If you want to learn Chinese painting, how do you start?

On this issue, I believe that many lovers of Chinese painting want to find out, and I will briefly elaborate here.

First of all, understand your position.

I personally think, first of all, you have to understand the purpose of learning Chinese painting, if it is a career as the goal, then it must be a professional system to learn, if you are just very interested in Chinese painting, then the introduction to learning Chinese painting is actually very simple, I will tell you a very simple and rough method, if you can sketch, that is, you go to buy some copy of the information, copy and paint yourself, at the beginning even if the painting is not good, it doesn't matter, this thing is painted more, the experience will slowly have, Generally speaking, no matter how much we say, the problem is still a problem, and only when we do it can we have the answer.

Learning doesn't happen overnight.

In addition, I think if it's just interest, then don't look at those advanced text materials, the more you look at them, the more confused you become, like what kind of Shen Yun and other unmindful text materials, it's useless. It's better to start copying directly, you have more experience in painting, and you will naturally know how to paint, how to move the brush, and learning Chinese painting is not an overnight thing, this learning process will definitely have a feeling of loneliness and fatigue, so you must always encourage yourself. And communicate with friends who have the same interests.

Art can cultivate one's self, but it is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time.

Calligraphy and painting have the same origin. Many people say, "Calligraphy and painting have the same origin", so some of my personal experience is that you can practice calligraphy first, move the brush, and control the color, the depth of the color, and so on.

There is also the information to buy materials, and it is best to buy materials of genuine celebrity painters' works. If you buy good materials to study, then the results of learning are good, and if you buy poor materials to study, then no matter how good the learning is, it will not be ideal. Chinese painting is practiced to move the brush, sketching is the basic skill of modeling, although the Chinese painting is more particular about artistic conception, but there are also some requirements for the ability to model.

Drawing requires the author to have an understanding of a structure of the overall work.

Sketching is a basic skill.

Sketching is the most direct and effective painting method to solve the picture, he is the most traditional basic teaching of Western painting, I want to say that the sketch I talk about is different from the pre-exam sketch, the sketch here is more general, the combination of sketching and sketching, in fact, there is no such term sketching in the West at all, sketching is unique to our country. Short-term sketches solve the "form", and Chinese painting solves the "meaning". Sketching is the fastest and most effective way to solve the composition of a picture.

Better tools make good work.

In addition, the choice of tools is also very important, it is best to buy special paints for Chinese painting, brushes, rice paper and so on. Don't buy some inferior tools, that will affect your learning. So how to judge the quality of these tools, I won't say more here, these can be found on the Internet.

If you want to learn Chinese painting, the first way to start is to draw lines with a brush. Hold the brush steady, and draw the lines smoothly with skill.

To learn Chinese painting, first learn to draw freehand painting, and when you have a certain foundation and are interested in continuing to study, you can learn gongbi painting.

Before looking for a teacher, it is recommended to do some preparatory work first, it is necessary to read through the history of the development of Chinese painting, and have a more comprehensive understanding and understanding of Chinese painting. It is also very helpful for understanding the techniques when studying. You can choose to read some painting theories, learn some national theories and terminology, and you can also read some painting books to improve your appreciation of Chinese painting.

Prepare a set of tools and try to draw them yourself.

If you want to learn Chinese painting, then you can go to a training class, or you can choose to start with the brush grip or the most basic painting skills.

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.