Mermaid Illustration —— How Good Illustration —— Analysis of Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustration in Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House

Find an illustration of a mermaid. Sorry, there are few pictures of mermaids in my computer. . .

Mm-hmm.,,, I'll give you a picture to comfort you. . . I didn't draw it. -)

I know this painting is not as important as yours in your heart. . .

Mm-hmm,,, You can try to draw one yourself!

Go away. . .

A Plan —— Korean Illustrator Kim Jong-ji (Part Two)

(This article was published in the monthly magazine "Roaming in cgworld Times" 20110, and all the pictures in the article belong to Mr. Jin. )

Mr. Jin's painting for the funny column of YoungJump magazine.

Funny column in YoungJump magazine is a test field for Kim to explore the possibility of comic expression. One color manuscript depicts a scene in which a young man covered in blood steps onto the tram, stumbles to the back of the car and gives his heart to a lady. The cold lady with glasses looked at a sincere heart in front of her eyes, and tears rolled down her cheeks. I saw her slowly pull open her clothes, revealing the knife marks on her chest. I don't know whether I lost a heart among many feet or sewed it into another person's heart.

Although I didn't say a word, I vividly expressed the pain of "I hate not meeting and not getting married".

Jin's latest creative plan is to adapt the novel Lepapillondesetoiles (Butterfly of the Black Star) published by Beenaert Welby in 2006 into a cartoon. This novel describes the experience of a group of earthlings who fled the earth in a large spaceship and embarked on a thousand-year journey in the vast universe. Warebey's novels have always been famous for their rich imagination. Although the themes are science fiction, they are all-encompassing, involving history, religion, philosophy and biological sciences. At this point, it complements the diversity of Jin's selection of materials in his creation. However, in Warebey's works, it is not easy for Kim Jong-hee to restore the universe and shine on the Milky Way.

Talking about the goal and direction of my future career, Jin said: "I have always hoped to draw works that can challenge foreign cartoonists. I also want to create that kind of professional drama with strong professionalism. For example, in a story about motorcycle racing, the focus of the story is the mechanic, not the racer. Or create a special forces story with a military theme. "

Today, with the popularization of digital painting, Jin still insists on the traditional hand-drawing method. "Computer is a good tool. If you can use it flexibly, you can draw very good works. But because I always insist on hand painting, I am more skilled in freehand brushwork. I believe that I can better express the taste of my works with my own hands and pens. But if I have time, I also want to learn computer painting and try more painting methods. However, if I rely too much on computers, my works will have a sense of standardization, so I have some avoidance of digital painting. "

Sharp tools make good work. Jin Ping's creation is naturally inseparable from the tool of the scale hand. Japan's original needle pen (COPICMultiliner0.2, 0.25), Germany's imported Steedtler Needleliner 0.05, 0.2, 0.3, Japan's PILOTHI-TEC-C0.03, and Germany's original red circle art pen (RotringArtPen) are all his favorite hand-painted weapons. Paint pencils and watercolors are often used when painting. As for paper, Kim is not picky. Except the most commonly used 200g drawing paper and A4 paper, all the paper in sight can be used for painting, which explains why so many sketches in his sketch collection are casually smeared on newspapers and notes.

The most amazing thing about Jin's painting is that he never makes a draft before he puts pen to paper. His business orientation, composition layout and composition are all in his mind. This painting method is in sharp contrast with the concept of "generally close to subtlety" advocated by Mr. Jiang, a master of Chinese painting. The painting method of "one stroke sets the overall situation, with all its spirits" is very similar. At the just-concluded Fuchuan International Animation Exhibition in South Korea, Kim Jong-hee spent three days drawing a parade scene with fisheye deformation effect on a huge white cloth 9 meters long. The figures, chariots and horses are complete, and their postures are different, which is amazing. "Once you decide what to draw, draw a general picture in your mind and start writing at once. Don't draw carefully when you put pen to paper, but point to the end and then paint it with an oil pencil or watercolor. " Kim admits that it takes him a short time to draw a sketch compared with other painters. "It's mainly because it takes almost no time to find information after conceiving the scene. Most of the images seem to be stored in my mind and naturally emerge. Follow it. Although a few complex images still need to refer to relevant materials, most of the pictures and scenes that have only been seen once can construct 60%-70% when writing (this guy really has a pair of sharingan! )。 "

In addition to mastering the mind before creation and brilliant brushwork when creating, Jin is most satisfied with his works because of the diversity of painting materials and the extensiveness of themes. "It can be said that everything that the eyes can see, whether it is a living thing or an artificial product, is my material and can be drawn." Among the illustrations created by Jin, the works with the theme of "mermaid sashimi", "dentist", "tattooed men and women" and "fishing" have the highest frequency. Among them, the work with the theme of "Mermaid" is the most striking: in a crowded and narrow sushi restaurant, the owner holds a sharp knife and cuts a mermaid's fish. The calmness of the host, the coldness of the waiter, and the indifference of the diners who eat and drink are in sharp contrast with the mermaid who is at the mercy of others, and the effect is extremely shocking. When talking about the source of inspiration for creating the above works, Jin said: "I usually try to find inspiration from many images and books and things I have experienced. I prefer military life, showing rich subjects such as human body, machinery and animals. The reason why the mermaid is the theme for many times is mainly because the mermaid will make women's posture present more diversified elements. I describe the scenes of dentists and tattoos carefully, because I am interested in fine instruments and surgical scenes. As for the pictures of fishermen returning from the sea or fishing many times in the works, it is because I have been living in coastal cities before high school and I am familiar with the life scenes of fishermen. "

When it comes to artists and cartoonists who have the greatest influence on themselves, Kim is even more eloquent. "When I was in junior high school and high school, I was deeply influenced by Japanese cartoonists. I especially like Toriyama Akira, Dayou Shengbo and Masamune Shirow. When I was in college, I enjoyed Lie Bin, a Russian master of critical realism painting (1844- 1930) and john singh, an American realist painter who is famous for his portraits (1856- 1925). And norman rockwell (1894- 1942), an illustrator who was praised by The New York Times as "the most popular artist of this century". "When I was in college, I was interested in realistic painting, so I naturally came into contact with China painters. I like Mr. Jiang (1904-1986), a master painter in China, very much. He once copied and read the book "Timid Muscle" and posted it on the wall to watch. Recently, I also purchased the watercolor collection of Mr. Guan (1940——). "

Mr. Jiang's refugee map

Mr. Guan's watercolor illustration of Ms. Lin's "Old Things in the South of the City" and the heads of children painted by his father.

Speaking of hobbies, Jin finally revealed his true colors as an otaku. "I don't drink or smoke, and I don't have any special preferences. If you have to say that you have any hobbies, you like to collect cartoons, such as Mitsuru Adachi's Contact, Dayou Shengbo's Zhang, Toriyama Akira's Alaret, Ryoichi Ikegami's Crying to Kill God, Tatsuya Egawa's The Story of the University of Tokyo, and Mobius's cartoons. " Jin is no stranger to cartoonists and works in China. He said that he appreciates the situation of Hong Kong cartoonists and Yasuo of mainland cartoonists.

It's a distant place for Kim. He admitted that he didn't know much about China culture. However, when he was a child, he watched the History of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West and Shaolin Temple, and watched many kung fu movies. The four classic novels and Confucius' Confucianism are also popular books and cultures in Korea, so he knows something more or less.

When Jin was asked to say something for readers in China, he wrote the following sentence: "Comics are expressed by artists through painting, so they must keep learning, collect information and accumulate experience. Listen more, see more, experience more, collect more, and then use it in your works. As far as I'm concerned, I put too much thought into painting. If I can learn more about stories, I may become a better cartoonist. Finally, health is king. "

How Good are the Illustrations —— Analysis of Illustrations in Andersen's Fairy Tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House According to Song Juzhi's illustration standard, we can find that the illustrations in this book fully explain the contents of fairy tales in color and detail.

Next, I will analyze how the illustrations in this edition of Andersen's fairy tales are integrated with the story from the angles of colors and details.

If you had to choose a color to represent witches, what color would you choose?

Purple, blue, black?

Generally speaking, we are used to using dark tones to represent evil and strangeness.

Daughter of the Sea uses dark tones to outline the image of a witch under the water.

This painting depicts a little mermaid who wants to become human and look for an undersea witch. The whole illustration, except the mermaid is pink, almost all the surrounding background colors are dark: black, dark blue, purple, grass green, even if there is red, it only outlines the outline of the witch as a line.

This dark background+red embellishment will give people a strange mystery.

A similar dark tone+red design will appear in many tomb raiding films in China. But these pictures are scary, so I won't let them go.

Perhaps this color scheme symbolizes strangeness, danger and death. Therefore, in The Nightingale, the illustrator also uses dark colors and red outlines to depict the image of death.

In the nightingale, the god of death who wants to take the life of King China wears a black robe with a red pattern and a black hat with red pendants, and reaches out to the king with his red hand. If you look closely, you can see that the lower eyeliner of death is also red.

In addition, do you feel that the image of this god of death in the illustration is very similar to the ancient emperor of China?

That's true. The image of death in this illustration really draws lessons from the costume characteristics of ancient emperors in China.

Why should we draw lessons from the characteristics of China's imperial costumes when shaping the image of death that is often mentioned in western culture?

Because the nightingale is a fairy tale that happened in China.

Therefore, the illustrator did not follow the image of the west when describing the death, but combined the image of the death in China culture-Rebecca.

The original text describes the plot in the illustration like this:

The details of these illustrations make it clear at a glance that the story of "Nightingale" took place in China.

The illustration of Nightingale is taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

It is not only death that makes people shudder, but also the Snow Queen.

This queen, who brings biting cold, is both beautiful and cold. The illustrator also used dark tones to show her appearance.

The seemingly bottomless dark forest creates a dark and mysterious feeling. In contrast, it seems to be the snow queen with white light.

In order to highlight that the Snow Queen's hat and coat are made of ice and snow, the illustrator specially put a cross-shaped flash under the hat and clothes.

Against the backdrop of the dark forest, the snow is more crystal clear, but there is no warmth.

The illustrations of dairy queen are taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

Fairy tales are not only dark and evil, but also full of hope.

If you choose a color to represent hope, what would you choose?

In The Last Leaf, O Henry used a dark green leaf painted on the wall to symbolize the hope of living.

The illustrator of this edition of Andersen's fairy tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House also dyed the hope in the fairy tales with green and yellow.

The illustrator drew the ugly duckling at birth with the yellow-green leaves as the background. The ugly duckling and a group of ducklings learn to swim with the mother duck.

Because the ugly duckling is the last egg hatched by the mother duck, it ranks last among ducklings.

But did you find out?

Mother duck and other ducklings are very comfortable and leisurely, and their feathers are goose yellow.

The ugly duckling at the end seems to be an alternative, completely different from them.

Not only are the feathers covered with dust, but they also hang their heads, lifeless and embarrassed.

But why did the illustrator choose bright yellow-green as the background of the illustration instead of using dim colors to render the unpopular gray mood when the ugly duckling was born?

I guess illustrators use this bright yellow-green color scheme for two reasons:

Not only the ugly duckling has changed, but also the little boy living under the control of the Snow Queen.

The Snow Queen planted hard ice in his heart, erased the memories of the past and was trapped in the cold castle.

It was not until his childhood friends found him and melted the ice in his heart that he woke up like a dream.

When he and his partner walked home, because the magic of the Snow Queen disappeared and the snow melted, the land once ruled by the Snow Queen gradually recovered and the spring was full.

The illustrator also used yellow-green as the keynote to draw the feeling of spring returning to the earth.

The illustrations of dairy queen are taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

The illustrator used a similar color when the little mermaid couldn't bear to hurt the prince and jumped into the sea in the morning.

The picture below depicts the process of the mermaid becoming an elf after she jumped into the sea because she couldn't bear to stab the prince.

The image of the little mermaid presents a color similar to the sunrise.

This light yellow figure gives a warm feeling.

This color seems to indicate that the mermaid will not die like foam in the sea without the love of the prince, as predicted by the witch, but will become an elf.

The illustration of The Daughter of the Sea is taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

Illustrators want to draw illustrations that can make children understand the plot only by illustrations. When creating, they need to be loyal to the story and can't trust horses.

Many illustrations in this edition of Andersen's fairy tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House draw the details of the story.

1. The facial expressions of characters reflect people's feelings.

How do you feel when you see the prince in this illustration? Does it seem that this prince is lifeless and lifeless?

The illustration of The Daughter of the Sea is taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

Indeed, because the "prince" in this painting is not a prince, but a white marble statue.

This illustration is taken from The Daughter of the Sea. It depicts that the little mermaid fell in love at first sight when she met the prince, but she had nowhere to talk about it. She had to hold a big white marble statue she found that looked like the prince to alleviate the pain of lovesickness.

So the "prince" in this painting gives people a sense of lifelessness, because he is not a real person, but a stone.

Nevertheless, the illustrator drew a gentle face for the little mermaid, showing her gentleness to the prince.

We can infer the mermaid's prince lover from her expression. Can you guess the mood in the picture below?

Who is secretly happy and proud, who is worried?

The illustration of Wild Swan is taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

This illustration is taken from Wild Swan, which shows the scene that the stepmother gives her stepchildren a cup full of sand instead of food. We can infer their situation from their expressions.

The queen looks like a Gherardini, as if she is happy to see her abused child; And 1 1 Prince and 1 Princess are very sad. However, if we look closely, we can find that although everyone has a sad face, everyone has a different expression on his face. I admire the illustrator's skill here.

The content of the painting shows the details of the story.

The illustrations in this edition of Andersen's fairy tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House also hide many details of the story.

Let's test our eyesight first. Please look for it. How many people are there in the illustration?

The illustration of Little Klaus and Big Klaus is taken from Andersen's fairy tales and published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

Did you find out?

There are three people in the illustration.

In addition to the two people sitting at the table, there is also a person secretly looking out of the box under the table.

Why is this man in the box? You can find the answer in the fairy tale Little Klaus and Big Klaus.

Let's test our eyesight again. Please count. How many dogs are there in this illustration?

Illustration of "Playing Light Box", taken from Andersen's fairy tales, Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

There are three dogs in this picture, because there are three dogs with big eyes in the fairy tale Light Box corresponding to this illustration.

Did you find that the white dog's eyes are unusually big?

Another illustration also shows three objects in the story-three pears.

This illustration corresponds to "pins can also bring good luck"

In this story, craftsmen make pear trees into three kinds: large, medium and small.

The illustration of A Pin Can Bring Good Luck is taken from Andersen's Fairy Tales published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

Besides three dogs, there are three kinds of pears and clover.

The fairy tale "Don't talk, but keep it in mind" tells three stories.

Andersen said that these three stories are like three leaves growing on the same root.

So the text of the whole fairy tale is embedded in clover, and three pages of grass are drawn next to the title of the fairy tale.

Illustration of "Don't talk, remember in your heart", taken from Andersen's Fairy Tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

The illustrations next to the title of this edition of Andersen's fairy tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House can not only let us see the details of the story, but also get a glimpse of the whole story.

The title "Old people can never do anything wrong" is surrounded by a circle of horses, cows, sheep, geese, chickens, apples and gold coins.

Because this fairy tale is connected by these contents.

Introduction to illustrator

These fantastic and touching illustrations were created by a young female illustrator Kuri.

Kuri graduated from Beijing Film Academy with a postgraduate degree in illustration from Syracuse University. He made his mark in many design competitions and cooperated with many publishing houses and game companies.

Perhaps it is precisely because of women's delicate perspective and psychology that she can draw the pain and joy of the little mermaid's infatuation;

The excitement and joy on the skirt when the flowers of little Aida dance;

Karen deeply blamed herself when she remembered her dancing red shoes.

Andersen's fairy tales published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House include not only illustrations of the stories, but also the title page (here is the page with the title), the ring lining page (the previous page with the title), the catalogue and so on.

Can you guess why there is a soldier with only one leg under the words "Andersen's Fairy Tales" on the title page?

Title page, from Andersen's Fairy Tales, Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

If you look at the ring lining carefully, you will find that the images in it all appear in the illustrations of fairy tales.

Look for it. What images have you seen in the story?

Ring pages, from Andersen's Fairy Tales, Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

What is particularly worth mentioning is the design of the catalogue.

First, there are pictures, which are very nice;

Second, the distance between each story topic in the catalogue is so large that it seems depressing.

Catalogue, extracted from Andersen's Fairy Tales published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

Compare the compact and depressing catalogues of other versions of Andersen's fairy tales, and you may feel how relaxed this sense of distance will bring.

Borrowed 15 Andersen's fairy tales published since 1980s from the library.

It turned out that it might be because we didn't borrow the right books.

Because in the 15 book I borrowed, there are enough illustrations and good-looking enough to show that there are not many versions of the story.

15 Andersen's fairy tales

These versions of fairy tale illustrations are either extremely naive and ridiculous, and have no aesthetic feeling;

Either the illustrations are black and white, which are beautiful enough but have limited effect on the presentation of the story atmosphere;

Illustrations of Andersen's fairy tales by a publishing house; Left: Hai's daughter, friend: Wild Swan.

Either it is black and white, and the printing is not clear;

Either famous artists paint, but some painting styles are not beautiful enough or a little strange (I personally think they are not beautiful enough and a little strange).

Because for children who are still in the period of thinking in images, they often take what they see as true.

So a little strange painting style will affect their understanding of real things.

People's Literature Publishing House "Andersen's Fairy Tales"

The only Andersen Fairy Tales with colorful illustrations, exquisite realistic paintings and story explanations is Andersen Fairy Tales by Children's Publishing House.

Unfortunately, there are too few illustrations. There are 20 fairy tales in the book with only 8 illustrations.

I had this version of fairy tales at home when I was in primary school, and I still remember this book because the illustrations are so beautiful.

But I remember that every time I picked up this book, I was absorbed in the illustrations for a long time, and then I put them down. I don't want to read this story at all.

Because there are not enough illustrations, there are often many pages full of words. For me when I was still in primary school, the reading experience was really unpleasant.

I am also used to buying books now to see if the font is big enough and the spacing between words and lines is sparse. Countless books, no matter how good the content is, are hard to arouse my interest in reading.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that there are 147 notes at the end of Andersen's Fairy Tales published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House, which further explains the content of the article and helps readers understand the story.

For example, The Daughter of the Sea ends with:

Maybe we didn't feel anything special when we saw this, but after reading the prompt, we will find that the article mentioned that the mermaid has no tears, and the tears of Xiaomei mermaid show that she has created a miracle.

I borrowed 15 books, and only 5 books were annotated.

Andersen's fairy tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House, with a short biography of Andersen on the last page.

Readers can understand the simple living and literary status of this great fairy tale writer.

Maybe you care about translation, too.

Because some Andersen's fairy tales on the market are not only translated, but also written for young children, and the language is younger.

However, the language of Andersen's fairy tales by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House is not deliberately young.

For example, the following passage is selected from the fairy tale "Don't say it in your mouth, keep it in your heart" and uses the idiom of serving others with virtue and sharing weal and woe.

Andersen's fairy tales are treasures in the history of literature, but even the best fairy tales can only play a role if readers are willing to read and understand them.

There are many versions of Andersen's fairy tales on the market. I hope you can find a book you are willing to read and have always treasured.