Japanese Graphic Illustration —— Characteristics of Foreign Illustrations

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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The characteristics of foreign illustrations There are many foreign illustrations. Personally, the most famous ones are European and American illustrations, Japanese illustrations and Korean illustrations. Japanese illustrations are flat and patterned, pay attention to the sense of form and moderate exaggeration in structure, and are very bold in the use of colors, and there will be actions and sounds in the picture that are unique to comics. Japanese illustrations tend to go to two extremes, either minimalist or extremely complicated! Korean illustration focuses on artistic conception, which is combined with illusion. Simple colors, highlighting people and things, are still very similar to most domestic illustrations. There are many different styles of illustrations in Europe and America, such as those with many patterns during the Renaissance, which are very representative. There are obvious differences in figures' illustrations in different periods, such as distorted satire, realism, muscle and pursuit of structure. If it is subdivided, the United States and Europe will be different. What is worth learning is that only by integrating a hundred schools of thought and absorbing more essence can we improve ourselves! !

Japanese illustrators Japanese illustrators: refer to Tsukuba Sakamoto, Range Murata, Abe Ji Jun, Akihiro Yamada, Yoshitaka Amano, Abe Ji Jun and Kaga Daye.