The collision of the Nobel Prize classic and the picture book, the beautiful picture book version of "Rats"

In December 1962, a work that composed the sorrows of the little man's era won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This novel has not only become a classic literature, but also has been adapted into drama many times. It has moved on the "Broadway" stage. It has also been remake into movies several times, which is widely loved by the public.

It is the masterpiece of John Stanback, "Rats".

The story takes place in a corner of California:

The smart and tall George Milton and the silly big head of Lenni Smo Waves are between various farms, hoping to find a place where they belong to them.

But how easy is this wish, whether in the United States in the 1930s, or now.

At that time, the United States was experiencing a serious economic crisis. A large number of farmers took their families to bring their families to various farmers in the west to seek survival. People's confusion, disappointment, hesitation, and loneliness swept away without unprecedentedly, as George said in the book:

"People who work zero in the farm like us are the most lonely people in the world. They have no family members, nor do they belong to any place. They go to a farm, do some money to work, and then enter the city. It was spent. Before you returned to God, they went to another farm and worked hard. Their life did not run at all. "

But the protagonists do not agree with such fate, they think they are different:

"We are different. We have a good future. Some of us speak and some people care about. We will not gamble in the bar because there are no places to go. If it is rotten, no one will care about it. But we are different. "

They thought about their heaven, there was a house, a few acres of land, a cow, some pigs, and the rabbits that Lenny liked.

If the circus is up to the town, they can watch it, because everything is them, and no one can fire them.

But things did not develop in a good direction. Stanback used the "downward" structure to make this story full of affection and helplessness.

Just as the title of the book is: "If you are a man, the rats, and the most wishful arrangements can not help but cause accidents." The little people are struggling with the edge of life, and their desires and expectations for life are often like a dream.

Such a story about promise, loneliness, hope, and loss has attracted countless people and also attracted French picture books to Hai Beika Dome.

Looking back at the past works of Haibeica, whether it is "Little Lovers", "Forgotten Princess", "Diary of the Thumb Boys" or "Alice's Wandering Wonderland", it has a hint of children's perspective, full of tenderness. This time, Hai Beika turned his attention to the literary works of adults, re -interpreting this classic novel- "Rat" with her talents and hard work.

She is ambitious to turn the story into a picture book, as she said:

"I want to retain the integrity of the original text, and at the same time, I also want to ensure that the image presents a higher dimension when respecting the text."

Therefore, she spent hundreds of days and nights in the studio, and finally tailored this beautiful picture book, known as the "visual miracle".

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2020 French beautiful picture book

Since 2019, it lasted more than a year, and Hai Beika created a total of 400 pages of pictures to interpret this story.

In 2020, the picture book version of "Rats" was sold out of France and was called "the most beautiful picture book in France in 2020".

"Rats" is a short and exquisite literary work. Haibeica will focus more on the image design of text information.

Haibeica's painting is not a picture next to the text. Stanback's text is not just the auxiliary description of the image, but the two artistic techniques wantonly integrate and achieve each other, restore a more intuitive and three -dimensional story dimension.

Haibeica first designed a large number of character groups that are extremely in line with character characteristics and identity occupations:

Lenny's dullness, George's savvy, Slim's calmness, Kandy and Crux can be reflected in their facial expressions, motion posture and details of their respective facial expressions because of disability and skin tone.

The shaping of the characters with full soul not only allows the character to be vivid, but also allows readers to easily identify during the reading process.

In terms of scene design, Hai Beika restores a texture of the Western World in the 1930s in the 1930s:

I ca n’t look at the farm, the rude dormitory, the retro old car, and the numb working crowd.

In addition, the scene design of this book adopts a micro -perspective and macro perspective.

The macro panorama sets the story space for readers in the mind, while a large number of micro close -ups tell the traces of the protagonist more detailed.

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A variety of painting styles and multiple painting materials

Open "Rats", you will find that in this picture book, Hai Beika's style of painting seems different as before.

In order to draw this story, Haibeica jumped out of his comfort zone.

In addition to using the delicate and realistic style she is good at, she also created many new expression methods according to the needs of the plot.

Among them, the more prominent one is "sketching style". In this picture book, the sketch with a strong sense of lines accounts for a large proportion:

Some only retain the "draft", some are combined with sketching and light color, and some of them have only meticulous coloring in the local area. They seem to "draw half".

Relying on the simple lines, it outlines the powerful shape, which is quite skillful.

And this design is also in line with the protagonist as a physical living worker, and shows the rough living conditions of farm workers in the atmosphere.

In the book, Haibeica also interspersed a lot of cross -page illustrations that combine the 20th century American poster style, such as street posters, advertisements, graffiti, etc.

By re -engraving the popular style of the time, bring readers to the United States in the 1930s.

In addition, there are many children's "messy paintings" in the book.

These graffiti colors are gorgeous and bright, and they usually appear when they think about it. This naive graffiti style is very close to the style of painting that Lenny will have.

Looking at this book will find that it seems that the creation of Hai Beika with "illustration" or "picture book" is not appropriate.

This book is more like a stage drama on paper.

In the interview, Haibeica also mentioned that when creating, she often imagined herself as a stage director and gave these characters more three -dimensional vitality.

The switching connection of different scenes and the depiction of a large number of continuous actions makes it feel like watching this book when reading this book.

The long -segment dialogue in the book chooses to interact with the interaction between the two sides in the dialogue, like a fixed long shot in the movie.

Some exaggerated and dramatic expressions, such as expressions, proportions, and even lines of processing, make the picture quite tension.

On the basis of loyal original work, Hai Beika also expanded with a lot of pictures in combination with its own understanding.

She fascinized the fantasy, and the fusion of reality, which not only filled the gaps of Stan Beck's text, but also gave the story more meaningful through symbolic expression.

This book's rich painting expression is inseparable from rich painting materials.

In addition to conventional painting tools such as color lead, watercolor, and color powder, Hai Beika also tried some less common techniques:

For example, using coffee stains to make the picture appear "old", or use the fabric to brush the color and print on the paper to create special patterns, as well as subtle sketches, collages, graffiti, etc., all give this rich reading level.

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The Chinese version of the cover is the group portrait of the main characters in the book, and it also uses the iconic "sketching style" of this book.

In addition, the Chinese version customizes the exclusive gift box. The cover of the gift box uses the cover design of the original hard hardcover.

The main body on the front and back is the realistic George and Lenny face, respectively. The dark background is the fantasy sketch of the protagonist's life.

The spine is part of the red lily cotton cotton, and the 140g white leather paper is seal in the splicing.

The thickness of more than 400 pages is detailed.

The lock -up hardcover design allows us to enjoy it at 180 ° when reading.

In the text, 128G dumb powder paper is selected in the text.

The Chinese version also specially produced 2 retro posters with the book.

Through the imitation and metaphors between humans and rats, the bottom -level small figures in the book are struggling to survive on the edge of survival and between human and rats.

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