How to draw cartoons?

it's not a derogatory term to be arrogant. For painters, only when their appreciation level is improved can there be further development and improvement. A narrow-minded and short-sighted person is not suitable for painting.

After reading more, you can know what kind of comics are the most marketable now, so that you can locate your own creative direction.

You watch more, and you can directly master many comic languages. For example, there are many ways to draw hands in comics. If you design your own hand drawing from scratch, you will get twice the result with half the effort. On the contrary, we can learn from the methods of famous painters directly, and find our own favorite and suitable methods among many painters' methods, which will get twice the result with half the effort. Since our predecessors gave us such good textbooks, why don't we just use them for ourselves?

After reading more, you can better grasp the addresses and publication styles of major comic magazines in China, and know yourself and know yourself. People who don't even know the address of the comic book publication or only know a comic magazine they have read, what carrier can you draw for everyone to see?

Second, start drawing your first cartoon

You don't want to just be a reader who only appreciates and comments, do you?

ok, now start drawing your first cartoon. This cartoon doesn't require you to be a story conceived by yourself. Copying is also a painting!

didn't Chinese painting and oil painting start from copying? Especially in calligraphy, calligraphers can spend decades copying the inscriptions of predecessors.

copying is learning.

However, note that we copy to learn techniques. Never think that copying famous paintings can be published as our own works, just like learning Chinese painting and calligraphy.

Comics, techniques and ideas are equally important. If you copy other people's comics intact and send them, that's plagiarism! Over the years, I have encountered many such things. Some children drew their own pictures according to mine, and then published them. There are really magazines to publish! However, you will never really become a cartoonist by doing so! On the other hand, if you are used to it and all the paintings do it, that is-rogue!

Find a cartoon that you like very much and start copying.

After reading a lot of cartoons, we can basically tell the level of a painter, so the selected cartoons will be very good.

We learn from this painter's composition, modeling, lines and colors.

Although he or she is not teaching you by hand, we can read the author's thoughts and techniques from the works and use them for me.

be careful and patient when copying. Try to pursue the same effect as the original.

copying, I usually take this method.

(1) First, put the original on the left side of your desk and your paper on the right hand side, draw it bit by bit with a pencil, and then finalize it with a black pen.

(2) Taking off the manuscript, after copying the original once, I started to draw the second time by myself with my own impression. At this time, it is inevitable that many places will be forgotten. When I forget, I will take out the original and observe it carefully, and then continue to draw without the manuscript.

(3) Look for your own mistakes and correct them by comparing the original manuscript with your own drawings.

(4) Re-draft the painting. At this time, the artist's techniques have been basically mastered by me.

Third, find inspiration for cartoons in your life.

building a car behind closed doors is a dead end.

Some people think that comics are fun. As long as others can laugh at my comics, they will be successful. Is it? Many vulgar jokes can also amuse people, but they can never be the subject of comic creation.

Therefore, a successful cartoon should be a humorous or satirical story from one's own life.

But how can we find comic ideas from life?

I'll give you two suggestions. One is to observe carefully. The second is divergent thinking.

Every day, many interesting things may happen around us, which will make people laugh. Ok, this is the basic condition of comics, and then, we spread our minds and exaggerate the ridiculous results to be ridiculous. In this way, a comic idea will be available!

draw things around you. Very important.

A child who grew up in a city has to paint his own life of herding cattle. Is it possible? or vice versa, Dallas to the auditorium

The idea that students draw their own campus life is vivid.

Of course, as a cartoonist, his thinking is developed and he can fly higher with the wings of imagination. This is after you become a skilled cartoonist, because you have mastered the language of cartoons.

fourth, the network! Use the internet.

(1) resources on the network.

We can't have all the resource banks. For example, I need to draw a hornbill, but I haven't seen it. What should we do? Search on the Internet. Baidu is the prize of many cartoonists ... Bath 7? /a

(2) Information on the network.

The cartoon information on the Internet is timely and rich.

There are many pictures of successful cartoonists, and they can be downloaded to their own computers to watch and learn at any time. Why not have such a big comic magazine?

(3) Comics spread on the Internet.

Many professional comic websites and large portals in China now have cartoon sections. We can upload our own cartoons and expand our influence. The market economy is the eyeball economy. More people pay attention to it, and your cartoons will naturally have an impact.

(4) The publication of cartoons on the Internet.

Now, your cartoons may have been published on the Internet. Draft fee? No.

why can't I do it without the payment? Haha, just now, just look at Xue Cun. Without the Internet, could Xue Cun's music have its present influence? Did Xue Cun start asking for the manuscript fee?

There are also measures to prevent piracy of online comics.

Maybe some friends say that we can add watermarks to prevent piracy, but I have seen many magazine editors carefully erase the watermarks of cartoons on the Internet and then use them in their own magazines and newspapers. Ha ha. It's hard to say.

piracy is a double-edged sword.

There is piracy, which shows that your work is still very popular.

I'm not afraid of you stealing, but I'm afraid I'll find out. I'll ask you for the manuscript fee after I find out!

fifth, it's submitted!

1. Inspiration from reading the call for papers in comic magazines. Now, back to the first step, do you know the usefulness of reading more comics? Each magazine has its own solicitation requirements and its own address, as well as the editor's name and the telephone and email of the editorial department. It is recommended to contribute by e-mail. Convenient and quick, the key point is-no postage! I was still poor at first, hehe.

2. The news that readers in magazines participated in the comic contest.

In order to gather popularity, many magazines have some small cartoon competitions, and most of them are aimed at readers, as well as manuscript fees, and the most basic is a sample magazine. We should pay more attention to this information when we start to create. Even a small painting is published in a national first-class comic magazine!

3. Pay attention to non-professional newspapers and magazines.

Because of their narrow reading range, many friends only focus on a few big comic magazines in China, and draw with all their strength, and will not stop until they make an oath.

I'm not saying it's wrong. People should have this spirit.

But my opinion is-when Guo Jing is learning martial arts from the seven eccentrics in the south of the Yangtze River, he must never go to Huashan to discuss swords! Going up is also dead. Immortal is also a vegetable. Ha ha.

So, when you start creating, you can target local newspapers and magazines, especially newspapers, and use a lot of cartoons of life. So it also gave everyone a chance to publish. Think about my sentence.

sixth, has it been published?

I've learned so much, and I've mastered the basic knowledge of comics. Have you published it after submitting it?

don't worry, the time between the beginning and the publication of my first cartoon is six months. Half a year has been wandering in hope and disappointment, but don't give up! Disappointed, there is still hope. After giving up, you will get nothing. Failure is not pressure, but motivation.

after receiving the rejection, don't feel sorry for yourself, but turn sadness into motivation. Think about why your cartoons have not been adopted, and compare them with the cartoons in this newspaper and magazine to find the gap.

others can do it, why can't I? I am a human being, am I inferior to them?

encourage yourself, motivate yourself and believe in yourself.

success may be tomorrow.

another: talk about adapting jokes.

Many beginners don't master the comic language and can't make up stories, so they start to illustrate jokes and then submit them as their own cartoons.

It is effective in a short time, but the original spirit of comics is exquisite.

you can imagine the taste when you eat the leftovers chewed by others.

don't quench your thirst by drinking poison.

when adapting jokes becomes your habit, you have no motivation to create.

remember.

talk about the adaptation of famous works.

changing famous works is a shortcut, but it is not the original spirit.

besides, when can the adaptation of famous works be completed? Just those books, the paintings that have been turned over and over, the readers are not bored, and the authors should be bored.

talk about the tools of comics.

The tools of comics are simple.

A stack of A4 copy paper, a neutral pen, a HB pencil and an eraser worth 2 yuan. It's all my belongings for drawing comic books.

Of course, other cartoonists may not be like this, which varies from person to person.

tools are necessary, but not essential.

tools can be equipped by everyone, and the difference lies in the hand holding the pen and the top brain.

be skilled with your hands. The brain should be bright.

don't be superstitious about tools.