China Illustration Background-What are the styles of illustrations? What are the common illustration styles?

What is the background and significance of Chinese style illustration? Chinese style illustration is a painting form with the theme of China traditional culture, art and customs, which has strong China cultural characteristics and unique aesthetic value. The following is the background and significance of Chinese style illustration:

1. Inheriting history and culture: Chinese style illustrations reflect the origin and essence of China's Millennium culture, and show the profound understanding and love of China people for history and culture.

2. Carry forward the national spirit: Chinese style illustrations emphasize the cultural self-confidence and national spirit of the Chinese nation by depicting traditional culture, folk activities, myths and legends and other elements.

3. Advocating eco-environmental protection: Some Chinese style illustrations also involve social issues such as eco-environmental protection and animal protection, calling on the public to pay attention to environmental protection and sustainable development.

4. Convey emotion and thinking: Chinese style illustrations have strong emotion and thinking, and often express the author's unique insights and feelings about life, emotion and life through images, colors and lines.

5. Enriching visual culture: As a unique art form, Chinese style illustration can not only enrich visual culture, but also provide important design reference and material basis for other art forms such as literature, film and television.

In a word, Chinese illustration is an important manifestation of China traditional culture, with rich cultural background and humanistic spirit, and it is also one of the important means to promote China culture and traditional art.

What are the styles of illustrations? What are the common 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. But at the same time, it is slightly different, such as Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, Korean style is more gorgeous and romantic, 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.

The Style and Characteristics of Illustrations in "The Tide of the Country"

Illustration style features are as follows:

1. Common illustrations of the national tide, with rich and delicate lines and uniform colors.

Saturation capacity

Lower part, whole

Chinoiserie

Heavy but exquisite and durable, with wider application range.

There are many lines in the picture, but the lines will be thinner. Basically, lines are used as bones to shape every object, and the overall color is more unified.

3. Lines are an important part, and the number of lines determines the fineness of your picture.

4. A picture has 1-3 general color systems to form an illustration.

5. The color is not fixed, but it can be light and bright, paying more attention to ink painting.

technique of expression

And the paper texture of the picture, thus reflecting the characteristics of Chinese style.

6. Use rice paper or

kraft paper

The texture of the background color will give people a stronger taste of Chinese style, and the background is treated with ink and wash.

7. Some colors in the picture are antique, the overall color is less, the saturation is lower, some are gorgeous, and the saturation is higher, but the overall color is not too much, and there is a general color range. You should control the number of your own colors.

National tide style illustration is an illustration that combines Chinese style elements with trend elements, and uses Chinese style elements to draw people and things that appear. The color matching, composition and elements of the picture should have obvious Chinese flavor.