depiction made by an artist


A fashion illustration



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Arthur Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve. Described as an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue.
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration. - David Bailey.
Laocoon: A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents... - Ambrose Bierce.
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. - Richard Dawkins.
Even if you can't draw, do a little w:Doodledoodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea to life. - John Emmerling
  • It was a great day for illustration when, in 1999, Quentin Blake became the first children's laureate. Illustrator of about 300 books and former head of illustration at the Royal College of Art, he was able to focus attention on an art form that seldom gets the celebration it deserves.
    • Joanna Carey in "Dances with frogs".

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Painting of a bison in the cave of Altamira - Illustration has always been an important visual communication medium for humans. The origin of illustration can be found in the w:Paleolithic period Paleolithic period (30,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C.). The scave paintings from this period display mostly large wild animals and tracings of human hands. Drawings of humans are rare and are usually schematic rather than the more naturalistic drawings of animals. - Ivan Viola and Meister E. Gröller
  • The aim of illustration is to generate expressive images that effectively convey certain information via the visual channel to the human observer. Additionally, illustrators and visual artists in general create images that follow principles of visual harmony such as color combinations, scene composition, contrast, dynamics or other aesthetical aspects.
    • Ivan Viola and Meister E. Gröller in: "Smart Visibility in Visualization: Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging".
  • Illustration techniques such as cut-aways or exploded views are realized in scientific visualization through Smart Visibility Techniques...Expressive visualizations inspired by illustration techniques are useful for various visualization tasks.
  • An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. - T. D. Jakes.
  • Illustration from the late-1900s up through the middle of the 20th century was absolutely amazing. In general, American culture was at its highest skill wise in every aspect of human life in the 1940s. It’s all been downhill since then. You just open an old magazine from the 1930s and ’40s and look at the illustrations in it. There’s nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

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Grand Canyon poster (1938) - The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. - John Wesley Powell. - Norman Rockwell.

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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person. - Marilyn vos Savant.
My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized fat books with wonderful type and illustrations. - Anita Shreve.

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