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Explore 49 award-winning designs tagged Illustration on Magazine of Design.

Jiangxi Illustrated Illustration

Wang Ying Illustration Graphic

Jiangxi Illustrated

Jiangxi Illustrated is a series of digital illustrations about the local culture of Jiangxi, China. The illustrations present regional landscapes, folklore and traditions in a modern visual style. Line drawings were drafted in Procreate, and coloring was completed in Photoshop. Each image measures 3600 by 3600 pixels at 300 dpi in RGB color. The series joins traditional cultural themes with contemporary illustration methods. The aim is to increase public appreciation of Jiangxi heritage and to support its preservation.

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Little Fairy Illustration

Tingting Jing Illustration Graphic

Little Fairy

Little Fairy is a series of illustrations that personify flowers as women wearing the cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress. Each figure is based on a study of the character and mood linked to a different flower. The images are drawn with computer vector software. A frame surrounds each scene and suggests a window, which gives the picture a sense of depth. Patterns on both sides of the frame are adapted from traditional Chinese motifs and shown in low relief. The series joins traditional culture with modern design to share the beauty of Chinese art.

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Precious Lives Illustration

Yang Yunjia Illustration 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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Chinese Festivals Illustration

Chunli Zhou Illustration Graphic

Chinese Festivals

Chinese Festivals is a series of illustrations based on traditional Chinese festivals. The series covers the Chinese New Year, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chung Yeung Festival. Festive elements such as firecrackers, dragon boats, zongzi and cornelian are shown in the scenes. The main colours are selected to match the atmosphere of each festival. The illustrations are drawn with digital painting software and printed at 800 by 800 millimetres. The aim is to present traditional festival culture in a contemporary visual style.

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Lucky Tiger Welcomes New Year Illustration

Hsiao Yun Tseng Illustration 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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Pai Illustration

Cheng Xiangsheng Illustration 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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The Oracle Illustration

Tsutomu Kitazawa Illustration 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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The Sacred City Illustration

Tsutomu Kitazawa Illustration 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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ProArt Illustration

Andrey Prokopenko Illustration 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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Athletic illustration

Hao Li illustration Fine Art

Athletic

Athletic is a series of sports-themed illustrations created with digital painting software. Each image reduces a complex athletic movement to simple lines and shapes. The most representative pose of each sport was selected after a wide study of reference images. Custom brushes and textures were developed to recall the surface of traditional painting on paper. Each original artwork measures 1920 by 1920 pixels at 72 dpi. The series aims to show the beauty and the energy held within a single moment of motion.

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Zodiacville Runners Illustration

Juyeon Park Illustration Print

Zodiacville Runners

Zodiacville Runners is an illustrated children's fairy tale about the animals of Zodiacville, which join a running festival hosted by the Dragon King. The illustrations combine features of traditional Korean minhwa painting with a digital pointillism style. Many faint dots were layered one by one, inspired by an oriental back-painting technique. The book measures 260 by 260 millimetres and has rounded corners for safety. Part one presents the story for children, while part two offers learning guides and supplementary material for educators.

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Simple BIO Wine Illustration

Pavel Kozlov Illustration Print

Simple BIO Wine

Illustrations and catalogue design for Simple Wine company, which import and sell alcohol and water. Main task of this illustrations was to show organic, sustainable and natural wines, which company offering to clients. All illustrations realized in "paper cut" style where main contour and color sketch was created in Illustrator, and after that was painted and finished in Photoshop.

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