Create an illustration for one of the suggested passages. How to create illustrations for a children's book

To get the desired result when working with paints you must have necessary tools. Of course, you don't have to buy expensive painting supplies, but I still don't recommend using bad watercolors or paper that isn't suitable for it.

Here's a list of the basic things you'll need to get your creative journey started:

• Brushes: my favorite ones are with faux sable. They have a reasonable price and are in no way inferior in quality. You may need brushes different sizes. I advise you to buy round brushes number 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12, as well as one or two large ones, so that you have plenty to choose from.
• Palette: Choose a palette that has enough space to place and mix colors together.
• Paints: I like Winsor & Newton best, but there are many others good brands. If you don't want to pay a lot, remember that manufacturers often create two types of paints - for beginners and for professionals. The Cotman series from Winsor & Newton is for beginners, and the Artist is for professionals. Even though the beginner series are cheaper, they are still of high quality. If you want to save money, but still get acceptable quality, buy Russian “White Nights” paints.

• Water cans: I usually have at least two - one for my dirty brushes, the other for mixing colors.
• Paper: Choose between semi-smooth (cold pressing) and smooth texture (hot pressing). Hot pressed paper has more smooth surface, and the paint lays on it differently. I use semi-smooth because I like the hard texture and I think watercolor looks interesting on it.
• White gouache : White watercolors are usually too transparent and barely noticeable. I prefer to do the final strokes and highlights with white gouache.

2. Start with a sketch

Regardless of whether you come up with the drawing yourself or copy it, I advise you to always start with a sketch. I like to draw ballpoint pen on newsprint - the stiff texture allows ideas to flow freely, and I'm not too worried about mistakes.

Above I've attached a few examples from my children's book, Pickle: The Little Bird Who Doesn't Tweet! To begin, I make a rough sketch in blue pencil. I draw the same line several times, trying to find the right forms that complement the plot.

If there are too many lines and it becomes difficult to make out them, then I simply move to another page. As soon as I like one of the sketches, I outline everything with a black ballpoint pen.

3. Sketch in color

I often create studies in color before I start working on the actual painting. To pick up correct colors, the sketch must be drawn on watercolor paper. Let it be small, for example 10x15 cm or less.

The sketch doesn't have to be perfect. Instead, take note of how colors attract attention and how you can add interest to a painting using light and shadow. The purpose of the sketch is to understand what impression the final picture should make.

Even though Pickle is a book in in electronic format, I really wanted it to keep the feel of a classic children's picture book like Peter Rabbit, but also be modern and funny.

To achieve this, I added subtle, subtle lines and textures to the paintings. And in order for “Pickle” to look more current, I used not only modern visual references, but also a brighter and more saturated color scheme than those in classical illustrations.

4. Preparing paint and paper

There is a common misconception that for the final painting you must use the same range that you selected for the sketch. Of course, then the painting will look exactly like the sketch, but it's still better to start with clean drawing supplies and a clean palette. This will prevent the paint from looking dull and uncontrollable.

Also, don’t forget to regularly wash all accessories as soon as they become too dirty. This will help keep the colors clean and rich.

You don't have to worry about keeping the paper from shrinking if you're drawing in a sketchbook, but be sure to secure the paper of the final painting. You can either stretch it yourself, or buy a watercolor block that is already stretched.

Thin line with pencil

After all this, you can finally make a sketch. Have a great time fine lines so that they can be painted over later. Unless, of course, you have plans to make them noticeable.

People often ask if I use any techniques to transfer the sketch onto the paper of the final painting. Actually, I just redraw it by hand. That's when I usually finalize it and add the finishing touches.

5. Watercolor is a multifaceted medium.

There is a common misconception that painting with watercolor means constantly worrying about how much water is on your brush. Many people think that if they use more water, then the paint will behave as it should.

In reality, everything is not like that. It is better to pay attention to how quickly water evaporates from the paper. You must consider the weather and humidity when painting. And also, of course, the characteristics of the paper itself, how strong its absorbency is.

If you paint on a dry, sunny day, use more water. And if you are painting, for example, near a waterfall, then too much water on your brushes can create a risk of color bleeding. And in general, it is better to add new layers of paint in a timely manner, taking into account the moisture level of the paper.

One of interesting features Watercolor painting is that you can paint with no water at all or with a small amount of it to create a “dry” effect or to capture the look of an oil painting. Watercolor really can do a lot.

6. Where to start

You can find many watercolor painting techniques and tutorials on websites and in books. But I would like to tell you how to perceive the big picture. There are many theories about where to start with watercolor painting. One of the most popular methods is from light to dark. Although I don’t think that you should be constrained by any rules - I’ve seen how artists create amazing paintings, starting to work from darkest to lightest.

I usually start with what I like best, like Pickle the bird, and then move on to minor characters. And after all this I add the background color using a large brush.

I advise you not to worry if the paint does not lay down the way you want or goes over the edges. On the contrary, it should be perceived as one of the most interesting aspects of painting with watercolors. You can achieve cool and unexpected effects at any time.

Usually, after I apply the background colors, the paper becomes damp, so I let it dry before worrying about the details. And this time I really have control over how the paint flows.

I almost always leave room for decorative details empty until the very end, because I use them to enhance the composition or direct the reader's attention to something. specific place. That's why I don't want to accidentally highlight them too much.

Characters in my children's book most time in nature, so I usually leave leaves, plants and flowers for last, even though they are an important part of the composition. I want them to highlight the art as much as the storyline itself.

7. Experiment

There are no rules, there are only tools! As with any other art form, there are many techniques in painting. Experiment and learn new techniques that will complement your drawing style. You can use white, you can scrape the surface of the paper, you can apply a lot of paint. Most importantly, have fun!

If you're interested in my painting process, you can watch a quick-motion video of how I painted the picture below from start to finish. The video is three minutes long, but in real time it took me seven hours:

Schoolgirl drawing in mixed media. Watercolor + colored pencils. Video

I still receive letters with the same consistency with questions: “I want to become an illustrator, where to start?”, “How can I learn to draw?”, “What should I do if I can’t draw, do I have a chance to become an illustrator?”

At first glance, the questions are quite strange. If you don’t know how to draw, you don’t want to start and try, you don’t even want to learn how to draw - what kind of illustrator are you? Why do you need it? But everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance.

I recently came across the highest private school in Hamburg, which narrowly trains only illustrators. On the very first pages of "About Me" they say that an illustrator is a designer who knows how to draw.

I felt funny because I am a graphic designer and I received, without false modesty, a good education. Behind long years During our training, we were constantly told that any designer must be able to draw, handle a camera, understand typography and understand art.

Along with such subjects as typography, we were taught drawing and photography - things that were reflected in my ideas about illustration. I devoted several sections to the influence of photography on illustration in my book “Profession - Illustrator. Learning to think creatively.”

The statement that an illustrator is a designer who knows how to draw seemed very strange to me. At first I decided that people simply didn’t know what they were teaching. modern designers. But then I seemed to understand what they were talking about. Namely, that the illustrator is a professional who has a wide variety of skills and image techniques, which can often be called more like design ones.

Indeed, the modern illustrator is no longer tied to traditional visual techniques: he does not have to work only with paints or pencils on paper. He doesn't even have to be able to draw very well. It is enough to be able to handle paper and scissors, wood and a chisel, fabrics and a sewing machine, to be able to draw only at the level of outlines and sketches and at the same time to be no less successful and marketable illustrator than colleagues working in traditional techniques.

Today I would like to draw your attention to the techniques of modern illustrations.

To questions like “Where should a future illustrator start?” I already answered, and below you can follow the link to my answer. And to the question whether someone will turn out to be an illustrator if he has not learned to draw traditionally, academically, I will say yes. Because if paper and light and shade are not given, it’s worth trying yourself in some unconventional technology, if, despite everything, you want to do illustration professionally.

For inspiration, I will show you a beautiful book - a collection of works by illustrators and artists working in non-traditional illustration techniques.

Book on American Amazon:
Book on German Amazon: Illustration Play: Craving for the Extraordinary

The cover is made on very beautiful, textured paper with real stickers.

And this is what the content looks like - a list of featured illustrators.

Illustrations made using a burner. Author: Genevieve Dionne

Installation illustrations from various materials. Posted by Stephanie Dotson

Illustrations-installations made of paper and wood. Author: Aj Fosik

Illustrations on old packaging, envelopes, etc. Posted by Melvin Galapon

This tutorial will help you learn how to draw a 2D illustration using standard Photoshop brushes. We will go through all the stages of creating an illustration, from sketch to background, gradually working out and drawing all the details. You can successfully apply all these methods to other illustrations, as well as in the design of other types of projects, such as logos, for example - drawing and painting skills always come in handy. The author used Photoshop CS3 and Wacom Graphire 3 to create this illustration.

1. Sketch

I started with a sketch. Having decided on the shapes, I paid attention to the color scheme, highlighting the main and background colors. To do this, try to imagine the picture as accurately as possible. On Blank sheet Photoshop I sketched out the color spots. I don’t like working on a flat filled canvas - color transitions help give the right mood to work. I added a general background fill. You see, there is a lot of green grass - the good old song comes to mind about “...we dream of grass, grass near the house...” Try to imagine yourself in such a place: next to the house grows that oak tree that you often climbed as a child ...

2. Customizing brushes

We will add details using a brush. In this illustration I'm using only standard Photoshop brushes. If you want, you can download others and work with them. Let's set them up for work. Here are the brushes I will use:

3. Color selection

Let's determine the main colors we will work with. Here is my palette for this illustration. As usual, I want to draw something brighter. For the background I chose shades of yellow and blue. The remaining colors are for the landscape. Save your palette as a separate file. And while you draw, keep it open at hand.

4. We work on objects

I decided to remove the old car that was originally parked near the house. She doesn't look that good there. The car is an optional object in this illustration. So, I erased the car and drew my oak tree - and maybe you can draw another tree. To do this, I applied the main spots of paint with a hard round brush, and then schematically drew the details with the same brush, but smaller. You also need to create a separate layer for the grass and draw it in general terms as well.

5. Meadow

We continue to draw the grass in more detail, using both a small hard brush and smoothing out the transitions with a soft one. Later I can change the grass, add flowers - red, blue or yellow. I'm not thinking about it yet, but the green grass will definitely come in handy in this illustration.

6. Working with the palette

When choosing a color, I usually do this:

7. Wood

Watch how I paint wooden fence boards. In this lesson I don't draw different types wood, there are only 2 types - for the door and for the fence.

8. Canvas size

To draw details well, you need a large canvas. If you see that the size you have chosen is clearly not enough, at this stage you can still increase it. For our work we need a canvas of at least 2000 or 2600 pixels.

9. Drawing with a small brush

Draw the details with a small brush. Take a look at how I work with the roof detailing:

10. Grass

Now I'll create a couple more new grass layers. I fill the areas again with the main color and then work in the shadows with shades of it. I also paint bunches of grass blades in separate layers. Why draw grass in different layers? To make it easier to make changes that you later have to make. It is much easier to correct mistakes if the main elements of the work are in separate layers. In addition, somewhere you can save time and effort by duplicating successful layers with blades of grass in different places work.
How to draw grass, you ask? Just take a brush, pick up some color, and paint a blade of grass. Then change the color and draw the next one, just like in my example. And so many times.

11. Clouds

It's time to start detailing the clouds. To draw the cloud, I outlined its shape on a separate layer and then set the layer to overlay to achieve the effect you see in this picture.
My sky consists of two layers: one contains the main colors, and the other contains all the bright places and gaps. Try to achieve harmony by changing the shape of the brush and painting the clouds with different strokes.

We need to set shadows and light. If in doubt, look at pictures of clouds. Check Google to check different types and cloud shapes.

12. Clouds

I also want to add bright sun rays and gaps in the clouds that resemble lightning. After going through several options, I settled on the following. The light spots are still pretty rough for now, but I'll finish with them later. I note that each of the elements is on a separate layer, which allowed me to quickly select them and easily carry out all the manipulations with shades, brightness, etc. : Ctrl + click on the desired object selects the corresponding layer, and Ctrl + click on the preview of this layer in the layers panel gives us a selection in the form of a layer object.

13. Adjustments Settings

That's what really matters. By choosing the appropriate shade, you can change the entire atmosphere of the illustration. Now I change the colors in Color Balance. Then I'll adjust the brightness and contrast. As you can see, the result is obvious.

13. Let's summarize

Merge all layers into one. Can add finishing touch— apply the Smart Sharpen filter to the resulting image to make details clearer. This helps a lot in manifestation small parts, like glare.
Time to close Photoshop I hope you enjoyed it!

This lesson was translated for you by Hatice Bayramoglu. We will be glad if you dare to show off your results)) Good luck in your studies!

Comments

1. DeVeL
   December 9, 2011 at 6:20 pm

   Somehow not quite a lesson. Rather just making of, and not the most detailed one.

2. Islam
   December 17, 2011 at 6:53 pm

   But I think it can still be called a lesson, just follow the logic and everything will be ok.))

3. Vladislav
   March 25, 2015 at 4:53 pm

   I am a project manager at the Children and Parents Against Cancer charity foundation. www.deti-lipetska.ru

   Our foundation is starting to publish a newspaper where I want to publish my fairy tale. Here is a link to the first three chapters:

   lipetskblog.ru/blogs/blog...ste-glava-tretya

   The fairy tale is unusual because it is written for children who have fallen under the heavy millstones of a serious and painful illness. Therefore, the fairy tale is a little sad but with powerful life motivation.

   Need illustrations! But since we have a charitable foundation and the newspaper is free, I ask you to show complicity and offer your own illustrations for free. We, in turn, will definitely indicate this in each printed chapter of the fairy tale. Thank you!..

   Write to us by email [email protected]

   Katya Answer:
   November 5, 2018 at 5:52 pm

   I can try) =)

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Instructions

Read the fairy tale, choose an episode whose meaning you want to reflect in the illustration. Determine the characters who will be present in the picture. Create a sketch composition that will arrange everyone characters in their places. The picture will grow later when you give your characters character.

Now you need to study the samples and elements folk drawings and paintings to most fully reflect the character and originality of the fairy tale. Khokhloma and Gorodets painting will help you depict the bright plants of the Russian land. Fill the surface with green paint and paint elements of curly grass, colorful flowers, carved bushes and berries over the dried layer. The background for your illustration is almost ready.

Often the setting of a fairy tale is a forest. Trees can be represented as different silhouettes. Look at birch, oak, spruce - they are all quite different from each other in shape. A wide and massive oak with a dense crown and a thick trunk, a thin carved birch and a triangular clawed spruce. Use different shades green color and a clear outline to get a voluminous forest.

Special attention pay attention to the sleeves and length of the sundress. Previously, its length was determined social status and rank (married or not). In addition, the drawing of the ornament is of no small importance. If you copy from the original, then transfer the slightest curves onto the paper, because it is the ornament that determines the beauty of folk art. suit in your drawing. It must be clear and clearly visible. And in order to be able to make mistakes in the drawing while it is not yet finished, it is better to use a soft one. It works well without leaving marks on the paper.

Keep in mind when working that the main thing is reliability. Correctly convey the peculiarity of the same sundress. It was sewn in such a way that it did not emphasize the shape of the body at all. This was considered provocative.

When coloring a picture, you can keep the original color scheme, or you can add your own color, but the main thing is that if you want the folk one to be just folk, remember that its color depended on the fabric from which it was made and the color of the embroidery threads. There were no “leopard” trends in fashion then.

Video on the topic

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Interesting fact: the ornament was not just decoration. People believed that embroidery containing magic symbols, protects a person from evil forces. Therefore, a folk costume is also a kind of amulet!

Our ancestors dressed very beautifully and harmoniously. Skilled craftswomen tried to decorate even casual clothes embroidery, multi-colored ribbons and other elements. But festive clothes were especially elegant. Types of Russian national costume different provinces vary greatly in color, and in decoration, and in components. However, it is considered typically Russian woman suit, consisting of an embroidered white shirt, colored and kokoshnik. The men dressed in blouses, striped pants and onuchi with bast shoes.

You will need

• - paper;
• - drawing supplies.

Instructions

Sketch a human figure. Draw a vertical line and divide it into eight segments. In the upper division draw the head, the next three segments will be the torso, and the remaining four will be the legs. The length of the arms reaches mid-thigh. For a dressed figure, you only need to determine the proportions without drawing out the parts of the body covered with clothing.

Draw a sundress: two short straps go from the shoulders to a straight or figured neckline of the bodice. Under the chest, the sundress is gathered into folds, and towards the bottom it widens greatly. Draw wavy line bottom, depicting wide soft folds of fabric. From the chest line, draw radiating fold lines. Place a wide patterned border along the center and hem.

Now you need to draw the shoulders and puffy sleeves of the shirt - they can be expanded at the top or, conversely, at the bottom. The bottom of the sleeves is gathered at the cuff and forms a voluminous overlap. Another option is wide trapezoidal sleeves, decorated at the bottom with a wide embroidered border. The upper part of the shirt, not covered by a sundress, is also decorated with sun-shaped embroidery around the neck.

Complete the picture with an image of a round bowl hairstyle and a headdress - with a narrow band and decorated with a flower (such a headdress is typical for a city costume) or a tall hat, slightly tilted to one side.

Helpful advice

You can paint costumes in a wide variety of colors, but take into account the fact that in the old days natural dyes were used to color fabrics, which did not allow obtaining unnaturally bright and artificial colors. Nevertheless, the costumes did not look faded. Red was very popular in combination with green, golden, and brown shades.

Fabrics with various printed patterns were also used, typical of which were: oriental cucumber, polka dot, stripe. Also considered traditional are white earth calicos (fine floral drawing By white background).

Sources:

• Russian folk costume
• how to draw elements of the national clothing of the Russian people

Instructions

How to draw a strong hare/strong and a wolf/b" class="colorbox imagefield imagefield-imagelink" rel="gallery-step-images"> Determine the location on the sheet. You can limit this space with a thin light outline. To determine what size each part of the design should be, one of them can be considered a unit of measurement. For example, take the length of the head as a unit wolf. Measure it along the horizontal axis. The height of the head is half a unit. Draw its approximate outlines.

Then, from the level of the back of the head, draw a vertical axis inclined at an angle of 45°. Around the axis, outline the outline of the animal’s neck. Its length is equal to the length of the muzzle. From the neck to the end of the right paw wolf measure another unit and a quarter, hide the left paw behind a snowdrift. Chest Width wolf equal to the length of the head. The width of the part of the body that is visible to the right is equal to a third of this distance. Draw hind legs wolf, repeating the shape you see in the photo.

Also build an image hare. Use an oval to outline the location of the object on paper. The length of the oval should be twice the width. Divide the oval in half vertical line. To the left of it, gradually increase the height of the figure - the torso hare the picture should become egg-shaped.

Divide the length of the animal's body into five equal parts. The two parts on the right will fall on the animal’s head - it is almond-shaped and lowered down. Divide this distance in half to determine the location of the eye. The axis for it should be at an angle of 45° with respect to the bottom border of the sheet.

Measure the height of your head in the picture. Draw lines one and a half times longer to represent the ears. hare. Make the right one wider (it is turned towards the viewer) and short. Lightly outline the outlines of the paws pressed to the body.

Shirt as the main element of Russian folk costume

Scientists call this cut “tunic-like” and believe that it was approximately the same for all segments of the population. Only the material and the nature of the finishing differed. People from the common people dressed in shirts made from linen, in the cold season, shirts made from “tsatra” - fabric made from goat down - were sometimes worn.

There was another name for the shirt: “shirt” or “shirt”. However, some researchers believe that the “shirt” and “shirt” are different elements of the costume. A long shirt was made from denser and coarser fabric, while a light shirt was made from thinner and softer fabric. Over time, the shirt turned into underwear, and the outer shirt was called the “overshirt.”

Length men's shirt It was about knee-deep. She was always belted, supported in such a way that she top part turned into a bag for necessary items. Since the shirt was directly adjacent to the body, during its manufacture it was considered necessary to “secure” the holes that existed in the finished garment: the collar, sleeves and hem. The protective function was performed by embroidery, each element of which carried its own magical meaning.

Slavic shirts did not have turn-down collars. The gate was rather similar to a modern “post”. The collar incision was usually made straight - in the middle of the chest, but it was also oblique, on the right or left. The collar was fastened with a button. It was considered a particularly “magically important” piece of clothing, because after death the soul flew out through it. The sleeves of the shirt were wide and long and were held with a braid at the wrist.

Belt and pants in a costume composition

Belts made from wild aurochs leather were highly prized. They tried to get the leather for the belt directly from the hunt, when the auroch was already mortally wounded, but still alive. Such belts were considered extremely rare, since forest bulls were very dangerous.

Hello! We haven't seen each other for a long time and probably haven't written off for even longer. Today I want to convey to you all my experience that I have gained while drawing for this blog over the past year. Let's go!

I would like to boast of a large number of it, and even as an application to newspapers, magazines, news portals, books, which can be appreciated by tens of thousands of people every day... but the experience is modest and consists of one newspaper for pensioners and this blog.

I won’t tell you that “you need to do it this way and no other way”... although, in principle, I never said that, and I’ll just share my experience in creating illustrations for articles for a blog site

What is illustration

Let’s leave the free interpretation of this term in the depths of my head, and turn to the global web.

An illustration is a drawing or any other image that explains the text; this can include photographs, engravings, and much more.

The purpose of the drawing is usually to highlight the subject about which we're talking about, rather than showing form, explaining or showing textual content by graphic methods.

Used to convey emotions, the atmosphere of the text, depiction of the characters in the story, demonstration of objects, step by step instructions and diagrams in technical documentation.

How illustrations are used

Where do we meet them most often? IMHO, the priority is children's books, then websites, newspapers, magazines, and other books.

Newspapers mostly depict caricatures that ridicule the situation described in the text, while magazines use more photo collages and, if necessary, drawings that can be purchased on stocks.

A real treasure trove is children's books and websites. There is an opinion, and not just mine, that a person whose portfolio is made in the same style and similar topics than someone who has a hodgepodge of styles, techniques, topics, etc.

And what conclusion does this suggest? That's right, if you want to make money by drawing pictures to accompany the text, then you need to adapt to the market, and not the market to you.

In fact, when you understand the rules of the game and stop resisting, sticking out your “D’Artagnan” at the show, then you can count on working in this field.

With websites, in my opinion, the situation is different. There are many of them, and despite the fact that you still have to adapt to the client, no one here forbids you, and even recommends making your portfolio as diverse as possible, so that the client can choose the style in which he wants to accompany the illustrations on his portal.

So, to summarize, in order to draw a commercial illustration, which is what paid drawings are called, you need to choose the area in which you want to apply your talents, create a rich portfolio in one style ( for a narrow area, such as children's books), or in different ( for websites and projects with a wide range of topics) to demonstrate your experience to the customer.

I hope we both understand that today the question of how to draw in general will be omitted and we will talk about the idea and concept, and not shapes and lines. Here we go... again!

1. In the first lines you need to understand, or rather ask how the customer sees the illustration . If the answer is in the style of “At your discretion,” then consider yourself lucky, while others create a picture in their head in advance and complain when it does not coincide with what came from your pen.

Of course, I am my own customer and performer, but if I ordered illustrations from “someone,” I would definitely say what exactly needs to be drawn and how I see it, and not “there is text - illustrate.”

2. As a rule my illustrations are based on subtitles , but there is not always enough information to form a clear picture. In other cases, I re-read the text and isolate a sentence from the entire section, or better yet, the context and try to somehow play with it.

3. I have a blog and according to my observations Most of the illustrations drawn for Internet sites are of an entertaining nature. and they want to make the reader laugh, dilute the atmosphere, and give them a break.

Large online publications, like adme, lookatme and others like them, often need specific and creative drawings. With books it’s simpler – just a drawing illustrating the text, without any allusions or secret meanings.

4. Illustrations on websites are needed first of all so that the reader doesn’t go crazy while reading this sheet. Therefore, the more drawings there are, the better. However, be careful, drawing eight illustrations for one article is difficult, but possible, and drawing eight illustrations for ten articles is fucking suicide (I know T_T).

The same is true for books. If the customer strictly determines the number of drawings per square centimeter, then first of all you need to assess whether you can do it. How to evaluate? Take it test, it can even be unpaid, because if it suits you, then they will cooperate with you, and if not, then you will buy yourself FREEDOM from slavery to a project that in the future you will only associate with pain.

5. The color in the illustration sets the mood for the entire text. Light and bright drawings associated with good mood and they say that the text is “friendly”, is not written in depressive tones, and does not try to scare you. Dark colors on the contrary, they can thicken the colors to convey all the horror that is described in the text.

6. Black and white drawings are created faster than colored ones, but not as fast as it seems at first glance ... Okay, this advice is useful, perhaps exclusively only for me (with my drawing style...), but in Lately I’m starting to add colors more and more often and... I wouldn’t say that I’ve been drawing noticeably longer. So this is it, advice for those who don’t know how to paint yet and think “my style will be black and white” - as I thought.

7. Optimize your backdrops. Often in an illustration the object is important and the background is not at all important. The background can be abstract or just some pastel color. If the customer does not require such an “Atmosphere” from you, then don’t bother - you’ll save yourself a lot of time.

8. Try to stick to one drawing . Yes, very strange advice, the answer to which can be the phrase: “The stump is clear!” But we are beginner artists (if you are not, then what have you forgotten here?) and each of our drawings teaches us something new and after each work we draw better and better.

9. For websites, newspapers, magazines: when you choose uniform style drawings, then sometimes it is possible to come up with a character. If you remember the illustrations for the newspaper, which I constantly looked for as a child, there was such a character as Petrovich. Honestly, he was drawn terribly, but it was catchy how the same character gets into different situations.

That’s what I did for my blog, I have two main characters (well, I’m a substitute), who illustrate everything that happens in my articles.

10. If the text is descriptive, draw an object; if it is narrative, draw an action.. Now I’ll explain - if they describe to me what a gorgeous vase my neighbor has, then I draw the vase, if they tell me how this vase got to him, then I can draw its entire path from the factory to the house, how it was produced, how it was dropped , glued, transported, etc.

11. Not the most categorical advice, purely in my opinion, the more details, the better. Yes a large number of little details lengthens the production process, but at the same time helps the reader read the picture better. The eyes cling to one thing or another and the image is deposited in the head. But there is a fine line between a moderate amount and a strong excess... you have to find this line yourself;)

Well, there’s not much here, but as I said, this is my experience in creating illustrations and some points that I noticed for myself personally.

I hope you found it interesting and got some useful knowledge.

And, yes, don't forget what to create digital illustrations you need Graphics tablet)) I've been looking at Aliexpress lately, there are a lot of tablets by low prices . I have bought things from the Chinese more than once and in the near future I am planning to buy myself a brand new tablet... otherwise my vakcom is already completely worn out T_T

Creative mood to all, friends!