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?
Fashion-style illustrations, whether Japanese or European or American, generally do not choose particularly bright colors, mostly fresh and elegant, especially common colors in nature and daily life.
Humorous style illustrations are often modeled in exaggerated ways, which is very common in European and American styles and the choice of colors is also exaggerated.
The aestheticism-style illustration, tranquility and peace is the main theme of this painting. In terms of color, generally speaking, neutral and cool tones are the most common.
Realistic illustrations, what you see is what you get, are what you draw, and express what needs to be expressed most clearly.
Q version illustration, used for product packaging page design, game characters, etc. All kinds of big-headed dolls will never go out of fashion.
Illustration of mechanical technology, mechanical technology does not have so many fancy colors, generally three or four colors are enough, and sometimes even black and white can solve the problem.
Decorative style illustrations, mostly based on decorative content, pay more attention to the treatment of lines, and are more flexible in color matching.
Illustration is commonly known as illustration in China. Nowadays, the popular commercial illustrations in foreign markets include publications with pictures, cartoon mascots, movie posters, game characters and artistic scene design built into games, advertisements, cartoons, picture books, greeting cards, calendars, decorative paintings, packaging and other forms.
The website profile of China Illustration Network has more than 340,000 registered members and more than 500,000 original hand-drawn illustrations and computer CG works.
According to Dalong, the founder of Illustrator China, illustrators, as the mainstay and creative source of cultural and creative industries, undertake most of the drawing work of cartoons, book illustrations, original games, animation shots and film and television sets. Since its establishment, China Illustrator Network has been committed to developing and promoting the illustration industry in China. By actively organizing an illustration contest, publishing the China Illustrator Yearbook and holding an illustration exhibition, the position of illustration in cultural and creative industries can be improved, the exchange of illustration technology can be promoted, and the talent pool of cultural and creative industries can be improved. In addition to traditional publications and comic book illustrations, illustrations have been widely used in game design, film and television packaging, animation advertising design, product packaging, decoration design and other fields. Illustration design has become an important link in the production of cultural and creative industries. With the popularization of 3d illustration technology in the future, I believe that illustration will have greater development potential. Activities organized by China Illustration Network:
2009 Hunan Satellite TV Happy Dog Original Cartoon Illustration Competition
The 2nd Ningxia Animation Illustrator Art Exhibition in 2009
2009 China Illustration T-shirt Design Competition
"Hanwang Cup" New Year Pictures Theme Creation Illustration Competition
South Korea Aiya Seven-color Flower Jewelry Beautiful Girl Illustration Competition
The First Animation Illustrator Art Exhibition in Ningxia in 2008
CIIF China illustration art exhibition
China Illustration Gold Award Design Competition
"Hanwang Painting Masters Cup" Mid-Autumn Festival Illustrator Animation Grand Prix