This research of work attempted a different way of expression for a picture book illustrator, by designing ornaments with picture book illustration materials based on the story written by myself.
In addition to children's picture books, many picture...
This research of work attempted a different way of expression for a picture book illustrator, by designing ornaments with picture book illustration materials based on the story written by myself.
In addition to children's picture books, many picture books targeting adults are now being published as well. Unlike the past, picture books do not have separate reader targets, meaning that picture books' influence is tremendous. In order to deepen the readers' understanding and interest, picture books use diverse materials for familiar and new illustrations, and they can be said to be the repository of visual imagination and creativity. I decided to make new attempts in regard to picture book's expression of illustration. This study began in order to allow picture book illustrations to play the role of ornaments in addition to illustrations, and to take the illustration outside of a picture book through a person wearing such ornaments and make them communicate with the world. Therefore, illustrations mentioned in this writing refer to designing characters of protagonists and friends in my story and designing ornaments from them. In regard to materials and color expressions, metals, Ottchill lacquer and cloisonne were used for diverse visual effects and textures. Also, formats and expression methods of the characters were slightly modified to draw the joy of discovering protagonists and friends. Ornaments, which are illustrations of a picture book, were designed to have proper size and light weight by considering stability and practicality when wearing them. Through such results, it was shown that the ornaments designed with metal and Ottchill lacquer can serve as illustration materials. Through this, the potential to expand the range of application with diverse roles of ornaments is suggested, in addition to expanding the functional domain possessed by ornaments. Also, it is expected that designing ornaments for picture book illustration materials can serve as unconventional examples for those designing picture book illustrations, and that such picture books can provide lots of imagination and inspiration to the readers.