How to get started with board painting for zero foundation? Teaching of zero-based introductory skills of board painting! There is not much difference between hand-drawn and board drawing, there is no relationship between the front and back at all, the key is that the use of tools is different, and different people have different habits. Some people like to draw by hand, and some people like to paint with boards, which does not mean that people who can't draw by hand will learn not to draw boards, so it's good to take some time to get used to it in the early stage.
Another point is: if you learn to draw only as a hobby, a dispensable hobby, then you can learn freely;
But if you want to learn painting well, if you want to be proficient in this skill, be able to draw the original works you want, and even want to take a career path, I would suggest that you start with the basics, because the practice of basic skills is the ticket for every novice painter to advance the painter group.
If you want to draw any original work, you need the basic skills to support you in realizing your ideas and creativity.
The basic skills are also what we often call the foundation of art, but this art foundation is not limited to the three major blocks of the art examination stage, sketching, sketching, and color, which all need to be learned, but unlike these, there are more in-depth and comprehensive basic knowledge points of painting that need to be learned.
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Let's focus on the problem of getting started with board painting, since it is a zero foundation, then it is natural to start learning from the basics, and it is easy to pull the egg when the steps are big, so avoid cross-stage learning! Because every basic knowledge required for painting creation is interlinked and indispensableFor example, many whites think that color is color and has nothing to do with sketching. In fact, it has a lot to do with it, we all learn sketching first, and then learn color. Color is a continuation of the complete sketch relationship, and the good matching of colors depends 50% on the sketch relationship and 50% on our subjective processing.
The following sections will explain in detail what you must do to get started with board drawing!
1: Zero-based learning tools for board drawing:
Mainstream drawing tools include pen tablets, pen displays, and computers. Among them, the pen tablet technology is the most mature, cheap, cost-effective, in this field WACOM brand deserves a monopoly, pressure sensing technology is far ahead, the quality of the board is also very durable, if you don't fall not used to pad the corner of the table to cover the instant noodles, any board can be used for the next year. Of course, the domestic Huion and Youji are also doing very well, and it is precisely because of these domestic brands that they have entered the game that WACOM has been forced to provide the Chinese market with a cost-effective CTL-472 and CTL-672. The CTL-672 is highly recommended here, the king of value for money and the best choice for beginners.
The pen screen is still a wacom technology monopoly leading edge in the dust,Corresponding to his staggering price,In 2017After the launch of a series of fully bonded pen screens,The pressure-sensitive nib and the drawing distance are shortened,The error is reduced,The resolution and pressure sensitivity have been improved,The screen color gamut is wider,Of course, there is its unkind price ......Smallest 13 inches:
The largest 32-inch is as high as 34,800 yuan.
It is really a necessary medicine for home travel to kill people and goods, and local tyrants who are not bad for money can choose to start, after all, the hand and eye are the ones that are drawn is what you get, which is very sour. In addition, it should be emphasized that the pen display is just a single screen that supports pressure sensitivity, although it looks like a tablet, it itself has no computer function, and it needs to be connected to a computer host to use.
As the name suggests, a digital computer is a computer that can draw, this piece of all the brands in the world is not good enough, several digital computers from wacom are outrageous, the computer performance is mediocre, the heat control is very poor and ugly and stupid, it is not recommended. Microsoft's Sophie Po series is more than beautiful, but the support for painting software is very uncomfortable, running ps to open a little larger, the brush delay is touching, quality control and after-sales are not flattering, very not recommended.
The only one that can play in the mobile painting device is actually the Apple iPad Pro series, good quality control, high refresh rate, strong screen quality, light and easy to carry, and the standby time is relatively good, it is the only mobile equipment I can think of that can be taken out for sketching (Sophie Po painting standby is very short). But the iPad also has very big flaws,First, the experience of the pen is far less than WACOM,Second, the software ecology is not as rich and powerful as the win system,I hope the iPad version of PS will be launched soon。
To sum up, the current combination of painting tools is as follows:
1.Desktop + Pen Tablet.
2.Notebook + pen tablet.
3.Desktop host + pen display.
4.Laptop + pen display.
5.Digital computer, Microsoft Sophie Po series.
6.iPad Pro series + Apple Pencil
The author highly recommends 1 and 3, and runners who run everywhere recommend 2 and 4, 6 are small and beautiful, but subject to ecological and pressure-sensitive technology, they can't be used as productivity tools, and can be used as a supplement to work output.
Regarding the configuration of the computer, it is done in one sentence: painting does not have high requirements for the overall configuration of the computer, Core i5 8 series CPU or above, memory 8G, preferably 16G, graphics card can not be (CPU comes with integrated display), display color gamut sRGB95% or more is enough. For those who have game needs and 3D production needs, we will not discuss them here.
2: Zero-based learning board drawing software:
1.ps：
PS is recognized as the most powerful ** editing software,It is because it is powerful so many functions lead to too bloated,The functions that painters can use actually only account for a small part of their functions,The advantage is that powerful deformation tools,Layer mode,Curve adjustment tools, etc.,Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious,First of all, many operations must be combined with keyboard shortcuts,A large number of operations need to enter and enter again when leaving the keyboard,It is really unfriendly to pen screen patients,The cost of learning for software laymen is higher; The second is that it has been updated to 2019cc, and the long-awaited jitter correction (anti-slip) is still very difficult to use, and the color fusion is still uncomfortable. His strong brush production and popularization determine that most of the painters are in the ecology of PS, so PS is called a must-learn software for image editing or production.
2.sai2：
Note,It's SAI-2,On the basis of SAI has completed earth-shaking changes,Make up for many shortcomings,It also perfectly inherits the many advantages of the former,Line stabilization is still smooth as silk,Color fusion is still natural and touching,This is a special painting software designed for painters,Knock on the point,It's painting software,And PS is image editing software,PS This big brother just did some painting functions by the way while editing**, SAI2 is a small but precise software that specializes in painting.
3.csp：
Domestic** is called excellent animation,It's a painting software with a strong advantage in comics,With all the advantages of SAI,And with some of the functions of PS,Of course, even the bloated window of PS has been copied one by one。 Its 3D assists, stock library, retouching brushes, and more can greatly help comic book writers to work more efficiently. The birth of this software truly shows that only Japanese engineers can make software that truly serves artists, and it is the best choice for manga artists and Japanese style illustrators.
To summarize these three software::
PS is good at impasto, expressing heavy and real texture and light and shadow, or with a powerful brush to expand the imitation of paper or cloth texture of the painting, the curve tool to adjust the picture is also very easy to use, even if other painting software is used as the main tool, PS also needs to be used as an auxiliary tool for the final adjustment of the draft, and the index must be ten stars. (Main Referral Tool).
SAI2's advantage is to draw celluloid illustrations, the line drawings are smooth and stretched, the colors are bright and clean, and SAI2 itself is a pure and lovely little girl.
CSP, needless to say, he is the right one to draw comics.
4.ipad
Two of the best apps on iOS: ProCreate and ArtStudio Pro
Procreate is easy to learn, the layout is concise, it is very beginner-friendly, one of the best apps on the iPad at present, and the basic default use of this software for the iPad in the circle of friends I know. The biggest problem is that it can't import third-party brushes, so the old bird who is used to PS and SAI is bound to be a little frustrated in his heart.
ArtStudio Pro is currently the closest software to PS on the iPad, and it is very similar in terms of layout design and functional layout, and you can even directly import PS brushes and brush presets directly into the app, and the default grouping is very sour. Even the anti-shake of this product has perfectly inherited the chicken ribs of PS is not available,But its deformation tool is not as imaginative as PS,The delay of the big brush is actually better than PS,If it's not all English,This product is undoubtedly the best app on the iPad at the moment,There is no one。 It is said that ArtStudio Pro is going to launch a Chinese version soon,Procreate has been crying and fainting in the toilet,It is said that the full blood without castration version PS is also going to log in to the iPad,All the painting apps on the iPad cry and faint in the toilet together。
Three: Zero-based learning of board drawing skills:
Learning to draw is inevitably a step-by-step process, just like dance, first learn from the basics, dance initially requires long-term lower back, leg press, rotation, and wait until the ligaments and muscles can withstand enough stretching, and the cerebellum will no longer rotate when the balance is lost, and then the dance moves are learned