The Six Arts of Gentlemen 插画 by Zhang Yuqi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.
铜平面· 2025
The Six Arts of Gentlemen 插画
by Zhang Yuqi
Client: Northeastern University of China
A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 平面 Category
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The Design
About The Six Arts of Gentlemen 插画
《君子六艺》是一组以中国古代六艺——礼、乐、射、御、书、数为主题的插画系列。作品以新中式风格描绘人物形象,呈现这些传统教育科目的内涵与风貌。创作过程使用数字绘画软件完成,运用画笔、喷枪及渐变等工具表现光影与质感,并在细节表情与眼神刻画上融入传统图案元素,旨在将传统文化与数字艺术相连接。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铜奖
The Six Arts of Gentlemen 插画是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计The Six Arts of Gentlemen 插画将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。The Six Arts of Gentlemen 插画出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- From the aspect of cultural heritage and cultural innovation, it deeply excavates the six arts of traditional Chinese culture, presents the educational culture of the six arts with specific and innovative design, and closely integrates with modern characteristics, so that traditional culture radiates new vitality in the context of the new era, and promotes the integration and development of digital art and traditional culture.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 3600 pixels Depth 3600 pixels
- Tags
- Illustration, Traditional, six arts, Culture, China
- Production Technology
- Decide on a theme and style, gather footage and sketch it, open a drawing software such as Photoshop to draw a line drawing, then lay out the base color and gradually paint the details, and add light, shadow, texture and other details to optimize the color.
- Design Challenge
- The new Chinese illustration style is a dialogue between tradition and modernity, integrating modern design concepts and expression techniques on the basis of retaining traditional painting skills and aesthetic taste. Outline the IP image with delicate lines. Combined with the composition principles of modern graphic design, the IP image is not only rich in traditional cultural heritage, but also meets the aesthetic needs of contemporary people.
- Research
- The six ancient arts of ritual, music, archery, car, calligraphy and mathematics carry the cultural genes and spiritual core of the Chinese nation. They not only build a solid framework for traditional education, but also have a profound impact on the development of Chinese society. The design is based on the admiration and inheritance of this rich cultural heritage.
- Inspiration
- The six major arts of ancient China, rituals, music, archery, chariot skills, calligraphy, and mathematics. It carries the cultural genes and spiritual essence of the Chinese nation and has profoundly influenced the development of Chinese society. This illustration is based on the admiration and inheritance of this rich cultural heritage.
- Project Duration
- Launching in China in 2024.
- Operation Flow
- Use the photoshop tool to sketch on a new layer to determine the silhouette, pose, and composition of the characters. Use the brush tool to sketch along the pattern and adjust the brush parameters to express line variations. and use brushes, airbrushes, and gradient tools for transition rendering to render light, shadows, and textures. Add traditional graphic footage to the appropriate location to depict details such as expressions and eyes.
- Patents
- Zhang Yuqi.2024
- Team Members
- Zhang Yuqi
- Image Credits
- Image #1 Illustration Zhang Yuqi 2024.
Image #2 Illustration Zhang Yuqi 2024.
Image #3 Illustration Zhang Yuqi 2024.
Image #4 Illustration Zhang Yuqi 2024.
Image #5 Illustration Zhang Yuqi 2024.
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