Where does self taught Chinese painting begin? Where to start with Chinese painting for beginners?

First, we must insist on practicing calligraphy at the same time. Many people think that painting Chinese painting must first learn to sketch, this is a wrong practice and misleading, the ancients never knew what sketching is, why there are so many people to form a peak? Chinese painting has nothing to do with sketching and semi-wool.

It makes sense for the ancients to say that "calligraphy and painting have the same origin", and learning calligraphy is of great benefit to mastering the brushwork, ink, and chapter method.

2. Find a mustard seed garden or other painting score or technique book, practice according to the guidance of the painting score, don't be in a hurry, first learn from a mountain, a stone, a tree and a leaf, start with ink and a pen, master the basic techniques of painting water, painting trees, painting leaves, painting stones, painting flowers, painting feathers, painting various animals, etc., master the basic methods of hooking, slight, dotting and dyeing, and pay attention to the changes and applications of thick, light, dry and wet ink. After the basic modeling of various things can be completed, you need to determine the general direction of the painting, whether to paint landscapes, people, flowers and birds? Is it freehand or gongbi direction?

Then focus on this technique.

3. After mastering the basic modeling and techniques, you should copy the ancient famous paintings or the representative works of modern masters in the direction you like, for example, if you like the flowers and birds of the Song Dynasty, you can copy the flower and bird paintings of the Song Dynasty or the works of the famous artists you like in the modern and contemporary times, and at the same time learn some basic theories of Chinese painting.

Fourth, on the basis of the above, you can start to create, paint some complete works, do not pursue large scale at the beginning, start with small paintings. If at this stage you feel that you can't improve all the time, that is, you have encountered a bottleneck, this is natural, then you have to find a good teacher, see how the teacher draws, how to complete a complete work. Sometimes the teacher's nudge will suddenly make you feel enlightened.

In fact, it is not difficult to get started with Chinese painting, but it is difficult to reach a certain level, because it requires time to hone and a certain level of understanding, and it is even more difficult to innovate.

Self-taught Chinese painting starts with **? I think it should start small.

1. Learn simple lines first

For example, bamboo, lotus, duckling, chicken, etc.

2. Learning Chinese painting is to start with simple things, divide the rice paper into smaller ones with a utility knife, practice a flower on a piece of paper, and practice a bird (simple, practice a chicken first) (a single thing) and practice more.

3. After a while, if you feel that you have practiced well, expand the paper, practice the two things together (such as: trees and birds), and so on.

4. Later, if you are level enough, you will draw a large picture (flowers, birds, fish and insects together) at this time, you can play freely, and when you practice flowers and birds very well, you can learn landscapes and characters (white drawing).

5. There are also two kinds of Chinese paintings, such as freehand and fine brushwork, so you can see which one you like.

6. As for books, you can buy books such as the introduction to Chinese painting first, and when there is a special area for Chinese painting in the book city, you can choose the simple one.

Chinese painting is a traditional Chinese painting, and with the development of the times, this traditional art has not declined, but more and more people have participated in learning. If you want to learn Chinese painting, you can start with some basic knowledge, such as Chinese art history, to cultivate your aesthetic ability. On this basis, it is also necessary to clarify the direction of learning, choose what you are interested in in Gongbi painting and freehand painting, consider the subject matter of painting, it is recommended to start practicing with simple flower and bird painting, and then try to copy more complex landscape painting and figure painting after being familiar.

In addition, the basic skills of using a pen are the most important for beginners to practice, and the lines outlined by different strengths and angles are different, so it will be easier to get started if you have the foundation of writing calligraphy.

Should beginners start with Chinese painting? Is it more important to sketch or to copy? Beginners should start from copying, you can start copying from the part, and then start copying Chinese painting sketches after you have a certain foundation.

If the Chinese painting sketches are well copied, you can properly copy a few complete classic Chinese painting masterpieces. As for sketching, it can be interspersed while copying. When learning Chinese painting for the first time, the early stage is mainly based on copying, supplemented by sketching, and in the later stage, it can be mainly based on sketching and supplemented by copying.

Sketching is the career of one's life, always copying other people's things will stagnate when it reaches a certain level, and if you want to achieve certain results in Chinese painting, you must continue to learn from nature.

What are the requirements for pen, ink and paper for beginners? Painting Chinese painting, the requirements for the pen are not very high, ordinary wolf pen, and pen are OK, mainly the size of the pen, of course, the large size of the painting or with a large stroke is better. As for whether to use a large or small size, it is all decided according to your preference.

The second is rice paper, rice paper has raw, cooked, raw Xuan is generally used to paint freehand landscape painting, and cooked Xuan is used to paint green mountains and green waters or Gongbi landscape painting, painted on the requirements of rice paper is very good, choose the right rice paper, the picture presentation effect will be unexpectedly good.

How do beginners learn Chinese painting to use the pen to express the rich layers of the picture? There are two kinds of force required to use a brush, one is the force that is pressed down or the force that is going to the left and right, and the other is the force that is pressed down and lifted up. Why?

Because only by constantly adjusting these forces in the process can the work be expressed more layered, and the picture effect will be better.