Illustration and Rendering

Example Illustration 1. a character from a story

Example Illustration 2. A Typology of Swords

Example Illustration 3. Stepwise Instructions

Example Illustration 4. Textbook Illustration.

Example Illustration 5. Political caricature.

An Illustration is a visualisation such as drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an Illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article) by providing a visual representation of something described in the text.

Illustrations can be used to display a wide range of subject matter such as:

• giving faces to characters in a story;
• displaying a number of examples of an item described in an academic textbook (e.g. A Typology);
• visualising step-wise sets of instructions in a technical manual.

The term 'Illustration' can also be used in a non-visual sense i.e. "give an example to Illustrate the point you are trying to make".

See also

• Illustrators
• Posters
• Charts

Rendering has several different usages:

• Rendering (computer graphics) is the process of producing the pixels of an image from a higher-level description of its components.
• Artistic rendering is the process by which a work of art is created.
• Kitchen rendering and industrial rendering both have to do with separating fats from other organic materials.
• Rendition is the United States practice of transferring prisoners to other countries.