ITAP- What is illustration?

Audience

How an audience is important

An audience is a case study, it gives you something to work with and work for. Its important that an illustrator understands the audience he or she may be working with. This will help them end up with a more relevant idea to that particular audience. Knowing your audience will allow you to heighten the level of communication you are focusing on and for an illustrator it is crucial to have strong communication skills. Illustration is to get a message across to someone and tell somebody something in a visual way. Depending on the audience the way something is produced can differ in many ways, for example;

 This is an image of the front of a book and you can straight away see that it at aimed at children before you even read the title. You wouldn’t use this style of illustration on the cover of a book for an older audience, as it wouldn’t appeal to them much. It is designed to stand out to children, as that was the target audience. Children were the case study.

Inspiration

How are illustrators inspired?

Inspiration can be triggered off by pretty much anything, anywhere, and for an illustrator; this is the key thing to their creativeness.

Illustrators can find their inspiration from almost anywhere, whether it be from there own artistic imagination or something they have visually seen around them, anywhere they go. This is why you may see illustrators carrying around sketchbooks or notepads. This is so while they are observing what’s going on around them, if they see something which sparks off an idea they can simply draw, note down and record it there and then, so later on, they can come back to the idea and experiment with that they have collected. People and places can be important aspects to be inspired from too, especially children. Children tend to be a lot more open to their imagination, the younger the mind the stronger the imagination. This can bring the artist to think in a more immature way to allow them to be more creative within their work, especially those of children’s book illustrators.

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