1, traditional watercolor figure, watercolor landscape painting
Suitable for professional watercolor painters, it is difficult. You can collect exhibitions and win national prizes if you are good.
2. Watercolor illustrations
Relatively small, the picture frame is generally not too big, and the hand-painted feeling is relatively strong, which can be used for book inserts, book covers and posters.
Of course, if you are good at watercolor painting, you can be an illustrator, publish a picture album, or be a watercolor training lecturer. The income is very considerable.
Therefore, when conducting watercolor training, we must choose the right direction. If you like illustration, then illustrators and book illustrators are your employment direction. I hope everyone will work hard in one direction and come on.
Illustration, watercolor and boneless painting, which is better? First of all, these three nouns are not on the same track and cannot be compared. Good example: What's the difference between cooking and steamed bread?
Let's look at the properties of these three paintings. 1, illustration: In China, it used to be called illustration, which is a picture inserted in a book. Illustration is also a complete display of picture works. The early expression techniques can also be expressed through sketches, colored lead and other painting forms. Nowadays, hand-drawn boards are generally connected with computers, with more accurate effects, brighter colors and more painting methods. So illustration is the name of the work achievement display. 2. Boneless painting: Literally means simply describing painting. Generally, a pencil is used to finish the work. Sketch is a form of painting, which uses lines to describe the shape and posture of a material or scene, as well as the relationship between light and shade and perspective. It is the foundation and beginning of painting! 3. Watercolor: it is the fusion of water and color, generally referring to the mixture of pigment and water. As the name implies: Watercolor gives people two kinds of feelings, one is the feeling of "water", which is very smooth and transparent; The other is to give people the feeling of "color". Different colors stimulate our brains and give people different feelings, just like the world is colorful. Watercolor is a painting method of mixing transparent pigments with water, which is called watercolor for short. Because the color is transparent, one layer of color can cover another layer, which can produce special effects. But too much mixing or covering will make the color dirty and the water will dry quickly. Therefore, watercolor painting is not suitable for large-scale works, but suitable for fresh and lively small paintings such as landscapes. The color is easy to carry and can also be used as a sketch collection material. Compared with other paintings, watercolor painting pays great attention to expression. The above is my personal understanding and explanation of illustration, boneless painting and watercolor. So it's hard to tell. Please forgive my mistake.
How does AdobeIllustrator draw cotton tree illustrations with watercolor effect? First, open AdobeIllustrator, then draw the branches of cotton trees with pen drawing, and then fill all the branch paths with coffee.
Then, we set a khaki gradient to fill the light and dark area above the branch, so that the branch has a three-dimensional effect.
At this time, we will continue to fill the branches and dark parts with orange gradients and khaki gradients, and we will use translucent gradients to highlight the layering effect.
This step begins to draw cotton candy. We draw the path of cotton and fill it with a radial gradient from yellow to white. Highlight areas are filled with translucent white, and dark areas are filled with translucent orange.
Then we continue to draw the small cotton to the left of the big cotton in the same way.
Next, we fill the cotton candy leaves with the gradient of coffee and khaki, with dark outside and light inside, and continue to fill the cotton candy in the leaves with the previous method.
At this time, we will find a gradual change from yellow to white. We fill the path of the flower with this gradient, we fill the dark part of the flower with yellow, and the high part of the flower with translucent white.
Finally, we draw another flower under the marshmallow in the same way. Then, we filled all the stars around the flowers with white as the foreground color, and completed the picture design of kapok flowers.