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An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, [1] designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films. An illustration is typically created by an illustrator.
Book illustration as we now know it evolved from early European woodblock printing. In the early 15th century, playing cards were created using block printing, which was the first use of prints in a sequenced and logical order. "The first known European block printings with a communications function were devotional prints of saints."
An illustration from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1903) exemplifies the "Brandywine School" style.. The Brandywine School was a style of illustration—as well as an artists colony in Wilmington, Delaware and in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, near the Brandywine River—both founded by artist Howard Pyle (1853–1911) at the end of the 19th century. [1]
Aldo Capitanio - Italian comic book artist. Fernando Carcupino - Italian illustrator, painter and comic book artist. Edd Cartier - American pulp magazine illustrator. Glenn Chadbourne - American artist. Watson Charlton - British illustrator of children's books. Earle D. Chesney - American cartoonist.
Romanticism, symbolism. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: / ˈdɔːreɪ / DOR-ay, US: / dɔːˈreɪ / dor-AY, French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating ...
Its mission is to promote the art and appreciation of illustration and comics, as well as their history. The Society of Illustrators (SoI) is a professional society based in New York City. It was founded in 1901 to promote the art of illustration and, since 1959, has held an annual exhibition.
Botanical illustration. Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects depicted and are often found printed alongside a botanical description in books, magazines, and other media. Some are sold as artworks. [2]
Alice by Blanche McManus in 1899 Alice by Peter Newell in 1901 In 2010, artist David Revoy received the CG Choice Award for his digital painting "Alice in Wonderland".. There are more than 100 illustrators of English-language editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), with many other artists for non-English language editions.