A graphic artist who specializes in drawing and sketching is known as Illustrators. They provide a visual representation of a particular content. The primary intention of this illustration is to clarify the complicated concept of a text otherwise difficult to describe. Another utility of the illustration is simple entertainment. With the advent of computers, illustration has reached to a whole new dimension.
There are different types of Illustrators such as greeting card illustrators, book illustrators, magazine illustrators and digital illustrators. The digital illustrators are the artists who draw and sketch images for websites and other web related works and also for animation films.
There are two separate techniques followed by the Illustrators.
- Images can be drawn directly on the computer with the help of a number of software specially designed for digital illustrations. Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Macromedia Freehand are some of the most popular software used by the Illustrators.
- Sometimes the Illustrators draw on paper which is later on is scanned and transferred into digital images.
Digital Illustrators have a major contribution towards the development of the entire web designing industry as well as the huge world of animation. Cartoonists are considered to be the most popular Illustrators of all time. The Illustrators are also known as image makers.
. It is the Illustrators who create all fascinating characters starting from the viscous dragon to the sweet and beautiful princess trapped in the high towers. With the increasing popularity of animated films the Illustrator’s are now concentrating more and more on this specific field.