Reflection Manuscript Copy Point Analysis - New Year Pictures

1. New Year's Features

New Year pictures are unique to China's painting system. Traditional habits are posted during the Spring Festival and they are used to congratulate the New Year. Therefore, they are called New Year pictures. New Year's pictures use watercolor pigments, sometimes mixed with gouache and pigments, and have the characteristics of watercolors, but they are different from watercolors. Its colorful, eye-catching strokes are delicate and soft, and the drawing technique is meticulous, especially in the facial features of charactors. The charcoal brush eraser portrait is used to create a subtle outline of the figure's face, give it a color, and use a spray pen to spray the color. To an even degree of ideal, form a unique style.

In addition, there are still New Year pictures drawn in the form of traditional Chinese paintings. The face color is slightly shaded, and the texture of the clothes is often expressed in lines of different thicknesses and shades.

2. Production requirements for New Year printing plates

The New Year paintings generally use the three primary colors, and the black version is the reproduction method of the skeleton. Reuse the primary colors and use less black. So as not to lose the bright and bright feeling. Due to the large number of characters depicted in the New Year's pictures, the use of lighter auxiliary colors is sometimes used to achieve the purpose of moisturizing facial colors.

When copying is required, the color is soft and bright, and the screen is bright and clear. It is generally not emphasized that strokes, water stains, and tonal adjustments should be abundant, but the overall tone should not be too full to facilitate the printing of ink. In color processing, it is required to be bright and bright, and the basic color and the main part should be highlighted in the unified tone. The mixed colors in the dark areas should have a relaxed and transparent feel. In facial treatment, its color strives to be true and above reality. The face of the character should be full and soft, and it must be rough, stiff, and distorted.