How a painting from the sketch

Ordinary man, the sketch is just a rough draft, with a few arbitrary lines outlined images of the general shape., And decided to screen the final effect of the color shaping. For artists using direct painting method, the sketch may be the case. For the artists of the classical realist painting, sketch very important, it is all of the artists modeling language. The sketch is the most basic form of artistic expression, is the first step in the exchange of artists and nature. Here we look at the young painter Chao Ge from the sketch process, as shown in Figure 25.

(1) the first tick of the draft of an idea, the general expression of the composition and figures drawn on paper with a pencil, then control model for sketching. Painter more emotional factors when sketching the main character's appearance and demeanor as close as possible to the object.

(2) to fully appreciate the inherent qualities of the model in the sketching process, firmly seize the opportunity of the open nature spirits to be strengthened. Then the painter sketching issued on processing, generalization, abstraction.

(3) the of continuous transmutation and language purification former two sketch based on the creation of the third sketch. This step emphasized contour processing, more plump appearance, the characters in the role of light and shadow to produce a sense of relief. Local content to be substantiated, painted with greater certainty. After the sketch is finalized, the painter to extremely strict (grid magnify) to copy the sketch to the canvas. Seen in this light, from the sketch is a flexible modeling process, it allowed and even encouraged to continually modify and adjust all of which are in order to determine a clear and satisfactory visual image. In the initial stage of any painting, have reason to need to spend a lot of time from the sketch. From the sketch is not necessarily on the tune, directly with the lines on the canvas to modify, adjust, and also to determine the main body of the screen with a simple color tone and color relations.