Characteristics of American Illustration Style-An Outstanding Illustrator in the 2th Century in America: Rockwell Kent

what are the main styles of contemporary digital illustration?

1. Flat illustration

Flat illustration is relatively versatile, because it is simple and intuitive, weakens the details and perspective, and the recognition and accessibility are relatively faster, which meets the aesthetic requirements of young people for cuteness and cuteness, and is the easiest technique to make the picture show the overall effect;

regular geometric figures or irregular vector figures are usually used to retain the original recognition form of objects, and with large blocks of color, simple figures are used to make the main form more abstract or simple, which is widely used, such as posters, packaging, banner, App splash screen, game interface and so on.

2. Gradient illustration

Gradient illustration is characterized by a large number of gradient techniques with low saturation, and generally adopts similar colors in color; Its details are rich and delicate, the picture style is realistic, and the vision is steady and atmospheric, which makes the picture very visually impactful and layered. Among them, the gradient illustration is subdivided into two-color gradient, translucent gradient, grid gradient, gradient blur and other forms.

3. MBE illustration

This illustration style is characterized by conciseness, roundness and cuteness. Generally, it has the design style of extra-thick dark lines, Q-version cartoon images, rounded lines and vector-drawn lines+surfaces. The overall tone is fresh and lovely, and it is generally used to remind icons and blank interfaces.

4. Texture illustration.

Texture illustrations are generally based on flat paintings, and finally incorporate texture effects, and finally present a picture with texture and light and shadow effects; Generally, this painting method does not draw lines, and most of them distinguish each element by the light and shade of the color block;

By adding texture, variegated colors, etc., the level and three-dimensional sense of illustration can be enhanced, which can effectively depict the details of the works; Give people a very simple feeling, more relaxed and casual; The graininess in the texture increases the details of the picture, makes it more attractive and more personal.

5. Three-dimensional illustration.

Three-dimensional illustration can express three-dimensional things in two-dimensional space, bring perspective and space to the picture, and convey information better. Rockwell Kent, an outstanding illustrator in the 2th century in the United States, once drew more than 3 illustrations for the famous works (Moby Dick), which made Cerveau, the owner of Random House, particularly appreciate Rockwell Kent. When the first edition of Moby Dick was published, Rockwell Kent's name was impressively printed on the cover. It's an anecdote in the publishing legend that the original writer McWeill was not printed! Rockwell Kent was born in 1882 in a town in the north of New York, USA. He graduated from Columbia Department of Architecture. His later illustrations have a lot of details of architectural art painting, whether it is painting pavilions and temples of classical novels or portraits, they all have a three-dimensional sense of sculpture! Rockwell is good at drawing illustrations for famous books. Kent was also the most famous American illustrator in the heyday of American book publishing industry in the 2th century. He went in and out of publishing industry and news and merchants' giants. He was generous and sociable, and designed family library tickets for these celebrities. The design of an ordinary public library ticket costs between one hundred dollars and two hundred dollars. It is a new generation of successful professional printmakers and library ticket design experts! He is well dressed, goes in and out of the upper class, can sell his own paintings and run his own life, which fully embodies the characteristics of American life. Kent is quite versatile in painting. He is good at oil painting, watercolor painting, sculpture, decorative painting, woodcut, slate painting and copperplate printing. He is a great artist with great talent! Illustrations of famous works painted by Kent include (Moby Dick), the famous Chaucer's (Canterbury Tales), Goethe's (Faust) (decameron's Complete Works of Shakespeare), Whitman's (Leaves of Grass) in the United States, and the logo of Random House in the United States is also illustrated by Voltaire's (honest man) painted by Kent! This is an illustration drawn by Kent for (Canterbury Tales). Kent's illustrations are very individual, with clear lines in black and white, a sense of humor and a slightly exaggerated and artistic realism of the characters! The style of the work is obviously different from that of European illustrators in depicting the scenery of the characters in the novel. After being familiar with it, it has the taste of standard American culturalism in the early twentieth century! Rockwell Kent died in 1971. He was a great painter with a long life! Married three ladies. The third lady in her later years was not much older than his children, and was very popular with painters. Just like Zhang Daqian in our country, she left several old ladies in the mainland and took her little lady to Taiwan Province and Brazil in her later years! Rockwell Kent painted, wrote, sailed, explored, traveled around the world, loved, and had an affair ... (The picture was taken from the library of rational career writers)