Crossword clues for illustrator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illustrator \Il*lus"tra*tor\, n. [L.] One who illustrates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "one who enlightens," from illustrate + Latinate agent-noun suffix -or. Meaning "one who draws pictures" is 1680s.
Wiktionary
n. a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)
WordNet
n. an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.)
Wikipedia
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, which is the reason illustrations are often found in children's books.
Illustration is the art of making images that work with something and add to it without needing direct attention and without distracting from the thing they illustrate. The other thing is the focus of the attention, and the illustration's role is to add personality and character without competing with that other thing.
Illustrations have been used in advertisements, architectural rendering, greeting cards, posters, books, graphic novels, storyboards, manuals, business, magazines, shirts greeting cards, video games, tutorials and newspapers. A cartoon illustration can add humor to stories or essays.
Usage examples of "illustrator".
Other artists in the high tides of history have had kindred qualities, but coming close to our day, Elihu Vedder, the American, the illustrator of the Rubaiyat, found it a poem questioning all things, and his very illustrations answer in a certain fashion with winds of infinity, and bring the songs of Omar near to the Book of Job.
The modern state needs, for example, pamphlet-writers, poster artists, illustrators, broadcasters, lecturers, film producers, actors, song composers, even painters and sculptors, not to mention psychologists, sociologists, biochemists, mathematicians and what-not.
And there are a number of highly original writers and illustrators working in these fanzines, whose works probably would have much trouble getting published in the large magazines.
Edgar Rice Burroughs felt uncomfortable writing to the strict formula of this series, and so he asked his son John Coleman Burroughs, who was also the illustrator of the book, to collaborate with him in producing the story.
When before this, temerarious anticipators have written of the mighty buildings that might someday be, the illustrator has blended with the poor ineffectual splutter of the author's words, his powerful suggestion that it amounted simply to something bulbous, florid and fluent in the vein of the onion, and L'Art Nouveau.
Generations of illustrators, some of them claiming to be authorized by high spiritual powers, had shown horses climbing glass mountains with Prince Charmings on their backs.
He thought he would particularly like his illustrator to render the Dickensy, cockneyish quality of the, shabby-genteel balladseller of whom he stopped to ask his way to the street where Lindau lived, and whom he instantly perceived to be, with his stock in trade, the sufficient object of an entire study by himself.
A freelance illustrator and designer, she also works as the designer and Art Director of Aurealis, a magazine of Australian fantasy and science fiction.
An award-winning short story writer, best-selling novelist, illustrator, playwright, screenwriter and film director, after early success with plays like _The History of the Devil_, _Frankenstein in Love_, _Colossus_ and _The Secret Life of Cartoons_, he made an impressive debut as a horror writer in 1984 with the publication of the first three volumes of _Clive Barker's Books of Blood_.
I have also made use of the efforts of the new generation of illustrators, including Kenneth Carpenter, Margaret Colbert, Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas, John Gurche, Mark Hallett, Douglas Henderson, and William Stout, whose reconstructions incorporate the new perception of how dinosaurs behaved.
One of the other illustrators called out as Mac pulled his coat tightly about him.
Wyeth, and Pyle's influence continues to be seen today in the work of illustrators like William Joyce and Anthony Venti.
Cole look quite as bedraggled as he appeared before them on this Friday morning, but they had known him to be unshaven—and he was often dressed more in the manner of a college student, or a workingman, than in whatever fashion was customary among best-selling authors and illustrators of children’s books.
In terms of tools, most of Carl's work is in 3-D, using Max 4, character studio for animation, Deep Paint 3d for textures, Photoshop, Corel Xara for linework (less of a pain in the neck than Illustrator!