Issue 2 _ Sharing Guest: Sheena Myth

She has bright eyes, bright smile and a lark-like voice. Gentle and quiet personality, giving people the warmth like spring breeze;

English majors, non-art students, studied from scratch, and started the road of illustration with their love and persistence in painting.

Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; Full color+modeling and texture, simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; The characters are exaggerated and interesting, full of creativity, more story-telling, showing a modern fashion side and unique style.

She has many labels:

Founder of Sheena Illustrator/Member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association.

Vision china signed a contract with the founder/illustrator of Sheena Illustration Studio.

Teaching style: natural, cordial, unpretentious, smooth and silent. Combining the thirst, exploration and simplicity of illustration knowledge with my own experience in learning illustration, this paper summarizes and designs an innovative and efficient illustration punching activity-Sheena Illustration Punching.

Comments and guidance on students' homework, direct and meticulous recognition, give students the greatest enthusiasm for teaching, and her love for painting exerts a subtle influence on every student.

Up to now, more than 65,438+0,000+students have participated in punching in.

# Sheena Illustration Punch Card # Weibo Topic Hot 7 million+

April's creative sharing was full of dry goods, which was very wonderful 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, an outline, two words, an animal extending into a story;

Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. Learning here does not mean imitation 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 and composition, observe how the works use space and elements to form a picture.

Followed by the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark, cold and warm colors, density and size in the picture. Finally, the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work.

There are no two identical paintings and no two identical people in the world. 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 (9 squares) according to the outline, and draw your own elements through the limited outline;

Case 1 (original: the method of Sheena myth)

Try to break away from the original shape and show some objects with limited contours. In this way, we can find that because of some restrictions, we can draw more interesting graphics.

Case 2 (original: glasslinda's method)

Try to set some themes for yourself. Every time you draw a theme-related (9 squares) through this shape, you can also inspire a lot.

The theme of divergent thinking is set as follows:

1. Related to daily necessities;

2. Eat, drink, be merry, eat, wear, live and travel;

3. Animals and plants;

4. Human head, chest and body movements;

5. Different forms of expression (head up, head down, head up);

6. The combination of positive form and negative form;

7. Think about the outline (silhouette);

8. The internal articles are combined into the required shape;

9. Have an epiphany and paint freely;

The second stage: draw a picture by combining completely unrelated keywords. (9) Break the conventional thinking and draw unexpected scenes.

Case 1 (original: method of seven sauces)

The key word of this picture is spring+time.

Divergent thinking: spring outing-spring outing-flying kites outdoors-have a good day; Associating related elements through divergent thinking and extracting+combined elements;

Creative process: In the creative process, I seek inspiration from generation. In these references, I think the girl who flies a kite in the clock points to spring. Later, hair and kites were connected in an exaggerated way.

Case 2 (original: meatball method)

The key words of this picture: spring blue+lock.

Make a mind map through keywords, write out all the elements you can think of, and then extract+combined elements from them;

Divergent thinking: head-key-vast sea of people-find yourself-open your heart-unlock.

Creative process: Turn your head into a key through divergent thinking, and the black line around the lock represents floating waves, struggling to find your own lock in the vast "lock sea".

The third stage: make up a story with an animal element.

Case 1 (original: Alina Alan's method)

Creative concept of story series:

Picture books are designed to express an emotion, convey an idea and tell people some truth, so I considered the story and emotional expression of picture books when I created them.

My Story is a dream, expressing my inner desire. People living in fast-paced cities, due to the pressure of work and life, occasionally have negative emotions, sometimes feel depressed and become restless, leaving too little time and space for themselves outside 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 "sika deer and me". I like sika deer very much. 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, museum inspiration, dreams, books, movies, poems and warm sentences can all be sources of inspiration for later creation.

Photo album: Collect favorite pictures, photos and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The material library of illustration creation can be specifically classified, such as color, brushwork, modeling, scene, decoration and so on. In the subsequent creation, you can try to start a new creation with these accumulated colors and strokes.

Skada: A video about "the creative storage method necessary for illustration creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and bookshelves is particularly helpful.

There are contents and skills in the bookshelf: the contents record your diary, reading notes and collected articles; Collect colors, strokes, shapes and scenes, and decorate the methods you are interested in and want to try.

Shelf: 1. What should I draw? 2. What skills did you try? You can use this method at the beginning of creation.

(2) Practice (action)

There are three ways to practice: visual diary: the method of creation is particularly useful, and you can accumulate materials for learning creativity by doing visual diary. (Weibo @ Hi Blow)

Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiment, telling stories with pictures; Copy works, collages and other interesting ways to record and learn.

3. Three practical ways to practice creativity:

(1) Learn to paint quickly.

The following are very practical creative practice methods extracted from imagination, composition and creative thinking, three of which are also practiced by us this time and are very practical.

1. After seeing one object, think of another object and relay in turn. (enhance your imagination, the same object, after 9 days, everyone's final result will be very different. )

2. Combine completely unrelated things and draw a picture. (Break away from conventional thinking and draw unexpected scenes)

3. Two different figures, combined to draw a portrait. (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 painting itself.

5. Draw an animal and draw your own animal. Provide words, and each of you can draw this animal in your own imagination. )

6. Try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc. ) Use different painting materials. Turn out all the existing painting tools at home and use them to find out more possibilities.

7. For an object: concreteness-abstraction (using different painting materials to distinguish 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 a limited outline).

9. Make up a story with an interesting little thing. An object, such as a fish, revolves around the fish every day and unfolds its own story.

10. Draw the same elements. Everyone listens to different music they like, and uses this element to draw their feelings in different music ~ (draw their feelings in music and learn more abstract expressions)

(2) Learning by sketching

Another creative practice method is sketch, from which we can get many ideas. The following is an excerpt from "Learning 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 depends on the brush.

2. Blind drawing:

-close your eyes, feel the five senses with your left hand and pick up the strokes with your right hand;

-find a model, observe the five senses by yourself, and don't look down at your own paintings during painting.

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. Attract your attention (imagination will fill the remaining blank)

-Create a visual focus for the work, focusing on the most important part of the picture, and filling the rest with imagination.

5. Collect materials: collect things that look inconspicuous and can't be drawn alone. (for example, go to the museum and fill it with drawing paper)

6. Natural scenery: Pay attention to the grotesque 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 can also splice different time and space fragments from the same perspective.

(3) Learn from artists

When copying and recreating artists' works, we can better understand their expressions, emotions, colors and so on in the picture. You can also play freely according to your own artistic masterpieces and your own imagination.

In April, I mainly studied the painting forms of artists such as paul klee, Kandinsky, Matisse and Van Gogh. In the future, we will have the opportunity to learn from other artists.

4. Recommended reading books

The books shared below are books related to creativity purchased before the start of school, and some useful points are extracted by combining practical exercises and other platforms' views on creativity.

Experience in reading creative books;

1. Imagination, composition and creative thinking

The composition and creativity mentioned in this book are particularly grounded and very practical. There are many creative methods in the book, and it is also a reference book for April's creative painting practice.

2. Creative sketch

Many sketches in the book deserve special 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. He analyzed the whole process of creativity from his own creative experience.

4.52 Creative Painting Practice and Creative Sketch Laboratory

These two books mainly talk about how to use different painting materials and creative methods to extract creative inspiration, 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 this book is about getting creative inspiration from artists' ideas.

There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of them, such as lines, colors and tones, are particularly wonderful in how to tell stories with illustrations.

6. Freestyle painting: 84 creative skills of illustrators.

There are 88 creative techniques such as background and space, alternative reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective, digital collage, etc., which can obtain many different creative methods and give you more inspiration and creative direction.

Third, the creation of painting summary and work display

Editor's Note: In April, Mr. Sheena read seven books about creative illustrations and watched eight hours of drama sharing. Take its essence and organize it into courseware, which is very serious, dedicated and efficient; (There should be applause+praise here)

If you see here as "unfinished" as I do, you can go to (Weibo: @ Sheena Myth) to share more dry goods about illustrations;

Illustrator Dream Team is a painting world similar to utopia. The atmosphere in the group is very good and full of positive energy. It's a pleasure to see the pictures posted by everyone in the group every day, and it's especially pleasant to learn and grow with 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;

Text/Lindsay tidbits

Love reading and traveling;

Love poetry and guitar;

Love painting and writing;

I'm Lindsay. I'm slow in reading and writing.

Please call me Miss Snail.

How to draw illustrations well, and what is the meaning of illustrations to words? The so-called illustration, as its name implies, is to match words with related pictures, so the central idea of illustration is to express the meaning of words and combine them with words. So how can we draw a good illustration? Many people have this misunderstanding,

People think that illustration skills are more important than creativity, so many people have made great efforts in illustration skills. But I think it is more important for illustration to embody its own style and refine the text. So illustrations are visual expressions of texts.

Illustration set

We will see all kinds of illustrations in our life, some of which are forgotten at a glance, but some of them can leave a very deep impression on people. For example, the film and television work The Lord of the Rings is very popular, but the Hobbit, the predecessor of The Lord of the Rings, presents different images in the works of different painters. 1936, Thor drew an illustration for the Hobbit. The scattered lines in the illustrations show the painter's neat and decent personality. But in 1962, the hobbit's new illustrations reflect the author's melancholy and intelligent image.

Second, how to draw a good illustration

If you want to draw a good illustration, you must pay attention to two factors. The first is your painting ability. Because illustration is a rich picture, we need to have different views on the text and be creative. Because only if your illustrations are attractive enough can the audience like them. Then another factor is to improve the understanding of copywriting. The general source of our illustration is that the company or enterprise gives you a copy, and then you draw according to the copy. So the essence of illustration is to explain the design content to the audience, so you must have your own ability to understand the copy.

Third, the meaning of illustrations.

Now the illustration industry has become a favorite position for many art students. Therefore, for the country, the illustration industry has promoted the domestic employment development, and for ordinary people, there is another channel to choose their favorite industries. Therefore, if you want to learn illustration well, you must start from two aspects, that is, you must maintain your understanding of copywriting and have the ability to break through and innovate.

What are the application points of illustration in fashion design? Can you elaborate on it? 1. Rational application of illustrations based on understanding cultural changes.

Changing clothing form and design style is the earliest purpose and function of illustration in clothing design. Therefore, illustration art can be regarded as a long-term witness to the evolution of human clothing. At the same time, illustration art, as the main factor affecting human clothing civilization and historical tradition, is usually considered as an effective way to show national culture. Not only in China, but also in the world, illustration art has a long history, which shows that illustration art is related to the history of world clothing. Take France in the late 1950s of 17 as an example, the public mainly read clothing publications to find out whether the style of clothing design and the way of dressing have changed, that is to say, during this period, the public generally understood the changes of clothing through illustrations, which shows that illustration art shoulders the responsibility and burden of spreading human clothing culture.

It was not until the evolution and development of the early 20th century that the appearance of fashion clothing newspapers and periodicals completely confirmed the position and role of illustration art ... As the main component of clothing plate, illustration art has played an increasingly important role in fashion design after entering the new situation. Instead of staying in the stage of magazine illustration or design renderings, fashion design works and designers inspired by illustration art are becoming more and more common. In addition, during this period, the content of illustration art gradually took characters as the main body or theme, which greatly expanded the imagination space of characters and clothing images by using the expression form of illustration, which was not only conducive to the long-term development of clothing culture, but also played a significant role in promoting the goal of innovative clothing culture.

2. Reasonable application of fashion design technology

Clothing form is the primary factor that designers should consider when designing clothing. In the specific design period, more and more modern fashion designers advocate the use of illustration art to stimulate their own design inspiration, so as to achieve the purpose of designing more novel and successful fashion works. At the same time, embroidery, tape painting, hand-drawn illustration and other expression techniques in illustration art are widely used in the field of fashion design, including men's design and women's design. It can be seen that the effective combination of clothing design and illustration can enrich the colors, patterns and forms of clothing itself, and then create a brand-new clothing shape. Moreover, in the process of selecting elements such as shape, color and pattern, it is necessary to combine the technical requirements of illustration and comprehensively consider the designer's personal design style, and then make reasonable remodeling, induction and improvement. In addition, exaggeration can be appropriately added to open up the designer's design thinking space, further enhance the innovative consciousness of fashion designers, and finally design excellent fashion design works. In a word, the application value of illustration in fashion design can be fully and effectively reflected by reasonable application of fashion design techniques.