Illustration works display - What do you know about foreign illustration styles that are both familiar and unfamiliar?

Illustration Dream Mutual Aid Team | Issue 2 of "Creative Painting"

One person, one style, one painting, one story, painting is a spiritual journey

The second issue_Sharing guest: Sheena Myth

She has bright eyes, a smile like a flower, and a voice like a lark. He has a gentle personality, soft and quiet, giving people the warmth of a spring breeze;

English major, non-art major, started learning from scratch, and with his love and persistence in painting, he started the road of illustration.

Her illustrations are colorful and eye-catching; the full colors + shapes and textures are simply combined into a harmonious and beautiful picture; the characters are exaggerated and interesting, creative and have stories to express them. Belongs to the modern and fashionable side, unique.

She has many labels:

Founder of Sheena Illustration Breakthrough/Member of Shenzhen Illustration Association

Contracted illustrator of Visual China/Founder of Sheena Illustration Studio People

Teaching style: natural and friendly, unpretentious, moisturizing things quietly. Combining the desire and exploration of illustration knowledge into simplicity, combined with his own experience in learning illustration, he summed up and designed a highly innovative and efficient illustration check-in activity "Sheena Illustration Check-in".

She is direct, meticulous and considerate in her comments and guidance on students' homework, and teaches with the greatest enthusiasm. Her love for painting affects every student in a subtle way.

To date, more than 10,000 students have participated in the challenge check-in program

#Sheenaillustration check-in program has a Weibo topic trend of 7 million+

Creative sharing in April It is full of useful information and very exciting. It brings us too many surprises and touches. The most important thing is that it opens our "eyes". It turns out that you can draw like this, an outline, two words, and an animal are extended into a story;

Creative thinking: My understanding is to learn from other people's excellent works. The learning mentioned here does not mean imitation or copying, but learning through watching-memorizing-drawing.

The first thing is to look. To look is to carefully observe the characteristics of other people’s excellent works. Start with the layout composition and observe how the work uses space and elements to compose the picture.

The second is the rhythm relationship, that is, the contrast between light and dark in the picture, the contrast between warm and cold colors, and the contrast between density and size. The last thing is the technique, that is, the method used to draw this work.

There are no two identical paintings in the world, and there are no two identical people. Everyone is a unique and irreplaceable individual. Even if everyone draws the same element, the state presented in the brush is completely different.

1. "On-site" review of the course

2. "Essential" explanation of the creative painting course

1. Creative painting materials and methods

< p>Practice in stages:

The first stage: Draw an outline and draw the imaginary picture (9-square grid) according to the outline. Draw the elements you imagined through the restricted outline;

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Case 1 (original work: Sheena’s mythical method)

Try to break away from the original shape and display some objects with restricted outlines. In this way, you can find that due to some limitations, you can draw more interesting character forms.

Case 2 (original work: glasslinda Lingda’s method)

Try to set some themes for yourself, and use this shape to draw the theme-related (9-square grid) each time, also Can inspire a lot.

The themes of divergent thinking are as follows:

1. Living items related;

2. Food, drink, entertainment, basic necessities, housing and transportation;

3 .Animals and plants;

4. Human heads, busts, and body movements;

5. Expressions from different angles (looking down, looking down, looking up);

< p>6. Combining positive and negative shapes;

7. Thinking about the outer contour (silhouette);

8. Combining internal items into the desired shape;

9. A flash of inspiration, free drawing;

The second stage: combine completely unrelated keywords to draw a picture. (9-square grid) Break your usual fixed ideas and paint unexpected scenes.

Case 1 (original work: Qin-chan 7-chan’s method)

The key words in this picture are spring + time

Divergent thinking: spring-spring outing- Flying a kite outdoors - have a pleasant day; think of relevant elements through divergent thinking, extract + combine elements;

Creative process: Find references to inspire inspiration during the creative process, and think of these references. girl flying a kite, the kite points to the spring. Next, use an exaggerated form to connect the hair and the kite into a line.

Case 2 (original work: Wanziwan method)

Keywords for this picture: spring blue + lock

Make a mind map through keywords , write out all the elements that can be thought of, and then extract + combine the elements;

Divergent thinking: human head - key - vast sea of ??people - find yourself - open your heart - unlock

Creative process : Through divergent thinking, the human head is turned into a key. The black lines around the lock represent the ups and downs of the waves, struggling to find the lock that belongs to you in the vast "sea of ??locks".

The third stage: use an animal element to compile a set of stories.

Case 1 (original work: Alina Alan’s method)

Story series creation ideas:

Picture books are to express an emotion and convey an idea, and they are also I want to tell people some truths, so when I create picture books, I consider the storytelling and emotional expression of the picture books.

"My Story" is a dream that expresses inner desires. People living in fast-paced cities will have occasional negative emotions due to work pressure and busy life, and sometimes their mood will become depressed. I feel restless. Apart from work, I have too little time and space for myself.

I want to have more time to paint, to feel the tranquility and beauty of nature, and to express my state of mind in the form of dreams, the theme of the story "Me and the Sika Deer". (I really like sika deer, which is also my lucky "cute pet".)

2. Two steps to improve creativity:

(1) Daily accumulation

Creative inspiration notebook: record anytime and anywhere. Things that happen around you, dreams, whims, points of interest, some inspiration from museums, dreams, books, movies, poems, and warm sentences can all become sources of inspiration for subsequent creations.

Picture library: Collect favorite pictures, photography works, and exquisite illustrations from time to time. The illustration creation material library can be classified into specific categories, such as: color, brushstrokes, shapes, scenes, decorations, etc. In subsequent creations, you can try to use these accumulated colors and brushstrokes that you want to try to start new creations.

Shi Kaida: A video about "Essential Creative Storage Methods for Illustration Creation", in which the analysis of bookshelves and storage racks is particularly helpful.

The bookshelf contains content and techniques: the content records your diaries, reading notes, and collected articles; the techniques collect colors, brushstrokes, shapes, scenes, and decoration methods that you are interested in and want to try.

Storage rack: 1. What content do you want to draw? 2. What techniques should you try? When you start creating, you can use this method.

(2) Practice (take action)

There are three ways to practice: Visual diary: The creative method is particularly useful. We can accumulate materials and learn creativity by doing visual diaries. (Weibo@Hichuichui)

Realistic/copying photos: unconscious random experiments, telling stories with pictures; copying works, collage and other fun methods to record and learn.

3. Three practical methods for practicing creativity:

(1) Learning through speed painting

The following items are from "Imagination·Composition and The very practical creative practice methods extracted from "Creative Thinking", three of which we practiced this time, are very practical.

1. After seeing a certain object, think of another object, and then connect in turn. (Enhance your imagination. For the same object, everyone’s final results will be very different after 9 days)

2. Combine completely unrelated things to draw a picture. (Break the usual ideas and paint unexpected scenes)

3. Combine two different characters to draw a portrait. (Try various interesting portraits)

4. Through a photo - expand different variations and draw your inner feelings. (Try to practice drawing your own feelings, not the picture itself)

5. Choose an animal and draw the animal in your mind. (Text is provided and everyone draws the appearance of the animal in their imagination)

6. Try to use different painting materials to try to draw an animal (cow, snake, spider, goose, fish, etc.). (Take out all the existing painting tools at home and use them to find more possibilities)

7. Targeting one object: concrete-abstract (use different painting materials to distinguish style differences) . (Learn the ability to summarize specific things, summarize a little every day, and the more you draw, the simpler it becomes)

8. Make an outline and draw the imaginary picture according to the outline (draw what you think of through the restricted outline) elements)

9. Use an interesting object to make up a set of stories. (Create an object, such as a fish, and unfold your own story around the fish every day)

10. Draw the same element. Everyone listens to different music that they like, and draws the feelings in different music by integrating this element ~ (Drawing your own feelings in music, learning more abstract expressions)

(2) Sketching Middle school learning

Another creative practice method is sketching. We can get a lot of creativity from daily sketching. The following is the content extracted from "Learning Hand Drawing with Uncle Philly - Creative Sketching". For those who want to Starting to practice sketching can help a lot.

1. Leave a blank drawing paper and allow yourself to express yourself freely. Empty your mind and let the brush decide what to draw.

2. Blind painting:

——Close your eyes, feel your facial features with your left hand, and pick up the strokes with your right hand;

——Find a model and observe by yourself For facial features, don’t look down at your drawing during the drawing process.

(Blind painting allows you to learn how to observe things better and improve your painting level.)

3. Draw your feelings: A painting is given The stronger the personal emotion, the stronger its artistic appeal will be.

4. Draw your focus (imagination will fill in the remaining blanks)

——Create a visual focus for the work, focusing on the most important parts of the picture, The rest is filled in through imagination.

5. Collect materials: Collect some things that look inconspicuous and cannot be turned into a painting alone. (For example, go to a museum and fill up the drawing paper)

6. Natural scenery: Pay attention to the strange shapes that can be seen everywhere and discover what makes them unique.

7. Make good use of multiple perspectives: record everything around you in 360 degrees; observe the same place from different perspectives, and splice different time and space fragments in the same perspective

(3) Learning from artists

When copying and re-creating artists' works, we can better understand their expression methods, emotions, colors, etc. in the pictures. You can also freely use your own imagination based on artistic masterpieces.

In April, we mainly studied the painting expression forms of artists such as Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Matisse, and Van Gogh. We will have the opportunity to study other art masters in a targeted manner in the future.

4. Recommended reading books

The book list shared below is a book list related to creativity that I bought before starting to study. It combines practical exercises and some views on creativity from other platforms. Some thoughts Useful points are extracted.

Reading experience of creative books:

1. "Imagination·Composition and Creative Thinking"

The content of composition and creativity discussed in this book It is very down-to-earth and practical. There are many methods related to creativity in the book. It is also a reference book for practice in April's "Creative Painting".

2. "Creative Sketching"

There are many sketch-related contents in the book, which are particularly worthy of attention and will be of great help and inspiration to those who want to start trying sketching.

3. "Lai Shengchuan's Creativity"

Teacher Lai Shengchuan has a very in-depth analysis of creativity, analyzing the entire creative formation process from his own creative experience.

4. "52 Creative Painting Practices" and "Creative Sketching Laboratory"

These two books mainly talk about how to extract creative inspiration using different painting materials and creative methods. , it will be helpful for people who want to try various materials, especially suitable for children's painting training institutions.

If the research direction is board painting, it will not be of much help; a part of the book is about obtaining creative inspiration from the artist's creative ideas.

There are relatively few creative parts in the book, but some of the content such as lines, colors, tones, and how to use illustrations to tell stories are still particularly exciting.

6. "Free Drawing: 84 Creative Techniques Illustrators Need to Know"

Background and space, alternative reality, mixed layers, spatial perspective, digital collage, etc. 88 In the creative skills, you can get many different creative methods, giving you more inspiration and creative direction.

3. Summary and display of creative paintings

Editor’s postscript: In order to share in April, Ms. Sheena read 7 creative illustration books and watched an 8-hour drama. Take the essence and organize it into courseware. It is very serious, very attentive and very efficient; (there should be applause and likes here)

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Please call me Miss "Snail"__What do you know about foreign illustration styles that are both familiar and unfamiliar?

2020 ended so hastily. 2021 started before I had time to make a perfect ending (woo woo woo). Many flags were set in 2020. How many have you completed? Friends who have completed can continue to work hard to achieve great results. If you have not completed, don’t be discouraged. Keep working hard. You must make this day meaningful. Start making a study plan from now on and force yourself to get rid of your procrastination. Procrastination is really scary, because over time, you will get used to it and stay in your comfort zone, unable to extricate yourself, and eventually you will pay the price for your procrastination. In January 2021, have you started to make changes? It is said that 2020 will be very difficult. Due to the epidemic, whether you are a business or a worker, the most important thing is to be alive. Will the ""difficulty"" pass in 2021? No , you still have to be prepared! I have recently seen some foreign illustration works and I feel very inspired and inspiring, so I would like to share them with you!

I believe that most of my design friends are aware of some domestic illustration design style trends. I won’t go into details here. Today I will mainly share some foreign illustration works that I personally feel are more personalized. To understand the work itself, you must also understand the author of the work and the stylized shaping of the author’s work. Let’s take a look at a few pictures. Are you familiar with this? I believe that my design friends have seen similar works. Many domestic design partners will copy a style and add some of their own design expression techniques and their own illustration inspiration.

< p>(In fact, they all have the style of Moebius. Some illustrations are more cyberpunk, some have a graffiti flavor, and some have a national trend flavor. In short, Moebius’s style is really far-reaching. ! Mix all kinds of meat and vegetables together, whichever one is more flavorful is your style)

This illustration design style is exactly the Mobius style that everyone is familiar with but unfamiliar to. I also saw the design by chance before. The picture my friend sent me felt a bit familiar yet unfamiliar at the time. Later I found out that this style was exactly that of the French comic master Moebius. Moebius influenced many art masters at the time, such as the well-known Japanese artist. Mr. Hayao Miyazaki has multiple identities including animator, producer, and cartoonist. If you are a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, you must know how strict he is to himself and others at work, and he pays great attention to details. It can be said that To the point of being harsh and paranoid, it is precisely because of his seriousness that he has achieved his current achievements. Hayao Miyazaki once said: "In 1980, I came into contact with Moebius's "Azak", which brought me a kind of A huge shock, all cartoonists were deeply shocked by this work. It's a pity that I had already formed my own fixed style at that time, so I couldn't use its influence on me to enrich my paintings. At that time and to this day, I still think that Moebius's illustrations have a strong sense of space. I was influenced by him when I was directing "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind". "

"I was surprised by Moebius's perspective on the world. His paintings use the simplest lines to depict characters, contain various elements, and present a sense of space that is both lonely and proud. I think this is the greatest charm of Moebius." - Hayao Miyazaki

The picture above is "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", and the picture below is "Azak"

Also. Two other Japanese comics and animation giants commented this way

If many well-known cartoonists can give such high evaluations, it is the following one...

Mobis At the age of 16, he entered the School of Applied Arts in Paris, France, and was deeply influenced by comics such as "The Adventures of Tintin". By the age of 18, he was already drawing cartoons for the magazine FarWest. The pen name M_bius was born in 1963, and Giraud used this name to create his works in the science fiction and fantasy style.

"We All End Up Alone", a game under development, also uses this style. This game tells the story of fighting cancer and fighting nightmares. This style of painting has uniform lines, no crosshatching or shading, as well as simple figures and detailed backgrounds. A game "Aquamarine" that started crowdfunding in 2018 was also influenced by Moebius. Below is a comparison of the screen of "The World of Edena" and this game:

On the left is Moebius "The World of Edena" by Si, with "Aquamarine" on the right

As he grows older, Moebius is committed to improving his artistic style, reducing the number of lines, simplifying the volume, and always looking for a purer way to represent the world. I personally feel that it is similar to the style of cyberpunk. The biggest difference is that the color contrast of cyberpunk style is more vivid and has a strong visual impact.

There is another style that impressed me very deeply, and its application in contemporary design is very novel. It is the "Memphis style" that was born in the post-modern network and graphic art. It is a group of designers formed in 1981 headed by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, known as the "Memphis Group". They opposed monotonous and cold modernism, advocated decoration, emphasized products made by handicraft methods, and actively sought inspiration from pop art, oriental art, and traditional African and Latin American art. Memphis designs strive to express various personalized cultural connotations, ranging from innocent and funny to grotesque and bizarre. In terms of color, he often deliberately breaks the color matching rules and likes to use some bright, interesting, and high-saturation colors, especially gaudy colors such as pink and pink-green. The core figure of "Memphis" is Sottsass. He believes that design is to design a way of life. Therefore, design has no certainty, only possibilities, no eternity, only moments.

There has been a wave of "Memphis" trend in the design circle. Driven by a group of young designers, they have extracted its classic elements and created many works with a "Memphis" style, with a wide range of , spanning multiple fields such as graphics, architecture, fashion, and products.

There is no doubt that Memphis’s nonsensical yet highly expressive attributes fit in with the values ??of today’s young people, while also redefining those inherent traditional design thinking. .

The Memphis series designed by LeeBroom for the British porcelain brand Wedgewood

Artist Camille Walala is also a representative of Memphis style. She is good at applying digital design to various products and store design and other cross-cutting projects. Go to international projects.

You can feel a very strong Memphis style in Camille Walala’s works. Most of her designs use interesting contrasting colors of pink, blue and green lights, and are composed of dots, lines, planes and geometric shapes. elements are interspersed.

Camille Walala’s space for the London Design Festival

Three classic characteristics of Memphis design style:

01. Bright colors, high saturation, and bold colors, This style that values ??visual experience over rationality often uses bright, interesting, and highly chromatic tones, especially colors such as pink and pink-green, to break the rules of color matching and highlight its unique attitude.

02. Use abstract vector elements such as flat lines and geometric figures

03. The contrast between the background and the main content is sharp

Some cases used in homes break the Conventional, Memphis style adds a different visual experience to life

Summary:

1. Break the horizontal and vertical lines in the composition and use wavy curves, curved surfaces and straight lines, flat combination.

2. Use contrasting colors in color matching, and choose bright and bright colors, especially pink, pink, green and other high-brightness and high-saturation colors.

3. Make interesting decorative designs from small geometric shapes such as points, lines, and surfaces.

Today I shared two foreign illustration styles. Do you have tuition fees? "Haha" It doesn't matter if you don't have tuition fees. Remember to like and save this article. Go on and read more and practice more. If you also have good ideas Or if you have read good works and remember the author's name, please leave a message in my comments. Let's learn from each other! The most popular and eye-catching fashion illustrations are here!

Works by popular fashion illustrator Helen Downie

As a veteran visual communication medium, fashion illustration has not only continued to develop in the new era, but has also spawned many new forms of expression with different styles. How many of the most popular and eye-catching fashion illustrators and their works do you know?

The Golden Age of Fashion Illustration

In the early days, fashion illustrations and fashion magazines worked hard Cooperation helped it enter a heyday. At that time, magazines almost without exception needed to use illustrations to illustrate everything from the cover to the inside pages. Readers at that time received information about fashion, art, taste, etc. from exquisite illustrations. It can be said that fashion magazines and fashion illustrations at that time were in a mutually beneficial relationship.

Harper's Bazaar magazine cover

The collision of fashion illustrations and fashion brands

In the digital age, photography has become the main source of visual communication for magazines and publications. Although the era of magazines with fashion illustrations as the main promotional media has ended, the fashion illustration industry has not fallen asleep, but has continued to develop and evolve in new directions.

Collaboration between fashion illustrations and fashion brands is the most successful new path discovered at the moment. As the most topical brand nowadays, Gucci often searches for some popular illustrators on social media for cooperation.

The following colorful and poetic works are created by illustrator Helen Downie. It is worth mentioning that this extremely professional illustrator is actually a housewife without a professional background. Her legendary experience and her paintings became popular on the Internet at the same time. In addition, her painting style is surprisingly similar to the new aesthetic concept advocated by Gucci, so the brand's creative director fell in love with her work at a glance and launched a series of in-depth cooperation.

Helen Downie’s works

Although she is a mother, her unrestrained works always reveal a little girlish innocence. Especially the pairs of innocent big eyes in the characters in the painting are strange and full of childishness.

Helen Downie's work

However, this is not the first time Gucci has cooperated with fashion illustrators. Earlier, the brand also invited another illustrator Alex Merry to launch a more "artistic" collaboration.

From New York to London, Milan to Shanghai, cities with art walls have been occupied almost overnight by Alex’s creative fashion illustrations. It is rare for such a giant fashion illustration to be presented in this way, so when the picture of the art wall was released, it immediately caused a commotion on the Internet.

Works by Alex Merry

In addition, Gucci will also produce and sell products from the illustrations, so that all interested consumers can find and own these products. They turn these fantastic ideal products into reality. On the other hand, viewers can see from these romantic-style fashion illustrations that the style of fashion illustration is no longer single.

Works by Alex Merry

When it comes to cross-border cooperation between fashion illustrations and brands, Prada has to be mentioned. At the 2018 men's spring and summer series show, the brand invited illustrator James Jean for a second collaboration, which shows the popularity of his works.

Works of James Jean and Oliver Schrauwen

This time, James Jean and Belgian graffiti artist Oliver Schrauwen teamed up to create illustrations of the show space. Viewers of the show look at these picturesque works as if they are looking at pages of lively and interesting comic strips.

At the same time, the author also specially produced an illustrated promotional video of the same style for Prada. James's cool illustration style, combined with Prada's futuristic fashion style, complement each other.

Works of James Jean

In the same year, at Prada’s women’s wear show, the brand also chose to join forces with fashion illustrators. This collaboration invited eight female illustrators: Stellar Leuna, Trina Robbins, Brigid Elva, Joelle Jones, Giuliana Maldini, Natsume Ono, Emma Ríos and Fiona Staples.

In addition to jointly creating the wall works in the show space, they also perfectly integrated their illustration works into the new season's fashion series. Their comic-style works not only inject vitality into fashion, but also increase the possibility of stylization of fashion illustration works.

Today, fashion illustrations no longer follow the rules. As long as you are willing to put pen to paper, everyone can create their own illustrations.

Grace Coddington's works

Pioneering fashion illustrations

In addition to cross-border cooperation with fashion brands, there are also some professional fashion illustrators who insist on independent creation. While mastering the basic techniques of illustration, they extended and explored the painting forms of fashion illustrations and figured out their own style.

Pioneering fashion illustrator Velwyn Yossy has created a series of unique works. It can be seen from the smooth and neat lines of the characters in his works and the exaggerated but still appropriate overall proportions that he has always pursued the aesthetic concept of modernism.

Velwyn Yossy's works

Another rising star fashion illustrator, Ernesto Artillo, has extended fashion illustrations to a more abstract direction. His unique visual expression technique breaks the public's traditional understanding of fashion illustration forms.

Some of his recent surrealist works combine dynamic and still, virtual and real things, and use hand-drawing and collage to infinitely amplify the visual impact of illustrations, giving them a mainly static style. The fashion illustration has a bit of momentum.

Ernesto Artillo's works

Not only are his creative works still published in major magazines for a long time, but they are also often exhibited around the world.

Erne