Classification 1, texture and texture of nine common illustration styles
Compared with noise illustrations, illustrations with texture style are richer in texture, and the texture changes of brushes are combined with the texture of paper to present rich picture effects.
Features: rich colors, strong texture and texture.
2. Stroke style
On the basis of plane or texture illustration, brush strokes are added, mainly line drawing, and the simple plane drawing or texture change is retained in the coloring method, while the line drawing is partially retained.
Features: keep the edge effect, simple and decorative.
3. Japanese and Korean style
The picture atmosphere is small and fresh, with bright colors and rich colors. The proportion of characters tends to be realistic, and it also pays attention to the performance of light and shadow and the contrast of atmosphere.
Features: lively, healing, warm heart.
4. Realistic style
Realistic character style mostly appears in the game, focusing on the performance of light and shadow, with clear character structure and more realistic picture.
Features: Realism, strong sense of light and shadow, clear structure.
5. Plane style
Express the content of the picture in a minimalist way, clean and tidy, without too complicated details.
Features: concise, flat and strong sense of geometric modeling.
6, pure hand-painted style
Keep the texture changes of pure hand painting. Compared with digital painting, pure hand-painted illustrations will give people a simpler feeling.
Features: soft and refreshing, and the texture changes naturally.
7. European and American styles
European and American styles are mainly reflected in the five senses and postures of the characters. The proportion of characters is slender, and the facial features have a three-dimensional sense of European and American style.
Features: Rich characters' expressions, with certain exaggerated expressions.
8. External type
Children's illustration style belongs to a kind of book binding illustration, which can be used as an independent picture book with personal style or as pictures of children's magazines. This is a very popular style in recent years.
Features: childlike, cute, can tell stories.
9. Noise style
Make a unified noise effect on the basic color blocks of plane illustration, increase texture changes, enrich picture details and increase picture level changes.
Features: Retro, unified picture and layered feeling.
Find the original source of these two illustrations, the first one,
This is the cover illustration created for "Ancient and Modern Legends-Fantasy Edition". At that time, after receiving the invitation from the publishing house, I had a detailed communication with the other party on the positioning of creative style. I'm glad that the other party doesn't have too many restrictions on creative style and theme, which gives a lot of room for development.
In the view of commercial illustrators, it is good to have enough free creative space, which can show the author's own style and the pictures he wants to express to readers to a great extent. Of course, after all, this is a business cooperation. As an illustrator, we still need to keep in touch with customers in the process of creation, so as to get information in time and make necessary changes. Let's share with you the creative process of this commercial work.
First of all, introduce the equipment:
Before we get the business list and enter the formal creation, we usually communicate with our customers on the style and theme of painting. This picture is applied to the cover of a fantasy magazine, so the overall positioning of the picture is very clear.
So how to find the feeling of fantasy? In my opinion, fantasy illustration belongs to a kind of realistic illustration, or it is based on the sublimation of realistic evolution. On the noumenon of characters, there are the characteristics of realistic characters, and at the same time there is no lack of artistic refinement, which makes them look more beautiful and handsome; In clothing and environment, it is full of fantasy elements, adding symbols of Chinese and western cultures, and overhead history, giving readers a sense of modernity and retro.
In this work, I want to draw an elf. This elf is different from the sharp ears we see in animation and film and television works. She became the shape of a bow and an arrow. She is a fairy growing in roses and thorns, full of charm but hard to touch.
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I don't know the second one.