Style articles of American illustration elements-What are the manifestations of illustration? What are the creative entry points of illustration?

Three characteristics of American simple decoration style Modern young people pay more and more attention to individuality and self, and elegant American simple decoration style has become a new home improvement choice for many people. So, what are the irresistible features of American simple decoration style? Characteristics of American minimalist furniture, layout and color matching of American minimalist style, and characteristic elements of American minimalist style.

First, the characteristics of American minimalist furniture

The overall home improvement needs diversified presentation, and furniture is an important part. American simple decoration style furniture mostly uses cherry wood, peach wood or pine wood. The formation of this kind of wood takes decades or even hundreds of years. Such precious wood, combined with careful design and carving, makes American furniture present a unique style of luxury and calmness.

Second, the layout and color matching of American minimalist style

Compared with the luxurious and complicated external design, the simple, comfortable and clean space design makes people feel more comfortable. American simple decoration style presents a bright and open space visual effect in the overall layout. There is a little exquisite beauty in the atmosphere.

Most American colors choose a low-key monochromatic color system as the main color. Because of the excellent spatial layout design, even a single color will not make people feel dull, but will make people feel open and carefree.

Third, the characteristic elements of American minimalist style

Every unique decoration style undoubtedly has its own unique element symbol. American simple decoration style is no exception. Making old iron ornaments, old books and oil paintings with a sense of the times are all very unique and distinctive works of art. These ornaments with obvious style characteristics are not only a bright color of home improvement style, but also a weapon to enhance the overall home improvement style.

American simple decoration style follows the characteristics of traditional American decoration and adds simple modern design concept. The collision of old and new styles has produced a unique new fashion. I believe that after reading this article, you must have a deeper understanding of American minimalist style.

What are the forms of illustrations? What are the creative entry points of illustration? illustrated catalogue

The Concept of Illustration and Its Evolution

Application of illustrations

Functions and functions of illustrations

Aesthetic characteristics of illustrations

The form of illustration

Classification of illustrations

Illustration status quo

In the field of modern design, illustration design can be said to be the most expressive, and it is closely related to painting art. Many expressions of illustration art draw lessons from the expression of painting art. The marriage of illustration art and painting art makes the former make great progress in exploring the diversity of expression methods and in the depth and breadth of design theme expression, showing more unique artistic charm and thus more expressive. In a sense, painting has become a basic discipline, and illustration has become an applied discipline. Throughout the history of illustration development, its application scope is constantly expanding. Especially today, with the rapid development of information, people's daily life is full of all kinds of commercial information, and illustration design has become an irreplaceable art form in the real society. Therefore, the purpose of our research is how to study, think and study modern illustration knowledge in depth and serve the society better.

[Edit this paragraph] The concept and evolution of illustrations

Illustration definition

The definition of "illustration" in Ci Hai is: "refers to pictures inserted in books and periodicals. Some are printed in the middle of the text, and some are inserted in the pages to supplement the content of the text or for artistic appreciation. This explanation is mainly aimed at the definition of book illustrations, which is a narrow definition.

With the advent of the information age and the development of modern society, the meaning of modern illustration has changed from a narrow concept (limited to paintings and pictures) to a broad concept. "Illustration" refers to the pictures inserted between words in newspapers, magazines, various publications or children's picture books that we usually read, collectively referred to as "illustration". Illustration, in Latin, means "light up". Reading words and thinking about meaning were originally used to increase the interest given by words in publications and make the words more vivid and vivid in readers' minds. In today's various publications, the importance of illustrations has far exceeded the foil position of "luminous words". It can not only highlight the theme, but also enhance artistic appeal.

Illustration is an art form. As an important visual communication form of modern design, it occupies a specific position in modern design with its intuitive image, true sense of life and beautiful appeal. It is widely used in many fields of modern design, involving cultural activities, social undertakings, commercial activities, film and television culture and so on.

Historical evolution of illustrations

The development of illustration art has a long history. In your eyes and mine, ordinary and simple illustrations have great connotations. From the world's oldest illustration cave mural to the Japanese folk print ukiyo-e painting in the Edo period, all of them show the development of illustration. Illustrations first developed with the changes of newspapers and books in the early19th century. Its real golden age first began in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. At that time, the illustrations just separated from art works were obviously drawn, and most of the authors engaged in illustrations were professional painters. Later, influenced by the school of abstract expressionism, they turned from concrete to abstract. It was not until the 1970s that illustrations returned to the realistic style. China's Early Illustration Forms

The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of printmaking. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, they used "disguised" illustrations in the scriptures to publicize their teachings. At present, China's earliest prints are recorded in historical materials, namely "Dalagni Curse" published by Tang Suzong. The title page painting of King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the 9th year (868) is the exact date. In the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, book illustrations developed greatly. The application scope has expanded to medical books, historical geography books, archaeological catalogue books, daily encyclopedia books and other books, and color overprint illustrations have appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can be said that the ancient illustration art developed greatly, and there were book engraving industries all over the country. Different regions have formed different styles. The forms of illustrations are: frontispiece drawings, text illustrations, top or bottom drawings, paintings on inner pages or title pages, and cards.

The historical evolution of ancient illustrations in China can be regarded as the development history of printmaking. It is also the history of folk New Year pictures. It's just that folk New Year pictures became commodities independently earlier, which is the predecessor of commercial illustration.

The history of illustration in Europe is similar to that in China, and it was first used in religious books. Later, illustrations were widely used in natural science books, grammar books and collections of classic writers.

With the development of today's society, illustrations are widely used in various fields of society. Illustration art not only broadens our horizons, enriches our thoughts, gives us unlimited imagination and broadens our minds. With the increasing commercialization of art and the emergence of new painting materials and tools, illustration art has entered the era of commercialization. In the era of commodity economy, illustrations play a great role in promoting economic development. The concept of illustration has gone far beyond the scope of traditional laws and regulations. Throughout today's illustration world, painters are no longer limited to a certain style. They often break the way of using only one material in the past, and widely use various means to achieve the expected effect, so that the development of illustration art has gained a broader space and unlimited possibilities. In China, although illustration developed late, it has a long history. After the development of blackboard newspaper, print and poster layout after liberation, and the reference to international popular styles after 1980s, with the popularization of computer technology in the middle and late 1990s, more and more cutting-edge authors who use computers for illustration design emerged.

Illustrations have found a huge living space since the birth of the mother book. With the development of technology and the needs of society, rich carriers are constantly emerging.

[Edit this paragraph] The application of illustrations

Application scope of illustrations

Publications:

Illustrations used in book covers, inside pages, coats and catalogs.

Including illustrations used by newspapers, magazines and other editors.

Commercial publicity: illustrations

Advertising DD includes newspaper advertisements, magazine advertisements, signboards, posters, leaflets and illustrations used in TV advertisements;

Business image design: product logo, corporate image (mascot);

Commodity packaging design;

Illustrate DD consumer guide, commodity description, manual, chart and catalogue.

Video multimedia:

The role and environmental art setting or interface design in film and television dramas, commercials, games, networks, etc.

Anything used for "explanation" can be counted as the category of illustration.

Two types of illustration applications

In the field of graphic design, we are most exposed to literary illustrations and commercial illustrations.

Literary illustration-a visual art form that reproduces the plot of an article and embodies the spirit of literature.

Commercial illustration-an image expression that conveys commodity information for enterprises or products and integrates art and commerce.

The illustrator gets the remuneration related to it, gives up the ownership of the work, and only retains the right of signature, which is a commercial transaction.

[Edit this paragraph] Functions and functions of illustrations

Illustration definition

Modern illustration is different from ordinary artistic illustration. Their functions, forms of expression and media are different. The service object of modern illustration is commodities first. Commercial activities require that the information they carry be conveyed to the audience accurately and clearly, and people are expected to correctly receive and grasp this information and make the audience feel beautiful while taking actions, so it is said to serve commercial activities.

Art illustrations usually have three functions and purposes:

First, as a supplement to the text;

Second, let people get the satisfaction of perceptual knowledge;

Third, show the artist's aesthetic concept, performance skills, and even show the artist's world outlook and outlook on life.

The function of modern illustration is very strong, and pure art that deviates from the purpose of visual communication often weakens the function of modern illustration. Therefore, the design should not make the theme of illustration ambiguous. It must be based on clarity, simplicity and accuracy.

The appeal of modern illustration

The basic appeal function of modern illustration is to convey the information to the audience in the simplest, clearest and clearest way, arouse their interest, try to convince what they convey, accept the propaganda content gladly in the aesthetic process and induce them to take the final action.

(1) Show vivid and concrete images of products and services, and convey information intuitively.

(2) Stimulate consumers' interest.

(3) Enhance the persuasiveness of advertisements.

(4) Enhance the attractiveness of commodities and stimulate consumers' desires.

[Edit this paragraph] Aesthetic features of illustrations

Illustration design, as a form of visual art, especially as a part of practical art, has its own aesthetic characteristics. Among them, the most obvious ones are as follows:

Purpose and restrictive factors

Second, practicality and popularity.

Third, visualization and intuition.

Fourth, aesthetics and interest.

Creativity and artistic imagination

6. Diversification and diversification

Due to the diversity of media, content, expression and appeal object, the aesthetic standards of modern illustration are also diversified and diversified. explain

[Edit this paragraph] The form of illustrations

There are many forms of modern illustration, which can be classified by media or function. According to the classification of media, it is basically divided into two parts, namely print media and film and television media. Print media includes poster advertisement illustration, newspaper illustration, magazine book illustration, product packaging illustration, corporate image publicity material illustration, etc. Film and television media include movies, television and computer screens.

Poster advertising illustration: also known as poster, poster. In the era when advertisements mainly rely on printed media to transmit information, they can be said to be in a dominant position in advertisements. However, with the emergence of film and television media, its application scope has narrowed.

Newspaper illustration: Newspaper is one of the best media for information transmission. It is the most popular, low cost, large circulation, wide spread, fast speed and short production cycle.

Illustration of magazine books: including the design of front cover and back cover and the illustration of words, which are widely used in all kinds of books. Such as literature books, children's books, science and technology books, etc. This kind of illustration is gradually declining. In the future, it will still exist in a large number of electronic books and newspapers.

Product packaging illustration: product packaging makes illustration more widely used. Product packaging design includes three elements: logo, graphics and text. It has two missions: one is to introduce products, and the other is to establish brand image. The most prominent feature is that it is between plane and three-dimensional design.

Illustration of corporate image publicity materials: it is the VI design of the enterprise. It is included in the basic system and application system of corporate image design.

Film and television illustration in film and television media: point out the illustrations in movies and TV now. Generally, it appears in advertisements. Movie and TV illustrations also include computer screens. Now the computer screen has become the performance space of commercial illustration, and many graphic library animations, game programs and graphic tables have become a member of commercial illustration.

The form of illustration

Numbers, free form, realistic technology, black and white, color, using materials, photos and computer generation ... as long as they are "graphics", they can all be applied to the production of illustrations.

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[Edit this paragraph] Classification of illustrations

According to the current market positioning: vector fashion comics, young realism, the concept of illustration in Victoria, the United States and South Korea, etc.

Classification by production methods: hand-drawn, vector, commercial, cutting-edge (2D plane, UI design, 3D), pixel.

According to the illustration style, it is divided into Japanese cartoon illustration, European and American illustration, Hong Kong illustration, Korean game illustration, and Taiwan Province romance novel cover illustration. Because there are so many styles now, I just classify them simply.

In addition, there are many foreign styles, such as hand-folded paper, cloth pattern and various styles, which are neck and neck.

[Edit this paragraph] Illustration status quo

The most developed place of illustration: the United States is a country with a very developed illustration market, and appreciating illustrations has become a habit of society. On the one hand, a large number of independent illustration products are sold in the terminal market, such as illustration books, magazines, illustration greeting cards and so on. On the other hand, illustration, as a part of visual communication system (graphic design, illustration, commercial photography), is widely used in graphic advertisements, posters, covers and other design contents. The illustration market in the United States is also very specialized, which is divided into children, sports, science fiction, food, digital, pure artistic style, humor and other professional types, and each type has a special illustrator. The whole illustration market is very standardized and the competition is fierce, because the average income level of illustrators is three times that of ordinary Americans.

Illustrations in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan: As we all know, Japanese commercial animation has a huge market and operation team. Animation is an important branch of illustration industry. Before CG technology (ComputerGraphics) entered the field of illustration, hand-drawn animation had become a sunrise industry in Japan. Today's younger generation is more and more inclined to use computer digital technology.

In South Korea, with the game industry climbing to the second pillar industry of the national economy in recent years, illustrations, especially digital illustrations, have sprung up everywhere, and the game characters designed with digital illustrations have also won more market space with the popularity of Korean games in China.

At the same time, Hong Kong and Taiwan illustrators are still looking for their own way of industry, although their works have obvious traces of learning from Japan. Illustration education: Beijing Institute of Printing, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts and other institutions have set up illustrations or related majors in the past two years, but the teaching content often only includes publication illustrations rather than commercial illustrations in a complete sense.

But in foreign countries, the combination of illustration education and market is very close. Many well-known illustrators are visiting teachers in various universities, and they have brought the most fashionable and cutting-edge business consciousness to the school. Nowadays, commercial illustrations popular in foreign markets include publication illustrations, cartoon mascots, video and game art designs and advertising illustrations. In fact, in China, illustrations have spread all over print and electronic media, commercial places, public institutions, commodity packaging, film and television performance posters, corporate advertisements and even T-shirts, diaries and New Year cards.

What kind of textbook illustrations do we need? Lin Shu Hua Qing has a saying: I said that the ancients called books, and where there are books, there are pictures.

Pictures not only have the function of explaining and explaining words, but also can expand ideas and cultivate aesthetic feeling.

. Therefore, text illustrations are of great significance. However, this intention has been tarnished. The figures illustrated in children's textbooks have strange eyes and expressions, and have no aesthetic feeling. They were searched seven times at one time.

How to make illustrations authentic and attract students' attention is a problem worthy of our serious consideration.

The illustrations are consistent with the text.

Research shows that appropriate illustrations help children understand the text.

Improving their reading comprehension ability can shorten their reading time and help them better grasp the knowledge content of the textbooks they have learned.

However, if the illustrations are inconsistent with the words, they will not play their own role and promote learning. People's education edition mathematics textbook is a wrong case!

Correctly spread beauty and ugliness

Illustration is very attractive to children, and we need to create a positive and optimistic picture for them.

. Instead of today's pictures of wide eye distance, flat nose, strange eyes and tongue sticking out. It not only brings bad aesthetics to children, but also creates psychological shadows.

Through interviews, we know that children agree that the illustrations of words are strange, ugly and even fearful. Therefore, we should correctly spread beauty and ugliness and establish children's aesthetics.

Remember the martyrs and never forget the national humiliation.

I don't know if I didn't see it, but I was shocked when I saw it. As can be seen from the textbooks of primary school students, this boy has a bushido hairstyle, wears clothes with the stars and stripes, wears headphones with the captain America logo, and even the illustrated plane is a seaplane strong wind "N33K" of the Japanese navy in western Sichuan.

We have to miss the wonderful illustrations of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, Young Runtu and Cao Chong in the original textbook, and we are deeply impressed.

Aesthetic education is not a special kind of education, but should be carried out in a subtle way.

For children, it is the active age and boring courses, and their attention will be more focused on illustration. So the illustration content is very important!

We should listen to opinions widely and strive for perfection.

Help children understand true beauty and cultivate their recognition of elegance while instilling knowledge.

. Kill vulgarity in the cradle and work hard for them to establish a positive, cheerful and sound personality!