Take Your Time, Sooner - a 30-Week Study Guide to Becoming an Illustrator

A treasure book I discovered by chance. It is very suitable for beginners in illustration, and also suitable for people with a certain foundation in painting to read and learn. This book is different from most painting books on the market that teach you painting techniques in one step. It feels more like an acquaintance sharing his experience with you. The author pays more attention to cultivating our painting habits and painting thinking in the article. As the article says, "The most important thing when learning to draw is to start drawing and then keep drawing. Even if you can't draw one every day, don't draw less than three pictures a week." I think this sentence is very good. To do anything, you need to persist in doing it little by little every day, keep accumulating, and then grow into a big tree.

This is the best book I have ever seen on teaching painting. It is not because of the superb painting skills shared by the author, but more importantly because it systematically teaches us how to become an excellent illustrator. It is more important to establish underlying thinking logic than skills, rather than blindly copying exercises. It requires a lot of reading and thinking to understand the stories behind good works, so as to create excellent works. Painting is not something that can be done well in a day or two. It requires long-term accumulation, continuous learning, and practice. Just as the author said, "Take your time and it will be faster." With a solid foundation of basic skills and good creative thinking and habits, you will not worry about not being able to create good works.

If you are also learning to be an illustrator, but you don't know how to practice, or you have learned to illustrate but haven't practiced it for many years, this book can help you learn illustration and practice it, and become an illustrator as soon as possible. Learning any skill is inseparable from continuous practice, because only hard practice can achieve technical progress. There will also be many practical and excellent examples here, with explanations, so that we can get better involved.

How to become a good illustrator, if we are interested in this aspect. Illustrations are also divided into some unique techniques such as atmosphere, various color combinations, etc. This book also introduces some fixed combinations and introduces us some small techniques about illustrations, so that they can see that illustrations can be more beautiful and appreciate the charm of illustrations. This book is rich in pictures and texts, which can help us better understand the art of illustration and appreciate the joy of illustration.

Wow, this book is great. This book is the one I have ever seen that talks about how to accumulate materials for illustration creation and how to cultivate creative thinking and aesthetics through various methods. All the contents of this book are about how to create. It is not about software operations or step-by-step tutorials. The entire book is about how to create ideas and how to discover and improve creativity. After reading this book, I feel that my inspiration has increased a lot, and I am more capable of imagining creative picture combinations.

The content in the book is very practical. Through a 30-week study plan, you can gradually understand the growth path of an illustrator. And the concept of "slowly, faster" is also very inspiring, as the book says: "Learning illustrations is a process that requires time and patience." I particularly like the illustrations in the book, they are all creative and individual

I really like this round style of painting and the author.