[Shelley color block top 10] 9. The great river is rolling and the gods are dragging smoke: "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (Gatchaman)
by percyshelley, 2011/10/23
Up to now, the popularity of my recommendation has become less and lessâ•(â•Ż^â•°)â•® In fact, the works I recommend are getting better and better! ! The following work, I believe someone will say after seeing the name: It is indeed a classic! Because this work greatly breaks through the limitations of color block diagrams!
Generally speaking, except for the small picture works by Wut and others, most of the color block pictures have original pictures for reference. Especially the depiction of large scenes, the details are so complex that it cannot be done without referring to the original pictures. Although "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" refers to one of Japan's most famous ukiyo-e paintings, it has been completely transformed in details. Gatchaman himself said that given the detail and complexity of the original image, it was really difficult to fully express it with a color block diagram. Please take a look at the original picture first:
The details of the branches and waves in the original picture, coupled with the complex blue, green and white lines, are difficult to describe, let alone the color blocks, even the lines. But Gatchaman has a clever technique: the details of his picture are not similar to the original picture, but the overall feeling captures the charm. Please enjoy the picture below:
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji． The Great Wave off Kanagawa (revised edition)
Everyone, apart from being shocked by this aura, must have doubts: How did you create such a magical color block effect? !
Gatchaman himself provides some instructions:
This painting can also be regarded as the first time that a person does not expand the depiction from a local perspective.
Because in order to grasp the entire picture, we can only fill in a large area first.
First determine the general position of the whole and then modify it one by one. The colors used are white and blue.
Next, I started to create the wave shape (white part), and then added details (blue part).
The order of drawing is the waves in the upper left, the waves in the middle left, and the details in the upper left.
The waves in the middle on the right, the waves and details in the lower right corner, the waves in the lower left corner,
The boat was inserted incidentally when drawing the details.
These sequences are more based on common habits and are expanded one by one.
After the main forms of the waves are completed, the entire picture is probably finalized.
I once learned Gatchaman's techniques without overestimating my ability, and summed up some experiences. Among them, I feel that the most important point is: the most important thing in this picture is the aura rather than the details! (Audience: It seems like nonsense?)
At first glance, many people will be attracted by the details in the original picture. If you want to use color blocks to express it, of course you have to focus on depicting the details of the waves. Otherwise, how could it look like it? But this is not the case with color block diagrams. Although details are important, they are revealed through repeated revisions and honing in the end. The first thing to do is the overall shaping.
The truth is very simple, when you draw women, you have to look like a woman (that’s why I’m very angry that some people can’t understand my work!), when you draw waves, you have to look like waves. First of all, you have to grasp the basic shape. Gatchaman also taught this experience
For color block diagrams, you should think about the color of the entire piece, that is, look at and draw the background color first (4X).
Instead of thinking about how to piece it together with a single individual square or character (3X) (this is a common situation for beginners to learn color blocks),
Otherwise, your thinking will be limited and you will find it difficult to deal with it.
If you can understand this, the sky will be brighter.
To put it clearly, first draw a square base map of various colors and then cut it.
For example, to draw an apple:
That is to say, when drawing color block diagrams, we must correct the shortcomings of obsessing over details and start with the overall form! (Although I am still limited to details and can’t help myself)
Back to this picture, what is the overall shape? It can be seen that although the original picture is turbulent, the waves are regular. Although Gatchaman said that there is no eye in this picture, but I personally feel that this is the eye in this picture! To put it bluntly, this is it: this trend must be integrated without any interruption! The rest of the details are just a blur! You can even mess around! You can take a look at Gatchaman's work to see if these trends are connected! It can be said that it is precisely because shaping shapes is so important for color blocks, and details are so secondary, that schools such as missher and juor2, which contain a large number of complicated characters, were born. If you only look at the details, their paintings seem chaotic, but the overall feeling is so full and harmonious. This is the key.
The shape is basically determined, and the next step is to draw the details. You can carefully compare the differences between Gatchaman's work and the original work. The most obvious difference is that the largest wave in the upper left corner (actually including the waves in the middle left and the waves in the lower left), the complex cyan shadow in the original picture is gone, and the waves in the upper left corner are even replaced with white.
Gatchaman himself explains it this way:
This picture can actually be drawn in more detail.
But if you continue to draw it, it will become too messy and difficult to distinguish.
Therefore, the shadow part in the upper wave is specially omitted.
Only describe the waves below.
In fact, there is a problem of light and shadow in the original image. We can assume that the light is coming from the upper left corner. If the shadow in the upper wave is deliberately depicted, it will hinder the overall light feeling, and it may even feel that the upper wave is not moving downward. Roll over. So I think that although there are a lot of details in the original picture, in actual drawing, you only need to do this: don’t take up too much area, delete the cyan shadow if you can, and then you can use combinations like ▍◥ ▂ to doodle as you like. . .
Furthermore, in order not to destroy the trend of the wave, when depicting the cyan shadow, pay attention to the white upper edge being as flat as possible and the lower edge being deliberately rough. In addition, under the waves above, you can use black to highlight the three-dimensional effect.
So, my imitation work was released. . . Please enjoy.
Guanghua Swimming version advanced version
It should be a tribute to "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". . . Although the writing style is a bit childish.