John Van Hamersveld

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

American Artist

Berlie Doherty

I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!

English Novelist

Norman Rockwell

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Brian Wildsmith

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

English Artist

Alexa Hirschfeld

I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But every time I would try to sit down and be an illustrator or painter, it was just not my best use.

American Businesswoman

Eric Carle

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

American Author

Roddy Ricch

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.

American Musician

Brian Selznick

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

John Kricfalusi

Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

Canadian Artist

Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

German Designer

An illustrator often tells a story through their artwork, complementing or highlighting the text.

Visual Storyteller

Illustrators work in various media, not limited to books, including apps, video games, and animation.

Not Just Books

Each illustrator has a unique style; some are known for cartoons, others for realism.

Distinct Styles

When talking about computing, 'illustrator' typically refers to Adobe Illustrator, a common design program.

Specific Software

Unlike Photoshop, Illustrator is geared towards creating drawings and illustrations, not editing photos.

Not Photo Editing

Illustrator is known for vector graphics, which can be scaled without losing quality.

Vector Graphics

 Yet there's something fascinating happening right now. Artists are breaking anatomy out of the confines of the medical world and are thrusting it into the public space. For the past nine years, I have been cataloguing and sharing this rise in anatomical art with the public -- all from my perspective as a medical illustrator.

The spellbinding art of...

 where there's an anthropic ideal, where you see that life had to evolve from the numbers that describe the universe -- these are things that are really difficult to understand. And what I've tried to do since I had my training as a medical illustrator -- since I was taught animation by my father,

David Bolinsky:...

 using charts and stats, this could get pretty boring. Instead, just like when writing an essay to describe, for example, emotions, illustrators can use visual metaphors to bring to life difficult concepts. Just as a written metaphor is a description that relates one object to another,

Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...

 despite the fact that I was kind of largely ignored or humiliated, but it was actually fun going to the openings, so I decided that I wanted to get the people in my office who had worked on these projects, get the illustrators and photographers, and I said, why don't we rent a van

How to design a library...

 Alright. So I call myself an illustrator and a graphic journalist. I draw, I tell stories. I spend time with people looking and listening. And I take the words of the people that I speak with and I put it together with drawings that I do, mostly from life,

Wendy MacNaughton: The...

 and all-around theatre guy and he was a self-taught illustrator and musician he didn't read a note and he was profoundly hearing-impaired yet he was my greatest teacher because even through the squeaks of his hearing aids his understanding of

Music and emotion...

 and he was a self-taught illustrator and musician. He didn't read a note, and he was profoundly hearing impaired. Yet, he was my greatest teacher. Because even through the squeaks of his hearing aids, his understanding of music was profound.

Michael Tilson Thomas:...

 illustrator and over the years I always drew when I traveled one of the most important things for me when I do these trips is not to have any preconceived notions you come there and of course I feel the creative pressure to create a

Go Behind The Scenes...

 I try to do something in it or with it or for it. I also make drawings to help people understand things. Things that I want them to believe I understand. And that's what I do as an illustrator, that's my job.

David Macaulay: All...

 Besides these unexpected and touching reactions, Humanae finds a new life in a different variety of fields. Just to show you some examples, illustrators and art students