Color training is also essential. We can train small color's draft from the beginning, and training small color's draft can better improve one's overall color grasping ability in painting. Then step by step from simple still life to multiple still lives.
Although Chinese painting is a scattered perspective, it is different from the focus perspective of western painting, and painting needs modeling ability; Learn the basics of plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum first, and then learn the category you want to learn. You can start with meticulous brushwork and then learn small freehand brushwork. It's best to find a master painter to teach or attend classes in person, so as to avoid detours. To learn to draw, you must have talent, understanding, unremitting efforts, and be able to withstand loneliness.
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Methods of learning Chinese painting
1, Roger that. First of all, you should choose some famous paintings that you like and suit your style. For beginners, it is more appropriate to buy some books such as Introduction to Chinese Painting compiled by painters. When practicing, I basically draw according to other people's composition and brushwork. But we should be careful not to copy blindly, depending on how people compose pictures, how clever some brushwork is, where the charm of painting is, and so on.
2. Sketch. Copy to a certain extent, you can sketch. Sketch is to depict and create objective and real scenery and people.
3. Choose the scenery. This is actually a very important step. According to our aesthetic and artistic appreciation, choose the right scenery, the right angle and the right part. Just like taking pictures, we should not only consider the light, but also consider the composition. The selected scenery should be hierarchical, clear-cut, harmonious and unified.
4. Be patient when drawing. We should constantly observe with our eyes, think with our brains and apply our daily income. It should also be noted that sketch is not completely divorced from nature like a camera. According to the needs of painting, we can appropriately delete unnecessary scenes or add new scenes, or we can add needed objects to the scene before painting.
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