Illustrated Pictures In Life

As a very important measure to transmit the visual impact or make thing attractive, illustrations have been used widely in many fields of design. Nowadays, different style of illustrations has come out to meet people's individual decoration demands on life. Based on the concept of illustration, the paper traces its origin, compares its developments in different countries and discusses the relationship between the normal painting and the illustrated paintings. Also it focuses on the analysis of illustration changes in the modern commercial economy and the specific characters of commercial illustrations and non-commercial ones.Illustration has been continually changing since it came out of books and began to be used in the real life. Therefore, another key point in this paper is to state the application of illustrations in the real studying working and entertainment areas and the huge effects on people's life as well.In the end, the paper analyzes the trend of illustration in the background of modern digital technology's highly development. It shows the advantages and disadvantages of digital illustration. Thanks to the support of digital technology,3D and dynamic illustrations will become much mature. Definitely, illustration will be much more popular by the internet and other drawing software and meanwhile more and more illustrated pictures could be enjoyed in our life.