book illustration
Picture in text
Book illustration is artwork created to accompany and illuminate written text.
Illustrations may appear on covers, frontispieces, or throughout the pages, ranging from decorative embellishments to full-page images that interpret scenes or concepts.
The term covers both the art form and individual instances: The book illustrations were done in watercolor.
Children's books often feature illustration as prominently as text.
- woodcutRelief print from timber
- children's booksLiterature for young readers
- chapter headingName introducing a division
- color platePrinted illustration in publication
- line drawingImage using strokes only
etching · engraving · illuminated manuscripts · graphic novels · lithography · fantasy art · watercolor painting · gold leaf · stippling · ink · pen-and-ink · poetry collections · instructional manuals · comic strips · cookbooks · collage · charcoal · scientific diagrams
- Literary Artillustrators, visual storytelling, narrative art, fairy tale art, illuminated manuscripts
- graphic artsgraphic design, sketch, print, typography, printmaking
- illustrationpainting, drawing, watercolor, sketch, charcoal
- illustrated bookspicture books, storybook art, graphic novels, frontispiece, chapter headers
- visual storytellingcomic strip, graphic novel, manga, storyboard, webcomic
- illustration stylesilluminated manuscripts, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithography
book illustrationprose
Unversified language
text · body text · body copy · manuscript · letterpress
book illustrationanimation
Technique creating movement illusion
film footage · motion graphics · sculpture · interactive graphics · three-dimensional art