Artistic Beauty in Picture Books —— Appreciation of Picture Books with Eight Artistic Styles (94) Every excellent picture book is a work carefully produced by famous painters from all over the world. Reading picture books can cultivate children's deep aesthetic emotion and creativity. Every artistic style has distinct characteristics, and picture books are no exception. Let's enjoy the eight artistic styles in the picture book. 1, abstract abstract art is non-figurative, and abstract art focuses on the internal form and external quality of objects. Abstract artists do not stick to direct artistic expression, and often exaggerate or simplify the form of things. Emphasize the expression of emotions and feelings, such as Tara graham king's Enemy School. 2. Cartoon-style cartoon-style painting figures are unremarkable to MengMeng, and illustrators don't want their paintings to be realistic. Many cartoonists have their own styles, and they are easily recognized. For example, Tomiede paola likes to use black spots to represent people's eyes. Most of these people's bodies are short and thick. Kevin henkes likes to add small illustrations to his cartoons and so on. Similar cartoon picture books include The Witch's Grandma by tomiede paola, Pussy Cat Buzz Stories by Kitamura and so on. 3. Expressionism Expressionism painting was developed by artists in the 20th century. The characteristic of this kind of painting is that it can express the theme and emotion of the picture book story well. Expressionism focuses on expressing emotions, but the lines and facial expressions of paintings are often exaggerated and distorted, which is the effect produced by painters in order to contrast emotions. For example, Chris Van Orsberg's Game of the Brave 2 and Paul Ozalinsky's The Bellflower Girl. 4. Impressionism Impressionist painting style was developed by French painters in the19th century, paying special attention to the use of light. Impressionist artists use pigments to create the effect of broken or reflected light, trying to express their feelings and impressions of life, rather than describing the reality in detail. Bright colors and soft strokes are usually the striking features of impressionist painting. In The Mother Wolf, illustrator Yang Zhicheng creates a sense of balance through the interaction of light and shadow. He painted a wolf in the dark shadow, but the wolf's eyes were shining, suggesting the fear of darkness. 5. Folklore Style Folklore style shows the beliefs handed down from generation to generation by human beings and reflects the beliefs, values and cultural customs of a nation. Can give readers a strong sense of region. Artists need to spend a lot of time and energy to study the national costumes, national psychology and national spirit of a place in order to create illustrations with regional flavor and manual effect. Such as: paul goble's Song of the Wild Horse. 6. simple. Simplicity is full of childlike interest. It is a plane layout and a two-dimensional picture, which is easy to identify and interpret. This painting has details, but it won't be described in detail. Illustrators who use this drawing method usually have no professional painting training. For example, Willa B Williams' mother's red sofa. 7. Romanticism Romanticism is not a common style in picture books, but it is sometimes used by illustrators. This style often uses bold colors and dreamy composition to set off the gorgeous atmosphere. In Cinderella, illustrator K.Y. Kraft uses rich colors to create the effect of luxury and wealth, which reflects Cinderella's gorgeous turn from poverty and suffering to luxury charm. Romantic painting style is most suitable for fairy tales and folklore. And "Sleeping Beauty" by K.Y. Kraft. 8. Surrealism Surrealism painting is imaginative, emphasizing the unity of fantasy and reality, characterized by rich and delicate details, imaginative ideas and bizarre images. Characters or objects in surrealist paintings are often distorted, just like dreams. For example, Anthony browne and david wiesner were born in children's book publishing industry with surreal painting style, such as Three Little Pigs by david wiesner. 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.
Classification of Illustration Styles Different types and styles of illustration works actually need their corresponding artistic basic skills. For example, what realistic works need most is the description and shaping of modeling, light and shadow, and the grasp and understanding of harmonious scenes; Posters and cover design works need to grasp the picture composition and skillfully use color matching; Seemingly simple children's illustrations and picture books (such as Jimmy) need to have a good grasp of color matching and picture composition, and also have some research on the scene, otherwise it is difficult to design exaggerated, cute and reasonable characters. Naoko Takagi, a very popular picture book author in the past two years, is also from an art school and has been training in art for many years. Although each style has its own emphasis on the basis of art, just like picture books, it is very necessary to master comprehensive art knowledge-if realistic works do not study the composition of the picture, then the works will have no focus or even momentum. Therefore, it is difficult to create your own mature and stable style without solid basic art training and comprehensive art knowledge. Take the brush as an example. Now he can have his own fixed style, and at the same time, he can create other styles according to different themes and requirements because he has mastered solid and comprehensive artistic basic skills.