This study is to research and analyze the presentational characteristics of analog illustration and digital illustration separately. Being important method in communication, Illustration has not been systematized as independent study. Learning illustration theory academically is not enough. Since the history of illustration has not been established, analyzing the illustration from various perspectives is most important. Therefore, in this study, I separate illustration into two parts analog using variety of material and digital using computers and look over the representational characteristics.
Like hand drawing in analog illustration, it converts digital’s cold and solid touch into warm and soft and makes a user feel friendlier. The feature is to make a user feel sensibilities which are classified with reality using various materials with useful illustration.
By adding advantages of computer graphic, digital expends the domain of expression producing difficult situations in photographic with ease and precision which is a difficulty in handwork. We now could insert and delete variety of complicate and complex images very quickly, and the illustration makes it possible the natural expressions like new types, colors, texture, transparency, relocation, resizing, rotation, and perspective presentation. It is also economical since there is no material cost and also convenient in communication between a human and a machine. Also, well-organized color and line expression of digital illustration is even felt cold when it isn’t in analog.
As becoming digitalized makes us miss analog, both illustrations produce many different ways of expression as one without identifying each illustration. Digital and analog illustrations suppose to head toward to becoming analog-like digital or digital-like analog as coexistence not an opposition.