1. Japanese and Korean winds
Features: The most typical Japanese style is celluloid, with beautiful painting style, slender figures and little change between men and women. Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, while Korean style tends to be gorgeous and romantic, which is basically similar to realistic style.
2. European and American styles
Features: European and American style illustrations are mostly realistic, emphasizing the real texture and texture, and depicting delicately. I like exaggerated expressions to make the characters look more vivid and energetic.
3. China ancient style
Features: Compared with the illustrations of the above two artistic styles, the original Chinese painting also has its own distinctive features, which are reserved but full of tension. Although China's original paintings are more or less influenced by those of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, its profound classical art, elegance and mystery are still its characteristics.
4.q version illustration
Features: The Q version of illustrations is the most prominent, with figures and animals as the mainstay. The figures are cute, exaggerated or funny, and the proportion of the human body is short. Although the lines are simple and the color blocks are clear, the characters have distinct personalities.
5. Graphic style illustrations
Features: mainly composed of color blocks, geometric modeling, smooth outer contour, almost no contour line, diverse visual expressions, amiable and rigorous. A popular style that conforms to modern screen media and contemporary aesthetic trends.
6. Humorous style illustrations
Features: commonly used exaggerated modeling, which is very common in European and American styles. It is often found in news magazine illustrations, and the pictures contain humorous and ironic charm, which is more related to political, social and cultural issues. The choice of color is also exaggerated, which makes people feel ridiculous at first glance.
7. Realistic illustrations
Features: the most common style, what is it, what is it, is like painting. Make clear what needs to be expressed most.
I need to know the characteristics of illustrations in various countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Europe and America. I feel that the illustrations of China and China in modern Shanghai are representative, influenced by foreign countries and combined with their own characteristics. It has influenced for a long time, including many movie posters before the 1980s, and we can still see the shadow of that era. Including posters during the war, it is also a representative style. Korea, win with color. I occasionally see Korean things, which are not much different from China. Others are made directly with Chinese painting, which I don't know much about. Europe and America, with a long history, have many different styles, such as those with many patterns during the Renaissance, which are very representative. There are obvious differences in figures' illustrations in different periods, such as distorted satire, realism and muscle pursuit of structure. Spider-Man, Batman and so on. If it is subdivided, the United States and Europe will be different. For example, posters of modern American western towns. Japan, represented by Fuji paintings, is full of pictures and characters, similar to Japanese dramas. I think any style and change of illustration is the embodiment of society in a certain period. This is inseparable from social evidence. In addition, there are many illustrations in ancient China, such as the gossip on the signboard of fortune tellers, the plant sketches in the compendium of materia medica, and the rare inserts of famous works such as The West Chamber. I think so, too. I don't specialize in illustration, so I don't know. The above is my own opinion. Your graduation project in Japan and South Korea may be a bit difficult, especially in South Korea, where there are too few reference materials. And Japan really has nothing to say except a few superficial words. If you want a breakthrough, interesting, you can see China. After all, not many people study it. It is best to write illustrations in Europe and America, and there are too many references. It should be easy. We can look at the interaction between China and Japan and South Korea, Europe and the United States and China, and even Europe and the United States and Japan and South Korea with China as the main line. (purely personal) I am also an art major. I'm a senior three. I hope you can design illustrations successfully. Illustration styles can be divided into the following categories:
1. Japanese and Korean winds
Features: The most typical Japanese style is celluloid, with beautiful painting style, slender figures and little change between men and women. Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, while Korean style tends to be gorgeous and romantic, which is basically similar to realistic style.
2. European and American styles
Features: European and American style illustrations are mostly realistic, emphasizing the real texture and texture, and depicting delicately. I like exaggerated expressions to make the characters look more vivid and energetic.
3. China ancient style
Features: Compared with the illustrations of the above two artistic styles, the original Chinese painting also has its own distinctive features, which are reserved but full of tension. Although China's original paintings are more or less influenced by those of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, its profound classical art, elegance and mystery are still its characteristics.
4.q version illustration
Features: The Q version of illustrations is the most prominent, with figures and animals as the mainstay. The figures are cute, exaggerated or funny, and the proportion of the human body is short. Although the lines are simple and the color blocks are clear, the characters have distinct personalities.
5. Graphic style illustrations
Features: mainly composed of color blocks, geometric modeling, smooth outer contour, almost no contour line, diverse visual expressions, amiable and rigorous. A popular style that conforms to modern screen media and contemporary aesthetic trends.
6. Humorous style illustrations
Features: commonly used exaggerated modeling, which is very common in European and American styles. It is often found in news magazine illustrations, and the pictures contain humorous and ironic charm, which is more related to political, social and cultural issues. The choice of color is also exaggerated, which makes people feel ridiculous at first glance.
7. Realistic illustrations
Features: the most common style, what is it, what is it, is like painting. Make clear what needs to be expressed most.