What is Illustration?



-- The message of this illustration (bottom) is the depiction of a spec opts soldier and his stressful outburst of his "job" of defeating a group of villainous acts.
-- This is an illustration based on a series of video games known as Metal Gear and the character in the picture is of Solid Snake. Every thing that is falling off of him at the bottom are various weapons and various mechs controlled by people doing the villainous acts.
-- The sender of this illustration Metal Gear Solid 4 (the game of which this picture is based on) and Konami, the publishers.
-- The intended audience for this illustration are the Metal Gear fans and/or just video game fans in general.
-- The purpose of this illustration is to advertise the game Metal Gear Solid 4 as a concept drawing before the game came out.
-- The communication objective of this illustration is that Snake is getting old and his battles are piling up and getting tougher for him.
-- The illustrator is Yoji Shinkawa who lives probably around Tokyo Midtown and what at Kojima Productions at Konami.
-- The medium of this illustration is probably digital photo of a 3D rendering all done on the computer.
-- I chose this illustration because it looked like a good one to write about. I found it interesting and I could see and feel message and context about this illustration.