Graphics vs Illustration

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Graphics:
Graphics design deals with images and colors to communicate with a specific audience.
Graphics have more commercial use. Basic elements of graphics design include line, color,
shape, texture etc. It also deals with advertising and marketing. Graphics also use typography
Illustration:
Illustrations deals with vector graphics. It is used in books, teaching purposes, magazine
covers etc. Illustration does not include raster images. It is just a visual representation of text.
Illustration style creates digital images made up of lines and curves in a two-dimensional or
three-dimensional space.

Famous Illustrators:
• Colin Elgie:

Colin Elgie is an English illustrator and former member of Hipgnosis. He has worked with
progressive rock bands and musicians such as Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Black Sabbath, Led
Zeppelin, Renaissance, Genesis, Fumble, Peter Gabriel, Roger Cook, Al Stewart, and
Roger Taylor.

• Maurice Bernard Sendak:

Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became
widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963.

• Michael Kingsbury Frith:

Frith was born in Bermuda and educated at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1963. He
and Christopher Cerf co-wrote Alligator, the 1962 Harvard Lampoon parody of James Bond novels.
Later he illustrated the front cover of Bored of the Rings, the 1969 Lampoon parody of The Lord of
the Rings.

• Clive Barker:
Barker's paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries in the United States as well as
within his own books. He has created original characters and series for comic books, and some of his
more popular horror stories have been featured in ongoing comics series.
• David Murray Pilkey Jr:

David Murray Pilkey Jr is an American cartoonist, author and illustrator of children's

literature. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series
Captain Underpants, and the children's graphic novel series Dog Man.

David Murray Pilkey Jr Biography:

Pilkey was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 4, 1966, to Barbara and David Pilkey Sr. He
has one older sister. Pilkey was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
and dyslexia as a child. In elementary school in North Ridgeville, Ohio, Pilkey was
frequently reprimanded for his behavior in class and thus usually sat at a desk in the
school hallway, where he created the Captain Underpants character. Pilkey entered his
first book, World War Won, in a national competition for student authors and won in his
age category. The book's publication in 1987 was included in the award.

The atypical spelling of his first name came when the "e" in "Dave" was left off his name
tag while working at Pizza Hut.

Pilkey graduated from Kent State University. He married Sayuri Pilkey in 2005.
Illustrations of Pilkey are as follows: