Cicadas can soar, but they do not leave the willows; dragonflies fly, but they inhabit the lotus handles of indigo leaves; the celestial cow flies less and inhabits the branches for life. In summary, these three categories are not separated from the branches, so they are introduced together.
1. Tianniu
Tianniu is beautiful in color, black and white. Its larvae, however, are filthy and greedy, eating the heart of the tree, and such a small insect can cause the tree to fall. Tianniu drinking, eating, breeding, are all in the tree body, so paint the tianniu, more so that it perched on the tree, where willow, sycamore, can be matched; if the flowers and grasses, it is unreasonable.
The painting method of the Celestial Bull ↓↓↓
2. Cicadas
There are several kinds of cicadas: the summer cicada is large, the sound is far away; the cicada is slightly verdant in color, and the sound is just like the word "Fu Liang"; the autumn cicada has a wide winglet and a white wax body, just like the body covered with frost, the sound is poignant, tragic and moving, "the cold cicada is miserable, the long pavilion is late" is this cicada.
Painting cicadas must know their emotional nature, in order to form their mourning, can shape the mourning of cicadas, in order to support the words of things, in order to achieve the mourning of the painter.
Structure sketching of cicadas ↓↓
Comparison of the morphological differences of the three common cicadas ↓↓↓
The steps of drawing cicadas
1. Outline the compound eyes and head of the cicada with heavy ink. ↓↓↓
2. Use heavy ink to outline the chest and back of the cicada and draw the direction of the two wings. ↓↓↓
3. Heavy ink outlines the six limbs, and light ink outlines the wing structure. ↓↓↓
4. Use heavy ink to wrinkle out the heavy color on the chest and back of the cicada and on the limbs. ↓↓↓
5. Light ink dyes the abdomen, showing the effect of being covered by cicada wings, the whole body is dyed with light ochre, and the wings are only dyed with veins, not cover dyeing. ↓↓↓
6. The body of the cicada is dyed with light juice green to make it black and moist. ↓↓↓
7. Use light white powder to dye the head and back, show the texture of its hard shell, paint the cicada to pay attention to the virtual reality, and the abdomen covered by the wings must be faint, and the whole body will have aura. ↓↓↓
3. Dragonflies
There are several kinds of dragonflies, the large ones are verdant; the middle ones have an ochre color, which is extremely common; there are also those with scarlet abdomen, commonly known as "red peppers"; the other very small and tender, whose name is "Bean Lady", or ink color, or tender green, petite and cute.
Dragonflies are insect-eating, especially mosquito-eating, wandering the surface of the water in summer, foraging for mosquitoes, and often hovering on the water, dotting water to lay eggs. The painter knows its nature in order to draw the true interest.
Painting dragonflies, there is not much, one or two tails are enough to see the sparkling lotus wind, the water temple is far away. It can also be combined with other grass worms, painted between the flowers and grass hedges, Song Shiyun: "Who is the master of the rice flowers all the way?" Red dragonflies with green mantises. "That's the kind of scenery.
Several common dragonflies ↓↓↓
Demonstration of the steps of the dragonfly's drawing method
1. Draw the four wings of the dragonfly with a light ink sweep. ↓↓↓
2. Use light ochre dots to draw the shoulders and backs of dragonflies, and light ochre dipped in flower blue to point out the dragonfly's compound eyes. ↓↓↓
3. Use light ochre to draw the slender abdomen of the dragonfly, draw the head and face of the dragonfly in medium ink, and draw the six limbs of the dragonfly. ↓↓↓
4. Use ochre to outline the small veins on the four wings of the dragonfly, not too real, virtual is ethereal, and the real is rigid. ↓↓↓
5. The ink outlines the spots on the dragonfly's abdomen, the pink dots dye the dragonfly's head and face, and the light ochre bakes the roots of the dragonfly's four wings. ↓↓↓
6. Light rouge dyes the roots of the dragonfly's four wings, so that it is born of virtual reality, showing its flying state. ↓↓↓
Dragonfly works demonstration ↓↓↓