1, Chinese style illustration can also be called antique illustration, which is antique hand-drawn illustration. This illustration has strong China characteristics, including painting contents, figures, costumes, decorations, scenes, etc. It's all related to China's ancient style and expression.
2. Simple pictures naturally reveal the painter's truest feelings, and at the same time reflect the basic skills of the painter. The vivid picture and visual impact expressed by hand painting can't be described by any language.
3. Illustrators often use traditional decorative elements, patterns, scenes and other traditional elements to express scenes, and also often use traditional expression techniques, such as rendering and line drawing of Chinese paintings, mural-style story narration and so on.
The Style and Characteristics of Illustrations in "The Tide of the Country"
Illustration style features are as follows:
1. Common illustrations of the national tide, with rich and delicate lines and uniform colors.
Saturation capacity
Lower part, whole
Chinoiserie
Heavy but exquisite and durable, with wider application range.
There are many lines in the picture, but the lines will be thinner. Basically, lines are used as bones to shape every object, and the overall color is more unified.
3. Lines are an important part, and the number of lines determines the fineness of your picture.
4. A picture has 1-3 general color systems to form an illustration.
5. The color is not fixed, but it can be light and bright, paying more attention to ink painting.
technique of expression
And the paper texture of the picture, thus reflecting the characteristics of Chinese style.
6. Use rice paper or
kraft paper
The texture of the background color will give people a stronger taste of Chinese style, and the background is treated with ink and wash.
7. Some colors in the picture are antique, the overall color is less, the saturation is lower, some are gorgeous, and the saturation is higher, but the overall color is not too much, and there is a general color range. You should control the number of your own colors.
National tide style illustration is an illustration that combines Chinese style elements with trend elements, and uses Chinese style elements to draw people and things that appear. The color matching, composition and elements of the picture should have obvious Chinese flavor.
What software is used to draw this kind of illustration design similar to Chinese style, and what should I do afterwards? Photoshop and SAI can be used, and they prefer PS. Need to download some special brushes, pencils and other brushes, and choose your favorite brush. Then, just like painting, it is very convenient to draw in layers on the computer. Some inappropriate places can be repeated, and colors can be adjusted, mechanisms added and noise added.