Memories Book (Fighting Cancer)
Who is the person who made this picture? What feelings did she have? What is her opinion on the matter? Does she relate to the topics she illustrated? How? What is her intellectual possession or qualities?
All this and more can be reflected in a single picture. Illustrators are media people, they work in message delivery. The message however has to be individual. It has to reflect the person who created it. Maybe she experienced something what others haven’t had a chance to yet. Or maybe she has something to tell and the greatest thing to do is to share the story. She doesn’t have to use words. She can use pictures to start a conversation.
Every person has a number of valuable thoughts and experiences, sure, illustrators have them too. They have also been given a chance to speak aloud using advertising and publishing worlds as mediums for impact. It would be a shame not to use such opportunity and extraordinary potential. In popular terms visual art is another form of social entrepreneurship and visual journalism that uses communication of emotional level.
Personal value of the illustration can cause that you’ll be starring at the picture for hours with no need to read accompanying text. And you will always return to it for the strength of the message that the picture sent you. Imagine powerful personality illustrations to communicate through world-selling publications. They can both be emotionally and intellectually distinct, they stand out from the crowd of meaningless plainly entertaining or decorative visuals. They engage with the audience in the same way the singer does with a song.
Of course it increases the requirement for illustrators to be fully active in the happenings and knowledge flow around them. It needs them to care, be informed and interested, which means to grow and learn on a wider level. Illustration is aesthetics, illustration is technical execution and craft, but illustration is also a meaning, in which illustrators transform what they see through own perspective and pitch it to a discussion.
Such illustration is matchless. Such illustration is individual. And there’s no other on this planet who can create the same because it’s unique to the creator. Only her. Her – him, it matters.
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