8th Grade Illustration Unit

An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, which is the reason illustrations are often found in children's books.[1]
Illustrations have been used in advertisements, architectural rendering, greeting cards, posters, books, graphic novels, storyboards, manuals, business, magazines, shirts greeting cards, video games and newspapers (comics section, or political cartoons) etc..


Websites that share well known illustrators:


Some of my favorite illustrators:


Quentin Blake


willy wonka quentin blake
http://showbizgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-16-at-12.09.37.png
Barbara Cooneyhttp://www.carlemuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/530.jpg


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Charlotte Hardy
http://thejelly.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ch3.jpg
Dinara Mirtalipova
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Jim Davis

My brother’s favorite:

Calvin and Hobbes

Creator: Bill Watterson



Some Comic Book Illustrators:
Phil Hester
Jim Lee
Neal Adams


Darwin Cook


More Comic Book illustrators: Jack Kirby, Alex Ross, David Aja, Frank Miller.

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  1. Lovely illustrations especially the four first Illustrators

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