Illustration Links

ORGANIZATIONS

New York Society of Illustrators
Society of Illustrators - Los Angeles
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
National Cartoonist Society
Illustrators' Partnership of America
Association of Medical Illustrators
National Association of Comics Art Educators
Science Illustration Program, University of California Extension, Santa Cruz

BLOGS & FORUMS

CG Talk
Mattart
Drawn!
Illustration Mundo
Flight Comics forum
Illustration Friday!
Weekly (or so) themes which anyone can illustrate and get linked
Gallery Comics Blog
Blogs Illustrated
A webring of blogs of people (200+ and growing) who create illustrations
Paul Giambarba's "100 Years of Illustration" blog
Reproductions and insightful comments on many illustrators (Elizabeth Shippen Green, Charles Dana Gibson and his imitators, Howard Pyle, Edward Penfield, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, and more)

THE HISTORY OF ILLUSTRATION, ILLUSTRATOR BIOGRAPHIES & RESOURCES

American Art Archives (more than 100 bios of illustrators)
Yahoo! Directory of Illustrators
Bud Plant's Bios of Illustrators and Comic Artists (more than 100)
National Museum of American Illustration
Includes reproductions of work by H.C. Christy, Charles D. Gibson, Norman Rockwell, Dean Cornwell, Elizabeth S. Green, Meade Schaeffer, John Falter, J.C. Leyendecker, Frank E. Schoonover, Harrison Fisher, Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Willcox Smith, J.M. Flagg, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth
Page of links to resources on illustrators
Illustration magazine
Illustrators Hall of Fame at the New York Society of Illustrators
Women Who Illustrated Children's Books
Fashion Illustrators
Nice selection of World War I posters
Illustrators include Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Patrick Raleigh, and more
Large galleries of illustrations (with thumbnails) of illustrators who drew "pin-ups"
Notes: This website is devoted to "pin-up" images (images of young pretty women). Be aware some images contain nudity. Second, the site is in German, so here are some words you should know: "bild" and "bilder" mean "image" and "images" respectively, "zur galerie" means "go to the gallery", "Seite 1 von 3" means "page 1 out of 3". If there is a page you want translated in English, go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Then type the URL of that page and select "From German to English"
Illustrators of covers for the Saturday Evening Post and the Country Gentleman magazines
To view all the covers of the Saturday Evening Post click on the "Chronological Image Gal" link
Sample Saturday Evening Post covers organized by themes
Magazine Cover Art
Site devoted to archiving some of the best examples of magazine cover art
The Illustration House
A current house of auctions specializing in the sale of originals by great illustrators. Website includes a gallery, bio of selected illustrators (e.g. Leyendecker, Parrish, Phillips, Pyle, Remington, Rockwell, Wilcox Smith, Whitcomb, N.C. Wyeth)
The Illustrated Gallery
A gallery selling illustrations by great illustrators

GENERAL ART WEBSITES & ONLINE VISUAL RESOURCES

Google Advanced Image Search
Art Movements (World Wide Arts Resource)
General information on movements and concepts
Artist Biographies (World Wide Arts Resource)
Biographies of artists
Bio, Suggested Reading References, Images, and Links to Artists
Collection of artworks by 12,000 artists (from the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco)
You can zoom in very close on works on the database.
ArtCyclopedia
Find information on artists by name and locate their images (what museum has them)