The shape of the main Jinghu on the back of the 2022 Lunar New Year coin adopts the expression of decorative graphics combined with realistic forms. In the construction of artistic language, the designers integrate the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art with the decorative elements of new year paintings. The hair on the tiger's body adopts the round, pointed and square treatment methods commonly used in paper-cutting techniques, "lacking as jagged teeth" and "sharp as wheat mang", depicting a concise generalization, rich and changeable form, giving people a sense of rhythmic rhythm.
The overall decorative elements of the tiger's shape are used abundantly. In the depiction of local hairs on the cheeks, ears and limbs of the tiger, the traditional cloud pattern is used instead of the decorative pattern of the serrated pattern. The cloud pattern is a symbol of auspiciousness and auspiciousness, rich and righteous symbols with unique oriental charm, and has the morphological characteristics of virtual reality and clusters of fur. The use of cloud decoration brings a more dynamic and funny artistic mood to the tiger shape, as if the hair rises with the leaping momentum of the tiger's body, which is vivid and flexible. The tiger leg section uses a partial decorative pine cone graphic that echoes the pine branch elements above the coin face. The combination of pine cones and pine needles is symmetrical and balanced, and harmoniously unified with the technique language of the overall traditional ornamentation, becoming an interesting local modeling creativity.
In terms of the overall posture of the tiger, the objective natural form of the moment when the tiger wants to jump up is selected. The tiger fixed its eyes on the flower lamp above, its chest was low, its forelimbs were pressed down, and its tail was raised high, as if it was going to jump up to play with the flower lantern in the next second. The gesture design shows a schematic language from static to dynamic moments, ready to jump, moving and statically forming a lead close to the climax, constituting a visual space with dramatic plot expression.
Designer design idea process manuscript
Shape-specific, it is another important formal feature of the tiger's shape. The tiger body as a whole is in a semi-arc form, the tiger's tail curls upwards, the tiger's claws are thick and powerful, and the contour of the tiger body is interlocked with the circular system of the commemorative coin on the composition, reflecting the visual effect that runs through the overall picture, and the language expression of the overall picture is enhanced, which weakens the sense of isolation of the individual animal as the main body of the picture, and the shape and intention reach a high degree of unity.
Excerpt from Chinese banknote printing and coinage