The principle of drawing basic lines in flash painting

In every successful work, plain lines are indispensable. Lines, curves, arcs and circles, such as the basic line thickness, length changes and different combinations, that is, constitute the picture of different scenery, characters and rendering a different atmosphere. Therefore, the line is composed of the most basic elements of the screen, and plays an important role in the picture.

Basic requirements for drawing lines:

　　When drawing comics, proofing uses pencil line, the finished manuscript uses the pen line, these two lines are only the tool different, to the line request is the same, just proofing pencil line will eventually be erased, therefore the request may relax some. In general, the author can understand and determine the correct position, so you can save the time to make drafts. In painting, the basic requirements of the line can be summed up to four words, namely: quasi, pretty, evenly, live. The so-called "quasi" refers to the drawing of objects or characters, should be based on the shape and perspective angle of the different, accurate contour line, the shadow line and so on in the corresponding position; "brushwork" refers to the line should be smooth and smooth in the process of "uniform" refers to the intensity of the brushwork should be average, so that a line of the natural transition; "Live" refers to the drawing of people or objects, The line should be fully considered the volume of performance, with line composition of the screen to have the vitality, that is, the brain and the flexible coordination of the hand.

Scenery Structure Line

Hard scenery: In the drawing of hard scenery, you can choose a small line thickness change tool. Try to avoid repetition when making, especially when dealing with buildings or machinery.

Soft scenery: In the drawing of soft scenery, we should pay attention to the light of the surface of the line to be small and thin, relative back smooth can be slightly thick, especially in the processing of trees and distant mountains, according to the structure of the picture and plot to deal with changes in lighting.

Effect Line

Speed Line: In the performance of dynamic effects often used to speed line. Whether the line is parallel or perpendicular to the horizon, or tilted to a certain side, in the drawing speed line, pay attention to the line should be long and short, but also sparse and dense, this line combination is in parallel arrangement of a random combination of the length and density of the line if similar will form form, no balance of beauty.

Central line and lightning effect line:

When you see the radial images, due to the habit of people's eyes, attention will focus on the intersection of lines, therefore, in the comics commonly used in the drawing line or lightning effect line of expression to increase the tension on the screen, to attract readers attention. In drawing the line, the general use a ruler to draw, first of all want to pay attention to the part of the reader to mark, and then use this symbol for the axis of the radial line painting. The trick is to draw with a pen, make the line closer to the center of the finer, and must be a stroke, you can also mark the place nailed a Pushpin, and then with a ruler close to the Pushpin to draw a focus line, remove the needle left after the pin can be white color tu ping. Lightning effect line of the painting is the same, first set the position of white, and then draw the approximate baseline, because the effect of lightning effects of the focus of the effect is relatively small, so the performance of the line needs to be more delicate.

Mesh Effect Line:

Sometimes in order to foil the picture atmosphere, often use net effect line, commonly used net effect line divides into one to four heavy net.

A heavy mesh effect line: is to draw the thickness, the length of the basic line of the line group, tilt the direction of combination, forming a mesh effect line.

Double Mesh Effect Line: that is, always keep the pose of vertical line, touch the horizontal line to change the direction of the manuscript, draw a group of vertical lines of the grid-like effect.

Triple Mesh effect Line: You should first draw the diamond pattern, then draw a third line, that is, the final formation of a group, each angle is 60 degrees of positive triangular pattern of the effect line.

Four mesh effect line: The same as the double mesh effect line, to maintain the vertical painting posture, touching the horizontal lines to change the direction of the manuscript.

Gradient Mesh Effect Line:

1, the same shape mesh effect line gradient: Through the line density distance relationship to show the gradient effect, the dark part with a small interval of lines, and then gradually expand the interval distance.

2, the different shape net effect line gradient: From four heavy mesh combination began to transition to triple mesh combination, double mesh combination, a heavy mesh combination, and then draw points at the edge of the scattered line.

Note: When two mesh effect line stitching, to make contact does not coincide and not to be detached, so that looks very neat, if the line at the point of the thicker lines, it is necessary to modify the white pigment.

Rope-like effect line: generally divided into round rope-like effect line and wavy rope-like effect line. The rope-like effect line, like the net, is painted in a vertical way, moving the angle of the original manuscript as the angle changes. In painting a variety of mesh lines, should pay attention to line and line between the interval, if there is a regular increase or reduce the spacing of lines, will be able to draw a gradient rope-like effect line.

The strength and weakness of lines are expressed by the difference of weight, density, hardness and thickness between lines and lines. Beginners often unconsciously with the same thickness of the line to paint, if the line strength and strong changes can show the material texture and distance. Generally speaking, in the quality of hard objects, you should use thicker and harder lines to emphasize its texture; When you draw soft objects, you use thinner softer lines. When drawing a character, the contour of the characters and the edges of each part can be used for heavy lines, while the wrinkles on the hair and clothes of the characters should be expressed with thin cords. Of course, the so-called strength and weakness of the line varies with the structure of the object, for example, in drawing a person's posture, a leg before and after the two lines to deal with different, because of the bending of the legs, the front line because to show the hardness of the knee must be painted hard, and the back line is the performance of the muscles of the leg relaxation, the line should be soft, The soft here is not the sloppy, but the softness. In addition, in the drawing of some intersecting lines, will produce a number of lines between the superposition of pressure, should be noted in front of the lines of the object to be pressed and stronger than the back line. People face, hand lines should be the main cord, and some local lines in the disappearance, should not be the pen to pause, but should be slowly raised, forming a line with the tip. These combinations are important in relation to the density of line combinations. The general method is, in the performance of the concave part of the line combination of a few, raised part of the line to be as concise as possible, so that two parts at the same time, will produce a sharp contrast. Draw a straight line, the nib can not move around, otherwise it will easily cause ink accumulation on paper, to draw a breath. Draw a straight line, you should first draw vertical lines, if you encounter horizontal, you can rotate the paper 90 degrees, still in the form of vertical line to draw, draw attention to often clean the edge of the ruler and nib, so as not to blur or dirty paper. For beginners, the practice of line seems simple, the actual operation is not easy, therefore, must not despise! It is the basic training of painting, is the coordination between the hands, eyes and brain exercises. Usually scribble some scattered lines or draw some parts of the object, can be good for drawing lines, especially in the beginner stage, the line should be practiced anytime, anywhere, only more practice can be born skillfully, to professional cartoonist's painting as a model, attention to imitate the strength of the lines, from which will benefit from the light.