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 well express the theme and emotion of the picture book story. 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. The seven style characteristics of illustration-flattening, popularization, popularization and conciseness-simply put, flattening illustration is to simplify complex relationships and make the picture more refreshing and tidy, which is also a common style now. Many commercial tool apps will choose to use this style. For example, hooks, nails ... features-variations of plane illustrations, which increase the sense of granularity, texture and good relationship between light and shadow. Texture illustration, as its name implies, is to add some textures (such as variegated colors) and light to the illustration, which is similar to plane illustration in essence. Some pages that want to reflect the texture will use this style. The following are the works of some designers. Features-the highest requirements for artistic skills, wide application, rich exhibition content. Hand-drawn illustrations are also widely used, such as some illustration picture books, story scene design and so on. The following is an excerpt from the work of illustrator Gu Xin. Features-concise, round, lovely, breakpoint MBE illustration (a designer of dribbble created this style), its main features are round, lovely, lovely and concise. The boot page, startup page and default page in APP are also widely used. Features-aestheticism, similar colors and bright colors. The gradient illustration is somewhat similar to the Japanese comic scene, and its style is particularly beautiful and romantic. The light sense is relatively strong, so it is also called weak light illustration. Generally, the colors are similar, and there should not be too many kinds of colors. Features-2.5D illustration, strong stereoscopic impression and strong visual impact. Three-dimensional illustration, also known as 2.5D illustration, represents three-dimensional things in two-dimensional space. So now more and more designers are learning the software C4D. Although both AI and PS can be used, it will be more troublesome. Many e-commerce apps will choose this style. Like JD. The characteristics of COM-shapes, strokes and abstract paintings, stroke illustration not only uses shapes, but also uses strokes on its outer contour, which can clearly express abstract things. It is often used on some icons, such as idle fish, turning around ... What are the styles of picture books, such as decoration, line drawing and oil painting? There are gouache, watercolor, acrylic, crayons and other forms. Line-based, all kinds of drawing pens directly hook the line. The color is plain, vivid and natural. Brush strokes and colors can not be less, combined with texture, the effect is amazing. The picture book not only tells stories and learns knowledge, but also helps children to build up their spirit and cultivate multiple intelligences in an all-round way. An excellent picture book has many influences on children. It is a very interesting and effective way to read excellent picture books and learn the skills of writing expression from them. After more than a year's investigation, the primary school gang collected the opinions of the first-line teachers in the country and launched the first series of picture book composition courses in primary schools. The course is designed for the first and second grades of primary school, and the world-famous picture books are selected for study respectively. Combining with the corresponding knowledge points of composition, the course is reasonably integrated into the classroom links such as performance, discussion and role reading, so that children can learn the methods and skills of picture books and composition in happiness.