Weng Ziyang himself.

Ziyang introduced

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Date of birth:1March 975

Native place: Changshu, Jiangsu

Constellation: Pisces

Graduated from Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in Chinese painting.

Now teaching: International Institute of Software.

Position: Associate Professor, Department of Digital Media, Master Supervisor.

Blood type: O type

Favorite season: summer

Favorite color: red.

Favorite food: wine

Painting materials: extremely fine, waterproof and water-based signature pens, and pencils for black and white manuscripts.

The color manuscript uses photoshop5.02 to process the scanned pictures.

Favorite illustrator: JUSTINSWEET

Main works: Wandering Bagpiper, Young Knife Lover of Butterflies, Silent White Lotus, Fight Out, Tea of the Red Leopard, Chilean Ballad, Memories of Summer, Children's Volume, Memories in Water, City of the New Century, City of the Desert, Comic Edition.

Fan Ju's works: White lotus is silent, and memories in the water.

Main publications:

Role setting and performance: a collection of school teaching materials.

Animation Creation: Desk Collection: A Set of Teaching Materials

New Three Kingdoms: A set of cartoons, 30 episodes.

"Liaozhai Series" comic picture book: A set of comics created by different cartoonists, and Weng Ziyang is responsible for some of them.

Moonlight _ Phantom of the Opera-Weng Ziyang copied the original paintings: copied the original paintings, produced in You Man.

Song of Eternal Sorrow: A picture book, distributed as the periphery of a TV series of the same name.

Tarot cards with gods: Tarot cards produced in You Man are coming soon.

The Wind in Longxi: The cover of Ma Boyong's Weng Ziyang.

Legend of the Hunter: Illustrated Fiction, there are currently four books by Giddens Ko.

A novel illustrated by a wild fox under a tree.

Vague record: At present, there are two illustrated novels in Jiangnan (most novels in Kyushu have Weng Ziyang's illustrations).

Chibi: A picture book, a picture of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms.

illusion

Animation and game settings are called:

Games: Shamu ONLINE and Qin Yi.

Animation: Nezha (CCTV Youth Animation)

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chronological table

1997 Teaching of Wuhan Surveying and Mapping University; His works were selected for the first East Asian Comics Conference and exhibited in Japan. "Red Leopard Tea" and "Chilean Ballad" won two awards for original comic works in Wenchuan Cup.

1998 A single piece of Chilean ballad participated in the first original art exhibition in Beijing.

1999 "Lyle Ballad" single work participated in the original exhibition of Beijing Animation and Comics Conference.

For the timetable of 2003-2006, please go to the picture area of Southern Network.

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all one's life

1993- 1997 studied Chinese painting at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, 1997 taught at Wuhan University. CG illustrators are mostly represented by China ink paintings, which are free and freehand, and their works are cold and beautiful. They are known as masters of ink CG among domestic cartoonists. Up to now, he has created more than ten animation works, such as Wandering Bagpiper, Young Knife Lover of Butterfly, Bai Lianhua Silent, Fighting Chu, Red Leopard, Ballad of Chile, Memories of Summer, Children's Roll, Memories in Water, City of the New Century and Desert.

1997 Some works were selected for the first East Asian Comic Conference and exhibited in Japan. Embroidery of the Red Leopard and Lyle Ballad won two excellent prizes for original comic works in Wenchuan Cup, and were invited to create a character draft for CCTV's large-scale comic Nezha. At the same time, Weng Ziyang also published books on creative theories and techniques such as role setting and expression. The independent compilation of Animation Creation-Desk Collection will be published in the near future. In 2003, he became the animation director of Hubei Dolphin Animation Co., Ltd., responsible for the comprehensive development of the 30-episode masterpiece "The New Three Kingdoms" of a large-scale comic project. In August, 2004, the Phantom of the Moonlight-Weng Ziyang, which cooperated with You Man Culture, copied the original painting.

Weng Ziyang's long-term artistic creation stems from his obsession and constant exploration of ancient China culture, especially through the pen and ink of traditional Chinese painting, expressing courage and vitality, simplicity, dignity and life. Most of his works are about people and history, such as Chu culture, Spring and Autumn Period, fantasy and so on. After discovering the similarity between digital art and Chinese painting, he turned to the exploration of digital art on the platform of CG painting, improved the original design and painting by using CG new technology, and organically integrated the newly developed technology with traditional painting. The works are represented by illustrations, CG paintings, binding, game posters, movies, etc. , and has been introduced and published in special issues in Korea, Japan, Malaysia and other places, and its achievements in comics, animation, games and illustrations have won recognition inside and outside the industry.

"10 10 people" —— Ten years on paper in Weng Ziyang

It is difficult to write a summary. I have been teaching for almost ten years. Year after year, time flies. Today, I pushed open the door and entered the studio. Suddenly I found that the Metasequoias outside the window were all red, and the year was almost over.

Since the year before last, I have gradually understood what I want to do. Many things are good, but it seems that you can only do what you want to do. When I found that I didn't have enough roles to do well, I felt that time was getting more and more urgent. Because I have started several times, I can't feel at ease, but I feel depressed, for fear of delaying what I have decided to finish.

In retrospect, the Odyssey has been painted for eight years. I face Musashi on paper every day, and Inoue becomes Musashi. What role should I find to face? It's a problem-beautiful women like it, but it's not good to regard painting beautiful women as a lifelong career, and chivalrous men and women are not what I want to paint, hehe.

Some time ago, I was asked to draw short cartoons of the Three Kingdoms, but I found that the Three Kingdoms is really a strange melting pot, which can really make people put everything down and be moved by it. However, the biggest discovery is to give up skills. You must give up your skills to draw well.

I suddenly found that comics are actually a person telling his own story seriously, as long as the story is clear. I have always thought that people like pictures, the pictures themselves. That's it. Wrong for a long time.

But drawing on paper is really fun-holding a pen is painful and happy!

Ziyang Weng

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Weng Ziyang, a man with a poetic name. 1993- 1997 studied Chinese painting in Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, 1997 taught at Wuhan University. So far, he has ten years of creative experience. Most of his CG illustrations are represented by China ink painting, with a cold and sad style, and he is known as the master of ink CG among domestic cartoonists. His paintings include Wu Gou, Meiren and Heshibi in the Spring and Autumn Period, the unification of the Tunshan River in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the prosperous country in the Tang, Song and Five Dynasties. So some people say that he is the most dazzling illustrator in China after Benjamin, even surpassing the former. At the same time, he is also a burly handsome guy with long hair and calls himself a "classical man with a perm". Asked if he was classical, he replied: no, I just cut my braid for two years, and it's not so handsome.

"I like painting. Before taking the master's degree, I didn't draw for a while. A close friend got drunk and said to me, why don't you draw? You can keep drawing. That day, I remembered what I said when I was young, saying that I would paint all my life. Creation is my happiest thing, everything is beautiful, always in the sunshine of Provence. "

What Weng Ziyang is doing at hand is the finishing work of the comic "Song of Eternal Sorrow". He read the book ten years ago. Weng's grandfather used to be the president of Tongji University in Shanghai, and he had a unique heart for the worldly wisdom of old Shanghai. As he described the heroine Wang Qiyao: "Every small place won, but the whole life lost." As for Mr. Cheng, he just "fell in love with the photo".

First, the drama "Song of Eternal Sorrow" was staged, then the film "Song of Eternal Sorrow" directed by Guan, and then the TV series "Song of Eternal Sorrow" started shooting. This old work of Wang Anyi is on fire again. When the publisher was going to publish the comic book Song of Everlasting Sorrow, they searched all over Shanghai, but they couldn't find a suitable candidate until they thought of Weng Ziyang in Wuhan.

"Draw a cartoon that can still be read in ten or twenty years." This is Weng Ziyang's goal. He usually makes a black-and-white manuscript with a very thin pen, and then processes it into a color manuscript with photoshop. When conceiving the character modeling of Song of Eternal Sorrow, he decided to give priority to realism, supplemented by color rendering in ink painting style. At the beginning of his creation, he once said that the most difficult thing to capture is the eyes of women of different ages. "At the age of twenty; At the age of thirty, I can see through you at once, and then slowly look back; Forty years old, let me think again. " Now facing the same problem, he just said that the problem has been solved. You can just look at the pictures. "

Weng Ziyang is very busy. In addition to Song of Eternal Sorrow, he also has a light teaching task, teaching comics, game making, basic art and other courses. With the animation industry in the ascendant, the school also intends to set up undergraduate or even master's degree awarding points for related majors. Therefore, although he claims to hang online, he really met online and threw him a good question. His answer is usually only one or two words. After several times, the cartoonist seems uneasy again, and sends you an illustrated document package with his works and detailed personal questionnaire.

Among them, I saw two paragraphs like this: "I like painting. I didn't draw a paragraph before I took the master's degree. " A close friend got drunk and said to me, why don't you draw? You can keep drawing. That day, I remembered what I said when I was young. I said I wanted to paint all my life. Creation is my happiest thing. Everything is beautiful, and I will always be in the sunshine of Provence. ""If we are not destined to be Mozart, don't give up the joy of playing. "

There are many CG paintings, depicting the mythical figures such as Nu Wa, Nezha and da ji, with enchanting, gorgeous and even bizarre styles. There is also an illustration in Phantom of the Moon, in which two swordsmen stand side by side with cold eyes. I didn't hesitate to set it as a computer desktop.

Weng Ziyang once said that his paintings are drunk, so they are casual and chivalrous, which reminds people of Jing Ke, and the white clothes are fluttering, and the brave men by Yishui are gone forever. Perhaps there are Li Bai's Into the Wine and Chivalry, as well as all chivalrous novelists through the ages such as Gu Long, Jin Yong, Wen Ruian, Liang Yusheng and Lord Zhu Huan. Asked whether he likes Gu Long or Jin Yong, or even which martial arts figure, he replied in a big and general way: "Anyone who can drink is good." The implication is that he is also a drinker. Asked how much he could drink, he casually replied: nothing, white wine is a kilo faster. This is great for me who can only drink a little beer. He immediately asked, you won't write this, will you? Now that I am old, I can't drink too much. We just had a physical examination.

Ask him what his hobbies are. Just say there is no time. "Oh, I like playing ball." I always thought he should play basketball. Who expected that he would say: badminton. I was surprised for a moment.

Such a cool teacher should be very popular with students. "just so-so." Weng Ziyang said that he left after class and didn't have much time with the students. "But my class is noisy and crazy." I can't figure out what this noisy crazy state is, but it's true that his public elective course "History of Western Art" is full at Wuhan University. When his business trip is postponed, several classes attend together, and the students at the bottom often complain.

Weng Ziyang answered the question bluntly. At first, he was embarrassed. After several round trips, he realized that this was called frankness. For example, he painted so many ancient times, and asked him if he was consciously in tune with the ancient people in his mind. He threw a sentence: Zhang Jizhong hasn't been to ancient times, so why not make sculptures?

CG can coexist with oil painting and Chinese painting.

How did he learn Chinese painting to draw cartoons? It is estimated that many people have asked Weng Ziyang the same question. I doubt that my question has been despised by him again. However, a few days later, he still talked about this problem very seriously. "My feeling about oil painting and Chinese painting is that the former is very heavy, while the latter has deep roots in China. At that time, I thought there must be a new painting to combine them. When CG came out, I thought it was a good carrier, getting rid of the dependence on white paper and becoming more popular. In fact, it is difficult for ordinary people to get in touch with oil paintings. Think about how many times you have seen oil paintings and Chinese paintings a year. However, CG comics can be encountered in magazines, books and film and television works on many occasions. I think CG can stand side by side with oil painting and Chinese painting in the future. "

Weng Ziyang painted many pure and beautiful covers for comic magazines. On the forum, many fans were fascinated by it. Weng Ziyang is very aware of this, and market requirements and self-requirements are clearly separated. He even called these cover illustrations meaningless. "I will stop in the second half of the year." Compared with effortless illustration, Weng Ziyang put more effort into the modeling design of game characters. One of his most proud game designs is the "Mo Xiang" in Korea.

Here is a list of his favorite figures: musicians from Mozart and Bach to Kitaro who wrote the Silk Road, writers including Yukio Mishima, painters including Japanese ukiyo-e painter Koike Baihui, symbolic painter Klimt, and great Russian farmer painter Lie Bin. From Lin Huaimin, who founded Taiwan Province's "Yunmen Dance Collection", to China's traditional inscriptions, Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, he also collected them. His favorite creative themes also extended from the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to distant Rome, Egypt and Kamakura shogunate. Besides music, dance, Kunqu opera, prose and travel, it is said that even sleeping is helpful.

After dealing with computers for a long time, he also has plans to return. "I want to paint on picture frames and rice paper more and more, but I don't have time. In the second half of the year, I will make a small sculpture, or more accurately, a toy of China ink painting. Just playing, not participating in commercial operations. " When it comes to more specific future creative management, he only said three words: draw slowly.

What are the treatment methods of character poster design? 1. Let the copywriter decorate the characters.

Sometimes, a photo of a person with good composition, good light and shadow, and outstanding characters can simply set off the atmosphere by adding fonts with corresponding characteristics, without adding too many messy and complicated retouching.

2. Strengthening of points, lines and surfaces

Some people may say that if the picture itself looks good, it will add a lot of points, but the reality is so skinny. Many times, the figures given by Party A are not so strong in visual impact. At this time, we can choose the second method. This method is different from the first one, adding some dotted lines or wireframes to the poster.

3. "Illustration" on the characters

If the characters themselves have no strong conceptual function, we can consider using illustrations or graffiti to expand the artistic conception and strength of the picture. The light-colored dress worn by YCY can be well combined with the scenery in China below, and the characters will not be weakened because of the chaotic scenery. It is also a good choice to add graffiti shapes directly to people or faces.

4. Word and word integration

For designers, "big talk" is a well-understood requirement, but when it is applied to character posters, in order to ensure that the character image will not be weakened, we can test the method of integration with the title document. The combination of moving words and heavy and powerful words makes the superposition of words and words more visually impactful.

5. Collage and cutting of multiple roles

Like movies and TV series, there will be multiple characters presented together. The method of collage and incision can be chosen in the design of character poster, and it can also be used to distinguish different characters. However, when editing, make sure that the tone of the whole poster is consistent with the film atmosphere.

How much does it cost to draw illustrations for the publishing house? One _ Underarm gingivitis, can two months make me a master? Answer: dreaming.

Some students are very cute and asked me if I could learn illustration quickly, which is the kind that can become a master in one step, just like the internal force of the characters teaching martial arts in Jin Yong's martial arts drama. Generally, it is best to spend one month, and two months at most. For some students, I can only say that I have watched too many TV dramas. Let's calm down. You think this is a child playing house. Of course, if you are a genius among geniuses, it may come true. But most of us are ordinary people, and we all need to learn basic skills in a down-to-earth manner and improve step by step. It will take at least four months if you want to learn how to illustrate. So if students really want to learn illustration, or want to understand illustration, they should calm down and study hard, and don't always think about things that are out of tune. Only real things can produce the best results, and those without logic can only be empty dreams.

Second, the collision between subject and subject. What others say is nonsense, you will understand after your own experience.

Many students study illustration, but they don't know whether to study online courses or in physical schools. There are good and bad online courses and good and bad physical schools. Judging from the current situation, the economic expenditure of sports schools is generally three to four times that of online courses. Why? Because the cost of sports school is very high, and the cost of online courses is very low compared with sports school, so if your family has mines, you can choose to study in sports school. If you are short of money and have no time, you can only study in your spare time in the evening, then you can study in the online class.

What others say about where to study is nonsense, and you will understand it after your own experience. Of course, if students want to experience it, they must have experienced it. From my personal experience, I study illustration online because I have to work during the day and have no time to go to the sports school. Online classes are taught at night. I went to the online class, and the free live lecture started at 8 o'clock every night. A lot of what the teacher said is dry goods in painting, as well as the analysis of the industry, which greatly broadened my thinking. I also took a lot of notes seriously, which greatly improved my painting ability. Of course, everyone can listen. Students who want to listen can go to their original painting course textbook, the skirt of board painting illustration: the number at the beginning is: 239, then the number in the middle is: 869, and finally. Just combine the above three groups of numbers in order. Listen to the teacher's class first to see if you are suitable for this industry. I just like studying. Don't always give yourself all kinds of psychological burdens and restrictions. You should try to tap your potential. You are no worse than others. Believe in yourself and work hard for the future.

How can I become an excellent illustrator? With standards, we can work hard.

Drawing this thing is actually starting from scratch. There is a quick genius, but I have never heard of a master who can do it overnight. It's just that some people stop learning painting and stay at the stage of zero foundation. Some people insist on learning painting, and their level will always improve, and one day they will become popular gods in the eyes of others. If you want to become an excellent professional illustrator from scratch, the following points are necessary!

1. Interest is a beginner's teacher and a gift from heaven.

First of all, the most important thing in any profession is interest, especially creative mental work like illustrator. As the saying goes: interest is the best teacher! Many people may have embarked on the road of illustrators with the hope of freedom and high salary, but their interest failed to keep them going. Why did April, a famous illustrator and picture book writer in China, become the first illustrator in Japan? Because of her love, she persisted for more than ten years and finally let everyone see her achievements. Therefore, interest is the first step to become an illustrator, and it is also the motivation and dream to persist on this road. Interest gives you a unique aesthetic and artistic appreciation.

You must know the illustrations.

The definition of illustration is very broad. Book magazine illustration, animation game illustration, advertising illustration, etc., I didn't give examples, all belong to the work scope of illustrators. Read more works by traditional illustrators (such as Natsume, Biazli and escher) and famous modern illustrators (such as Kurada Eno, Yoshitaka Amano, MenXiao Lei and Huang Jiawei). Looking at the origin, change and development of illustration in history, it is easier for you to understand what the unchanging essence of illustration is in the process of change and how much you have to do to grasp the essence of illustration.

3. Take stock of your hobbies and skills.

After reading a lot of illustrators' works, think carefully about what your favorite style is and set a goal. At the same time, recognize what your strengths and weaknesses are now, and make a plan to allocate time to skill points. For example, if you think you really want to draw characters, you must put a lot of skills into the study of human perspective and painting style.

4. Handy hand-drawing ability and excellent software operation.

Secondly, it is useless to talk about dreams, because it is impossible to return empty-handed. The most important thing is to master the ability of hand-drawing, and be able to use some design software independently, such as Photoshop, EasyPaintToolSAIIllustrator, etc. The study of these softwares, whether self-study or class, should be skillfully used. In addition to mastering these illustration software, you also have certain understanding and communication skills. Usually, you can look at the illustrations of some great gods and calm down to appreciate the charm of these works, including creativity, color and composition.

Four _ You can't learn illustration by reading, but reading can inspire you.

If you want to learn illustration, you can also read the following books, which will inspire your thinking, but it is difficult to learn illustration simply by reading books. After all, books are dead, and our problems are alive and always appear. You can watch online videos and books together, which will get twice the result with half the effort.

(1) What an illustrator should know.

(2) 88 creative skills that illustrators should know.

(3) Men's Museum

(4) the perspective of the world

(5) Western art history for all.

(6) the story of art

(7) Paper Animal City

(8) Free watercolor painting

Five _ ants don't take the usual road and try to cut it.

1. Daisuke Kimura.

1987 was born in osaka, Japan. After graduating from high school, I began to specialize in illustration and became a professional illustrator. Now I mainly draw illustrations for magazines, books and advertisements.

2. Victo Ngai.

Hong Kong illustrator, one of the youngest winners in Forbes' latest "30 Under 30" art list (30 people under 30).

3. Thors firewood.

Japanese illustrator, good at fantasy illustration.

4. Qingyuan

Japanese cartoonist and illustrator.

5. base.

A popular illustrator in Tokyo, Japan, and a resident painter on pixiv.