What is illustration? Many expressions of illustration art are borrowed from paintings. The marriage of art and painting makes the former make great progress in exploring the diversity of expression techniques 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.
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.
Newspapers: Newspapers are 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.
Magazine books: including the design of front cover and back cover and illustrations of words, 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.
Corporate image publicity materials: VI design of the enterprise. It is included in the basic system and application system of corporate image design.
Film and television 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.
What is an illustration and what does it mean? 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.
Application of Illustration The scope of application of Illustration.
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;
Packaging design and illustration 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 and networks.
Game design:
Game promotion illustration, game character setting, scene setting
Animation, cartoon, cartoon
Animation original painting setting, cartoon design, cartoon design
Basically all commercial paintings can be counted as illustrations.
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. The function and function of illustrations Definition of illustrations
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) Display 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. Forms of Illustrations Modern illustrations have various forms, 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.
The classification of illustrations is based on the current market positioning: vector fashion comics, realistic pictures, the concept setting of American and Korean illustrations and so on.
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.