Characteristic Illustration —— Summary and Appreciation of Several Illustration Styles

What are the illustration styles? Illustration styles can be roughly divided into the following categories:

1. Japanese and Korean winds

Features: The most typical Japanese style is celluloid, with beautiful painting style, slender figures and little change between men and women. Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, while Korean style tends to be gorgeous and romantic, which is basically similar to realistic style.

2. European and American styles

Features: European and American style illustrations are mostly realistic, emphasizing the real texture and texture, and depicting delicately. I like exaggerated expressions to make the characters look more vivid and energetic.

3. China ancient style

Features: Compared with the illustrations of the above two artistic styles, the original Chinese painting also has its own distinctive features, which are reserved but full of tension. Although China's original paintings are more or less influenced by those of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, its profound classical art, elegance and mystery are still its characteristics.

4.q version illustration

Features: The Q version of illustrations is the most prominent, with figures and animals as the mainstay. The figures are cute, exaggerated or funny, and the proportion of the human body is short. Although the lines are simple and the color blocks are clear, the characters have distinct personalities.

5. Graphic style illustrations

Features: mainly composed of color blocks, geometric modeling, smooth outer contour, almost no contour line, diverse visual expressions, amiable and rigorous. A popular style that conforms to modern screen media and contemporary aesthetic trends.

6. Humorous style illustrations

Features: commonly used exaggerated modeling, which is very common in European and American styles. It is often found in news magazine illustrations, and the pictures contain humorous and ironic charm, which is more related to political, social and cultural issues. The choice of color is also exaggerated, which makes people feel ridiculous at first glance.

7. Realistic illustrations

Features: the most common style, what is it, what is it, is like painting. Make clear what needs to be expressed most.

Summary and Appreciation of Several Illustration Styles Some people like watching TV dramas, others like watching variety shows, and so do I like watching pictures. A good work will show you the world built by the artist. Through this painting, you have a different imagination of the world. There are many beautiful things you haven't found. This is the beauty brought by illustration and the reason why I love painting very much. As a non-professional, based on my recent painting experience, I made a small summary of several kinds of illustrations. Just like studying notes, I hope we can learn something from these excellent illustrations. * Plane style: All the elements in the painting look flat and consist of simple shapes and lines, but the colors are very rich and harmonious. The clothes of the characters have a strong sense of cloth, which is a bit like a tapestry. Various elements are composed of simple geometric shapes, and some small lines are supplemented by embellishments. The expression of light makes simple geometric figures present a more realistic scene. The lines are outlined with granular pencil lines, which makes the picture full of childlike interest. * Rock color style: Rock color painting generally refers to all artistic works with mineral color as the main tone. In my opinion, the works in rock color style are very textured. In order to achieve different painting effects, traditional rock-and-roll works are mostly pasted with gold foil or silver foil on paper. The following works should be computer-drawn, but they also reach the rock-and-roll style. According to observation, most of the works in rock color style are dominated by gold, black, red, sapphire blue and other main colors, which are very similar to Dunhuang murals. * Semi-realistic style: three-dimensional characters, close to realism, and strong clothing texture. The picture below shows the works of Taiwan Province talented woman illustrator De Dezhen (deceased). I especially like the illustrations of Dezhen series. The characters' eyes are emotional and their costumes are gorgeous and complicated. The background has the texture of rock painting. The picture below shows the works of Zhang, the first painter in China who won the gold medal in the international comic contest. Successful illustrators' works have distinct personal characteristics. Just like this work, Zhang's illustration has a certain feeling of meticulous painting, but it also has a three-dimensional sense of CG painting. Her color tends to be big red, and the characters in the paintings usually show arrogant and indifferent attitude. I remember that the cover of Scarer, my favorite magazine in college, was a picture, all in this style. * Clear style: The picture below shows the work of my favorite illustrator "Fat Snake". Her blog is called "Fat Snake Wonderland", which should be the title. Her works are clear and full of light, presenting a beautiful and mysterious fairy tale world, with many elements such as little girls, fairies and small animals, which should really be a fairyland. Her paintings have a delicate and fluffy texture, perhaps relying on tiny and hazy lines. The colors are mostly light brown, light green and light yellow. If you like her works, you can search "Fat Snake Wonderland" on the Internet to see other similar works. The picture below is similar to the style of a fat snake, and the overall picture presents a clear and warm feeling. This painting is a watercolor painting, unlike the last one, which has many tiny lines. The characteristic of watercolor painting is that the fluidity of pigment is easier to form rich colors. A good work must be rich and uniform in color. For example, this painting has no trace of light, but it makes you feel that it is in a very bright room. This is the success of color application. There are many wonderful illustrations, too numerous to mention. I hope everyone can see more, draw more and think more, improve their painting level as soon as possible and create their own works. How many styles of illustrations are there? How many styles of illustrations are there? There are many styles of illustration, which can be roughly divided into plane style, MBE style, gradient style, vector illustration, 2.5D style, graffiti style, forest style, healing style, watercolor style, dark style, picture book style, noise texture style and so on. The following is just a brief introduction to these painting styles.

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The graphic style is characterized by simplicity, lightness and neatness. Graphic style illustration is mainly color blocks, geometric modeling, smooth outline, diverse visual expressions, amiable and rigorous. Therefore, graphic style illustrations are widely used in various fields.

Gradient style: gradient style gradient illustration style was first brought by foreign designers, and this illustration color will be more vivid.

MBE style: This illustration style has gradually evolved in the trend of flattening, becoming more rounded, lovely, playful and concise. Its iconic figure is designer MBE from Paris, France.

Vector diagram: Vector diagram is a kind of vector diagram, which uses straight lines and curves to describe the graph, giving people a feeling of contrasting the trend of color collision.

2.5D style: 2.5D style illustrations have a strong sense of three-dimensional and space, which is simply understood as a two-dimensional picture with a 3D effect.

Mori style: Mori-style illustrations are characterized by overlapping watercolors, aestheticism, simplicity and elegance. Mori's attitude towards life is advocating nature, comfort and returning to nature. Attitude towards life is the happiness of keeping pace with the times; Love wandering; Reject consumerism; Pursue a simple and direct attitude towards life.

Style of Healing Department: The overall illustration style of Healing Department gives people a warm feeling, with soft painting style and strong atmosphere.

Dark style: the overall tone of the illustration is dark, which means to resist reality and distortion.

These styles are popular illustration styles now, and I hope they can help you.