From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Illustrators have made a living creating book covers. Now, artificial intelligence is learning to make art. Michael Whelan has made a career painting aliens, dragons, robots and other fantastical ...

Anyone who isn't an illustrator, art director or simply a fan of illustration probably hasn't run across American Illustration, a behemoth tome that has been published annually for 30 years. The ...

'A love and feel for place': Australian illustrated children's books – in pictures The new Australian children’s laureate Leigh Hobbs takes us on a fascinating tour of the best in Australian ...

We’ve all heard of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach – and the man that wrote the stories. But who is the man behind the illustrations in Roald Dahl’s classic ...

For my birthday this year I was given a 1947 edition of Samuel Pepys' diaries. This was post-war austerity Britain and materials were scarce, so the book is printed on thin "prayer book" paper and has ...

When we talk about the Polish school of illustration, the names of Bohdan Butenko, Janusz Stanny and Jan Marcin Szancer inevitably come to mind. But the publication Captains of Illustration: 100 Years ...

Arguably one of the finest illustrators in Japan is that of Katsuya Terada and his latest artbook Real Size covers some of his amazing work from his live drawing events. To explain a bit, Terada has ...

Authors looking for an easy and cost-effective way to generate illustrations for their next book or story might be interested in a new simple method that utilizes AI image generators. By using a ...