Illustration

Explore 40 award-winning designs tagged Illustration on Digital Artists Magazine.

Designer: Yang Yunjia Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Precious Lives

Precious Lives is a series of public service posters about the protection of marine life. Thin red rope is used to outline the forms of a sea turtle, a jellyfish and a whale. The rope binds and suspends each creature to show that marine animals are endangered by waste thrown into the ocean. The illustrations are drawn with vector design software and produced with high level printing technology. Each printed sheet measures 800 millimeters by 800 millimeters. The exaggerated imagery is intended to draw public attention to marine ecology.

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Designer: Hsiao Yun Tseng Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Lucky Tiger Welcomes New Year

Lucky Tiger Welcomes New Year combines zodiac signs with traditional Chinese paper-cut elements, making the design look like looking out from a window frame, while auspicious animals roll gold coins outside, as if bringing wealth. The overall use of spring-like colors, abandoning the traditional red color, and adding a lot of flowers and plants, because the pronunciation of flowers and fortune is similar (in Chinese-speaking areas), it seems that this year has good luck for fortune.

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Designer: Cheng Xiangsheng Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Pai

Pai is a series of four digital illustrations about loneliness. The series presents loneliness as an endless loop, showing the feeling as a complex state rather than a single experience. Lines, colors and forms are used to express isolation and the wish for connection. Rich colors and detailed figurative elements carry the narrative. The illustrations were drawn on a tablet with a digital painting application, at a size of 2048 by 2048 pixels. The work responds to reduced personal contact during the pandemic. Prints are planned for galleries and digital versions for online exhibitions.

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Designer: Tsutomu Kitazawa Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

The Sacred City

The Sacred City is a digital illustration created as a key visual for a high fantasy video game. The artwork depicts a legend called The Oracles, which occurs once every several centuries. On that day the kings of each land gather at the cathedral beside the waterfalls and await the arrival of the messengers. Many spectators travel from distant lands, hoping to receive blessings from the gods. The scene was hand drawn with digital software using a photo bashing method. Romanesque and Gothic architecture were combined to give the imagined world a sense of reality.

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Designer: Tsutomu Kitazawa Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

The Oracle

The Oracle is a digital illustration created as concept art for a high fantasy video game. The image shows a scene from a land with a legend that returns once every several centuries. In the legend, messengers from the gods arrive and announce the dawn of a new era. The design joins the form of a monolith with the presence of a great whale to suggest a mighty being. The artwork was hand drawn with a photo bashing method in image editing software and measures 6200 by 3150 pixels. Research into architecture and old customs supports the imagined world.

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Designer: Mengjia Li Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Buddha Said

Buddha Said is a series of illustrations based on the Dunhuang frescoes. Five classic stories from the frescoes are selected and redrawn for the series. The characters of each story are refined and combined with the scenes in a modern graphic style. Colors drawn from the Dunhuang murals give the images a grand and mysterious atmosphere. The illustrations are made with vector design software and printed at 800 by 800 millimeters in high resolution. The aim is to join tradition with modern design and to make these mural stories known to a wider public.

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Designer: Andrey Prokopenko Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

ProArt

ProArt is a series of digital illustrations of natural landscapes. Mountains, waterfalls and forests are depicted in a consistent style. Each image is framed like a view through a window or a keyhole. A bright sun or moon sits at the center and sets the dominant color. Negative space is used to give each scene more depth. The illustrations capture a still moment, allowing viewers to study the details and sense the atmosphere. Created with digital software, the vector artwork can be scaled without loss of quality and used for prints, posters and covers.

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Designer: Chunli Zhou Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Cherish Food

Cherish Food is an illustration series about food conservation. The series shows the growth of grain in chronological order, from sowing in spring to growth in summer and harvest in autumn. Seasonal changes in color and imagery create a sense of progressive layering. Chinese idioms are combined with the drawings to express how hard grain is to obtain. The artwork is made with vector design software and printed with careful attention to detail. The series can be used in print media, on the internet and in animation.

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Designer: Wen Lung Cho Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Traveling

Travel and Happy Things is a series of illustrations about travel and joy. The series is painted by hand with acrylic paint, which is bright and waterproof. Each work measures 145 millimeters in height and 100 millimeters in width. One scene shows the harvest festival of the indigenous people of Taiwan, where people hold hands and dance around a bonfire. Another scene shows a single traveler walking at a calm pace in a foreign street. The colorful images recall the freedom of travel and social life that was limited during the pandemic.

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Designer: Stefano Rosselli Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Two of Hearts

"Two of Hearts" is a vector illustration specially created for the collaborative project called "Luck of the Draw" which regrouped artists from around the world to create a unique deck of playing cards. The illustration concept is inspired by the fox from "The Little Prince" fable written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It is a hint to the lesson that the fox teaches about relationships.

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Designer: Huo Kai Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

Yongle Palace Myth

Yongle Palace Myth is a series of cartoon character illustrations based on the frescoes of Yongle Palace in Shanxi, China, which were painted during the Yuan Dynasty. The mural figures are simplified, exaggerated and decorated to suit modern taste, and elements such as cranes, lotus flowers and ribbons are added. The illustrations are drawn with vector software, and curve tools keep the light feeling of the clothing and the line art of the original murals. The prints are produced in four colors to encourage public interest in the murals and their protection.

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Designer: YoonJe Yang Project Type: Illustration Classification: Graphic

The Study of Emotion

Clatoz is a series of illustrations that express the emotions of many different people through patterns and color. The works are made with mixed media in two sizes, 24 by 17 centimeters and 29.7 by 21 centimeters. Color carries emotional meaning, such as passion in red and calm in blue. Dark shades suggest the hidden inner world of a person who does not speak. Layered patterns show how emotions become more complex. The illustrations are shown in galleries, where each drawing can become a tool for conversation.

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