Artists who create visuals to accompany content and illuminate concepts, be it for their own or for others' works.
For illustrators who can write novels, poems, and scripts, see Author Illustrators.
Note that Comics Artists and Mangaka have their own sub-pages and should be listed there, unless they also illustrate outside that capacity.
- Achdé
- Charles Addams
- Yoshitaka Amano
- Python Anghelo
- Graeme Base
- Norman Bridwell
- Nell Brinkley
- Brom
- Wilhelm Busch
- Samuel J Butcher
- Janell Cannon
- Eric Carle
- Temmie Chang
- Tom Fulp
- Dave Christensen
- Tomie dePaola
- Tony DiTerlizzi
- Gustave Doré
- Henrik Drescher
- Dr. Seuss
- Paul Faris
- Juan Ferrandiz
- Frank Frazetta
- Greg Freres
- Brian Froud
- Makiko Futaki
- Stephen Gammell
- Gurihiru
- Edward Gorey
- Gotlib
- Abby Howard
- John Howe
- Victor Hugo
- Janosch
- William Joyce
- Ezra Jack Keats
- Sasha Kimiatek
- Renaldo Kuhler
- J.C. Leyendecker
- David Macaulay
- Dave McKean
- Ralph McQuarrie
- Chris Metzen
- Mœbius
- Gordon Morison
- Morris
- Alphonse Mucha
- Yasushi Nirasawa
- Noriyoshi Ohrai
- Jerry Pinkney
- Patricia Polacco
- Beatrix Potter
- Peter Ramsey
- Lotte Reiniger
- Chris Riddell
- Norman Rockwell
- Rvbomally
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Richard Scarry
- Shinkiro
- Shel Silverstein
- Ralph Steadman
- William Steig
- Drew Struzan
- Shaun Tan
- Marina Terkulova
- James Thurber
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Adrian Tomine
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Tom of Finland
- Tomi Ungerer
- Boris Vallejo
- Ursula Vernon
- Style Wager
- Andy Warhol
- Rosemary Wells
- Mo Willems
- Sōichirō Yamamoto
- John Youssi
- Takashi Yanase
