What watercolor gouache sketching exercises are all about

Solution: Improve your analytical skills For example, the still life painted in the picture below is not only silver on the wine jug, because there are persimmons around him, so the color of the persimmon will naturally be reflected on the wine jug, and there will naturally be the color of grapes around it, and you can observe it if you look closely.

The advanced stage is to harmonize the colors that fill the picture with random embellishments.

Solution: Take the wine jug as an example, the distance of the persimmon and the grape from the wine jug determines which of them gives him the stronger reflex, and the same will vary depending on the area of the wine jug.

The improvement stage is to make the people who look at your drawings lead by the nose.

Solution: For example, if you want the jug to be the first to notice, then you make the chiaroscuro more intense, the color richness (the ambient colors mentioned above) and then weaken.

One of the most important aspects that I have forgotten to mention to you in the above explanation, and which is often overlooked by beginners, is that the most serious objects that produce environmental color are often interlinings that you don't notice.

In addition, it is important to pay attention to the psychological characteristics of color, such as warm color jumps, cold color backing, etc.

The ability to understand and perceive colors, as well as their sensitivity to environmental colors, exercises techniques and skills, and cultivates their interest in painting. This is the foundation of art.

Exercise = = your ability to draw.

From the perspective of art history, figure painting is not the strong point of watercolor painting. Compared with oil painting, it is much smaller in terms of the number of painters, the number of works, and the influence on the audience. For this reason, watercolor painting has always been regarded as a small type of painting.

However, as long as we carefully read the watercolor figure paintings of famous artists, we will find that it has many independent qualities, which cannot be replaced by other types of painting.

In the art of watercolor painting, the sketching of "pure sketching mode" not only makes the watercolor character sketch have an immersive and creative process charm, but also is full of eye-catching artistic charm in the display of the effective digging fruit and the interpretation of the sketching style. In watercolor painting, watercolor character sketching is more difficult to master, unlike other watercolor still life and landscape can be arbitrarily increased or decreased, modified proportions, it requires very accurate modeling ability and good sketching skills, especially the depiction of character expressions and dynamic expressions requires the painter to have a very deep foundation.

1.Features of character sketching.

In watercolor painting, watercolor figures are more difficult to master, unlike still life and landscape, which can increase or decrease objects at will, modify the proportion, and change the color, it requires very accurate modeling ability and good sketching skills, especially the portrayal of character expressions and dynamic expressions requires the painter to have a very deep foundation. The change of skin tone of the character is very subtle, and the change of skin tone in different lighting and environments is even richer, and we must express the change of color in the process of wetting the paper, so that the color is more natural and vivid. It is necessary to grasp the tone of the big complexion, summarize boldly, and write cleanly and neatly, without dragging mud and water.

Beginners can draw more pastel portraits and sketches of the human body, which is very beneficial to improve the technique. 2.Character Sketch Classification.

Headshot: When drawing a person's head, first of all, we should pay attention to the structure of the face and the changing characteristics of the muscles, grasp the general tone and the relationship between cold and warm, and emphasize the facial features and subtle color changes. When drawing hair, don't just use a single ink color to express it, consider the influence of ambient colors and eliminated colors on your hair, and emphasize the contrast between cold and warm colors.

In the process of painting, it is appropriate to add some brown or blue tendency, which can make the color of the hair vivid and natural, and pay attention to the combination of dry and wet painting methods and the treatment of highlights, and the highlight of the picture is best to leave a blank space on the paper.

Bust and full-length portrait: When painting busts and full-body portraits, it is necessary to deal with the relationship between the color of the face and the color of the clothing, pay attention to the depiction of hands and feet, and also pay attention to the composition of the characters and the background. The change of skin color is directly affected by the color of the clothing fabric, so it is necessary to carefully observe the role of the contrast light source color and the environmental color on the change of skin color, and at the same time, it is also necessary to actively deal with the relationship between the primary and secondary virtual reality of the picture.

When dealing with clothing, it is necessary to start from the whole picture, and the colors and patterns should be just right, and not overpower.

Human body: It is quite difficult to express the human body with watercolor, which requires you to have both rigorous modeling ability and rich experience in expressing color.

We must carefully understand the structural characteristics of the human body and the changing characteristics of skin color, so that we can be confident and do it in one go.

1.The purpose of gouache figure sketching.

Gouache figure sketching is not exactly the same as still life and landscape sketching. In still life and landscapes, if strict modeling is required, it is generally important to focus on commonalities, and it is enough to draw general features such as apples, glasses, landscapes, houses, and trees. This is not the case with human figures, because people cannot always be in a static state like the first two to burn objects, but will produce certain changes at any time, in addition to drawing the form of ordinary people, it is also necessary to draw a specific person.

The emphasis here is more on personality, and it is necessary to rely more on the understanding of the form to grasp the morphological changes of the characters. The structure of human body is complex and subtle, and people have complex and rich thoughts and mental activities.

Gouache figure sketching is a necessary and effective means and method to learn figure painting, through which the purpose of studying, understanding and knowing the characters can be achieved, and mastering and being familiar with the painting skills and painting methods that express the figures. If handled well, even if it is an assignment, it can become a good portrait creation. The sketches of many excellent painters and even some art masters are by no means just study works, but contain many mature and even extraordinary artistic creation factors of painters and masters.

For example, in the works of Impressionist painters, in order to capture and express the instantaneous changes of light and color in nature, almost all of them are sketches of scenes, and portraits in figure paintings, most of which are also based on human sketches; Therefore, it would be a bit biased to refer to sketches as exercises in general.

At the same time, the process of gouache figure sketching is also a process of testing and exercising our observation ability and cultivating modeling skills Strict training and the spirit of hard work and truth-seeking are indispensable for the teaching of gouache figure sketching.

Basic knowledge of gouache painting The purpose and requirements of gouache figure sketching.

2.Gouache figure sketch requirements.

Gouache figure sketching has a high degree of difficulty, because of the complexity of the human body structure, the subtlety of color changes, the difference in appearance and personality, the richness of facial expressions, and the changes in the inner world are not easy to grasp, plus the gouache painting materials are not easy to grasp Therefore, before we learn gouache figure sketching, we must master some knowledge and skills related to gouache figure sketching, and we must master the anatomy of the human body.

First of all, the character sketch should be accurate in outline, conform to the human anatomy, gender and age characteristics, and at the same time deal with the character's mental outlook, personality characteristics, and accurate tone and color relationships. The mental outlook can only be expressed through the external contours and facial gestures, and if the contours are not accurate, the spirit and temperament of the characters will not be attached. Therefore, the accuracy of the contour is the most important.

However, human beings have thoughts and feelings, and if they only stay in the form of the outer skin and ignore the inner spiritual outlook, they will appear to be detached and have an empty body. In addition, perspective knowledge and laws are also important. On the surface, the requirements for perspective in figure painting are not as obvious and prominent as in landscape painting, but in fact, perspective is everywhere, so it should have high analytical ability and skilled expression skills.

Different painters have different specific coloring methods. Here are the steps of the method that are suitable for beginners. The performance of watercolor tools determines that most of the coloring sequences are to paint light colors first, then dark colors, from top to bottom, from left to right; At the same time, as with gouache and oil painting, it is necessary to go from the whole to the part.

Why is it tinable from top to bottom and left to left? The angle of the drawing board for watercolor painting should not be close to that of an upright, because the watercolor is very easy to flow and damage the shape when standing upright. The angle of the artboard can be changed according to the needs of moisture, and it is generally maintained.

A state of 30 or 40 degrees is appropriate. In this way, the water color always flows in a low direction after coloring, so it is easy to connect the colors by painting from top to bottom. We all use the right hand pen to color, so it is easy to make the painted colors come into view, and we can take care of the overall relationship and color effect.

Of course, it is not so absolute, and after the whole body relationship is painted, it is not subject to these limitations.

The coloring order, which is mainly based on the dry painting method, is:

1. Use a pencil of HB or B to start the manuscript carefully, it is best not to use an eraser, and rubbing the paper surface will affect the uniformity of coloring. Highlights and light and dark lines are lightly drawn with a pencil, and any excess pencil lines are erased off when they are dry.

2. Paint the first color, analyze the general color relationship in advance, analyze from the aspects of brightness, purity, cold and warm, find out the level, do it well, and then start coloring. The first color can not be too light, grasp the overall color impression, paint to the actual color feeling of five or six or seven or eighty, after being sure that you can draw accurately at one time. This time, in addition to leaving blank spaces, the color is basically covered with the picture, and the light and shade of the object should not be painted flat, and the wet painting should be roughly changed.

3. The second color is not required to be added again, and the more correct part of the first color should be retained. This color is appropriately reduced with water, which further shapes the relationship between the volume and color of the object, and strives to be accurate.

4. In-depth portrayal and correction are completed. This step is mainly to clean up, strengthen, add important details, and use the pen to be decisive to make it more profound and full. Finally, check that if there is any color inconsistency, you can correct the color. If there is a mistake, wash it and then make corrections, and you can close the pen.

The coloring steps of the dry painting method are relatively easy to master, and whether you are painting landscapes, still lifes or figure sketches at the beginning, practice this method first to lay a good foundation.

It is difficult to master the coloring sequence based on wet painting, so you can choose a simple still life or landscape to practice first. One way to draw is to start with a general light color, which should be fast, grasp the moisture, and paint parts and details while wet. Another method of painting must have the ability to grasp the whole, starting from the key objects and completing them one by one, or dividing the picture into several parts one by one, and wetting the joints with water, the connection is just right, almost all over again, and the individual details are then fleshed out.

The picture can achieve the effect of full water, transparent color and infinite charm.

Some painters paint large areas of dark colors first, and then paint light colors and parts, which can also achieve the desired effect. In short, with a certain foundation of depiction and flexible use of various methods of expression, "the law is for my use," in order to achieve the realm of "painting with fineness".