Since they are all paintings, what's the difference between illustration design and pure art? Is the employment prospect better than Chunyi? How to prepare a collection of illustration design works?

I What is the difference between illustration design and pure art?

In short, illustration is the combination of commercial elements and painting, while pure art painting is the expression of personal ideas, which is the biggest difference between illustration and pure art.

Illustrations often have a certain commercial value. For example, the products of Nongfu Spring are some illustrations that foreign illustrators have invited to draw. The drawn things need to be consistent with the source and concept of the product, because the final purpose of illustration is product service.

II Is the employment prospect better than Chunyi?

Students who study illustration will have a good employment prospect in the future, and their fields will be relatively broad. For example, to draw advertisements for commodities, to draw illustrations for books, magazines and newspapers in the publishing industry, to work as an illustration designer in an Internet company or game company, and then to become an independent illustration designer or artist. Of course, this also requires that you have your own original design style.

III What are the recommendations of illustrators, books or websites?

For students studying illustration design, it is necessary to collect inspiration at ordinary times, and recommend several representative websites of illustration works to share with you. (The following websites do not need to climb over the wall, awesome!)

　　 ① It's Nice That: introduce the stories and works of some excellent illustrators irregularly

　　 ② Behance: You can see many great works under the illustration category

　　 ③ Pixiv: The emerging Japanese peer painting and illustration works sharing site. With web2.0, each participant has its own home page and can rate works . (The official often holds some competitions. It's OK to have simultaneous translation if you don't know Japanese. It's just that the interface is a little similar to the Chinese post bar.)

　　 ④ Cargo Galaxy: On the home page, you can see many carefully selected artist websites, which are slightly more pure art than strength 。

　　 ⑤ ILLUSTRATION AGE: A large number of illustration resources and illustrator information

　　 4、 How to prepare the illustration collection? What about Foreign Illustration Proposal for application?

"How is a high-quality collection of works produced?" "What kind of illustration design collection is really wanted by top art schools?" This may be a common concern of foreign students.

　　 ① Learning record inspiration

It takes only a few steps to reach a thousand miles. The burst of inspiration is not groundless. It is based on a large amount of early knowledge accumulation and an expanding horizon. At this time, sketchbook is particularly important. Its role is to make a personalized record of your favorite elements and good ideas, while also improving your writing skills.

　　 ② Ingenious transformation of inspiration

In addition to recording your own inspiration, you should also learn how to translate your thoughts into the paintings you want to express (a very important part of the concept of illustration), including the overall layout, how to use lines to convey the content of the pictures more accurately, and even think about how to make the audience more susceptible to your paintings.

We can't help admiring the exquisite works of those painters, but sometimes great illustration does not require you to have the highest skills. You should know that only when good inspiration turns into lines and colors on the paper, it is the most impressive. Therefore, learning to transform is the place where good collections need to think.

　　 ③ Don't cater to the school excessively

Students often leave messages asking: "The teacher told us that most of the students' works in * * * colleges are in the form of * * *, should I also move in this direction?" Many institutions will ask students to refer to the requirements of the school and teachers' preferences, and then make collections of works, which is actually misleading. Compared with illustrations with similar styles, the unique personal style is what admissions officers want to see more.

　　 ④ Fully display the inner world

As we all know, the creation form of American illustration works is not only limited to painting, but also can be shown in other forms. Painting materials are not just watercolors and markers. The reason why the school broke the restrictions of rules and regulations seems to mark the importance of students' imagination.

In terms of content, college professional teachers still advocate that students should be themselves and show their inner world in their works. The more novel, the better. Foreign art education is more expecting to see students' different styles and possibilities. If it is too limited to the requirements of the school, it will be afraid of hands and feet and restrict its own imagination.

　　 ⑤ Suggestions (from the elder sister who successfully applied for RISD illustration design)

Give play to your own expertise. If your expertise is two-dimensional painting skills, you must show it. Because I know that some teachers or training institutions will require students to do some 3D sculptures or three-dimensional devices. But in fact, the most important thing you do is to reflect your uniqueness, not necessarily this aspect. So when you prepare your illustration portfolio, you must focus on your strongest aspects.

      Both illustration and pure art are majors that everyone likes, and will be widely used in the future, with more employment opportunities. Those who want to do the training of illustration and pure art works must come to natural light!

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