The Illustration Departmentさんのイラストまとめ

❝It's just so important that time that parents spend with their children just reading a book. Magic.❞

—Helen Gillian Oxenbury, born on this day, June 2, in 1938

During World War I, this captain contributed his artistic abilities to the U.S. war effort. His focus, however, was on exposing the cost of “winning” a war.

This is our #MemorialDay #ArtHistory post on Harry Everett Townsend. https://t.co/cwELtqAh5i

This artist was born in North Dakota; she trained soldiers in intelligence during WWII; and, she worked prolifically during the 1950’s and ’60’s.

Very little else is publicly known about this illustrator.

This is our #arthistory post on Frances Eckart. https://t.co/qmdxTOeuVU

This illustrator inspired George Lucas’s vision for #StarWars.

There’s Tatooine in his “Arizona”.
Naboo in “Romance”.
Cloud City in “Dinky Bird”.

This is our #MayThe4th #arthistory post on Maxfield Parrish. https://t.co/bfRGxC3Tv4 #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay

The ID community is the greatest.

Illustrators on our Forum made some cake to celebrate the 100th Episode of The Illustration Department Podcast!

To listen to the episode, visit: https://t.co/pu0WdLnFCT

❝You have to be dedicated down to your bones. You must believe in being an artist… and in yourself.❞⁣

—Trina Schart Hyman, born on this day, April 8, in 1939

This Caldecott-winner said, “disgracefully incompetent” book reviewers would either:

• lavish “wild acclaim on a piece of artistic trash”

or

• destroy an illustrator’s career

This is our #arthistory post on Trina Schart Hyman. #WomensHistoryMonth
https://t.co/TbJaJVb5WO

In the late 1960’s, this artist submitted art of a blue bonnet-wearing girl to American Greetings.

Her art launched a decades-long phenomenon.

Here is our #arthistory post on Denise Holly Ulinskas, better known as… Holly Hobbie. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/8gBSyVFOIQ

At 9, this artist was a refugee.
At 17, she helped England fight the Nazis.
At 45, she published her first children’s book.
At 95, she published her last children’s book.

This is our #arthistory post on Judith Kerr. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/HwEE4kELqy

Today, selling 100,000 copies of a children’s book is rare.

This artist did it… with her first book… while battling misogyny… 140 years ago.

Here is our #arthistory post on Kate Greenaway. https://t.co/tuJXrp1C9w #WomensHistoryMonth