Throughout the history of art, we can see that painting is not only realistic, but also shows a trend of simplification, and the boundary with design becomes blurred, which means that they have more and more similarities. Illustration is no longer a simple description, but a design thinking that incorporates personal aesthetics and ideas: when drawing illustrations, we are also designing. This change is the reason why the illustration art is more flexible and diverse, which provides a variety of unique styles for illustrators.

In other words, the transformation of materials is actually the design and description of personal aesthetics and ideas. Before talking about how to transform, we need to understand the main types of modeling styles, systematically distinguish and summarize their characteristics and similarities and differences, which will help us better extract the modeling with distinctive personality and unique style. Without further ado, let's explain in detail: How to extract shapes from materials in illustration design? What are the types of illustration design?

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How to extract shapes from materials in illustration design?

We use people who are usually the main body in the picture to demonstrate how to transform materials into painting language. No matter which style, it takes four steps to extract the shape: summarizing the outline, optimizing the outline, adding details, and coloring the manuscript.

1. Outline.

First of all, we must understand the basic structure of the human body: head, chest and pelvis, and at the same time, we must understand the dynamic line. Then on this structure, outline the outline with simple lines. How to be concise: less change, less lines. Avoid describing thin outlines in detail in materials, and be sure to summarize them.

2. Optimize the contour.

After extracting the basic contour, it needs to be processed, and the contour (line) should be optimized according to personal preference and aesthetics. I think the curve in the material has a strong sense of existence, so the curvature of the outline is greater and the curve is more beautiful. In addition, in order to distinguish the realistic style and enhance the aesthetic feeling, I slightly lengthened the proportion of the lower body, narrowed the head and formed a model figure. Also pay attention to slightly weakening the realistic muscle sense and optimizing the muscle contour with beautiful or regular lines.

Add details.

Pictures with details are more attractive. When we get to this point, we will add details to the outline. The most intuitive skill is to add a little clothing pattern to express the details of clothing, such as car lines, buttons, pockets and so on. Here, I replaced the stretch pants of the lower body with tight jeans to make the picture more decorative. Adding texture is also a great skill to color some details.

4. Paint it as a manuscript.

In the coloring step, projection is added to enrich the details of noise texture and improve the texture of the picture. This scale is extremely exaggerated, and the styles with strong geometric sense are different.

What are the types of illustration design?

In fact, there are two main styles of illustration design, realistic style and flat style ~

1, local realistic modeling style:

This style is more flexible, has a variety of realism, and even allows you to draw or deliberately create an imperfect image with distorted proportions. Therefore, the presentation of the picture effect is varied, rough, rigorous or naive. Focus on capturing the shape and dynamics of things, there are many subtle changes, and the picture presents rich and delicate effects. As far as characters are concerned, the external contour still retains the external advantages of muscles, mainly changeable curves, and the facial features and proportions are closer to real people.

2. Flat modeling style:

This modeling style presents a plane or abstract feature, which is very popular in recent years and is more suitable for the needs of modern commercial marketing. The geometric features of the outer contour are obvious and universal, and many details and many three-dimensional features are removed. Styles vary, from cute and childish to exaggerated and exquisite. A flat figure generally does not show muscles, or muscles are presented in regular and smooth lines. The five senses are also relatively simple, the proportion is more flexible and exaggerated, and there is a sense of design and decoration, which can form a more tense picture effect.

In fact, when we are doing illustration design, we can refer to the daily character picture modeling in modeling style and extract it from it ~ Well, the above is a simple sharing of the extraction method and modeling style types of illustration design, which I hope you can use in future illustration design ~