Thinking Improvement of Illustrators —— Required Reading Bibliography

The word "illustration" comes from Latin "illustraio". It means to illuminate, or it can mean that abstract content or concepts become clear.

Illustrations are more artistic than words, and illustration design presents unique aesthetic characteristics in the digital age. With the help of digital software tools, illustrators create more creative and bold illustrations. Compared with traditional illustrations, modern illustrations are more concise and intuitive, pay more attention to the simplified expression of content forms and the use of exaggerated techniques, and are more in line with the taste and aesthetics of modern society.

Illustration, as an elegant humanistic art form, can bring strong visual impact to the audience and arouse emotional resonance. The progress of technology has brought more creative forms and possibilities to illustrators, but it is also inseparable from the unique artistic style of illustrators. Under the development background of the new era, it is more necessary to pay attention to the combination of theory and practice.

Then, how should illustrators improve their creativity and thinking ability in daily life? How to explore more forms of artistic expression? How to make works have higher artistic appeal?

Here are a few books that can improve the illustrator's thinking and enrich its connotation.

Author: Brin (Zhai Cuiping)

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This book is rich in cases, detailed in explanation and comprehensive in knowledge points. Each case has a very detailed explanation from project conception to implementation, paying attention to the commercial practicability with illustrations.

From basic to advanced, through a large number of cases, this paper systematically explains the knowledge of commercial illustration design and drawing, and tells how to complete the role transformation of commercial illustrators from drawing zero basis to drawing complete illustrations, and successfully take orders, thus opening the door to various skills of commercial illustration; Basic knowledge of software operation; It also tells the drawing methods of basic elements such as figures, animals, plants, still life and architecture commonly used in illustration design. Finally, it analyzes the creation process of comprehensive business cases, various practical drawing skills and the cooperation process of business cases.

It can be described as a key to open the door to the world of illustration.

Author: Qi Qi

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Illustration design manual is a comprehensive introduction to illustration design, which is characterized by easy-to-understand knowledge, easy-to-learn cases, hands-on practice and divergent thinking. Starting with the basic knowledge of illustration design, this paper presents readers with wonderful and practical knowledge and skills step by step. Classic modules such as design concept, color review, design skills, color scheme and masterpiece appreciation are arranged in several chapters, which not only enriches the content of this book, but also enhances its practicability. With rich content, wonderful cases and novel layout design, it is suitable for primary readers of illustrators and advertising designers to learn and use, and it is also very suitable for readers who like illustration design as a reference.

Author: Yu Yutong

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This is a comprehensive illustration course. The book is divided into five parts: introductory chapter, basic chapter, improvement chapter, practical chapter and business chapter. Illustration knowledge is from easy to difficult to explain. The book contains the basic knowledge of software operation, the drawing methods of various basic elements commonly used in illustration, the creative process of comprehensive cases and various practical creative skills, as well as the creative characteristics and cooperation process of commercial illustrations.

The works in the book use Photoshop as the creative medium, but the case is not limited to the explanation of software, but more is to show the conception process and creative skills. By reading this book, readers can understand the creative methods, open creative ideas and plug in the wings of imagination.

It is suitable for junior readers who have just entered the illustration industry, and also for illustrators who have already worked and hope to have greater promotion.

Authors: [America] joe davis, [America] Derek Brazer.

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This is a comprehensive illustration career guide. Whether you are a novice illustrator or a student majoring in illustration, you will face unknown challenges once you enter the field of illustration. This book provides readers with professional guidance, in-depth analysis and inspiring famous illustrators, which can help you make full preparations, improve your professional skills, familiarize yourself with the industry market, help you evaluate yourself in the image creation industry market, find your proper position, and thus cultivate your superior skills in the highly competitive business creative art field and become a successful illustrator.

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Different from the existing illustration line drawing courses in the market, this book guides readers to feel the influence of line thickness change and softness on the picture effect in painting through the popular painting tool stylus, and learns to conceive and draw black and white line drawing illustrations full of rich fairy tale style. By studying all the cases in this book, you will learn how to describe objects and deal with line drawings. And summarize a set of clear painting ideas to help you form good painting habits and draw your ideal effect faster.

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This is a tutorial book for beginners and illustrators. The thinking, techniques and theories of illustration design are interspersed in six different levels. This paper expounds the training methods and skills of illustration design from the simple to the deep, and gives some suggestions on the commercial application of illustration design for readers' reference. Starting with the related knowledge of hand-drawn illustration, and then using computer to design different styles of illustration works, it is divided into six chapters. The first four chapters tell readers how to cultivate the habit of drawing and how to train the thinking skills of illustration design. The last two chapters take the specific design case of commercial illustration as the breakthrough point, and describe the application skills, design principles and application categories of software illustration.

After reading this book, readers can learn how to choose painting tools, how to practice and how to turn their works into income. This book can make readers realize that illustration is not difficult to learn, and they can create their own works with a little persistence.

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