The idea of drawing cartoons

First of all, the first point: comics are more than just painting.

Many people draw well, but few people can become cartoonists. Therefore, the first thing I want to emphasize is: don't bury your real talent in cartoons just to improve your painting skills.

In a narrow sense, comics are mainly composed of three aspects: arrangement (50%), story (30%) and painting skills (20%). There is no need to explain stories and painting skills. So, what is the arrangement?

Arrangement includes: framing, framing process (montage) paragraph arrangement, etc. For example, now we have 65,438+000 members in Aurora. Suppose an editor gives us a story. The characters and the environment are all set with pictures, and so is the dialogue. Each of us draws a story. Do you think the effect will be the same? Definitely different! Some will be attractive, some will be dull, and some will even make people understand. This is the charm of the arrangement.

So how can we strengthen the arrangement ability? There are many skills. But the most fundamental thing is to tell a story clearly and coherently. After painting, show it to a person who knows comics very well and a person who doesn't know comics very well. If two people can understand your story, it means that you have successfully taken the first step.

How to attract readers? Increasing suspense. Commonly known as "throwing luggage". The greater the burden, the better, the heavier the better! When readers are brought into the comic world you created, the impulse to untie the "baggage" becomes the driving force.

Every cartoonist's resources are limited, so we should cherish them and show what we are best at. In other words, draw a cartoon that best suits your comic sense. Because only in this way can we give full play to our advantages and make you the most expressive!

Choose the most representative pictures in comics to determine the development of the story. It is very important to shape the role of comics. Most of the protagonists in boys' schools are heroes, so they must be lively heroes and just. ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿ ⑿? Rice? The stork is afraid of Xin Street. Welding slow guy bald sudden night Mei Ting 6? Do you believe that you are strong and blame Penang? Zhong Hao Tu Tu Hall?

After determining the leading role and supporting role, we should pay attention to the number of roles when unfolding the story, and never let the supporting role rob the leading role. In addition, the composition of characters in the picture basically follows three principles: the left is big and the right is small (the characters on the left are big and the characters on the right are small), the men are big and the women are small, and the people are small (the people with big roles draw big pictures and the people with small roles draw small pictures).

After talking about the general framework of comic structure, let's go back to painting techniques. The most prominent problem is how to correctly grasp the proportion of human body.

The secret of cultivation is to observe more, practice more and show more works to others (don't be shy, birds are often too old to listen to the harsh teachings of their brothers and sisters). A quick way is to copy the figures of famous artists, and then let the brothers and sisters around you become models after mastering them to a certain extent (if they don't agree, they can gently throw knives at the Manchu-Han banquet in the foreseeable future to influence them).

Grasping the proportion of human body is not only the head-up angle, but also the perspective of all angles in three-dimensional all-round space. It is extremely difficult to be completely accurate, which is equivalent to practicing the realm of "one yang refers to". Birds now only have blue fingers and prajnaparamita palms.

"The second secret of sunflower cultivation": carve people's faces vigorously! 80% of a person's personality is in his face. If you can make the characters' faces attractive and charming, it's not far from Dong Fangbubai. Of course, I don't mean beauty, but "individuality" and "uniqueness".

The eyes of the characters are very important, and cartoons with bad eyes are absolutely unsuccessful! As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows of the soul. I dare say that every reader, when reading comics, turns to every page and reads every grid. As long as there are characters, he will consciously or unconsciously look for the eyes of the characters. So the eyes are the most important part of the face, so he must take out the ferocity of the blood street fighter! Brothers, work hard!

There is a bloody joke: a comic writer came to the editorial department with his latest manuscript. The editor saw a picture showing the hatred of the protagonist, but the strength was not in place, so he asked the screenwriter to modify it. Our screenwriter changed it more than 20 times seriously, but it still didn't work, so suddenly, the editor punched him in the face (Long Quan! ! ! ? ) and yelled: "Idiot! You are so incompetent! " The screenwriter didn't say a word, but also hit back with a meteor, and then floated away with the manuscript. The next day, the writer threw the manuscript in front of the editor with a look of extreme hatred! Only the protagonist of the cartoon is hostile to his opponent with murderous eyes, just like the writer's eyes staring at the editor! Oh, heh! When the editor from Taiwan Province Province finished this joke, I gasped and secretly thanked our domestic editors for being gentle and lovely! !