1. Draw the tallest tower first. When painting, we should grasp the style and characteristics of European architecture, and we can simply draw the relationship between light and shade with lines.

2. Draw two buildings with different heights on the left side of the tower, and pay attention to drawing windows on the buildings.

Draw a house with different angles along the building on the left, draw a window, and then draw a bridge under the building, don't ignore the details of the railing.

Draw two trees on the far left of the house. You can only draw trunks and branches, not leaves, and then draw grass and banks at the bottom.

5. Draw two big stones on both sides of the river bank. You can simply draw some textures on the stone, and then draw the running water in the river.

Data expansion:

Operational definition of sketch: the drawing method of expressing objects with a relatively single color with the help of lightness change. Sketch painting tools are varied and not limited to one tool.

Sketch is a relatively fast sketch form. Sketch level is one of the important indicators reflecting the basic level of painting and basic modeling ability of painters.

Sketch is an important foundation of realistic painting, and it is also the art of restraint that needs rational assistance most. Generally speaking, beginners learn to sketch first, and those who sketch well will naturally draw well in oil painting. The origin of sketch generally began in the Renaissance. In fact, Greek bottle paintings and sculptures have a good sketch foundation.

The original sketch is considered as a manuscript of painting. For example, to make a mural, we must first have a draft of the idea, then a draft of the sketch, and at the same time, we must have an accurate sketch of the hand and face. Painting murals is used to not looking at the model, relying entirely on the sketches prepared in advance and the painter's memory.

How to draw MBE-style illustrations in Procreate course Recently, I copied MBE-style small icons four times in succession, gained some new experiences, and also came up with some tips and made a summary record.

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(2020 10 15 icon copy RoundOne, By@ balls)

(2020 1020 icon copy round trip, by @ balls)

(2020 102 1 icon copy round trip, By@ balls)

The main contents of this paper are as follows (

There is a mind map summary at the end of the article, including video):

0 1 Six Common Illustration Styles

The characteristics of MBE are summarized from five aspects.

Draw MBE illustrations in five steps.

Five skills of drawing quickly and easily.

0 1

Six Common Illustration Styles

What is MBE style? Baidu, you will know.

It is this cute-looking style that is very recognizable.

It was designed by designer MBE who dribbled the ball. It is simple, interesting and beautiful, and has been called "MBE style" since its popularity.

If you feel that there is no concept, you will be more impressed if you put it in a group.

Just like Master Xing told a beautiful woman to look for Chou-heung.

Six common poster styles of illustration are also popularized here, so that you can see the "MBE style" at a glance.

(Image by @ balls)

Careful friends may also find that the above picture also realizes MBE style with Keynote.

02

The characteristics of MBE are summarized from five aspects.

Before you learn how to draw, you should know the characteristics of this style, so that you can have a better start.

After careful observation, I sum up my feelings from the following five aspects.

① Lines: concise, thick and bright, smooth and supple. There is an obvious breakpoint, but it is also a very smooth transition.

2 shape: the outline dominated by lines is also round, without prominent sharp corners and right angles, and it feels full and fat.

③ _ Consultation: The colors are very bright, usually yellow, orange and blue. There is background color overflow and obvious light and dark colors, that is, highlights and shadows.

④ Expression: Minimalist lines and simple smiling faces make objects personified and lovely.

⑤ Ornaments: There will be decorations around the main body, which are basically changes such as snowflakes, crosses and circles.

03

Draw MBE illustrations in five steps

How to draw it specifically? Come on, five steps.

Let me explain, because I always copy a pile at a time, and my personal painting habits are definitely different, so the steps don't need to be the same, and it's simple and convenient to get there.

The following is a summary of the steps of egg routine based on four copies, for reference only.

① Draw the outline first.

Select the Single Line brush in Calligraphy.

_ Draw the outline with glue.

Erase some lines with an eraser and make broken lines.

② Handling breakpoints.

Draw a "dot" with the same thickness and move it to the interruption of the erase line to create a circle.

3 Add an expression.

_ Hard-to-wipe mace _ Hard-to-wipe mace.

(4) Apply background color to increase shadows.

_ Fairy, move to contour edge to create overflow.

_ ≡ Obsessed magpies are hard to understand. They paint along the edge of the outline and create shadows.

Choose a color lighter than the background color and highlight it.

⑤ Add embellishment.

Add snowflakes, plus signs and solid hollow circles around the sky of the main painting.

In this way, a simple MBE-style illustration is completed.

Take a look at the shortened video of the specific process.

04

Five skills of drawing quickly and well

I am used to adding an area to the canvas as a "copy record" after copying, and I can also review my whole process feelings from four copies of the copy record.

From "finding it difficult" to "addiction" to "finding it easy", I also came up with some small methods.

① Draw the outline quickly.

Some pictures are symmetrical. If you want to draw faster and better, you can use the symmetry auxiliary function.

In the drawing guide function, choose symmetry, and there are horizontal, vertical, four quadrants and radial options to help us draw better.

② There are four ways to deal with breakpoints quickly.

◆ _ Hook: As mentioned above, draw a "dot" with the same thickness and move it to the interruption of the erase line.

_ Fat Pocket: Restore the original marked path and overflow the breakpoint from the point.

Large pixel shift: Enlarge lines, and on the basis of dot method or dot method, supplement or erase the detailed pixel grid by adjusting the thickness of "eraser" or "brush".

◆ _ Prize: The first three methods actually test patience, and the fastest method is the fourth one. Directly copy the endpoint that has not been erased at the other end of the line, and then move to the breakpoint, perfect!

3 quickly add embellishments.

When copying multiple icons at a time, it takes a lot of time and patience to decorate them one by one. But Goose obsessive-compulsive disorder doesn't want to make every ornament look the same just by copying layers.

What should I do? Make a decorative brush, which can be done quickly, and the position and color can be changed.

④ Keep the copy size consistent.

Draw a grid before painting, and plan the layout through the grid of the same size.

⑤ Keep the line thickness consistent.

Everyone who has stepped on the pit knows that when we zoom in and zoom out, the original line will also become thinner, so in order to avoid this situation, we also need to make a good layout in advance with the grid above, so that we don't have to zoom in and out later.

(2020 1023 icon copy round four，By@ balls)

The above are some experience summaries of egg painting MBE illustration. Finally, put the fourth complex drawing and a little summary mind map.

(Small summary mind map by @ 囎囎囎)

Progress comes from constant practice.

Draw it.

Related articles: Summarize how to learn to draw in half a month through self-study.

How to learn to draw illustrations from scratch? If you know what illustration is and what tools you can use it, you can practice directly with pictures. After taking the first step, the next operation will be much easier.

This is a picture I drew when I first studied illustration. It belongs to flat style and is easy to use among many illustration styles. Next, I will take this picture as an example to tell you how a complete illustration is made.

This illustration is actually made up of several small objects.

Because of space reasons, here I will take the simplest mobile phone as an example to show the whole painting process.

The first step is to open the digital drawing software AI and create a new canvas. Students who don't have a software foundation should first go online to find free courses to familiarize themselves with software, such as Netease Cloud Classroom and Youyou.com, which all have complete introductory tutorials.

After creating a new canvas, a window will pop up. You will see several commonly used canvas sizes. You can select one of them or create a new size in the list on the right. If it is a new size, it is best to change the name of the canvas first, then adjust the width and height of the canvas, and then adjust it vertically or horizontally. The color mode is generally RGB mode, so don't change it casually.

After creating the canvas, drag the picture on the desktop into the created canvas window.

The first step after dragging in is to adjust the brush. There is a brush tool at the bottom of the menu bar. Click the drop-down box with the word "basic". There is a list box on the right side of the drop-down box. Click to create a new brush. Click.

A new calligraphy brush appears, and then click OK.

The Calligraphy Brush option appears. Now we just need to change the size and change the brush size to 3pt.

Next, change the stroke color, because the mobile phone is composed of color block filling and strokes, and the strokes are unified, so change the strokes first.

Press the shortcut key m to pull out the shape of the mobile phone.

Press the shortcut keys Ctrl+C and Ctrl+F, and paste a rectangle in place to make a mobile phone screen.

Continue to paste in place to make the top layer of the mobile phone screen.

Locate the rectangle tool in the toolbar, and then click the rounded rectangle tool.

Use the mouse to pull out the rounded rectangle and fill it with blue color. You can also directly use the color absorption tool I to absorb the color of the reference object next to it.

Similarly, click Change Tool to Polygon Tool on the rectangular toolbar.

Click in the blank space to pop up a window and adjust the number of sides to 3.

Click OK, and a triangle will pop up immediately.

Adjust the size of the triangle, and put the triangle at the lower right of the rounded rectangle to make a dialog style.

Select rounded rectangles and triangles with the selection tool V, and find the path finder in the window of the menu bar.

The figure behind the path finder completes the dialog box.

Then ctrl+C, ctrl+V, copy three dialog boxes, rotate one of them, and lengthen the dialog box.

According to the previous method, copy the shape of a mobile phone and fill it with gray as the shadow of the mobile phone to give it a three-dimensional effect.

Press the shortcut key L, and then press alt+shift. Don't let go of your left hand. Press the left mouse button with your right hand to pull out a perfect circle, which is the home button of your mobile phone.

The size of the mobile phone came out. If you want to be more detailed, you can add shadows and other details of the phone.

Other small objects are similar. Many simple and interesting flat objects can be drawn by using shortcut keys, strokes and padding.

Therefore, illustration is not as difficult as imagined.