【開箱．畫集】爽々｜嚴選人氣繪師作品集爽爽

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Title:Carefully selected collection of popular painters
Original Title:ILLUSTRATION MAKING & VISUAL BOOK 爽々
Author:爽々 (爽爽)
Publisher:Taiwan Dongfan
Publication Date:2018-12-26
Language:traditional Chinese
ISBN13:9789864758869
Binding:Paperback / 192 pages / 19 x 25.7 x 1.4 cm / Normal grade / Partial full color / First edition
Price:460 yuan (KingStone 金石堂 391 yuan)

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It is one of the "Selected Works of Popular Artists" series. This series is unified in a simple layout style. Containing a wealth of works of graphics and then with 2 teaching (about a quarter), and the last 6-page interview with the author.

If you like the style and works of "Shuang Shuang (爽々)", it is worth collecting! In addition, the characters in the whole work are all women~

It is rare to see so many black-and-white color matching pictures, which can make people pay more attention to the use of lines, changes in light and shadow, and the texture and transparency of objects. Sometimes it is decorated with bright colors~

(Just like a post-rock song without singing the main melody, people can pay more attention to the wonderfulness of individual instruments.)

In the middle, there is a work mainly containing line drafts, which is printed on different paper qualities.

Taiwan has an agent of the "Selected Works of Popular Artists" series (old to new), two of which are currently out of the box:

Official Introduction

It attracts everyone's attention with its clear colors and meticulous description of hair.

Shuang Shuang, a super-popular painter, the highly anticipated first collection of works.

An illustrator who attracts many people with the clear colors and the exquisite performance of depicting each hair---Shuang. This book contains works created by the author from the beginning to the present, secret drafts, and 2 newly published works, and details the detailed steps of the two works from the theme to the drawing process, and more in-depth talks about the author starting to draw Interviews revealing the secrets of creation, such as the opportunity and the reason for ambition to become an illustrator, and his persistence in the work. Please enjoy the beautiful world woven by this writer.

【Excerpt from Interview】

──Why did you become interested in the field of painting that you haven't been exposed to in the past when you were in college?

The moment I became interested in painting was when I saw General Cat’s "Trial Painting" series of painting videos published on Niconico Animation in my freshman year of college. General Cat’s "Trial Drawing" series will introduce the process of drawing various game characters in a humorous tone. The very original style and interesting technique, and the painting strokes that I have never seen before make me feel a lot of shock. Inspired by the movie of General Cat, I gradually started to have the idea of drawing pictures by myself.

──Almost all of your recent works are in color. Please tell us why you started to paint color illustrations.

When I decided to become a professional illustrator independently, I thought it was very difficult to survive on black and white illustrations alone. If you specialize in drawing black-and-white character illustrations, the main work will be limited to illustrations of novels, etc., and the basic amount of work will be significantly reduced. General Cat, who has a deep influence on me, is mostly color illustrations in commercial works. He is positioned as an artist rather than an illustrator. The manga artist who also influenced me is a manga artist. Regarding independence, I have three general directions in my mind: "artist", "cartographer" and "illustrator", and I think that learning color illustration and expanding the field of illustration work is the shortest shortcut.

──You are now mainly using color illustrations, and sometimes you also create black and white illustrations; if there is any difference between color and black and white, please let us know.

When I draw color illustrations, I attach importance to "space", and when I draw black and white illustrations, I attach importance to "texture". In addition, there is a big difference between color and black-and-white in whether you are aware of light. When drawing black-and-white illustrations, I don’t specifically set the light source, and the shadows on the white part will be kept to a minimum. When painting, the focus is not on light, but on the overall black area. I think the pictures with more black areas are better, so I often paint black hair and pantyhose. In addition, I paint black and white illustrations more deeply than when I paint color illustrations. Metal and machinery are particularly suitable themes to be expressed in black and white, so I like to depict them.

Content

006 – ART WORKS PART1
069 – MAKING PART1
097 – SKETCH BOOK
113 – ART WORKS PART2
163 – MAKING PART2
185 – INTERVIEW

About the Author

爽々 (爽爽)

Japanese illustrator. He focuses on covers or illustrations for novels and magazines, and publishes works widely in various fields such as CD covers and game character design.