Watercolor tutorial ① | Yu Meiren: The hair of ancient figures can't be drawn. Look at this tutorial.
It really takes patience to copy this picture carefully, and at the same time, it will also help you learn a lot of drawing skills of ancient figures. We know that it is the hair that is difficult to draw ancient figures, and the difficulty of this picture is also in the hair. I finished this picture by myself, and I feel that the hairstyles of other ancient figures are basically not very laborious. And the use of gold pigments on the clothing lines also surprised me. Painting is a process of continuous exploration, and you will find many details, beautiful things that you have never noticed.
Well, that's enough gossip. Here are very, very detailed painting steps. Let's copy them.
this video can also be poked, which is a method of drawing hair!
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? Painting tools
1. 3g ASHI medium coarse water color paper;
2. Big Baiyun Brush;
3. Wolf's small brush;
4. Gou Xianbi;
5, Wu Zhu Yan Cai 24 colors;
6. Paitong Gold Powder;
7. Sketchpad, masking tape, palette, paper towel and pen container
Skin color drawing
Step 1:? Blend the colors of Zhu and loess, add a lot of clear water, evenly paint the skin color of the characters, and leave the eyes blank.
step 2:? After the first layer of color dries out, then adjust the darker skin color and smudge the dark structures such as body edge, eye socket, bottom of nose, lip, neck and hair projection.
step 3:? Mix ultramarine green and shallots with plenty of water, and then color the eye sockets, the bottom of nose and the lower lip in the skin to enrich the color of dark shadows. Facial makeup
Step 4:? Blend ink with rouge and add a little water to smudge the gorgeous eye makeup. At the same time, add some blush to the eyebrows, nose tip and chin to increase the vitality of the characters.
step 5:? Use a pen tip to evenly paint the patterns on the eyes and forehead.
step 6:? Add a lot of water to the ochre to smudge the eyes. After drying, mix it with shallots and green, and apply it to the eyes. In the upper left corner of the eyeball, smudge the dark color, and then smear the pupils and lines. Apply some yellow to the lower left corner of the eye, and finally dye some white as a highlight.
step 7:? Use Gou Xianbi to draw a thick eyeliner for the upper eyelid first, then draw the curled upper eyelash and shorter lower eyelash, and finally brighten the lower eyelash with white.
step 8:? Draw the thin eyebrows of the characters above the eyes. Eyebrows are composed of many short lines, and the eyebrows are slender.
step 9:? Add water to adjust the color of vermilion and rouge, apply light color to the upper lip, and smudge the edge of the lower lip with clear water pen to make a gentle transition.
step 1:? Deepen your lips with deep red to make them more vivid, and apply two or three small white spots on your lower lip to show a moist feeling. Body parts
Step 11:? Continue to add water to adjust the color of vermilion and rouge, and smudge the knuckles and wrists of fingers with light red.
step 12:? Use deep red to deepen nails, and apply white highlights after drying to increase the brightness of nails.
step 13:? Blend the colors of Zhu and Dai ochre, and paint the back crack with a dull red. When the color is dry, a deep red layer is superimposed on the edge of the crack to show the sense of space. At the same time, the mottled lines on both sides of the crack are drawn, and the width of the flower stem is vacant between colors, and the whole is shallower.
? Hair coloring
Step 14:? The big white cloud brush spreads clear water on the hair, and adds the background color of the hair when it is wet.
step 15:? When the paper is wet, continue to spread the whole hair with the background color, the color of the hair tail can be slightly lighter, and some red spots can be dyed at the flowers to make the flowers and hair colors blend with each other.
step 16:? Follow the trend of hair, deepen the dark part for some clearly divided hair groups, and distinguish the general light and dark relationship of hair.
step 17:? Follow the hair groups we have divided before, draw long lines with a pen tip, and make appropriate smudge transition with a clear water pen to make the color edges of some lines gradually change.
step 18:? When using Gou Xianbi to draw hair, the intensity should be light when drawing hair, and some outlines can be reduced around several dense hairs, so that it will be dense and well-organized.
? Flower coloring
Step 19:? The color of flowers is still in harmony with the hue of Zhu and Rouge, and a layer of clear water is laid on the flowers, and the petals are colored while wet, so that the color is deliberately spotted out of bounds. After the background color is dry, the back of the petals is smudged with ultramarine blue to reflect different shade tones.
step 2:? The petals are deepened with rich red, and one petal is colored locally, and one side is smudged with clear water pen, and the other side with obvious edge sets off the bright parts of other petals. Overlap the jagged colors and smudge the uneven texture effect.
step 21:? Blend yellow with loess, dip the nib directly in the center of the flower, and when the yellow is dry, mix it with ochre and blue, and use three or four dots in the middle of the flower as the dark part of the flower.
step 22:? Draw another flower in the same way.
step 23:? Use blue and green-green tones and blue-green, and directly paint the stem of the flower. Finally, the dark grass color is applied to the dark part of the flower stem to enhance the three-dimensional sense of the flower stem of the two flowers.
step 24:? Color the flowers in your hair in the same way. When coloring the flowers in the background, first spread clear water, and then dye the light red background color while wet. When the background color is dry, paint one side of the petals with deep and rich red, and smudge the transition with a clear water pen.
? Clothing coloring
Step 25:? Wet the clothes with clear water, and mix them into light red and deep red for later use. When wet, use light red to describe the left clothes, add a deeper red connection at the arm, and use light red to transition the right clothes, forming the effect that the middle is solid and the two sides are imaginary.
step 26:? After the background color is dry, adjust the crimson to deepen the pleats.
step 27:? Use gold pigments to outline the flower patterns in clothing. Check the whole picture, add some makeup or hair that is not obvious enough, and adjust the details.