Chinese Traditional Festival Illustration - What should I do with traditional festival handbills?

What is the meaning of Folk Illustration

Folk Illustration is a traditional Chinese festival folk illustration.

The explanation of "illustration" is: "refers to the pictures inserted in the book. Some of them are printed in the middle of the text, and some of them are inserted in a way to supplement the content of the text or art appreciation.

Mainly for the book illustration as a definition, is a narrow definition.

Problems of traditional festival illustration design

Problems of traditional festival illustration design may include the following aspects:

Lack of innovation: some traditional festival illustration design often adopts traditional patterns and elements, lack of novelty and innovation. This will easily lead to visual fatigue of the audience, thus affecting the attractiveness and promotion effect of the design works.

Cultural misunderstanding: In some cases, designers may lack an in-depth understanding of the culture of traditional festivals, resulting in inappropriate or inaccurate cultural symbols and elements in the design work, leaving a bad impression.

Anachronism: Some illustrations of traditional festivals may be too old-fashioned and out of touch with the trend of the times, making it difficult to attract the attention of young people. In addition, some illustrations may lag behind the times in terms of presentation methods and the use of colors, losing the pursuit of contemporary aesthetic standards.

Commercialization tendency: In the social background of strong commercialization atmosphere, some illustration designers may overemphasize the commercial elements in order to pursue commercial interests, which makes the illustration design far away from the traditional cultural connotations, and become monotonous and lack of soul.

Therefore, when designing illustrations for traditional festivals, designers need to pay attention to the balance of cultural inheritance, innovative development and aesthetic pursuit to avoid the above problems and make the works more valuable and meaningful.

How should the traditional festival handbook be done?

Traditional festivals handbook is actually very simple. First of all, the first roughly set the layout, but the layout allocation must be reasonable, basically divided into five or six blocks on the good. Title to write the top, can be the center, can also be the left and right sides, (recommended right). If you really can not think of the layout, you can search on Baidu image to see how other people's layout is divided. Basic content: the origins of traditional festivals, poems, idioms, some celebrities on how the holiday is viewed, some customs and so on. The content can be found on the Internet.