The Study and Application of Comic-Styled Illustrations Based on Works of a Picture Books Illustrator—Jean- jacques Semp?

[[abstract]]Beacuse of the new generation's reading habits transformed, modern societies thus demand for visual images, and the readers of picture books expand from children to adults. The picture books originated on Europe,spread and gone down well with the Asian.Just as ”Jimmy’s picture books” are popular In Taiwan, Jean-Jacques Semp?’s picture books for adults are best known in his native France and Europe. Jean-Jacques Semp?, the French humorous illustrator,is one of the most successful cartoonists in the world, best known for his picture books and Comic-Style illustrations,such as the “Le petit Nicolas”,”Marcellin Cailou”and“Raoul Tabourin”series. Semp? has published numerous collections and more than 30 picture books of his work in his native France.Those books had been translated into several languages and expanded to the overseas market. The literature analysis and image analysis are used in this study to discuss works of Semp? ‘s 11 picture books for adults that have been translated into Chinese. The creation means employed the computer graphic and the personal-specialized hand-drawing to creat the Comic-Styled and Semp?-Styled Illustrations base on the researcher’s life experience.The conclusions of this study are as follows: First, the Comic-Style is the pop and mainstream illustration style of the picture books for adults in the contemporary era. The creative origins are from human affairs in ordinary life. Second, combing the integrated and visual deduction with the expression forms analysis of the works is a good way to describe a illustrator's style completely. Three, the “Visual Symbol” is the key factor toward the establishment of a illustrator’s personal style. IV. Semp? 's illustrations are uniform in style. Their characteristics are as follows: the visual features and inner content are Comic-Style,the scene focuses on realism mixed with expressionism, utilizing the surreal expression makes the space with a dreamy atmosphere,and the “visual symbols” of his illustratons show the people living in French cities and human affairs in ordinary life. Semp? usually drawn from a distant or high viewpoint depicting detailed countrysides or cities.He is a calm, humorous and warm cartoonist who cares about unimportant persons. At last,the superiority of computer graphic integrating hand-drawing touch will promote the diversity, utilization and development in illustration creation.