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Traditional illustration techniques include

watercolor, pen and ink, airbrush art, oil painting,

pastels, wood engraving, and linoleum cuts.

Techniques

Alan Lee ~ “the Petty Dwarves”

Various illustration techniques have been available to the artist over the centuries. The invention of paper pushed its boundaries even further. Traditional illustration focuses on reproducible ways of creating illustration and can be classified into different types:

°Engraving °Etching °Intaglio °Linocut °Pen-and-Ink °Sumi-E °Woodcut

Albrecht Dürer ~ “the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”

Most of the scientific illustrations and technical

illustrations are also known as information

graphics. Among the information graphics

specialists are medical illustrators who illustrate

human anatomy, often requiring many years of

artistic and medical training.

“Deconstruction of the Forearm” ~ Govard Bidloo

The American "golden age of illustration" lasted from the 1880s until shortly after World War I.

As in Europe a few decades earlier, newspapers, mass market magazines, and illustrated books had become the dominant media of public consumption.

Improvements in printing technology freed illustrators to experiment with color and new rendering techniques.

Norman Rockwell ~ “The Tattoo Artist”