Appreciation of Japanese Illustration Art Style —— Characteristics of Japanese Illustration Design

Appreciation of Japanese illustrator Tieping Ishikura's Watercolor Works Tieping Ishikura-a Japanese illustrator, his watercolor works are bold, not as light as Japanese ones, but they are very delicate when you look closely. The content of the painting is generally toys, beautifully decorated rooms, crowded people, casinos, and a lively scene. He painted from a dark place to a bright place, showing his inner desire. The evaluation of his works is gorgeous and lonely.

I think he is probably an unhappy person, so he has this wonderful and shocking fantasy and desire to appreciate Shi Cang Tieping's watercolor works, which are bold, colorful, ups and downs and burning. But look carefully, but it is very meticulous and exquisite, unified and harmonious. The angle of his painting is from a dark place to a bright place, projecting a spectator mentality or an inner desire. Many people evaluate his works as gorgeous and lonely.

The first time you see Tieping's paintings, you will be fascinated by the dreamy colors of light and shadow. Moonlight in Madrid, fishing fires in Venice, castles in Stockholm, and alleys in Prague are sometimes graceful and sometimes charming. Tieping Ishikura makes good use of lighting and light and shadow, so his works always present a warm, gorgeous and dreamy tone with rich and bright colors. Houses, figures, flowers and lights are endowed with powerful magical vitality, which makes people yearn for the warm and bright fairy tale paradise in the painting. So his paintings are called "European fairy tales".

Japanese illustration design is characterized by being flat and patterned, paying attention to formal sense and moderate exaggeration in structure, and being bold in color application, but it can form a harmonious composition through the differences in opposing color areas and layout. However, in recent years, other forms have come out one after another, and commercial illustrations have begun to take the trend of 2.5 dimensions, not just 2 dimensions.

In addition, there will be action and sound symbols only found in comics in the picture, and the use of fonts has been successfully applied to the field of illustration. There are also fonts from screen design, such as the love banquet in Noriko Sakai, and Japanese illustrations tend to go to two extremes or minimalism.

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Illustration expression method:

Illustrations show the image of the product itself, a certain part of the product, the product to be used, the product in use, the product under test and control, the distinctive features of the product, the benefits that can be obtained by using the product, the possible consequences of not using the product, testimony legends and so on.

There are three main types of expression methods: photographic illustration, painting illustration and three-dimensional illustration.

Photographic illustration is the most commonly used illustration, because ordinary consumers think that photos are true and reliable and can objectively represent products. As a poster advertisement, the biggest difference between photographic illustration and general artistic photography is that it tries to express the characteristics of goods and expand the realism of products, while artistic photography tends to weaken some real characteristics of the subject in pursuit of a certain artistic conception.

Photographic illustrations of poster advertisements are best taken with 120 single-lens reflex camera. According to the requirements of different themes, some commonly used lenses are needed, such as wide-angle lens, telephoto lens, macro lens and close-up lens. Photographic illustrations of posters generally use color reversal films to ensure the quality of printing and plate making.

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Japanese illustrator _ Inland Sea _awazoe appreciates a group of lovely cats from Japanese illustrator MutsumiKawazoe~ ~

The author graduated from the Graphic Design Department of Toyo College of Art and Design in Tokyo, and is currently a freelance illustrator. I like cats and live with three cats.

The cats in this group of works are cute in shape and are in a daily state. They either sleep or lie down, or squat on high places to examine the human picture. They are warm everyday and can feel the author's feelings for cats. It is a very good practice+recording method to start with the subject material that interests you ~