The historical process and development of illustration

Illustration which is a branch of graphic design is a visual language, transmits both information and message converting the message format. It is the most practical and the shortest way of visual communication The shortest way for the the message is to be wanted to describe. Mixing the different each other interpretations and styles of containing pictorial values with original characters of the illustrator, it evokes an aesthetic pleasure to the reader-viewer .Illustrators help the text to be percieved in different meanings and extents with the aesthetic pleasure while completing it. Illustration is a visual language, and there are structural elements, such as every language. Effectiveness of the Illustration language depends on compliance of the design all through.The elements which describe the illustrator are firstly picture, secondly illustrations for the text and finaly illustrations as prepared purely for decorative purposes and irrelevant to the text. By the way it follows path which is the decorative complementary and interpreter . In this way it helps to explain the desired message more efficiently and productively. Illustration which is a branch of the graphic design with the development of technology and the increase of the new world industries; nowadays especially with developments in computer and printing area illustration artists have drawn their new ways and have created individual styles and techniques, the people of the modern world have had more opportunities than in the past with rapid technological developments. Kewwords: Illustration, Graphic Design, Illustrator, Technology.