meet a large number of lists, the "Snow Doll" has to rush the manuscript side by side. Sleep for a few days after finishing the manuscript. "It's normal not to go out for a week."

Freeman's business depends entirely on chatting online.

365 days a year, "Snow Doll" spends almost 300 days at home, either catching up on manuscripts, sleeping or playing games. Snow dolls call their living conditions "home", and they are naturally "otaku" and "otaku". "Snow Doll" is a frequent visitor to shopping websites, and even the illustration business is connected through the Internet. Snow doll is an illustration of fairy tales and children's literature. Prince and princess, cat and dog, exotic scenery and fantasy world are the main contents of the illustrations of Snow Doll. Every day, the first thing they do is to turn on the computer, check whether there are any comments about children's books in email, QQ and MSN, and if the cooperation conditions can be met, use chat software to have a detailed conversation with the other editor. "Snow Doll" has cooperated with many editors for many years, but most of them contact through online chat and rarely meet offline.

It's no problem to earn 10 thousand a month with high income

"Melissa Zhou" and "Doll" met at 200 1 and marveled at "gene attraction". The two young illustrators hit it off quickly. Although "Melissa Zhou" and "Doll" are different from men and women, all the images in their works are round and lovely.

In 2002, the "Snow Doll" group was announced. The couple are both idealists. They agree to only draw illustrations of children's books and describe beautiful and simple things in the world. Nowadays, the painting skills and word-of-mouth accumulated over the years have made "Snow Doll" famous. With enough confidence, "Snow Doll" is also more cautious when choosing cooperative customers, and tries to make some beautiful illustrations. This year, they pushed away most of the manuscripts, leaving only seven or eight fixed collaborations, and all their spare time was spent learning to charge. Although the workload has decreased, the income is still considerable. The starting price of a single illustration of Snow Doll is relatively high in the industry, and the monthly manuscript fee is at least 10,000.

Recently, they made a new plan to spend a year or more planning a children's picture book by themselves, following their idol and illustrator Tony Wolf.

Community, dynamic

The competition is fierce, and the price of a few dollars is acceptable.

"Now in Chengdu, black and white illustrations cost more than ten yuan, or even several yuan." "Doll" told reporters that illustration is a new fashion profession. Some illustrators are freelancers, such as "Snow Dolls", while others work in studios or companies. According to Snow Doll, young people born after 1975 are the main force of Chengdu illustrators. At present, there are dozens of illustration studios and thousands of freelance illustrators in Chengdu. At present, many colleges and universities have set up illustration majors, and various training courses for commercial illustrators have emerged one after another. A large number of people have started to enter this new profession, and there are more and more competitors, even the lowest contract price has been accepted.

Extended reading

Illustrators, also known as commercial illustrators, are professionals who draw illustrations for enterprises or products and give up the ownership of their works to get paid. Commercial illustration is divided into advertising illustration, publication illustration, cartoon mascot illustration, film illustration, game illustration and so on.

Trainee reporter Chen Zhuo Shi Feng