how to learn illustration? Learn the skills of drawing illustrations! Speaking of illustration, I believe you will be familiar with the screen. It can be said that illustration is almost everywhere in our lives and is widely used. At the same time, many people think that the illustration industry is very rich, so they want to learn illustration. So how do you start learning illustration from scratch? First of all, we need to understand the classification of illustrations, and which one is the most suitable for getting started. According to the big classification, illustrations can be divided into two categories, vector illustrations and bitmap illustrations.
vector illustration:
vector illustration can be subdivided into three types: flat vector illustration, three-dimensional vector illustration and 2.5 vector illustration.
Among them, flat vector illustrations are commonly seen in Internet advertisements, while three-dimensional vector illustrations are mainly used in logos and cartoon images. 2.5 vector illustrations have only become popular in recent two years and are commonly used in Internet advertisements.
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 is: gon, and the second group is: 699. Just combine the above two groups of numbers in order. Remarks: Original painting.
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.
bitmap illustration:
vector illustrations can be subdivided, which are mainly divided into three categories according to performance techniques:
The first category: flat painting
Flat painting is the most common style of children's illustrations, with fresh and flat colors, mainly Japanese cartoon characters, and clear lines on the outline and hair boundary.
The second category: pseudo-thick coating
Semi-thick coating is also called pseudo-thick coating, which combines the color fusion method of thick coating and the coloring steps of flat coating. Therefore, the accuracy of line drawing is not high, and the coloring process does not need to be as complicated as thick painting. But it has a little more sense of volume than flat painting, but it is not as thick as thick painting.
The third category: Thick Painting Realism
Use the stacking of colors to shape the texture of objects and characters. Not paying much attention to lines, the transition between colors is soft, even and natural, and the shadow edge is blurred, which is mainly common in the original paintings of character scenes.
after understanding the major classifications of illustrations, we can do targeted exercises according to our favorite styles, but whether it is Japanese illustrations or CG original paintings, it is such a promotion path.
The basic stages of learning modeling in the early stage of entry are perspective-line drawing-sketch-still life-human body-color
The basic stage of learning design in the later stage is design-composition-composition-creation
This is the main foundation for beginners to learn painting creation. Only after learning these basic stages can you support the creation of your whole picture. Can you really make money by studying illustration?
Illustration may be just a skill for many babies who study drawing or illustration, but it is really cool for me to see this skill through illustration, so I summed up this answer ~ no nonsense, now get down to business, dry goods ~ 1. Become a contracted designer on the illustration website and upload their designed works to the corresponding platform, so you can get some benefits while punching in, and even participate. 1. Graffiti Kingdom's old illustrator website, many illustrators know that novice illustrators can use it to punch in the early practice. The approval and encouragement of others will encourage you to stick to it better, and the guidance of some experts will make you progress faster. This platform will have a series of illustration activities, prizes are generally bonuses and hand-painted screens, and there will also be some part-time outsourcing of illustrations, which can be directly docked, as long as you have the strength. 2. Station Cool Station Cool is a multi-design platform, and illustration is also a part, but it is not just an illustration platform. This platform is suitable for small partners with good illustration technology. When your works are of high quality and continuously updated, you can quickly accumulate popularity and fans, and become a personal IP, there will be a big rich father who will take the initiative to come to the door. Being an illustrator's personal IP, becoming bigger and stronger, is itself a trend of traffic and realization, which I have always encouraged and supported before. The follow-up ways of personal IP realization mainly include cooperative courses, cooperative business illustrations and cooperative book illustrations.
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3. Mi Painter 4. Half Yuan 5. vision china 6. Illustrator China 7. Qiantu. com 8. Petals sign up as an illustrator of an illustrator website, and they don't need to publish on too many platforms at the same time, just play on 3-4 platforms in detail, because everyone's energy is limited. Under the premise that you can't study every platform clearly, it will be better to focus on 2-3 platforms! Second, participate in the illustration contest. If you can win the prize, you will have corresponding cash income, and some competitions will also have some corresponding prizes. In fact, the additional benefits of participating in the illustration contest also have advertising effects, and even many rich fathers will come to the scene of the illustration contest to find some illustrators or illustrations that suit the style. Winning an illustration contest can not only improve one's self-skills, but also improve one's popularity and subsequent income. 1. Japanese Illustrator Competition The Japanese Illustrator Competition is an illustrator competition organized by the Japan Illustrator Association, and it is also the top illustration competition in Japan. However, this illustration contest is very demanding, and the work review and submission process is more rigorous and strict. It only accepts pure creation without commercial cooperation or publication, and it is a very credible illustration contest. < imgsrc="
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It is very beneficial for shaping personal brands and enhancing personal influence. 13. Bologna Illustration Exhibition Bologna Illustration Exhibition is one of the highest international illustration exhibitions and the most important cooperation and exchange platform for international illustrators. It is called "Oscar in Illustration", so if it can be selected, it will be very beneficial for shaping personal brands and enhancing personal influence. 14. Asian Illustrator Annual Competition The Asian Illustrator Annual Competition is an illustration competition sponsored by the Asian Illustrator Association. It is also the first grand event in the illustration industry led by Asia, which is widely acclaimed at present, with great credibility and influence. Ilustratio International Illustratio International Illustratio Competition, organized by Hilibrand, has become one of the few heavyweight illustrators in the Asia-Pacific region and even in the world, with strong credibility and influence, and is an excellent channel to enhance personal brand and influence. 16. British EV&; A illustration award ev&; A Illustration Award is an illustration contest founded by Victoria and Albert Museum to award the best illustration works of the year, but it requires that the illustrator tourmaline live in the UK or the entries have been published in the UK this year. 17. Bradis International Illustrator Biennale Award The Bradis International Illustrator Biennale Award is the earliest and largest non-commercial illustration award in the world, but the works required to be submitted are published works, and the corresponding books need to be provided and nominated by relevant organizations in various countries. Therefore, this competition is very demanding, and it is also the highest and most important exhibition and award in the field of illustration. These competitions are influential competitions, which are suitable for illustrators with high illustrator level. For some beginners or illustrators whose illustrator attainments have not yet reached the corresponding level, they can actually enhance their influence through other channels, and at the same time, they can obtain certain income to support their interests and skills. Third, to create a high-profile personal IP to tell the truth, I can think of the illustrator's most lasting way of realizing is actually to be a personal brand, because I am personally a practitioner and beneficiary of personal brands, so I always support the skill realiser to be a personal brand, because this is the most lasting way of realizing. How to build a personal brand? In fact, the two mentioned above are all one of the ways, because becoming the signing author of the corresponding platform or winning the grand prize of the corresponding competition is actually an effective endorsement and an excellent way to enhance personal influence. So how do you accumulate fans? In fact, for illustrators, whether they are beginners or illustrators with certain accomplishments, sharing is the best way to accumulate fans. Share your learning process of illustration to various platforms recommended by algorithms, such as Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, bilibili, Weibo, Tik Tok and Today's Headlines, and the system will automatically distribute your works or learning process to interested people. When your content is high-quality and dry, it will naturally attract a group of people with the same frequency to follow. In addition to earning the cost of the platform (some platforms publish content with income), when your illustrations are seen by people with a heart, there may be higher quality cooperation, such as book illustrations and commercial illustrations. For sharing this piece, my personal recommendation is to divide it into three pieces, one is your finished work, the other is the record of the whole illustration completion process, and the last one is about the dry goods sharing in the process of learning illustration. There should be continuity and accumulation of content, not one thing in the east and one thing in the west, so that others can see the strong dryness of your personal IP at a glance and adhere to the principle of usefulness. Building a personal IP is a long-term process, and it can't be done overnight. Don't think that sending less than 1 articles can be very popular. In fact, when you continue to send dozens or even hundreds of articles, many things will come naturally. For example, we recently made a little red book, and accumulated about 3K fans in one month, and won 45, praises, but in fact, I was still very lazy, and I only posted less than 2 articles. Platform summary: 18. Little Red Book 19. Zhihu 2. bilibili 21. Weibo 22. Tik Tok 23. Today's headlines 4. The ability of illustrators, WeChat official account, Weibo and other channels to learn to search and integrate resources can often help you do many things, but many people often don't have this ability. Searching for corresponding keywords in channels such as Illustrator Group, WeChat official account, Weibo and sogou will actually lead to many unexpected things. In fact, what I want to give you is not the specific channel, but the ability to search. You can try to search the corresponding keywords on the corresponding platform, and a lot of useful information will appear, and there will be many manuscripts about illustrations. Search for the keyword: illustration on the corresponding platform, for example, directly search for the keyword: illustration on WeChat, and you can search for the corresponding learning and submission platform. Corresponding platforms: 24. WeChat 25. Zhihu 26. Little Red Book 27. Penguins 28. Weibo 29. sogou What needs to be reminded here is that there are many platforms, and you need to have certain screening ability. When docking with other resources, you must pay attention to fraud prevention, which I will write clearly at the end of the article. 5. Finding Illustrator Design on Witkey Websites There will be a lot of design needs on Witkey Websites, which is actually a good choice for illustrators. You can directly search for the corresponding keywords on the corresponding platform. Maybe many babies will find it troublesome and need to do so many things. In fact, in my opinion, these are all things that must be done by a willing heart, and they are all pre-positioned things, which will have a great impact on the post-positioned income in the later period. Corresponding platforms: 3. Pig Bajie 31. Yipin Witkey 32. Doumi Direct Employment 34. Zhilian Recruitment 35. Deer Seventeen Six, Taobao or salted fish take orders, and make emoticons on Taobao or salted fish to draw avatars, design trademarks, and create peripheral products (such as book illustrations, which many writers need). Uploading emoticons made by our own illustration technology on the "WeChat emoticon open platform" can also increase income through appreciation. Of course, when making emoticons, it is necessary to combine hot spots and skin a little, so that users and communication will be stronger. Seven, material accumulation and learning methods Material accumulation and learning methods are also the contents that I must share in every content. Why? Because I think it is very necessary to learn and improve my skills in the early stage, because it is necessary to strike while the iron is hot. Corresponding materials and learning platforms: 36. Graffiti Kingdom 37. Station Cool 38. Petals 39. Sugar-stacking Community Petals Net and Sugar-stacking Community are mainly used for material accumulation, so you can pay attention to some big V's, and enrich your material library by collecting high-quality materials that they have sorted out. Material accumulation is very important. 4.ArtstationArtstation's style is biased towards conceptual style, European and American style and punk style. Most of them are foreign painters and a good place to accumulate materials. 41.Pinterest is suitable for beginners and low-level illustrators to improve their skills. Many excellent designers will focus on the theme of the project, and gradually deepen from the aspects of project requirements, design problems and illustration expression techniques. Other illustrators can see the whole process of creating a complete project by some senior and high-quality illustrators, which is of great benefit to the improvement of personal illustration skills and design thinking. Is the world's largest social sharing website for pictures. Its main uses are: it can be used to search for pictures with specific themes, and the recommended pictures are accurate and interesting. People with poor English can use Google translation to help search, and the picture quality is better.