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Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith.

History

Early history

cave paintings. books were hand-illustrated ,before the invention of the printing press . In China and Japan since the 8th century,Illustration has been used traditionally by creating woodcuts to acccompany writing.

15th century through 18th century

During the 15th century, books illustrated with woodcut illustrations became available. engraving and etchingwere the main processes used for reproduction of illustrations during the 16th and 17th centuries were . lithographyat the end of the 18th century, allowed even better illustrations to be reproduced. William Blake

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Illustration by Santiago Martinez Delgado.

Early to mid 19th century

In the early 19th century the proliferation of popular journals, which often serialised novels for mass-circulation, produced a boom in popular illustration. John Leech, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (Charles Dickens illustrator) Honoré Daumier.,France

Cruikshank's Comic Almanac (1827-1840) Punch,the British humorous magazine which was founded in 1841 Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers Georges du Maurier Le Voleur,Paris

Golden age of illustration

1880 bis 1920 The American "golden age of illustration"

Gustave Doré. the Pre-Raphaelite Arts and Crafts Movement handwerk-und design-orientert. Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane Kay Nielsen representatives of this style, which often carried an ethos of neo-mediævalism and took mythological and fairy-tale subjects. Beatrix Potterin contrast, based her colored children's illustrations on accurate naturalistic observation of animal-life.

Aubrey Beardsley Art Nouveau Les Nabis. American illustration of this period was anchored by the Brandywine Valley tradition: Howard Pyle and his students N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Jesse Willcox Smith Frank Schoonover.

Latin America movement by by Santiago Martinez Delgado who worked in the 1930s for Esquire Magazine while an art student in Chicago, and later in his native Colombia with the Vida Magazine, Martinez worked in the Art Deco style.

Arthur Wraggthe British freelance illustrator in the 1930s the influence of propaganda art and expressionism

Post World War II period

Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Pop album cover in the 1970s, often based on airbrush techniques.

The 1950s and 1960s were another Golden Age of Illustration Illustrations appeared in magazines, on billboards, on magazine covers and on television. Norman Rockwell, Harry Anderson, Charles Kerins,

Today

Starting in the 1990s, traditional illustrators using computer software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and CorelDRAW. The use of Wacom tablets and similar apparatus also increased the ability of drawing and painting directly in a computer. Fine art and commercial art in a world where illustration, graphic design, typography, and photography work together. Illustrations are a significant factor in industries such as video games, movies, animation, advertising and publishing.

Illustration art

Today, there is a growing interest in collecting and admiring original artwork that was used as illustrations in books, magazines, posters, etc. Various museum exhibitions, magazines and art galleries have devoted space to the illustrators of the past.

In the visual art world, illustrators have sometimes been considered less important in comparison with fine artists and graphic designers. But as the result of computer game and comic industry growth, illustrations are becoming valued as popular and profitable art works that can acquire a wider market than the other two, especially in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and USA.