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.
Shi Kaida: A video about "Creative Storage Methods 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 and colors 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.
What familiar and unfamiliar foreign illustration styles do you know? 2020 ended so hastily. I started 202 1 year before I could make a perfect ending. Many flags will be erected in 2020. How much have you finished? Friends who have finished can make persistent efforts and make great achievements. If they haven't finished, don't be discouraged. Keep up the good work and make this day meaningful. Make a study plan for yourself from now on and force yourself to get rid of procrastination. Procrastination is really terrible, because after a long time, you will get used to it and stay in the comfort zone, and eventually you will pay for your procrastination. 202 1, 1 Have you started making changes this month? It is said that 2020 is difficult. Because of the epidemic, it is very important for both enterprises and migrant workers to live. Will the "bitterness" of 202 1 pass? No, always be ready! Recently, I read some foreign illustrations and found them very enlightening and inspiring. Let me share 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 some foreign illustrations that I think are more personalized. We should understand both the author of the work and the stylization of the author's work. Throw a few pictures below 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 fashion. In a word, Mo Bisi's style really has far-reaching influence! Seven meats and eight vegetables mixed together, which flavor is heavy is your style)
This illustration design style is the familiar and unfamiliar Mobius style. I saw a picture sent by a design friend before, which is a bit familiar and unfamiliar. Later, I learned that this style is the painting style of the French cartoonist Mobius. Mobius influenced many masters of art at that time, such as Miyazaki Hayao, a famous Japanese animator, producer and cartoonist. 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 present achievements. Miyazaki Hayao once said: "1980, I came into contact with Mobius' Arzhak, which brought me great shock, and all cartoonists were deeply shocked by this work. Unfortunately, I had formed my own fixed style at that time, and I couldn't use its influence on me to enrich my painting. 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 The 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 loneliness and arrogance. I think this is the greatest charm of Mobius. " Miyazaki Hayao
The picture above shows the 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 Arts at the age of 0/6, and was deeply influenced by cartoons such as The Adventures of Tintin. By the time 18 years old, he had drawn cartoons for Far West magazine. The pen name M_bius was born in 1963, and Giro used this name to create his sci-fi and fantasy works.
The game "We will WeAllEndUpAlone" being developed also adopts this style. This game tells the story of fighting cancer and nightmares. This style of painting has even lines, no shadow lines and shadows, simple characters and detailed background. On 20 18, a game "Aquamarine" that started crowdfunding was also influenced by Mobius. The following is a picture comparison between the world Federer and this game:
On the left is Mobius's Fedna of the World, and on the right is aquamarine.
As he grew older, Mobius devoted himself to improving his artistic style, reducing the number of lines and simplifying his volume, and was always looking for a purer way to express the world. My personal feeling is similar to Cyberpunk's style. The biggest difference is that the color contrast of Cyberpunk style is more vivid and the visual impact is stronger.
There is another style that impresses me very much and is very novel in contemporary design. Memphisstyle was born in the post-modern network and graphic art. Memphis Style is a designer group led by Italian designer EttoreSottsass in 198 1 year, which is 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 bizarre. In terms of color, I often deliberately break the law of color matching, and like to use some bright, funny and high-chroma colors, especially the gaudy colors such as pink and pink green. The core figure of "Memphis" is Sotesas, who believes that design is to design a way of life. Therefore, there is no certainty in design, only possibility, no eternity, only moment.
A wave of "Memphis" appeared in the design circle one after another. Driven by a group of young designers, they have extracted their own classic elements and created many works with Memphis style, which have been widely and cross-border applied 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
The artist CamilleWalala is also a representative of Memphis style. He is good at applying digital design to various products, store design and other cross-border projects.
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, dotted with points, lines and geometric elements.
CamilleWalala's London Design Festival Space
Three classic features of Memphis design style:
0 1, bright color, high saturation and bold color matching. This style, which emphasizes visual experience over rationality, often uses bright, funny and high-chroma colors, especially pink and pink green, to break the color matching rules and show a unique attitude.
02. Use abstract vector elements such as plane lines and geometric figures.
03. The background is in sharp contrast with the main content.
Some cases used at home break the routine, and Memphis style adds different visual experiences to life.
Summary:
1. Break the horizontal and vertical lines in composition, and adopt the combination of wave curve, curved surface, straight line and plane.
2. Color matching uses contrasting colors, which are bright and bright, especially like pink, pink and green.
3. Interesting decorative design consists of tiny geometric shapes such as points, lines and surfaces.
Today, I shared two foreign illustration styles. Have you paid the tuition? Haha, it doesn't matter if there is no tuition. Remember this article and praise the collection. Keep reading and practicing. 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 illustrations are here! The works of Helen Downey, a popular fashion illustrator
As an established visual communication medium, fashion illustration has not stopped developing in the new era, but also derived many new forms of expression with different styles. How many popular and eye-catching fashion illustrators and their works do you know?
Fashion illustration's golden age
In the early days, the cooperation between fashion illustrations and fashion magazines helped it enter a heyday. At that time, magazines almost invariably used illustrations to make pictures from the cover to the inside pages. 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 magazine cover
Fashion illustration's Collision with Fashion Brands
In the digital age, photographic works have become the main source of visual communication of 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 way excavated at present. As the hottest brand at present, Gucci often looks for some popular illustrators to cooperate on social media.
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 strikingly similar to the new aesthetic concept advocated by Gucci, which made the brand creative director take a fancy to her works at a glance and launched a series of in-depth cooperation.
Helen doni factory
Although she is a mother, there is always a little girl's innocence in her unconstrained works. In particular, the innocent big eyes of the characters in the painting are even more strange and full of childlike interest.
Helen doni factory
However, this is not the first time Gucci has cooperated with a fashion illustrator. Previously, the brand also invited another illustrator, AlexMerry, for a more "artistic" cooperation.
From new york to London, from Milan to Shanghai, all 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 art wall was released, it immediately caused a sensation on the Internet.
AlexMerry's works
In addition, Gucci will also sell products in the form of illustrations, so that all interested consumers can find and own these products. They turned these fantastic products into reality. On the other hand, the audience can see from these romantic fashion illustrations that the style of fashion illustrations is no longer single.
AlexMerry's works
When it comes to cross-border cooperation between fashion illustrations and brands, Prada has to be mentioned. 20 18 men's 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.
The works of James Jean and Oliver Schlowing.
This time, JamesJean and Belgian graffiti artist OliverSchrauwen jointly created an illustration of the exhibition space. Viewers look at these pictures, just like watching a funny comic book on the spot.
At the same time, the author also produced an illustrated publicity video with the same style for Prada. James's cool illustration style, combined with Prada's futuristic fashion style, complement 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 in this collaboration: StellarLeuna, TrinaRobbins, BrigidElva, JoelleJones, GiulianaMaldini, NatsumeOno, Emma Rios and FionaStaples.
In addition to creating wall works in the exhibition space, they also perfectly integrate 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 illustration is no longer routine. Everyone can create their own illustrations as long as you are willing to write.
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 explored their own style.
VelwynYossy, a pioneer of fashion illustration, has drawn a series of unique works. From the smooth and neat lines of the characters in his works and the exaggerated but still just right overall proportion, we can see that he has been pursuing modernist aesthetic ideas.
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 dynamic and static, virtual and real, and the visual impact of illustrations is infinitely magnified by hand-drawing and collage, which makes static-oriented fashion illustrations have 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. White-tailed eagle