Christmas theme illustration-how to draw a picture at Christmas

The drawing method of Christmas Handbooks is: make a bujo frame normally, and add some elements such as stripes, garlands, Christmas socks and snowflakes beside it. It is recommended to use stick figures or stickers, which is convenient and practical.

In addition, there are:

1. Hand-painted Christmas elements of the same type.

balloons, Christmas stockings, Christmas trees, Christmas lights, gift boxes and other small objects are hand-painted in different colors, which are bright and gorgeous and can highlight the festive atmosphere of the festival. However, this is suitable for those who can draw, and the hand-drawing technique is not very good. It is recommended to stick figure or collage, so as to avoid losing confidence in the hand account after failure, which will not be worth the candle.

2. Element accumulation type.

Handbooks er who can't typeset can consider this method. They can collect some Christmas elements, hand-painted or collaged, and lay them on a page one by one, regardless of the placement position and direction, as long as the whole page is covered, and the surrounding area can also be made into a border with tape, and the festive Christmas feeling will immediately appear.

3. Simple style with blank space.

As shown in the figure below, the tape is put together into a Christmas tree in an orderly manner according to a theme, which is simple and elegant. If you like painting, you can also set aside a separate page to draw a pattern. Christmas garlands, Santa Claus and Christmas gift boxes can be used, and there is no decoration next to them.

4. Pure collage.

This method is the first choice for collage lovers. Collage all kinds of Christmas style materials according to your own ideas, and decorate them with various ropes. Three-dimensional and retro. The materials can be leaflets of various shopping malls and shops, gift wrapping paper, homemade bookmarks, hand-painted small illustrations and so on. This method is also suitable for gift box packaging, which has the fresh and refined beauty of Mori. How to draw a picture at Christmas

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 has been widely used in many fields of modern design, involving cultural activities, social undertakings, commercial activities, film and television culture and so on.

Whether it is random graffiti or thoughtful creation, it is an illustration:

Illustration China Dalong: Illustration can be divided into artistic illustration and commercial illustration. Generally, pictures drawn for enterprises, products, publicity and decoration are all classified as commercial illustrations.

The development of illustration art has a long history. From the world's oldest illustration cave mural to the Japanese folk print Ukiyo-e painting in the Edo era, all of them demonstrate the development of illustration. Illustration first developed with the changes of newspapers and books in the early 19th century. Its real golden age began in the United States in the 195s and 196s. At that time, the illustrations just separated from art works were obviously painted, and most of the authors engaged in illustrations were professional painters. Later, influenced by the abstract expressionist school, they changed from concrete to abstract. It was not until the 197s that illustrations returned to the realistic style.

The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of prints, and with the introduction of Buddhist culture, they used "disguised forms" to illustrate scriptures in Confucian classics for the purpose of propagating teachings. At present, the earliest print work in China is recorded in historical materials, namely "The Mantra of Darani" published in Tang Suzong. The title page painting in King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the 9th year (868) is the exact date. By the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, great progress had been made in book illustration. 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 during the great development of ancient illustration art, there were book engraving industries all over the country. Different regions have formed different styles. The forms of illustration are as follows: the attached drawings at the beginning of the volume, the illustrations in the text, the pictures above or below, the paintings on the inner cover or the title page, and the cards.

The historical evolution of Chinese ancient illustrations can be regarded as the development history of printmaking. At the same time, it is also the history of folk New Year pictures. It's just that folk New Year pictures became a commodity 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 society today, illustrations are widely used in various fields of society. With the increasing commercialization of art and the emergence of new painting materials and tools, illustration art has entered the era of commercialization. Illustration plays a great role in promoting economic development in the era of commodity economy. The concept of illustration has gone far beyond the scope of traditional regulations. Throughout today's illustration world, painters are no longer limited to a certain style. They often break the previous way of using only one material and widely use various means, which makes the development of illustration art gain a broader space and unlimited possibilities. In China, although illustration developed late, it can be traced back to its source and has a long history. After the development of blackboard newspaper, printmaking and poster format after liberation, and the reference to international popular styles after 198s, with the popularization of computer technology in the middle and late 199s, more cutting-edge authors who used computers for illustration design emerged.

Illustration is commonly known as illustration in China. Today's commercial illustrations popular in foreign markets include publications with pictures, cartoon mascots, film and television posters, game character setting and art scene design built into the game, advertisements, cartoons, picture books, greeting cards, calendars, decorative paintings, packaging and other forms. Virtual objects and related visual applications that extend to the current network and mobile phone platforms.

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" is the pictures inserted between words in newspapers, magazines, various publications or children's picture books that we usually read, all of which are called "illustrations". Illustration, in Latin, originally means "lighting up". It was originally used to increase the interest given by the words in the publication, so that the words can be more vivid and vivid in the readers' hearts. In today's various publications, the importance of illustration has far exceeded the foil position of "illuminating words". It can not only highlight the theme, but also enhance the appeal of art.

Definition of Illustration

Modern illustrations are different from artistic illustrations in general. There are differences in their functions, forms of expression and media. 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 receive and grasp this information correctly, and make the audience feel beautiful while taking action, so it is said to serve commercial activities.

Art illustration in general has three functions and purposes: Is the image of Santa Claus red from the beginning?

Christmas is coming soon (December 25th), and all the high-rise buildings in Beijing have begun to be carefully decorated and prepared for this festive foreign festival.

When it comes to Christmas, people naturally think of Santa Claus, who has a white beard, looks chubby, wears a red (red and white, but mainly red) cotton-padded jacket, and looks naive!

In western fairy tales, Santa Claus rides a sleigh pulled by nine reindeer every year on the evening of December 24th, and goes from house to house through the chimney. After the children fall asleep, he quietly puts gifts in socks at the children's bedside or under the Christmas tree beside the fireplace.

Nowadays, many people wear red Christmas hats every Christmas. And Santa Claus in every shopping mall or building is also red.

But is the image of Santa Claus red from the beginning?

not really.

so why did it turn red later? Today we will talk about the story of Christmas and Santa Claus.

Christmas, also known as Christmas Day, is translated as "Mass of Christ" (Mass is a kind of church service), which is a traditional festival in the West. Because December 25th of the Gregorian calendar is the day when Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus, it is called "Christmas".

Originally, Christmas was only a Christian festival, but later, with the popularity of Christmas cards and the appearance of Santa Claus, it was paid more attention to by people and developed into a national festival in western countries. It is the biggest festival in western countries in a year, equivalent to the Spring Festival in China.

The birth of Santa Claus originated from European folklore.

Generally speaking, Santa Claus refers to Nicholas, the bishop of Asia Minor in the 4th century A.D., who is famous in Wan Li for his affability and generosity in helping the poor.

But the image of Santa Claus we see now was created in 1931 by the famous Swedish illustrator Hatton Sambu based on his friend Ro Prentice. It was from 1931 that the image of Santa Claus began to be unified and fixed as the image of "an old man in a red robe, with a white beard, a kind smile and a naive face" that we can see everywhere today.

Before 1931, the colors of Santa Claus in western countries were different, usually yellow and green (now westerners use red, green and white as Christmas colors). And Santa Claus at that time was not a fat man; On the contrary, before 1931, Santa Claus often looked gaunt and bony.

Yes, it was not until 1931 that the image of Santa Claus changed from yellow or green and skinny to red and fat. Hatton Sambu is not the "mastermind" behind all these changes. Although he personally created this classic image of Santa Claus, he was only entrusted by people. The real "mastermind" is actually the world-famous Coca-Cola Company.

At that time, the Coca-Cola Company signed a contract with Hatton Sambu to create an image of Santa Claus drinking coke, and insisted that the color of Santa Claus's clothes must be bright Coca-Cola red. Therefore, Hatton Sambu took his friend Luo Prentiss as the prototype to create a classic image of Santa Claus, wearing a red robe and a white beard, with a kind smile, taking off his red hat in one hand and holding up a bottle of Coca-Cola in the other. Later, Coca-Cola made this image of Santa Claus into a poster, and wrote a famous slogan at the bottom of the poster: "ThePauseThatRefreshes".

In the following 3 years, Hatton Sambu continued to create hundreds of advertising paintings for the Coca-Cola Company. The image of red Santa Claus designed by him has also occupied the whole world with the large-scale sales of Coca-Cola, so the red Santa Claus has become the standard image of Santa Claus.

Today, Santa Claus has become a global cultural icon.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Coca-Cola Company unified the image of Santa Claus on its own. Therefore, Coca-Cola Company also registered the image of Santa Claus as its own trademark.

Yes, the Coca-Cola Company created the classic image of Santa Claus, and in turn, the Coca-Cola Company has always benefited from it. However, the influence of Santa Claus goes far beyond this.

in the late 2th century, with the great influence of Santa Claus, a tourist attraction, SantaClaus'sHouse, appeared in Santa Claus's hometown-rovaniemi in Lapland, northern Finland. At present, there are only 5 "genuine Santas" in this Santa Claus village who have been strictly audited, trained and licensed, and their appearance fee is as high as 2, yuan.

In this way, the influence of Santa Claus can be seen.