Are these pictures painted in gouache? Or water-soluble colored lead?

This is the work of the new domestic illustrator group "Snow Doll". They are a pair with extremely high output. The drawing tool is computer+hand-drawing board+drawing software. The painting style is to imitate the feeling of gouache, but it is not really gouache painting with pigments.

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

Otaku and Otaku interpret fairy tales with brushes

Less than one year after its establishment, the number of visitors is close to 1,! Yang Xue, who lives in Yulin South Road, is very happy to see her and her boyfriend Chen Xi's online blog so popular that even fans call themselves "Snowflakes". The blog run by Yang Xue and Chen Xi is 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 "Doll". They are the well-known freelance illustrator group "Snow Doll" in Chengdu.

○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○967 "Doll" welcomed the reporter into the room and hurried back to the computer on the left: "I'm rushing to write a manuscript, so I have to chat while painting." After that, the "doll" operated the handwriting board, and as his pen moved, 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 a manuscript of this famous book, and invited 15 illustrations. "There are too many manuscripts recently, and I am really busy. It has been delayed for a few days." The "doll" has only slept for three or four hours a 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 "Doll", who has a more solid basic sketch skills, is the lead writer, assisted by "Melissa Zhou", who is responsible for composition reference and image adjustment. Every time you meet a large number of lists, the "Snow Doll" has to rush the manuscript side by side like this. Sleep for a few days after finishing the manuscript. "It is normal not to go out for a week."

Freeman's business depends entirely on online chat

365 days a year, and "Snow Doll" spends almost 3 days at home, either catching up on papers, sleeping or playing games. Snow dolls call their living conditions "homes", 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 for fairy tales and children's literature. Prince and princess, cats and dogs, exotic scenery and fantasy world are the main contents of the illustration of Snow Doll. Every day, the first thing they do is to turn on the computer, check whether there are any comments on children's boOKs in Email, QQ and MSN, and if the cooperation conditions are ok, use chat software to talk with the other editor in detail. "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 1, yuan a month

"Melissa Zhou" and "Doll" met in 21, marveling at their "genetic attraction", and the two young illustrators quickly hit it off. Although "Melissa Zhou" and "Doll" are different from men and women, all the images in their works are round and lovely.

in p>22, the "Snow Doll" group was announced. The couple are both idealists, and they agreed to draw only illustrations of children's books and describe beautiful and simple things in the world. Nowadays, years of accumulated painting skills and word of mouth have made "Snow Doll" a minor celebrity. With enough confidence, "Snow Doll" is also more cautious when choosing cooperative customers, and tries to do some fine illustrations. This year, they pushed off most of the manuscripts, only retaining seven or eight fixed cooperation, and the free time was used for studying and charging. Although the workload has decreased, the income is still considerable. The starting price of a single illustration of "Snow Doll" is high in the industry, and the monthly contribution fee is at least 1,.

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

○ Community dynamics

The competition is fierce, and the price of a few yuan is accepted

"Now in Chengdu, black and white illustrations are accepted for 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 Doll", while others work in studios or companies. According to Snow Doll, young people born after 1975 are the main force of illustrators in Chengdu. At present, there are dozens of illustration studios in Chengdu and thousands of freelance illustrators. At present, many colleges and universities have set up illustration majors, and various training courses for commercial illustrators have emerged in an endless stream. A large number of people have begun to enter this new profession, and there are more people competing, and even the lowest contract price has been accepted.

○ Further reading

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

How did trainee reporter Chen Zhuo draw Feng Shi's illustration?

How did I pay a visit to Tuoxin Temple? Why study software? Is it hard?

Illustration is drawn on paper, which is a traditional illustration drawing method, using paper pigments, etc. This is what we usually call hand-drawn illustration, while learning software to draw illustrations refers to

graphics tablet

illustration, or

board drawing

illustration, that is, drawing an illustration on a computer. Is it necessary to learn this form? Of course, it is necessary. At present, online orders for manuscripts basically require drawing with graphics tablet, which is the mainstream demand in the current market because it is convenient to modify and the efficiency of drawing is fast. Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to draw an illustration through software. You can understand what the following board drawing is about, and you will know why you need software to draw illustrations.

The popular understanding of board drawing is to draw on the electronic equipment graphics tablet, and the drawing effect will be presented on the computer, using

ps software

and sai software instead of traditional brushes and paper. As the product of scientific and technological progress, the board drawing has the obvious advantages of being very convenient for repeated modification and adjustment, helping the painter to save a lot of time and energy, and the board drawing works are also convenient to save, and there is basically no cost without pigment and paper. The following picture shows the effect of a graphics tablet painting.

two _ _ _ Ann, but it is difficult to know the design thinking of software.

Many friends will wonder, I know how to operate the software. Why do I feel so overwhelmed when I paint that I can't draw any decent works? The paintings are simply terrible. On the one hand, you are not skilled in the use of software. On the other hand, you do not have the design thinking through software, and you have not mastered the software from the real level. We usually say that learning things should start from two levels: Tao and technique, in which technique is the method and Tao is the thinking and the foundation. Just like using the same seasoning, the dishes cooked by the chef are more fragrant than those cooked by us. This is that the chef has a thinking of cooking and knows how to use the matching seasoning to achieve the right state.

In order to help you improve the technical operation of illustration software, improve your design thinking, and really improve your ability to control the software, students can go to an expert teacher to learn lessons, enrich themselves and broaden their horizons. He will give a free live lecture on the original drawing course of board drawing illustration on the Internet at 8 o'clock every night, even many students with zero foundation like to listen to it, because the teacher's easy-to-understand is quite humorous, which will improve everyone's thinking. Students who want to learn can go to teacher Yu Rou's Wei Xin (homophonic): the first one is w9, and the last one is kaka. Just combine the above two groups of letters in order.

Success in life is not a success without reason, and there is no success

A pie in the sky

. Only by constantly learning, constantly cheering for yourself and replenishing energy, can you really clear the clouds. It is a wise man to put things in other people's heads into his own to make himself stronger.

three _ three commonly used computer illustration and drawing software.

1._S:

PS is recognized as the most powerful picture editing software. Because of its powerful functions, it is too bloated. In fact, the functions that painters can use only account for a small part of its functions. The advantages are powerful deformation tools, layer modes, curve adjustment tools, etc. Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious. First of all, many operations must be combined with keyboard shortcuts, and a large number of operations leave. Secondly, it has been updated to 219CC, and the long-awaited jitter correction (anti-slip) is still very difficult to use, and color fusion is still uncomfortable. His strong brush making and popularity determine that most painters are in the ecology of PS, so PS is called the necessary software for image editing or making.

2.SAI2:

note that it is SAI-2, which has completed earth-shaking changes on the basis of SAI, filled in many shortcomings, and perfectly inherited many advantages of the former. The anti-shake of lines is still smooth as silk, and the color fusion is still natural and touching. This is a special painting software designed for painters. Click on the key points, it is painting software, and PS is image editing software.

3.CSP:

is a painting software with strong advantages in comics. It has all the advantages of SAI and some functions of PS, and of course, even the bloated PS can improve

work efficiency

. The birth of this software really shows that only Japanese engineers can make software that really serves painters. It is the best choice for cartoonists and Japanese illustrators.

To sum up these three softwares:

(1)PS is good at thick painting, showing thick and true texture and light and shadow, or expanding painting imitating the texture of paper or cloth with powerful brushes, and the curve tool is also very easy to use to adjust the picture. Even if other painting software is used as the main tool, PS needs to be used as an auxiliary tool for final adjustment of the draft, with a required index of ten stars. (main tool)

(2) The advantage of SAI2 lies in drawing illustrations of

celluloid

, with smooth lines and clear colors. SAI 2 is a pure and lovely little girl.

CSP, needless to say, the cartoonist must have chosen him.

Four _ only milling S _ screen

The two best apps on the p>IPADiOS system: Procreate and ArtstudioPro

Procreate are easy to learn, and the layout is concise, which is very friendly for beginners. At present, one of the best apps on the IPAD, the

circle of friends I know

basically uses this software by default. The biggest problem is that it can't import third-party brushes, so the old birds who are used to PS and SAI will inevitably feel a little frustrated.

ArtstudioPro is the closest software to PS on the IPAD at present. It is very similar in layout and functional layout, and even can directly import PS brushes and brush presets into the APP. The default grouping is very sour. Even the anti-shake of this product perfectly inherits the chicken ribs of PS, but its deformation tool is not as imaginative as PS, and the delay of big brush is actually better than PS. If it is not in English, this product is undoubtedly the best APP on IPAD at present, and there is no one. It is said that the Chinese version of ArtstudioPro will be launched soon, and Procreate has been crying in the toilet. It is said that the PS with full blood and no castration will also log in to the IPAD,IPAD all the painting apps on the iPad will cry in the toilet together. How to do illustration well?

Illustration, also known as illustration, is an illustration drawn in the form of hand drawing, mouse drawing and computer board drawing. Because of its wide use and different styles, film and television animation and game industry is called CG illustration, which is widely used in design industry, film and television animation and game industry.

Illustration uses pictures to express vividness, sense of life and appeal. The main difference from graphic design can be simply understood as "Illustration highlights story rather than eye-catching". Illustration is also an artistic form of visual expression, which mainly includes photography/painting/three-dimensional illustration. Illustration has a special position in the field of art, which is closely related to the publishing industry. Both e-books and physical books are needed, and there is room for employment in other fields, such as music/film/media.

Extended information:

Common tools for illustration:

1. Hand-drawn illustrations are drawn with paper and pen-common tools: marker, colored lead and watercolor.

2. mouse drawing illustration-common tools: PS, AI, etc.

3. Board drawing illustration-Common equipment: hand-drawn board, digital screen, ipad and mobile phone.

4. The hand-drawn board needs to be connected to a computer to draw in PS, AI and SAI. The digital screen and ipad can draw directly without connecting to a computer, and the mobile phone needs to buy a capacitance pen to draw.

The basic standard for learning illustrations is whether there is an audition class or not.

There are indeed many places to study illustration now, and it is really a mixture of good and evil people, which makes many students spend their eyes. How should they choose? There is a good saying, to judge how a learning place is, we should at least look at the strength of the other party first, and the audition class is to look at the best strength of the other party, and at the same time look at the quality of the course. If even the audition class is not good, then other classes will be more useless. And choose to study this piece, and choose a big school, which is guaranteed.

If you don't know where to find it, you can go to the online class I used to study. That's where I studied. Every night at 8: , there will be a master painting teacher who will give a free live lecture on the illustration and board drawing course online. The teacher's lecture is easy to understand and humorous, and it can explain the painting skills that bother you simply and thoroughly. Watching the teacher's video is much better than reading. One class can solve many problems for you. You can also learn about the development of the whole industry. Anyway, it's free. You can listen to it completely. Giving lectures at night will not delay your work or study during the day. Students who want to listen can enter Weixin (homophonic):

The first group in front is: gon_ WEN-WEN-WEN. Remarks: Illustration.

Since students like to learn board drawing illustrations, they should try it and give themselves a chance. Only by trying can they know if they are the right material, instead of wandering around in their inner world all the time and wasting their talents, which is irresponsible to themselves.

The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of printmaking. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, the scriptures were illustrated in disguised form in order to publicize the teachings. At present, the earliest print work in China is recorded in historical materials, namely "The Mantra of Darani" published in Tang Suzong. It is the title page of the King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the ninth year (868).