Then why did you learn to draw?
Wait, whatever the reason, what I'm talking about here is just some basic knowledge. Not to be an expert in a certain field.
When I first learned gouache, I signed up for a training class, with five classes, divided into five days, and each class was two hours. But basically it is equal to self-study, and the teacher invited is a very professional teacher. But just because he is a professional, after he told us, I felt that there was an attitude that art did not understand. So he basically sat in front of the classroom and asked us to copy from the following books without introducing them to us. Because he has no foundation at all, and he doesn't understand at all.
Friends who have never painted may sometimes see other people's paintings, and always admire and lament the difficulty of painting. It may take a long time to learn this level.
In fact, only when we do it ourselves can we know that it is not as difficult as we thought. Next, I send a gouache that I have only studied for five days.
Do you think this work is the same as what I did at first? I think it may take several months to reach this level. Then I tell you, it was really painted on the fifth day.
1. Choose a pen. There are many kinds of brushes on the market. Just buy an ordinary chalk.
2. Select paper. In fact, gouache is not strict with paper, and it is more casual. You can use gouache paper, watercolor paper, oil painting paper or sketch paper. I suggest you choose gouache paper. After all, this paper is for gouache.
Step 3 choose pigments. We will definitely buy more colors at first, generally 24 colors are enough, but we should pay attention to the frequent use of white in pigments. I suggest buying more boxes. As for the quality of pigments, beginners should buy ordinary ones on the market, in case the price is too expensive, it will be wasted. What can be selected in the future can be preserved for a long time.
4. Select the color box and color palette. There is no requirement for the choice of these two, and the quality is generally good. However, when loading pigments, special attention should be paid to separating each color. One color is only put in one grid, and colors cannot be mixed. It is best to choose the following color palette.
5. Choose an easel for the sketchpad. I suggest that the sketchpad should be made of wood, which is light, not dirty and easy to clean. You still have to buy an easel, which will make it much more convenient for you. The price is very cheap and online shopping is generally good. You can buy a simple structure and it is easy to carry.
6. The choice of teaching materials, buy or borrow one from the library, color course, basic introduction can be.
2. Beginner gouache, first practice painting 12 color ring.
3. First copy a single still life, both fruits and vegetables can be used. Sketch again. I feel that copying and sketching can make faster progress. The vegetables below were painted on my first day of studying gouache.
4. Multiple still life combinations, first copy and then sketch. The following picture was also drawn after I studied gouache for five days.
Gouache painting is a kind of color painting, which, like watercolor painting and oil painting, starts with drawing large pieces of color. It is our painting principle to focus on the whole and proceed from the general. Large color blocks and large colors play a decisive role in the tone of the picture. We should first draw the color relationship of the main color blocks that make up the picture, and then describe the modeling and details of each part.
Bright colors are mostly strong, and they can't be bright if they are light over and over again. Draw a darker color first, which is easy to be covered by bright colors; On the contrary, it is generally to draw a large area of dark colors (including dark parts, bright parts and heavy colors) to determine the skeleton of the picture color. Gradually shift to intermediate and bright colors. For a picture dominated by bright colors, it is still necessary to paint a bright big color block first, and the color is slightly lighter, plus a small area of dark color. If the middle color is the main color, then draw the middle color first when painting, and draw the past to a small dark color and a bright color by juxtaposition. The method is not dead, so we should master it flexibly according to the situation.
Bo Tu diluted the pigment with water, just like watercolor painting. According to the overall color feeling, he quickly Bo Tu again, resulting in the overall color environment of the picture, and then gradually thickened and expressed in depth. Bo Tu should be good at keeping the right place, so that the color of the picture is thick and light, so as to increase the layering and heavy effect of color. Gouache paint is not as strong as oil painting and acrylic pigment, and can be applied very thick at will. Gouache painting should be appropriate in shades, too thick is easy to crack and fall off, so the thicker and inaccurate colors should be washed away before painting.
It is in the process of painting that painting is not like it sometimes leads to the failure of painting, and some people even lose interest.
Later, I learned that if the painting is the same as the real thing, I might as well take a picture! Of course, this is just my motivation to continue painting, not to let you deliberately not paint, but to comfort yourself in this situation.