An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazin
Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935)
"Illustration beats explanation" Western Engraving & Colortype Co. (1916)
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake (1786)
An engraving by Georgius Agricola or Georg Bauer (1494–1555), illustrating the mining practice of fire-setting
Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to create a drawing include p
Illustration
…via Old French from Latin illustratio(n-), from the verb illustrare. Contemporary illustration uses a wide range of styles and techniques, including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, montage, digital design, multimedia, 3D modelling. Depending on the purpose, illustration may be expressive, stylised…
Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1485, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897
Galileo Galilei, Phases of the Moon, 1609 or 1610, brown ink and wash on paper, 208 × 142 mm., National Central Library (Florence), Gal. 48, fol. 28r
Antoine Watteau, trois crayons technique