Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch some leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage, and talk about books with The Times’s children’s ...

Anyone who isn't an illustrator, art director or simply a fan of illustration probably hasn't run across American Illustration, a behemoth tome that has been published annually for 30 years. The ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There's no escaping Dickens this year, it being the bicentenary of his birth. And along with Dickens come his illustrators: ...

David McConochie's elegant, suddenly terrifying work has won him the fifth annual Book Illustration Competition, a partnership between The Folio Society and House of Illustration. The entrants had to ...

If you’ve ever made a scrapbook or created a video mash-up, you probably didn’t realize you were practicing a 19th-century illustrative technique. Grangerizing, which became popular in the late 1700s, ...

What goes into the making of a picture book? In a new children’s book, This is How I Draw (Pratham Books), seven artists — ...

Illustrators and comic artists are communicators. Illustrators often use imagery to interpret texts or ideas, while comic artists use images and text together to tell a story. Whether you are just ...

We’ve all heard of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach – and the man that wrote the stories. But who is the man behind the illustrations in Roald Dahl’s classic ...