The history of illustration in China

First, the earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of prints. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, in order to publicize the teachings, the scriptures were illustrated in disguise. At present, China's earliest prints are recorded in historical materials, namely "Dalagni Curse" published by Tang Suzong. The title page painting of King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the 9th year (868) is the exact date.

Second, the book illustrations in the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties have made great progress, and the application scope has expanded to medical books, historical geography books, archaeological catalogue books, daily encyclopedia books and other books, and color overprint illustrations have appeared.

Third, the Ming and Qing Dynasties can be said to be a period of great development of ancient illustration art, and there were book engraving industries all over the country. Different regions have formed different styles.

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Illustration classification

1, according to market positioning: vector fashion

Comics are younger.

Realistic aestheticism Han Man's illustration concept setting and so on.

2, according to the production methods: hand-painted, vector, commercial, cutting-edge (2D plane, UI design, 3D), pixel.

3. According to the illustration style: Japanese comics and illustrations.

European and American illustrations Hong Kong illustrations

Korean Game Illustration The cover illustration of romance novels in Taiwan Province Province (only classified simply because of its diverse styles).

Taiwanese media: How to learn to draw illustrations? Jimmy claimed that he started with graffiti.

How to learn to draw illustrations? I don't know other people's methods I started with graffiti.

Draw casually, anyway, there is no standard answer to self-creation, and it is entirely based on feeling happy. But after painting for a long time, I can't always indulge in it, and I really want to make progress, so I entered the crazy learning stage.

In the era when there is no Internet, the only way to find illustration reference works is to go to the bookstore and read all the books and magazines you can read. Don't let go of any other people's picture works, buy them home if you like, study them carefully and observe how others express a picture.

Because I don't understand, the good and the bad will appreciate it carefully and try to understand the world of illustration. I steal to learn at school bit by bit, and often feel sorry for myself, but I still practice painting seriously and hard with a smile every day.

Many years later, I began to create picture books, thinking about the rhythm and rhythm of pictures and texts, and arranging plots and dialogues without much difficulty. Maybe I practiced a lot of literary illustrations unconsciously in those years. Let pictures and words exist separately, but there are subtle connections.

The farthest distance between illustrations and picture books

When I started to create picture books, I was very excited. I often used animated illustrations to encourage my friends to create picture books together. But then I gradually found that drawing illustrations and picture books are actually two roads with similar directions, but the distance between them is very far.

Distance is the ability to tell stories from words to images, and the concept of book browsing is often ignored. The author of picture books must know how to use images instead of copying pictures written in words.

Illustration uses lines, colors and composition to form a beautiful image, but if you want to make a whole book to convey the story, you need to change it. Picture books convey stories with images, which is a narrative performance, but illustrations can be purely visual performances.

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