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Exploring the World of Illustration

This quiz explores various aspects of illustration techniques, the role of illustrators, and their impact on different media.

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1 Traditional illustration techniques include watercolor, pen and ink, ________ art, oil painting, pastels, wood engraving and linoleum cuts.

2 An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing ________ by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text.

3 Computers dramatically changed the industry, and today many cartoonists and illustrators create digital illustrations using computers, ________, and scanners.

4 A particularly popular medium with illustrators of the 1950s and 1960s was casein, as was egg ________.

5 Most of the scientific illustrations and technical illustrations are also known as ________.

6 Many illustrators are ________, commissioned by publishers (of newspapers, books or magazines) or advertising agencies.

7 A cartoon illustration can add additional humor to humorous essays; in this regard, Richard Thompson's past cartoon illustrations for articles in ________ are notable.

8 Illustrations have been used in ________, greeting cards, posters, books, magazines and newspapers.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Gustaf Tenggren was a chief illustrator at the Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (pictured), Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.
  • Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
  • New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured), an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century.
  • Under the Window (pictured), published in 1879, launched Kate Greenaway's career as a prominent Victorian children's book illustrator.
  • the artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth (pictured) was the grandfather of Howard Wyeth, the stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan.
  • during World War II, the Czech comics illustrator Kája Saudek was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.
  • American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale.
  • Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne.
  • children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred.
  • motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo.
  • children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books.
  • Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II.
  • political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon.
  • author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008.
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