[Shelley color block top 10] 5. Suddenly I saw the bridge on the creek when I turned around: "Water Village - Twelve Month Calendar" (haoyuan)
by percyshelley, 2011/10/23
Before commenting, let me explain that Haoyuan's "Water Village - Four Seasons" has four scenes. But I unreasonably did not choose any picture, and chose the adapted version of "Unnamed Twelve Calendar" just because I didn't like the tree on the right side of the picture. . . Later I complained in detail, Haoyuandian was offended.
Back to the topic, I suddenly discovered that most of the color blocks I like are landscape-based. To a large extent, this is because I have seen too many character-like color blocks, which makes me a little tired of aesthetics. . . In addition, it is good to draw exquisitely, but for classic works, you must draw something that has never been painted before. Do you have unique and creative ideas?
As for haoyuan's work, L4KevinX and others have already made special evaluations. Let's take a look at this picture first, and then let's see what others think of it (Audience: Are you being lazy to make up the word count?!)
I have to say that the biggest highlight of this picture is that it has the charm of a splash-ink landscape painting. The roof of the house is laid out with a large piece of black, and the structure of the house is outlined with ink lines that seem to be connected, creating a misty scene in the water town. I don’t know if you have ever seen those black and white landscape paintings depicting ancient villages in Wuyuan, Jiangxi and Anhui. This is the feeling.
In addition, L4KevinX has several comments about this picture, select one:
I really like the composition. Creating a sense of depth in color blocks is my weakness.
Especially when color is used sparingly.
In terms of color matching, I also really like this three-color style.
The aura of the lower half where water and trees gradually merge into one is very harmonious.
Maybe it’s because the number of pixels in the color block is relatively low.
Some details are not quite as good as they should be
For example, the bright green on the trees looks a bit jagged.
However, the bright colors are indeed too restrictive and give me a headache.
...And the combination of yellow and white is better than green and white in terms of color.
The evaluation of 14 is for Haoyuan's "Water Village - Four Seasons". I reproduced two of the autumn and winter paintings. You can also compare them with the one I recommended to see the differences.
"Autumn in the Water Country"
"Winter in the Water Country"
The rating of 14 involves several aspects of this picture: perspective, color matching, and highlighting. The following is my concentrated time to complain, to offend you.
Regarding perspective, indeed, this picture uses black as the roof, which has a good spacing effect and enhances the depth of the picture. I am even more convinced: black is an excellent color to create a three-dimensional and perspective sense of color blocks.
But I personally feel that the use of black in "Water Village - Four Seasons" is too much, which is more than enough. Especially the <--shaped black on the left side is not well separated, which makes people feel confused. In contrast, the first "Unnamed Twelve Calendar" uses moderate black and the effect is better. This is just like in landscape painting, the proper use of ink can bring out the charm. Regarding color matching, I think it is unnecessary for the trees on the right side in "Water Village - Four Seasons" to be colored yellow, green, etc. Because in this way, the left and right parts of the picture feel too inconsistent. The houses and bridges on the left are made of black blocks + lines, which are carefully carved, and have the charm of a landscape painting; but the trees on the right are rendered in large areas of yellow and green, and have the feel of a watercolor painting. Of course, there are also color works with color rendering in landscape paintings, but this is difficult to achieve in dark silk paintings. In the coloring of landscape paintings, there is not much difference between the various colors, and the transition is very soft. This is precisely what is difficult to achieve in color block diagrams with sharp color contrasts. In "Four Seasons", the picture of winter is the best. It has the feeling of "thousands of jackdaws and running water surrounding an isolated village". So much verbosity, just one sentence: Personally, I prefer the one used as the Weiming December Calendar. The reason is that the black color is used appropriately and the colors are coordinated. By the way, let’s talk about the creation of dark silk paintings that imitate traditional Chinese paintings. There are really not many such works. Of course, the most outstanding works in my impression are "Plum Blossoms, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" by Flubber and "Horse" by Gatchaman. However, both of them were made from small and medium-sized objects, which makes it easier to depict details. Among the large scene depictions, in addition to Haoyuan's works and Flubber's "Jiang Snow", there is also a little-known painting that left a deep impression. That is "Ink Painting" by coni (Gulang Tingtao).
Ink painting (coni@Gulangtingtao)
It is undeniable that this picture has the shortcomings of using too much bright gray and the transition between the rocks on the right and the lower side is not smooth. But overall it feels quite tasty. Well. . . I have been too weak in the past two days, and the comments are full of lies. Please feel free to give me some advice if I am wrong, ///bow