How to cultivate and improve aesthetic ability?

Here are some ways for everyone:

We all say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, and beauty can be discovered with the eyes. Let's discuss how to look at it first.

1. Reading

2. Watching exhibitions

You can watch different exhibitions, such as graphic design exhibition, industrial design exhibition, landscape painting exhibition, clothing exhibition, etc. Experience different forms of beauty.

3. Watching movies

Movies are actually an audio-visual combination, and many scenes of movies are carefully designed. For example, Audrey Hepburn's film Funny Face. Some of the scene compositions intercepted here are thoughtful. Like the first picture, Hepburn arranged for a person to walk behind him, and with colorful balloons fluttering on the black-and-white film, the combination of motion and static makes it lively and lively.

here, I intercepted a frame and adjusted the color of an old woman's clothes. In Figure 2, the lightness and saturation are raised, and the hue has changed a little, so the old woman appears abrupt in the picture. Figure 3 darkens the old woman's clothes, reducing lightness and saturation, adding some gloomy flavor to the picture, which makes people feel that the old woman is not kind enough. In the original picture, the contrast between the red and blue clothes of the old woman and the children increases the interest of the picture, and the similar lightness saturation makes the picture look more comfortable and harmonious.

4. Look at the materials

I will log in the petals every day and collect the good materials. For some source files that are not convenient to collect petals, such as PSD format, I will create a material folder locally, which will be saved by fonts, icons, banner, etc.

Next, let's talk more and listen more:

1. Listen to concerts, concerts, and join relevant clubs

Like we listen to a concert. There is also a connection, a hierarchy and feelings in the song. Some singers are very explosive and can instantly ignite the enthusiasm of the audience. Some lyric songs can also impress the audience, evoke many thoughts and emotions, and cause * * *. We can think deeply about how we were ignited and moved. Besides listening to songs, we can also watch the singer's modeling, the design of the stage and the change of lighting, from which we can absorb inspiration and apply it to our work.

2. Listening to industry professionals share

Participating in some industry activities will make us know more people in the circle, and the exchange and collision of ideas will broaden our horizons. Sometimes it may be a word from an industry elder, which will make your long-term confusion suddenly clear. As a whole, the guests who can share things on stage will have higher aesthetic ability from the perspective of things.

Then smell more:

1. Experience the food

Like this photographer, the food is very small and fresh, and the composition is very special. With related objects to set off the atmosphere, there is a refreshing feeling, which makes people feel that eating such food is a very happy thing and life is very beautiful.

2. Go out and get close to nature.

for example, listen to birds and smell flowers. After all, we have been living in nature, and countless items that appear now are all inspired by nature. You can integrate your feelings about nature into your design and form your brand story.

in my spare time, I will observe the process of a potted flower from germination to withering, which will cause you to think a lot about life.

or look at the scenery in front of you. You will find that the beauty presented in the same place at different times and in different weather will vary greatly.

the second thing is to practice more.

Theory should always be combined with practice. In the process of doing it, you will find more problems, and the process of solving problems will also greatly promote growth. When I am free, I will also try some exercises that I am interested in or need for work. These are very early exercises. If you practice more, quantitative change will produce qualitative change. I haven't accumulated enough in this respect myself.

after a lot of practice, or during the practice, you should think more.

On the one hand, we should study other people's works more. Why is it widely accepted and respected by the public? Analyze the reasons behind it. Such as Yayoi Kusama's pop art and Kenya Hara's minimalism.

finally, your attitude is very important.

Why do we appreciate Japanese and German designs? I think they are independent thinking, dedicated, rigorous, confident, detail-oriented and self-seeking. These qualities or work attitudes have made their designs, which can also be called ingenuity. We contemporary people are impetuous now, and there are not many people who can calm down and concentrate on doing one thing and persist in it for a long time. Like our ancients, the aesthetics during the Tang and Song Dynasties were still quite high, and many works of art with aesthetic feeling appeared.

Many of us like to use Apple's products, and a large part of us are out of a show-off and follow the trend, but its products are really great. Apple's success can't be separated from Jobs' insistence on his design concept. He can try his best to push his ideas to realize regardless, dare to take responsibility, bravely persist in himself, and constantly polish his products to the extreme.

For example, if you make a design draft, the project team may accept it, but your work may always hover around 6 points. When the project team can accept a work with a score of 6, you can pursue yourself, and you are willing to spend more time to achieve it with a score of 8, then your aesthetic level will be higher and the quality of your work will certainly be better. This is your personal pursuit.

finally, I want to say that a real designer can lead the public's aesthetics. I hope that we can all keep our original intentions, keep our ingenuity, not compromise easily, broaden the depth and breadth to think about product design, so that our final works can express high-level aesthetics.