Guo Feng Illustrator-How to be an Illustrator?
Zhang Wen, a young painter, is a famous illustrator in China. He studied painting since childhood, graduated from the watercolor department of printmaking department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, is a member of Liaoning Watercolor Association, a freelance illustrator, and is the design director of Beijing Yi Ming Shi Sheng Culture Media Co., Ltd.
1997 participated in the 100-meter scroll activity to welcome Hong Kong's return. Gouache painting "The Return of Wanderers" was selected as one hundred paintings and won the first prize of handmade greeting card to welcome Hong Kong's return. 200 1 Participated in the Northeast Tiger Cup Painting Competition in Liaoning Province. Gouache "Disappearing Scenery" won the bronze award, and the essay "The Call of an Angel" won the Excellence Award. In 2004, he participated in the second prize of the cartoon contest of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.
2. Kang Hai
Kang Hai, formerly known as He Kang Hai, is a well-known illustrator of commercial advertisements after 1980s. Graduated from Donghua University in 2007, and has been focusing on illustration creation ever since. His works involve advertisements, media, publishing houses, three-dimensional murals and so on. Commercial illustrators with rich and varied styles and high output have been included in the Yearbook of Top Illustrators in China for many times. At present, he runs his own personal art work: KFish.
Masterpieces: multi-cartoon Nazi, oil painting series My Memory Planet, Growing Up.
3. Li Jinru
Li Jinru, 1983 1 1.2, from Pu 'an, Guizhou. His works include theories, cartoons, picture books and tutorials.
Main works: Random Talk on Li Jinru Illustration-Theory, Creativity, Concept and Expression published by Tsinghua University Publishing House, Crash Course on Creative Life Painting-Hand-painted Digital Illustration, Love of Kite by Guo 'ertu published by Chemical Industry Publishing House (poetic and emotional picture book), and Magic Saints Fighting Magic published by Chengdu Times Publishing House (cartoon). Creative Collection of Hand-painted Digital Illustrations was published by Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House.
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Brief introduction of illustrator:
An illustrator is defined as a person who takes painting and illustration as his profession. His main work includes drawing illustrations and covers for books, magazines, newspapers, manuals, novels, textbooks and other publications, as well as drawing greeting cards, posters, advertisements, ink-jet paintings and humorous paintings. Divided into electronic illustration and pure hand-drawing.
Illustrator is a general term: there are illustrators for the media publishing industry, children's illustrators and realistic illustrators for the advertising industry; Then there is the animation mascot designer; There is a great demand for game and film illustrators. Similar to the game industry, each film and television work will also have a lot of mirror drawing and scene design work, which undoubtedly has a great demand for illustrators in the game and film industry.
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—— Zhang Wen (a famous illustrator in China)
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-Kang Hai (famous illustrator)
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Li Jinru
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What is the grade of "National Style Illustrator"? Wang is a talented post-90s freelance illustrator. Her ancient figures are beautifully shaped, and her pictures are full of different visual feelings, giving people a pleasing artistic sense. In the national style illustrator world, her grade is called "the first national style illustrator".
How to be an illustrator? First of all, we must have professional ability. In fact, you just need to study hard and practice hard. When the kung fu is in place, someone will naturally ask you for a manuscript. It is inevitable to contact board painting when learning illustration. If you have a little foundation, you will actually get started quickly.
Photoshop software is recommended for learning board drawing. Just watch more tutorials and practice more. Here are some ways to draw national style illustrations with Photoshop.
First of all, Photoshop software
Photoshop is a powerful graphic image processing software developed by Adobe, which is widely used in printing, advertising design, cover making, web page image making, photo editing and other fields. Photoshop can be used for all kinds of plane processing of images, such as drawing simple geometric figures, coloring black and white images, converting image formats and color modes, etc.
And we mainly use its drawing function.
The working interface of Photoshop
Second, the tablet.
Another "magic weapon" essential for CG drawing is the graphic tablet. Good software needs good hardware support. As a hardware input tool, graphic tablet can create various styles of works, such as oil painting, watercolor painting and sketch, combined with Photoshop, Painter and other drawing software, so it is necessary to choose a good graphic tablet. Most people choose WACOM's extension series graphics tablet.
WACOM tablet
WACOM tablet
Pressure sensitivity level is an important parameter for selecting drawing board, which refers to the sensitivity to pen weight when drawing with drawing board.
There are three levels of pressure sensitivity, which are 5 12 (entry), 1024 (advanced) and 2048 (expert). Simply put, the higher the pressure sensitivity, the finer the induction.
As shown on the right, there are two kinds of strokes: pressure and no pressure. According to the different sense of pressure, the line can present various ups and downs accordingly, which increases the flexibility of the line. No pressure, rough strokes, constant pressure and rigid lines.
Feel pressure
No pressure
Third, Photoshop toolbox and control panel.
Photoshop toolbox contains more than 40 tools. Click the icon or press the key combination of selecting tools to select tools.
Not all tools are displayed in the toolbox. As long as you look closely, you will find that some tool icons have a small triangle symbol in the lower right corner, indicating that other tools are related to them.
Move the mouse pointer to the tool icon with triangle, right-click to open the hidden tool, and then select the required tool.
The control panel of Photoshop can complete various image processing operations and tool parameter settings, including navigator, information, color, swatch, layer, channel, path, history, action, tool preset, style, character, paragraph style and so on.
Toolbox
control panel
Four, other commonly used panels and tools
Because there are too many functions of Photoshop, I won't list them one by one here, but only introduce a few commonly used functions in painting.
Navigator (navigator)
It is used to display thumbnails of images. By scaling the display scale, the display content of images can be quickly moved, thus intuitively displaying the overall effect of the screen.
sample
Its function is similar to the color control panel. When drawing, you can also put your favorite colors here in advance for easy access.
Layer (layer)
Used to control layer operations. Layer is the most commonly used panel in PS. Creating multiple layers is helpful to divide the picture, and it is convenient to change and adjust the picture effect.
Tool preset (tool preset)
Used to set preset parameters of various tools such as brushes and texts. Here, we usually use it to store our usual brushes and erasers.
brush
Used to set and adjust different parameters of brushes, and can make brushes of various styles, such as brushes for drawing ink and painting effects.
Layer properties and styles
The control of color mixing mode is a prominent function in Photoshop. By mixing various colors, some unexpected effects can be achieved and some difficult operations can be completed.
Find the blending mode on the toolbar of the layer, and then we use a small daisy to debug the effect.
Natural oscillation
Positive overlapping mode
Point light source mode
Superposition mode
Color filtering mode
Strong light mode
The general steps of drawing with ps are as follows.
composition
Draft line
Shangdase
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V. Picture storage format
Generally, PSD and JPEG formats are commonly used to save pictures.
( 1)PSD
When saved in PSD format, the file will be compressed to reduce the occupied disk space. However, PSD format contains more image data information, such as layers, channels, clipping paths, reference lines and so on. , which is much larger than other image files. Because PSD file retains all the original image data information, it is more convenient to modify, which is also the advantage of PSD format.
(2)JPEG format
JPEG images are usually used for image preview and some hypertext documents (HTML). The biggest feature of JPEG format is that the file is relatively small and can be compressed at high speed, which is the highest compression rate among all formats at present. However, JPGE format will have some distortion in the process of compression and storage.
(3)TIFF(*。 TIF)
TIFF format is also widely used, it can be converted between many image software and platforms, and it is a flexible bitmap image format. TIFF format supports RGB, CMYK, Lab, index, color, bitmap mode and gray color mode, and also supports the function of using channel channels, layers and paths in RGB, CMYK and gray color modes.
Sixth, CG brush making
As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first.