Knowra Book illustration Book illustration A picture made to accompany, interpret, or explain text in a book or other publication. It may be decorative, narrative, instructional, or documentary.
Children's book illustration : Illustration created for books written or adapted for children. Pictures often carry as much of the story as the words in books for young readers.
Woodcut : A relief-printing technique in which an image is carved into the surface of a wooden block. Woodcuts made durable, repeatable images that could be printed alongside book text.
Illuminated manuscript : A handwritten book decorated with painted ornament, lettering, or images, often using gold or silver. Before printing, manuscript artists integrated images and text by hand.
Textbook : A book designed to teach a subject through organized exposition and instructional material. Textbook images usually clarify concepts or evidence rather than carry a fictional narrative.
Scientific illustration : Visual representation designed to communicate scientific subjects with clarity and accuracy. It makes structures, organisms, and processes visible when prose alone is insufficient.
Engraving : A printmaking process that incises lines into a hard surface to create an image. Engraved plates reproduced fine detail in illustrated books, often in separate printing steps.
Gutenberg Bible : A Latin Bible printed in Mainz around 1455 using movable metal type. Its early printed pages left spaces for hand-painted initials and decoration.
Picture book : A book in which illustrations and words work together to tell or explain its content. It is a form where image and text are deliberately interdependent.
Book cover : The protective outer covering and public-facing design of a book. Cover art uses illustration to signal a book’s subject, genre, and tone.
Lithography : A planographic printing process based on the repulsion of oil and water. Lithography enabled artists to draw directly on stones or plates for book reproduction.
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