Issue 2 _ Sharing Guest: Sheena Myth
She has bright eyes, a flowery smile and a lark voice. Gentle personality, gentle and quiet, giving people the warmth like a spring breeze;
English majors, non-art students, began to learn from scratch, and with their love and persistence in painting, they started the road of illustration.
Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; Full color+shape and texture, simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; The characters are exaggerated and interesting, creative and more story-telling, showing that they belong to the modern and fashionable side and have a unique style.
She has many labels:
Founder of Sheena Illustrator/Member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association
Vision china signed an illustrator/founder of /Sheena Illustrator Studio.
Teaching style: natural and kind, unpretentious, and smooth and silent. Combining the thirst and exploration of illustration knowledge with simplicity, and combining with my own experience in learning illustration, this paper summarizes and designs an innovative and efficient illustration punching activity, Sheena Illustration Punching in.
Commenting on and guiding the students' homework, recognizing them directly and meticulously, and giving them the greatest enthusiasm for teaching, her love for painting exerts a subtle influence on every student.
Up to now, more than 1 10,000+students have taken part in punching in.
#Sheena Illustration Punch Card # Weibo topic heat 7 million+
April's creative sharing was full of dry goods, which was very exciting and brought us too many surprises and touches. The most important thing is to open our eyes. It turns out that you can draw like this, with an outline and two words, and an animal extends into a story;
Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. Learning here does not mean imitating or copying, but learning by watching, remembering and drawing.
The first is to look, and looking is to carefully observe the characteristics of other people's excellent works. From the layout composition, observe how the works use space and elements to form the picture.
Followed by the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark in the picture, the contrast between cold and warm colors, and the contrast between density and size. Finally, there is the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work.
There are no two identical paintings in the world, nor are there two identical people. Everyone is a unique and irreplaceable individual. Even if everyone draws the same element, the state presented in the pen is completely different.
First, the course "on-site" review
Second, the creative painting course "Essentials" explanation
1, creative painting materials and methods
Practice in stages:
The first stage: draw an outline, draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (9 squares), and draw your own elements through the restricted outline;
Case 1 (original: the method of Sheena myth)
Try to break away from the original shape and show some objects with limited outlines. In this way, we can find that because of some restrictions, we can draw more interesting figures.
Case 2 (original: glasslinda's method)
Try to set some themes for yourself, and draw the theme-related (9 squares) through this shape every time, which can also inspire a lot of inspiration.
The theme of divergent thinking is set as follows:
1. Related to daily necessities;
2. Eat, drink, be merry, have food, clothing, shelter and transportation;
3. Animals and plants;
4. Human head, bust and body movements;
5. Different forms of expression (head-up, looking down and looking up);
6. Combination of positive and negative forms;
7. Thinking about the outline (silhouette);
8. The internal articles are combined into the required shape;
9. A flash of inspiration, free painting;
The second stage: totally irrelevant keywords are combined to draw a picture. (9 squares) Break the usual ideas and draw unexpected scenes.
Case 1 (original: the method of 7-sauce)
The key word of this picture is spring+time.
Divergent thinking: spring-spring outing-flying kites outdoors-having a nice day; Associating related elements through divergent thinking, extracting+combining elements;
Creative process: In the creative process, I look for inspiration from generate. In these references, I think that the girl who flies a kite in the clock points to spring. Later, the hair and kite were connected in an exaggerated form.
Case 2 (Original: Maruko Method)
Key words of this picture: spring blue+lock.
Make a mind map through keywords, write all the elements that can be thought of, and then extract+combine elements from them;
Divergent thinking: head-key-vast sea of people-finding yourself-opening heart-unlocking.
Creative process: Turn the head into a key through divergent thinking, and the black lines around the lock represent the floating waves, struggling to find the lock that belongs to you in the vast "lock sea".
The third stage: use an animal element to make up a set of stories.
Case 1 (original: Alina Alan's method)
Ideas of story series creation:
Picture book is to express an emotion and convey an idea, but also to tell people some truth, so I consider the story and emotional expression of picture book when I create it.
"My story" is a dream, expressing inner desire. People in fast-paced cities, due to the pressure of work and busy life, will occasionally have negative emotions, sometimes feel depressed and become restless, and there is too little time and space for themselves besides work.
I want to have more time to paint, feel the tranquility and beauty of nature, and express my feelings in the form of dreams. The theme of the story is "I and Sika Deer". I like sika deer very much, and sika deer is also my lucky pet. )
2. Two steps to improve creativity:
(1) usually accumulates
Creative inspiration book: record anytime and anywhere. What happened around us, dreams, whimsy, points of interest, inspiration from museums, dreams, books, movies, poems and warm sentences can all be the source of inspiration for later creation.
Photo gallery: collect favorite pictures, photographs and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The material library of illustration creation can be specifically classified, such as color, brush strokes, modeling, scenes, decoration, etc. In subsequent creation, you can try to start a new creation with these accumulated colors and brush strokes.
Shi Kaida: A video about "Creativity Storage Method Necessary for Illustration Creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and shelves is particularly helpful.
There are contents and techniques in the bookshelf: the contents record your diary, reading notes and collected articles; Collect colors, strokes, shapes, scenes, and decorate the methods you are interested in and want to try.
Shelf: 1, what should I draw? 2. What techniques do you try? You can use this method when you start creating.
(2) Practice (action)
There are three ways to practice: visual diary: the creative method is particularly useful, and we can accumulate materials to learn creativity by doing visual diary. (Weibo @Hi blows)
Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiment, telling stories with pictures; Replica works, collage and other fun ways to record and learn.
3. Three practical ways to practice creativity:
(1) learning in quick coating
The following are very practical creative practice methods extracted from Imagination, Composition and Creative Thinking, and three of them are also our practice this time, which are very practical.
1. After seeing an object, associate it with another object and relay in turn. (enhance imagination, the same object, after 9 days, everyone's final results will be very different.)
2. Combine completely unrelated things and draw a picture. (Break the usual ideas and draw unexpected scenes)
3. Two different figures, combined to draw portraits. (Try all kinds of interesting portraits)
4. Draw your inner feelings through a photo-expand different variants. Try to practice drawing your feelings, not the picture itself.
5. Draw an animal and draw the animal in your own mind. (Provide words, and each of you can draw the animal in your own imagination.)
6. Try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc.) with different painting materials. Turn out all the existing painting tools at home and use them to find out more possibilities.
7. For an object: concrete-abstract (using different painting materials, distinguishing style differences). Learn the generalization ability of specific things, generalize a little every day, and the more you draw, the easier it is.
8. Draw an outline and draw an imaginary picture according to the outline (draw your own elements through the restricted outline).
9. Use an interesting little thing to make up a set of stories. An object, such as a fish, revolves around the fish every day and unfolds its own story.
10. Draw the same element. Everyone listens to different music they like, and draws the feelings in different music with this element ~ (Draw your own feelings in music and learn more abstract expressions)
(2) Learning by sketching
Another creative practice method is sketching, and we can get a lot of ideas from sketching. The following is the content extracted from "Learn from Uncle Philip-Creative Sketching", which will be of great help to start practicing sketching.
1. Leave blank drawing paper and let yourself play freely. Empty your head, what you draw is up to the brush.
2. Blind drawing:
-close your eyes, feel your five senses with your left hand, and pick up the strokes with your right hand;
-find a model, observe facial features by yourself, and don't look down at your painting during the painting process.
Blind painting can help you learn how to observe things better and improve your painting level. )
3. Draw your feelings: The stronger a painting is endowed with personal feelings, the stronger its artistic appeal will be.
4. Draw your focus (imagination will fill the rest of the blank)
-Create a visual focus for the work, focusing on the most important parts of the picture, and filling the rest with imagination.
5. Collect material: Collect something that looks unremarkable and can't be painted alone. (for example, go to the museum and fill it with drawing paper)
6. Natural scenery: Pay attention to those strange shapes that can be seen everywhere and explore their unique places.
7. Make good use of multiple perspectives: record everything around you in 360 degrees; Observing the same place from different characters' perspectives, we can also splice different time and space fragments from the same perspective.
(3) Learning from artists
When copying and re-creating artists' works, we can better understand their expressions, emotions, colors and so on in the picture. You can also play freely according to your artistic masterpieces and your own imagination.
In April, we mainly studied the painting forms of artists such as paul klee, Kandinsky, Matisse, Van Gogh, etc. Later, we will have the opportunity to learn from other artists.
4. Recommended reading books
The following shared books are books related to creativity purchased before the start of study, and some useful points are extracted by combining practical exercises and other platforms' views on creativity.
Experience of reading creative books;
1. Imagination, Composition and Creative Thinking
The content of composition and creativity mentioned in this book is particularly grounded and very practical. There are many creative related methods in the book, and it is also a reference book used for practice in Creative Painting in April.
2. Creative Sketch
Many sketches in the book are particularly worthy of attention, which will be of great help and inspiration to those who want to start sketching.
3. Lai Shengchuan's Creativity
Teacher Lai Shengchuan's analysis of creativity is very in-depth, and he analyzes the whole creative formation process from his own creative experience.
4. 52 Creative Painting Practices and Creative Sketch Lab
These two books mainly talk about how to extract creative inspiration with different painting materials and creative methods, which will be very helpful for people who want to try various materials, especially suitable for children's painting training institutions.
If the research direction is board drawing, it will not help much; Part of the book is about getting creative inspiration from artists' creative ideas.
There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of them, such as lines, colors, tones, how to tell stories with illustrations, are still particularly exciting.
6. Freestyle Painting: 84 Creative Skills for Illustrators.
Background and space, alternative reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective, digital collage and other 88 creative skills, you can get many different creative methods, giving you more inspiration and creative direction.
Third, creative painting summary and works display
Editor's postscript: Teacher Sheena read seven books on illustration creativity and watched eight hours of drama for sharing in April. Take its essence and organize it into courseware, which is very serious, attentive and efficient; (There should be applause+praise here)
If you see that here is as "unfinished" as I am, you can go to (Weibo: @Sheena Myth) and share more dry articles about illustrations;
The Illustrator Dream Team is a painting world similar to Utopia. The atmosphere in the group is very good and full of positive energy. It is a very enjoyable thing to see the paintings that everyone sends in the group every day, and it is especially pleasant to learn and grow together with the friends of the same frequency.
The love of painting makes us look forward to life more.
The dream of painting lies in the brush in your hand;
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Love reading and travel;
Love poetry and Guitar;
Love painting and writing;
I am Lindsay, and I am slow in reading and writing.
Please call me Miss Snail _ _
What do you know about the familiar and unfamiliar foreign illustration styles? 2020 ended so hastily. I started 202 1 year before I could make a perfect ending. Many flag were set up in 2020. How much did you accomplish? Friends who have finished can make persistent efforts to make great achievements. Don't be discouraged if they haven't finished. Keep on cheering, and make this day meaningful. Make a study plan for yourself from now on, and force yourself to get rid of procrastination. It's really terrible to have procrastination, because after a long time, you will get used to it and stay in the comfort zone, and eventually you will pay the price for your procrastination. 1 month of 202 1 year, have you started to make changes? It is said that 2020 is very difficult. Because of the epidemic, it is important for both enterprises and migrant workers to be alive. Will the "hardship" pass in 20021year? No, always be ready! Recently, I saw some foreign illustrations, and I feel very inspired and inspired. Let me share them with you!
I believe that most friends who do design know some domestic illustration design style trends, so I won't go into details here. Today, I mainly share foreign illustration works that I think are more personalized. We should understand the author of the works and the stylization of the author's works at the same time. Let's throw a few pictures to see if you are familiar with them. I believe that friends who do design have seen similar works, and many domestic design partners will copy a style, plus some of their own design expressions and their own illustration inspiration.
(In fact, they are all very Mobius-style. Some illustrations are more Cyberpunk, a little illustration and graffiti, and a little national tide. In short, Mo Bisi's style is really far-reaching! Seven meats and eight vegetables are mixed together, which flavor is heavy is your style)
This kind of illustration design style is the familiar and unfamiliar Mobius style. It was a bit familiar and unfamiliar to see pictures sent by design friends before. Later, I learned that this style was the painting style of the French cartoonist Mobius. Mobius influenced many masters of art at that time, such as the well-known Japanese animator, producer, cartoonist and other multi-identity Mr. Miyazaki Hayao. If you are a fan of Miyazaki Hayao, Everyone must know how strict he is with himself and others in his work, and he pays great attention to details, which can be said to be harsh and paranoid. It is because of his seriousness that he has achieved his current achievements. Miyazaki Hayao once said: "In 1980, I came into contact with Mobius' Arzac, which brought me a great shock, and all cartoonists were deeply shocked by this work. It's a pity that I had formed a fixed style of myself at that time, so I couldn't use its influence on me to enrich my paintings. At that time until today, I still think that Mobius's illustrations have a strong sense of space, and I was influenced by him when I directed Valley of the Wind. “
"The way Mobius looks at the world surprises me. His paintings depict characters with the simplest lines and contain various elements, showing a sense of space that is both lonely and arrogant. I think this is the greatest charm of Mobius. "-Miyazaki Hayao
The picture above shows Valley of the Wind, and the picture below shows Arzac.
There are two other Japanese manga and animation masters who commented like this.
If many famous cartoonists give such a high evaluation, it is the following one. ......
Mobius/Kloc-entered the Paris School of Applied Fine Arts when he was 0/6 years old, and was deeply influenced by cartoons such as Tintin Adventures. By the age of 18, he had drawn cartoons for the magazine FarWest. The pen name M_bius was born in 1963, and Giro used this name to create his science fiction and fantasy works.
"We will WeAllEndUpAlone", a game under development, also uses this style. This game tells the story of fighting cancer and fighting nightmares. This style of painting has even lines, no cross-hatching or shadows, as well as simple figures and detailed backgrounds. A crowdfunding game, Aquamarine, which started in 20 18, was also influenced by Mobius. Here is a comparison between the pictures of TheWorldofEdena and this game:
On the left is TheWorldofEdena by Mobius, and on the right is Aquamarine.
With the growth of age, Mobius is committed to improving artistic style, reducing the number of lines and simplifying the volume, and always looking for a purer way to express the world. Personally, I feel that there are similarities with Cyberpunk's style. The biggest difference is that the color contrast of Cyberpunk's style is more vivid and has a strong visual impact.
There is another style that impressed me very much, and it is very novel in contemporary design. It is in the post-modern network and graphic art that "Memphisstyle" was born. Memphis Style was a designer group led by Italian designer EttoreSottsass in 198 1 year, and it was called "Memphis Group". They oppose monotonous and cold modernism, advocate decoration, emphasize products made by handicraft methods, and actively seek inspiration from pop art, oriental art and traditional art in Africa and Latin America. The design of Memphis tries its best to express all kinds of cultural connotations that give personality, from naive and funny to grotesque and bizarre. In color, I often deliberately break the law of color matching, and like to use some bright colors with bright, funny and high chroma, especially the gaudy colors such as pink and pink green. The core figure of "Memphis" is Sotesas, who thinks that design is to design a way of life. Therefore, design has no certainty, only possibility, no eternity, only moment.
There has been a wave of "Memphis" in the design circle one after another. Under the impetus of a group of young designers, they have extracted their classic elements and created many works with "Memphis" style, which have a wide range and cross-border in many fields such as plane, architecture, fashion and products.
There is no doubt that Memphis, an unreasonable but expressive attribute, conforms to the values of today's young people and redefines those inherent traditional design thinking.
Memphis series designed by LeeBroom room for British porcelain brand Wedgewood
Artist CamilleWalala is also a representative of Memphis style. She is good at applying digital design to various cross-border projects such as various products and storefront design.
A very strong Memphis style can be felt in CamilleWalala's works. Most of her designs use interesting contrasting colors of pink, blue and green lights, which are interspersed with dots, lines and geometric elements.
CamilleWalala's Space for London Design Festival
Three classic features of Memphis design style:
0 1, bright colors, high saturation and bold color matching. This style, which attaches more importance to visual perception than rationality, often uses bright, funny and high-chroma colors, especially pink and pink green, to break the color matching rules and show its unique attitude.
02, using flat lines, geometric figures and other abstract vector elements.
03. The background is in sharp contrast with the main content.
Some cases used at home break away from convention, and Memphis style adds a different visual experience to life.
Summary:
1, break the horizontal and vertical lines in composition, and adopt the combination of waveform curve, curved surface, straight line and plane.
2, color matching uses contrast colors, and the colors are bright and bright, especially like pink, pink and green.
3. Interesting decorative design is made by tiny geometric shapes such as points, lines and surfaces.
Today, I shared two foreign illustration styles. Did you pay the tuition? "Haha" doesn't matter if you don't have tuition fees. Remember this article and praise the collection. Go on and read more and practice. If you have good ideas or read good works and remember the author's name, please leave a message in my comments and learn from each other!
The most popular and eye-catching fashion illustration is here! The works of HelenDownie, a popular fashion illustrator
As a veteran visual communication medium, fashion illustration not only has not stopped developing in the new era, but also has derived many new expressions with different styles. How many of the most popular and eye-catching fashion illustrators and their works do you know?
The Golden Age of Fashion Illustration
In the early days, the cooperation between fashion illustration and fashion magazine helped it enter a heyday. At that time, magazines from the cover to the inside page almost without exception needed to use illustrations to make pictures. At that time, readers received fashion, art, taste and other information from exquisite illustrations. It can be said that fashion magazines and fashion illustrations at that time were mutually successful.
Harper'sBazaar magazine cover
Collision between Fashion Illustration and Fashion Brand
In the digital age, photographic works have become the main source of visual communication for magazine publications. Although the magazine era with fashion illustration as the main propaganda media has ended, the fashion illustration industry has not fallen asleep, but has been developing and evolving in a new direction.
The cooperation between fashion illustration and fashion brand is the most successful new road excavated at present. As the most topical brand nowadays, Gucci often searches for some popular illustrators in social media for cooperation.
The following colorful and poetic works are all created by illustrator HelenDownie. It is worth mentioning that this highly professional illustrator is actually a housewife with a non-professional background. Her legendary experience and her paintings became popular on the Internet at the same time. In addition, her painting style is surprisingly similar to the new aesthetic concept advocated by Gucci, which makes the brand creative director take a fancy to her works at a glance and launch a series of in-depth cooperation.
HelenDownie works
Although she is a mother, her unconstrained style works always reveal a little girl's innocence. Especially the pair of innocent big eyes in the painting characters are strange and full of childlike interest.
HelenDownie works
However, this is not the first time Gucci has cooperated with a fashion illustrator. Earlier, the brand also invited another illustrator, AlexMerry, to have a more "artistic" collaboration.
From new york to London, Milan to Shanghai, all the cities with art walls were occupied by Alex's creative fashion illustrations almost overnight. It is rare for such a giant fashion illustration to be presented in this way, so when the picture of the artistic wall was released, it immediately caused a stir on the Internet.
AlexMerry's works
In addition, Gucci will also sell the products in illustrations, so that all consumers who are interested in it can find and own these products. They turned these fantastic ideal products into reality. On the other hand, viewers can see from these romantic fashion illustrations that the style of fashion illustrations is no longer single.
AlexMerry's works
Speaking of cross-border cooperation between fashion illustrations and brands, Prada has to be mentioned. In the 20 18 men's wear spring and summer series show, the brand invited illustrator JamesJean to cooperate for the second time, which shows the degree of attention of his works.
Works of JamesJean and OliverSchrauwen
This time, JamesJean and Belgian graffiti artist OliverSchrauwen jointly created an illustration of the show space. The viewer looks at these pictures, just like watching a page of funny comic books on the spot.
At the same time, the author also specially produced an illustrated publicity video of the same style for Prada. James's cool illustration style, combined with Prada's futuristic fashion style, complements each other.
JamesJean's works
In the same year, in Prada's women's show, the brand also chose to join hands with fashion illustrators. Eight female illustrators were invited to this collaboration: StellarLeuna, TrinaRobbins, BrigidElva, JoelleJones, GiulianaMaldini, NatsumeOno, EmmaRíos and FionaStaples.
In addition to creating wall works in the show space, they also perfectly integrated illustration works into the new season's fashion collection. Their comic style works not only inject vitality into fashion, but also increase the possibility of stylization of fashion illustrations.
Today, fashion illustrations are no longer conventional. As long as you are willing to write, everyone can create their own illustrations.
GraceCoddington's works
Pioneer fashion illustration
In addition to cross-border cooperation with fashion brands, some professional fashion illustrators insist on independent creation. While mastering the basic techniques of illustration, they extended and explored the painting form of fashion illustration and figured out their own style.
VelwynYossy, a pioneer fashion illustrator, has painted a series of unique works. From the smooth and neat lines of the characters in his works, and the overall proportion of exaggeration but still just right, we can see that he has always pursued the aesthetic concept of modernism.
VelwynYossy's works
ErnestoArtillo, another new star fashion illustrator, extended fashion illustration to a more abstract direction. His unique visual expression technique broke the public's traditional cognition of fashion illustration.
Some of his recent surrealist works combine the dynamic with the static, the virtual with the real, and the visual impact of illustrations is infinitely magnified by hand-drawing and collage, which gives the static-oriented fashion illustrations a bit of momentum.
ErnestoArtillo's works
His creative works are not only published in major magazines for a long time, but also often exhibited around the world. Erne