For the love of illustration

From Saturday till Wednesday it’s mini drawing-week on our blog. With blogs about drawing and being creative. Today: What is it about illustrations that makes us love them so much? Jocelyn de Kwant investigates.

Even though it’s the digital world that has had such a huge influence on the rise of illustration, of course the best part is that the illustrations themselves are handmade. While there are fantastic illustrators who swear by their computer software, more and more illustrators are returning to watercolors and inks, or starting to use them for the first time. Other popular techniques are oil paints, etchings and silk-screening. “There was a kind of digital era for a while, and this probably is like a countermovement now,” says Dutch illustrator Sanny van Loon.