Characteristic style: monkey art, European painting school
Representative works: Sunset Red, Zhang Jizhong version of Journey to the West conceptual design, character modeling design. The conceptual design of the film Monkey King is currently serialized in the European cartoon Royal Blood.
In the field of illustration art, people often comment on Liu: "Dongzi's fists and his paintings can knock people down."
Yes, Liu's hardcore painting style makes people look so "energetic". Observing Liu's works, he painted monkeys the most, and his obsession with monkeys made him draw all the elements about monkeys. For example, he is one of the most vivid illustrators of the Chinese painting the Monkey King.
Liu's painting style makes people see a persistent energy, but the overall brushwork has unimaginable humility. Although he painted China with many elements, his painting style was greatly influenced by the European painting school. Therefore, China elements interpreted in international style are popular, fashionable and international.
Last year, when Zhang Jizhong was planning to shoot the new version of The Journey to the West, he invited Liu as the chief production designer to do conceptual design for the new version of The Journey to the West. It can be seen that its influence in the field of Chinese painting.
How to draw an illustration of Journey to the West The illustration of Journey to the West is as follows:
1. Draw the Tang Priest's hat first, then his head and expression, then his clothes, and the plaid on the cassock.
2. Then, on both sides of the Tang Priest, there are big-eared pigs carrying rakes and honest sand monks carrying luggage. Draw the lines on the ground, then draw the the Monkey King above, and then draw the clouds in the sky.
3. After the Tang Priest painted his skin color, he painted his eyes as Darkmouth, Inge as red, and his hat and cassock as red and yellow. Similarly, after Pig Bajie and Friar Sand painted their skin colors, their clothes were also painted with fat. Finally, the Monkey King will be painted in color, the ground will be painted in cotton, fertilizer and green, the clouds will be painted in blue, and the four disciples in Journey to the West will also be painted in blue.
The Journey to the West is one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, compiled by Wu Cheng'en. This book describes the legendary story of the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing protecting Tang Priest's scriptures. Wu Cheng'en, the author, used romanticism to soar with unparalleled imagination, portrayed a colorful, magical and magnificent fantasy world, created a series of fascinating fairy tales, and successfully shaped the idealized hero image of the Monkey King.
The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions. Since The Journey to the West came out, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another.
Ask this dark version of the illustration of Four Disciples of Journey to the West, which comes from the illustration of Dry Orange by China illustrator.
There is an advertisement for this picture on the Internet. Zombie Journey to the West is actually an act of stealing pictures.
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