I know many students who like illustration and always ask me what it takes to be an excellent illustrator. They always emphasize interest and skills, but they are always lazy and always want to compare whose talent is higher. In fact, this is a very naive performance. I never believe in any talent. Even if you have any talent, if you refuse to work hard, that talent is just a castle in the air. Only the talent supported by hard work is unbreakable. So if you really want to be an excellent illustrator, you should first ask yourself, are you willing to spend time and energy in this area and really work hard to be powerless and moved? Even if you have no foundation, you can still conquer illustration. Even if you are old now, you can still play illustration. Even if you don't have a degree, you can still become an illustrator if you are willing to make real efforts. The direction of efforts is:

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Don't say that I just learned to play illustration, and I'm half-hearted. Since you want to learn illustration, you must learn a method. Don't presuppose that we will fail. Why don't we tell ourselves that we will succeed? Be sure to give yourself positive hints. This is the law of attraction. What you attract will come.

I want to learn illustration, but I can't find an excellent teacher. It doesn't matter. I know a very good illustrator on the Internet. Every night at 8 o'clock, he will have an open class of board drawing illustration for free. We've been talking for years. Many people come to listen to it every day. Very interesting, very fun, many students with zero foundation came to listen. The enlightenment of illustration is very good for many people.

Just starting to learn illustration, you must know more. Don't always say we can't do it. There is no one who can't do it. Only those who don't work hard are the amulets of our life. To be an excellent self and achieve a wonderful life is the real happiness.

This is a dream, this is a dream.

In recent years, more and more excellent illustrations have entered people's field of vision. Now illustration is not only the process of taking out the characters in the painting to play, but also the process of purely excavating the details of life and forming a unique illustration style to reproduce.

With the diversification of cultural communication, more and more illustrators have won loyal fans with their excellent illustrations, and even more, they have become freelance illustrators, set up their own studios and self-media, and achieved their own illustrator dreams. Although the illustrator looks glamorous, the efforts behind a professional illustrator cannot be ignored.

What is important in learning a skill is not the study time, but what you know, what skills you have mastered, and the way of learning directly affects the study time. If you have the basic knowledge of painting and professionals to take you to study, the learning efficiency will be much faster. Coupled with your efforts and practice, you can basically enter the illustration industry after studying for about half a year. If it is self-study, the corresponding study time will be longer.

Many people want to be illustrators, but they want to have strict time requirements. Bian Xiao wants to say that learning a skill requires haste makes waste. A professional illustrator is not determined by time. Only when he studies slowly and steadily can he be called a qualified illustrator.

1, analyze one's own situation: know one's own painting level and knowledge, have a clear aim and focus on training.

2. Investment in basic education: purchase books, computers and other equipment, and receive professional training. And invest appropriately.

3. Practice painting techniques: refer to materials and tutorials, and practice related painting techniques to achieve proficiency and fluency.

4. Looking for social needs: analyze the preferences of merchants, advertisers and consumers, and avoid the heavy ones; Follow the trend.

5. Timely packaging and promotion: practice through competition, submission, communication, application and contact. In the competition, work

In the process of writing, you can constantly gain experience and make progress.

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1, solid basic skills:

We can't ignore the basics: shape, structure and proportion, because they are integrated, even in stylized works. Shaping is the key, which should be the basic skill of every creator, but many times it is not. You must have a realistic foundation to create an unrealistic but still convincing role. Illustrators should ensure that they have no blind spots in knowledge and master painting skills as much as possible in order to cultivate an intuitive sense of familiarity. This is not only to master the basic artistic laws, but more importantly, whether you know how to use these laws and really master the composition of animals, so that illustrators can freely exert their creativity without worrying about the illogical graphics. Structure can best help you achieve your goals.

2. copy thinking.

Don't blindly copy, deeply analyze your own paintings, and ask yourself: How did you draw them? Add a detail reference to the drawing. Learn as much as possible about anatomy and study real life. If you want to imagine creation, you still have to return to structure and form. You know, the more research and reference you do, the more you will. You may have heard it countless times in art school, but the reward of sketching is really priceless!

3. Correct the mistakes.

Don't hide sloppy lines, this is the process of ensuring your hands-on ability and being able to use lines freely. Find out your own shortcomings. Are you very bad at drawing hands? Have you no idea about posture? Then study hard! Every artist has his own weaknesses. We can stand still and draw the same things all the time, but you know, we will never grow and learn. Analyze everything you draw, break it down into structures and think about why you draw this thing. In the face of those difficulties that you find difficult, don't give up but don't push yourself too hard. It may take you months or even years to really grasp the essence, but it's worth it.

4. Accumulate a large number of works.

Everyone can try to use different techniques and media to draw. Don't be unfamiliar with your skills when facing things that you find difficult. Can you draw attractive lines? Practice your dexterity until you become a real master. Make sure your painting looks good before painting. Although painting can cover up scribbled line drawings, don't rely on it. It is very important for my hand to draw my heart. My hands, eyes and brain are integrated.

5. Learn the skills of the Great God.

Know your preferences, and then stand on the shoulders of giants. When you learn from your predecessors, don't just take advantage of one family. Know what you like and study it deeply. Keep practicing and integrate everything you like into your personal style. Observe the real world first and then learn from your predecessors. Find all the elements you like, plus your own feelings. Ask yourself which elements you like best and why you particularly like an artist. These answers will stimulate your imagination. Compared with copying, your creation must be a mixture of many elements, just as musicians appreciate a large number of other people's works to find their own inspiration, find out their characteristics from each artist you like and try to integrate into their own works.

How to teach yourself how to become an illustrator The steps to teach yourself how to become an illustrator are as follows:

Understand the basic skills of illustration. Structure refers to the anatomical structure of the painted things, and the illustrator must understand the internal structure of animals or objects. Muscles, bones, skin, hair, trunk, roots, branches and leaves are all components of the structure.

Secondly, you should be familiar with the software you want to use. You can find many tutorials of this software on the Internet. You can use a grid to draw shapes, or decompose each object into simpler shapes, such as squares or triangles, so as to get a way to simplify sketches.

Imitation, you can find some simple illustrations to copy first, and then find some relatively difficult illustrations you like to practice after you achieve satisfactory results. Read more pictures at ordinary times, learn more painting skills from others, and exercise more to strengthen yourself. Next, you can find some jobs about illustration, not for salary, but for learning and growing at work.

Extended data:

As an art form, illustration has become an important visual communication form in modern design. With its intuitive image, true sense of life and beautiful appeal, it occupies a specific position in modern design and is widely used in many fields of modern design.

The main work of an illustrator includes drawing illustrations and covers for books, magazines, newspapers, manuals, novels, textbooks and other publications, as well as drawing greeting cards, posters, advertisements, inkjet paintings, humorous paintings and so on.

Divided into electronic illustration and pure hand-drawing. There is a great demand for game and film illustrators. Similar to the game industry, each film and television work will also have a lot of mirror drawing and scene design work, which undoubtedly has a great demand for illustrators in the game and film industry.

How to be an illustrator-the custom of invading Egypt, he lives in peace.

My major in university is science and engineering. I resigned after working in a state-owned enterprise for two years. How did I learn illustration one year after I resigned?

It's been a whole year since I started to learn illustration at this time last year. Like most people, when I first started to learn illustration, I also received many obstacles, such as: you started too late now ... making illustrations requires a lot of skills, but you didn't ... all these are true, but they still didn't stop me from starting.

The reason is love, of course. If you can do what you love, you are really lucky.

Especially now illustrations have been widely used in all walks of life, including startup pages, banners, special topics, refresh pages, details pages, icons, pop-up boxes, background pictures, holiday splash screens, expression packs, packaging, vi design, book illustrations, and many illustrations. Even now, illustrations in ui design have become a plus item. It is so important to know how to illustrate. Even if it's just a hobby, you will find the whole life better.

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This year, many people asked me, can I really learn illustration well without taking classes and laying a foundation? Are you really zero-based? My study experience tells me that it is possible! No one is born to be an illustrator. Excellent illustrators learn a little, so can we. And many illustrators are very good at sharing, and I have benefited a lot from it. Although there is still a big gap between my paintings and theirs, I am glad that I have made rapid progress in sorting out my works this year.

Three _ There is no way to teach yourself illustrations. In fact, I am just digging a hole for myself.

At the beginning, when I taught myself illustration, I knew that I was reading with a book or pulling a bunch of video tutorials from the Internet, but I always felt that I was stuck in my study. My study was always in a mess and my mind was in a mess. On the road of self-study, the more you go forward and work harder, the more you have an impulse to give up. My heart really broke down.

Later, I consulted my college classmate Wang. After graduating from college, she made illustrations. She said you didn't even reach the level of half a bottle and less than one bottle. How dare you play self-study You're confused about the most basic concepts. You are not teaching yourself. You are deceiving yourself. Then Wang put me in a large learning resource (skirt) with original pictures and illustrations, in which all kinds of video tutorials are systematic, and teachers share relevant knowledge every day, so I listen to them every day, not to mention really studying illustrations, and my inner doubts are swept away.

Many friends have been asking me how to find a large-scale learning resource (skirt) for original painting illustrations. Let me share it with you. The first set of numbers is: 239, the second set is: 869, and the last set is: 377. Personally, I think I can have a good learning foundation to accompany me on the road of learning.

Four _ I can copy the process of learning illustration, believe in myself and expect the future.

(1) If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

My usual tools include a computer, PS software and wacom hand-drawn board. My computer is a macbookpro 15 inch notebook. At present, all my illustrations are drawn by PS, which is the most comprehensive software compared with SAI, AI and SKETCH. Hand-drawn board needs some feel, many friends say it is not very good, just practice it a few times. Maybe it's because I just don't have a hand-drawn foundation. The first time I used the hand-drawn board, I felt very good. I thought a few strokes on the board could be presented by PS. It's so interesting. I fell in love with the hand-drawn board, so I didn't transition from paper to hand-drawn board when I came into contact with illustrations, but started to use hand-drawn board directly, and repeatedly checked the missing parts according to the problems I encountered.

(2) Copy-if you can't copy it, copy it first.

Because there is no art foundation, hand-drawing is the most difficult for me. At first, I really couldn't draw it I found some beautiful illustrations from the internet and picked some simple pictures, such as some plants, a small animal and a villain.

(3) semi-copying-imitation is boring, and imitation requires skill.

I copied about three or four. In fact, I have mastered several expressions of board drawing, and I will find that compared with the original, the copied ones are still good. Next, I found it useless to just plagiarize, because even the best plagiarism is the result of others. You are just imitating, and all you can learn is the expression of the original, that is, some software technologies. If you really want to draw by yourself, there is no idea in your mind and you don't know how to write in your hands.

At this time, I began to try semi-copying, that is, adding some of my own ideas on the basis of the original work, which is equivalent to adding some of my own hand-painted ideas to the mastered techniques. By collecting materials (first drawing a draft on paper, then taking photos with my mobile phone and sending it to PS for painting), or changing the composition of the original picture, I replaced or modified what I thought was useful into the original picture. In short, it is to modify the original works according to your own ideas. These are all works of that stage. It is difficult for me to do this step well without an art foundation. At that time, I thought it was difficult to draw anything, so I practiced in my notebook, but I still felt that the progress was too slow behind closed doors.

From the learning foundation mentioned by Wang, I found a set of sketch courses to make up for the artistic skills that everyone has always mentioned. At first, I couldn't draw straight lines, so I began to practice drawing straight lines, shaping geometric figures, tuning, shaping the relationship between light and shade, and so on. By learning sketch, I began to have a systematic understanding of the expression and modeling of light and shadow.

Learn sketch-geometry, still life, landscape, structure and sketch. I will apply what I have learned to my board painting as much as possible, and gradually feel less laborious and hand-drawn will be better.

(4) originality-learn from others and form your own.

The next step is originality. In fact, originality is not completely conceived out of thin air and then drawn, but based on many materials. My method is to collect pictures and photos of what I want to draw online, find out what I like, and then collect the elements involved in the picture in my mind from different fields and combine them into a picture according to my own ideas. This confirms a sentence: innovation is a new combination of old elements.

In addition, at this stage, I also began to learn more board painting techniques. I often ask teachers in the learning base for many video tutorials, and then draw with them, because illustrations have many styles, such as realism, plane, texture and so on. For me, I like the plain and fresh style, so I will analyze how these illustrations are represented, what brushes are used, how the graininess is made, what materials are superimposed, and why the colors are beautiful. Then I began to summarize these techniques and become my own things, but I can't copy them, but use them invisibly to form my own style.

Five _ _ An Hui, one bladder, one bitter tip, one miscellaneous punishment, one stool and one pepper.

Learning needs a process and hardship. Don't always think about getting there in one step. This is unrealistic. We should be down-to-earth, pay attention to ways and means, show wisdom in our efforts, and make efforts in wisdom.

(1) About software

There was an episode in the study of PS software, because I studied illustration before, and of course I didn't know what a hand-drawn board was at that time. At that time, I studied photography. Because I like photography better, photography will inevitably be done later, so I began to learn PS retouching or making posters. Well, the episode is over and the real dry goods are here.

I learned PS by reading a book called PS Non-trace. This book is very thick. I just resigned in June last year,165438+1October. I watched it for almost a month, but I really studied very carefully at that time. After graduation, I seldom read reference books so hard, and I also made various marks. I admire myself now. After reading this book, I really felt that I was proficient in PS, haha. In fact, if you just paint, you don't need to master it. What you use is nothing more than those tools.

(2) About the website

The websites I use the most every day are Station Cool and Petals, which have many excellent works that can be used to copy and practice. There are also some design competitions on the China of Station Cool and UI. Interested parties can take part in it. I have participated in poster design competitions and some pattern design competitions, which are all good experiences, mainly because I can learn what ideas and expressions other excellent designers will use under the same topic.

It is also helpful to make good use of petal net. Usually, you can collect all your favorite illustrations or materials into the petal net, and you can go directly to see them when you use them, like a fortune of your own. I also have a special collection of my inspiration library, which is full of some creative materials I have browsed, and basically there will be a point that I can hardly think of. Then, when I am not inspired, I will go through it and often get something.

(3) About books

I used to work in a state-owned enterprise. State-owned enterprises really feel like frogs boiled in warm water. Now think about that time, either going to work or doing nothing after work. On weekends, I think about how to relax, where to go shopping, Taobao and buy all kinds of clothes. The wardrobe is full, but I still have no clothes to wear when the season changes. ......

I have changed a lot since I resigned last year. What buy buy bought was not clothes, but various books, such as design, illustration, photography, learning methods, copywriting, operation, quality of life and so on. Personally, I think it's very helpful to learn some books that the teacher showed me in the resource library.

Principles of color matching design

Practical sketch course

Elaboration of illustration design skills in illustration classroom.

How to be an illustrator

84 creative skills of illustrators.

(4) About creation

Creation is actually an effective presentation after a lot of accumulation. I think the accumulation here is to watch more, practice more and record more.

Look at more optimistic works that stimulate the desire to create.

To practice more is to practice more hand-drawing skills and improve the creative speed.

Remember more is to remember more instant inspiration and increase creativity.

I summarized all the above by myself, I don't know if it's right, but I suddenly found that my summary is quite good, at least very neat, like serious nonsense, haha.

If you watch too much, don't say it. It has written in detail where to go. If you practice more, you won't say it. Just practicing. I am not afraid of too much. I'm also practicing.

Remember that I have to say a few words, because I found that many inspirations are instantaneous. I don't know if you feel this way. For example, when I was cooking, I suddenly thought of drawing a picture, and then I thought, I must write this idea down when I was cooking, but when I was cooking, I suddenly asked myself that I would write it down, so no matter what I was doing or going out, I usually put it in my bag. Of course, if you have a special function that you can't forget, you can ignore this.

These are some of my main learning methods, I hope I can help you. Remember, watch more, practice more and record more!