Photoshop Design Calligraphy Portrait pre-post creative sharing

Pre-creation part of the work

Inspired

Because it is a study of art origin, and has studied the Chinese painting's sake, oneself has the incomparable love to China art. Perhaps the Chinese traditional art of female pink green Dai, enchanting, may be a text with the flowing, a drop of cinnabar halo dyed the carmine lip, always can trigger my creative inspiration. Therefore, the portrait photography and exploration of Chinese wind is the pursuit that I have never stopped from the beginning to learn photography.

However, Chinese portrait photography can not only stay in the straightforward and superficial realism, because of the profound Chinese culture, not to find a zither to wear a cheongsam, with several Chinese elements blunt stacking, you can show the unique Chinese culture of the spirit and mood. So after more than 2 years of exploration and accumulation, I gradually began a more innovative way of filming, that is, the use of early filming and later synthesis, so that classical and modern, traditional and fashion, follow and creative collision and combination to deduce deep Chinese culture. and plans to create a group of "Wenfangsibao series." "Ink" the success of the more I determined to go down the confidence, and began to "pen" the theme of creation.

The word is born by the pen, so I first decided to show the marvelous of Chinese writing brush through the art of calligraphy. The form of Chinese characters is the beauty of the ancient precipitation out, or like the dragon also like fairies, unrestrained, elegant, so there has been a combination of words with portrait photography to create a set of pieces of the idea, so I invited the ballet professional model Pandora, wearing a minimalist white dress, let her fly with the long hair deduction of a horizontal and a 11 percent hook, Use the dance to deduce the lightness or strength of light lifting, then use PS later will be the body and long hair and text to combine the word, interpretation of calligraphy in the iron picture gold bold and flowing soft.

Pen Author: Smart acrylic Photoshop tutorial

Accidents and coping

Beginning in preparation, identified a number of more meaningful text, and then want to let the model dance out the word of a stroke, but often the reality is not so simple. Because the wig used to make strokes is 2 meters long, weighing more than 3 kilograms, the model to ensure that the dance action and strokes of the fit, but also let the hair fly to the right, responsible for throwing wigs with the dancers and the lights synchronized to the very precise point, this is very very difficult things, the model's scalp is pulled to the pain, So I had to give up the way to torture people to ensure that the dance movements of the beautiful and hair-flying effect of the main, to the later stage to find word fit. Even so, after the film, the model home shampoo, or found off a full half of the long hair, which makes me feel heartache and guilt.

Pen Author: Qiao Acrylic

Shoot the attention of the place

The first is the shape and makeup on the positioning, can not rob the focus, clothing and hairstyle must maximize the simplicity, facial makeup, you can use the bright, such as the makeup of the drama Hua Dan prominent characters.

Equipment selected is 5d2, lighting, because this group of characters do not need to create light and shadow only need to be like the Chinese painting of the ladies as flat, so the use of large flat, background only need to facilitate the drawing of white non-woven cloth can.

Pen Author: Qiao Acrylic

Action to show the charm of traditional Chinese dance, so the scene provides Chinese music to drive models to performance, models must also use the movements of Chinese dance, such as Dunhuang fairy flying posture, swallow-style of the Han Dynasty dance and the difficulty of kicking and flying, because they have many years of learning the experience of folk dance, There are clear ideas in the direction of action. The throwing of hair needs the tacit cooperation between assistant and model, must throw to have the altitude, has the direction, has the strength, the shape cannot scatter, cannot be disorderly, the hair is very heavy, each pats one is very hard for the model, one action completes or the redo all needs the model restores the physical strength to maintain the state, So it is a work which is more expensive and more effort.

Pen Author: Qiao Acrylic

The post-creation part of the work

Because of the early abandonment of the first choice after the shooting plan, can only make the later work more difficult, how to do the picture rich Chinese charm, the combination of character and the pen and strokes of the relationship, let me wring out the brain, in front of the computer design a number of plans before the final determination of the circular composition, with a minimalist screen highlighting characters and characters, Add some smoked ink to the soft and rich picture.

In order to match the movements of the characters and hair, need to find a matching text from thousands of words, these words also rich connotations, the most torture is to not involve tort, can not casually download other people's calligraphy works, can only in the calligraphy font in a needle in a haystack in the ancient masters of the works of the remake of the material to look for, To ensure that the font is clear and crisp, you must also find a clearer picture of the pixel size, encounter a lot of difficulties, such as to find a self-fit word, the font has no clear picture, and clear point of the picture, the shape is not beautiful enough, the idea of design is always in various regrets constantly change, spend the March only finally completed.

Front and rear contrast chart

PS Late steps

1. For the characters to pull the map, the early shooting with a solid color background, for the later pull to provide a convenient. Quick way, you can use "Magic wand tool" and "Quick selection tool" to pull the map.