Very interesting! CorelDraw draws Korean illustration characters

Small and fresh Korean illustrations are very popular among girls and can be produced with CorelDRAW. CorelDRAW is widely used in many fields such as trademark design, logo production, model drawing, illustration drawing, typesetting and color separation output. CorelDRAW is installed on almost all PCs used for commercial design and art design.

Final effect:

Final effect

1. Use curve tools to draw the outline of the character’s head and fill in the appropriate skin color (C0, M9, Y9, K0) and remove the outline, as shown in the picture below:

Face outline

CorelDRAW mouse drawing tutorial: making face blush

2. Make the following Blush on the face

First, draw a circle, fill it with magenta and remove the outline

Then click the "Interactive Transparency Tool" in the toolbox and select the property bar "Ray Transparency" in "Ray Transparency", adjust the transparency control slider (the transparency of the middle slider is set to 85, and the others are 100. Of course, this can be set according to personal preference:-), the effect is as shown below:

Apply blush

3. Copy the transparent circle to the other side of the face, then select the two circles, right-click and drag the mouse to the face and release Mouse, select "Precisely crop to inside" in the menu command that pops up, and place the blush in the appropriate position on the face. The effect is as shown below:

Copy the blush on the other side

CorelDRAW mouse drawing tutorial: drawing eyebrows

4. Now let’s draw MM’s eyebrows

Use curve tools (here can be Bezier tools, pen tools, etc. )Draw a shape as shown below, fill it with black and remove the outline.

Draw eyebrows

Then select the "Interactive Transparency Tool" in the toolbox and drag the mouse from left to right to get the transparent effect as shown below.

Add a transparent effect

5. Draw MM’s eyes

Use curve tools to draw the eye shape as shown in the picture below, fill it with black and remove the outline.

Drawing MM’s eyes

CorelDRAW mouse drawing tutorial: drawing eye shadow effect

6. Making MM’s green eye shadow effect

First, Use a curve to draw a closed shape as shown in the figure below. After filling it with wine green, press the Ctrl PageDown key combination to move this shape down one layer. Then press the " " key on the small keyboard to copy and shrink this graphic in place, as shown in the following figure:

Create MM's green eye shadow effect

Then click in the toolbox "Interactive Transparency Tool", select "Standard Transparency" in the corresponding property bar, set the transparency of the upper graphic to 95, and set the transparency of the lower graphic to 100, as shown in the following figure:

Interactive Type Transparency Tool

Click the "Interactive Blending Tool" to blend the two graphics, and set the blending step value to 15 in the property bar to obtain the eye shadow effect shown in the picture below.

Complete the eye shadow effect

7. Select the drawn eye, make a mirror copy and adjust its position, as shown below:

Copy the eye shadow on the other side

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CorelDRAW mouse drawing tutorial: drawing nose

8. Draw MM’s nose

First, use curve tools to draw For the bridge of MM's nose, fill it with color (C10, M20, Y30, K0) and remove the outline. Then click the "Interactive Transparency Tool" in the toolbox and drag the mouse from left to right to produce a transparent effect as shown below.

Draw the nose

Use the same method to refine MM’s nose, as shown in the picture below:

Refine the nose

9. Draw MM’s cherry mouth

First use curve tools to draw the upper lip and lower lip, divided into two parts, mainly to facilitate subsequent operations:-), as shown in the following figure:

Draw lips

Use the intersect command in trimming, interactive blending tools, etc. to modify the shadows and highlights of the mouth. The production process is as shown in the figure below:

Adjust light and shade

Add Highlight

Note that the method for making the highlight of the lower lip is: add a standard transparency of 95 to it, and then select "Transparency Operation" in the property bar as "Add".

10. The character’s facial features are completed. The overall effect after slight finishing is shown in the picture below:

Complete the facial features

11. Because we want to show a leisurely and contented look here, we first rotate the head . As shown in the picture below:

Rotate the head

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CorelDRAW mouse drawing tutorial: drawing hair

12. What’s next? , let’s draw MM’s hair

First use curve tools to draw the front part of the hair, fill it with black and remove the outline. As shown in the figure below:

Draw hair

The intersect command in trimming obtains the part as shown in the figure below, fill (C10, M20, Y30, K0)

Adjust the classification of 9 common illustration styles of hair

1. Texture

Texture-style illustrations use richer textures than noise illustrations, with the texture of the brush The changes and the texture of the paper are combined to present a rich picture effect.

Features: Rich colors and strong texture.

2. Stroke style

Add stroke processing on the basis of flat or texture illustrations, mainly line drawings, and retain simple flat painting or texture in coloring methods Change, keep the line drawing part.

Features: retaining the edge effect, being concise and decorative

3. Japanese and Korean style

The atmosphere of the picture is small and fresh, with bright colors. Rich colors. The proportions of the characters are more realistic, and they also pay attention to the expression of light and shadow and the setting of the atmosphere.

Features: Bright, healing, heart-warming.

4. Realistic style

Realistic character style often appears in games, focusing on the performance of light and shadow, with clear character structure and more realistic pictures.

Features: Realistic, strong sense of light and shadow, clear structure.

5. Flat style

Express the content of the picture in a minimalist way, refreshing and neat without overly complicated details.

Features: simple, flat, and strong sense of geometric modeling

6. Pure hand-painted style

Retains the texture changes of pure hand-painted. Compared with digital painting, Illustrations that are purely hand-drawn and divided will give people a more simple feeling.

Features: soft, refreshing, with natural texture changes.

7. European and American style

European and American style is mainly reflected in the facial features and body posture of the characters. The characters have slender proportions and the facial features have a more three-dimensional sense of European and American style.

Features: Rich character expressions, with a certain degree of exaggeration

8. Children's illustration style

Children's illustration style is a type of book binding illustration. It can be used as a stand-alone picture book with personal style, or as an illustration for children's and youth magazines. It is a very popular style in recent years.

Features: childish, cute, and story-telling.

9. Noise style

Use a unified noise effect on the basic color blocks of flat illustrations to increase texture changes, enrich picture details, and increase picture level changes.

Features: retro, unified picture, with a sense of hierarchy.

What are the common styles of illustrations?

1. Fashion style illustrations

Whether it is Japanese or European or American, generally they do not choose particularly bright colors, but mostly fresh and elegant ones. Especially the colors common in nature and daily life are the main ones. Because this type of color is more durable, you won’t feel aesthetic fatigue even if you stare at it. We also need to pay attention to this when processing such paintings

2. Humorous style illustrations

It is more common to use exaggerated techniques, which is very common in European and American styles. . The choice of colors is also quite exaggerated, making people laugh at a glance -

Of course, there are also many excellent funny and humorous illustrations in the Japanese two-dimensional style, which generally tend to be more cute and Q The characters in the version, especially the chubby face and round eyes are its iconic features——

3. Aesthetic style illustrations

This is the kind of picture that is quiet and peaceful For students who are accustomed to big scenes of fierce confrontation, if you occasionally watch some such works, you will feel that your whole body and mind have calmed down.

In terms of color, generally speaking, they are based on bias. Neutral and cold main colors are the most common. The characters generally do not have too intense movements. Sometimes the characters are even abandoned in order to create a quiet atmosphere. Of course, in order to avoid the picture being too dull, some dynamic effects are occasionally added. Elements break up the picture

The rain in the picture has this feeling of "movement in silence" -

The shooting stars in the distance are not too conspicuous, which also increases the visibility of the picture. Look at sex -

4. Realistic illustration

Should it be the most common style? Just draw whatever it is, and express clearly what needs to be expressed most. , need I say more?

5. Q version style illustrations

Everyone is really familiar with Q version, right? Product packaging, page design, game characters. ..Whether it is two-dimensional or European and American, various big-headed doll-like shapes will never go out of style. That either naive or innocent expression can really make people melt——

6. Mechanical Technology Illustrations

Heavy steel and gears, motionless The architecture, as well as the designed inner cuts...these are frequent visitors in the mechanical and technological style. Different from the small and fresh products we are exposed to, mechanical technology does not have so many fancy colors. Generally, three or four colors are enough. Some even use black and white to solve the problem

Designers like this simply solve the problem with almost only black and white. But the effect is amazing -

The colors are not rich, but the solemn and majestic momentum is at least very successfully expressed -

There are many in Japanese This kind of painter, paired with the young lady, creates a "cute contrast". Anyone who has played "Girls Frontline" recently should be familiar with this painter, right?

7. Decorative style illustrations

Most of them are mainly decorative content, paying more attention to the processing of lines, and are more flexible in color matching, including those that are more elegant

and those that are more eye-catching—

8. Image synthesis style illustration

In our tutorial a while ago, we once told you that many commercial projects usually take one month, such a short time , it is impossible to give you a long time to describe some details in detail. At this time, pasting materials is a very effective method. We also have a saying called "half P and half painting".

In many conceptual designs, this method is also frequently used, especially sometimes when designers want to determine whether it is appropriate to add trees or buildings in a certain place, but it is too time-consuming to draw it directly. time, just take it directly from the photo at this time

In addition to concept designers, there are now many two-dimensional painters who also use this method, such as the following illustration of a young lady——