“...Illustration evolved into the state we find today – extremely eclectic, defiantly personal, intensely conceptual, astutely witty, and irrepressibly expressive. .. Once it was possible to see only a few dominant, highly crafted and usually painterly styles. Today... there are countless ways to draw a cat (or anything else that is either familiar and unfamiliar). While every artist represented has antecedants – both artistry and technique – and some replicate the past and passé styles as though yesterday were today, a stunning number are original... There is more illustration that not only comes close to pure “art” than in the past thirty years. And there is more so called “pure” art that resembles illustration... That much illustration today is often separated from, indeed triggered by forces beyond the traditional manuscript, is testament to the need for illustrators to create... In an age when mass communication prevails, having work redproduced for millions of people to see is as honourable as the rarified art cloistered in a gallery or museum.”- Steven Heller
Source: Illustration Now! Volume 1
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