Favorite Children's Book Illustrators and why?

[Rebecca Hirsch]

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Mercer Mayer - one of my favorites ever!

[Brad]

Bill Watterson - He is just too good. Best. My introduction to loving comic strips and wanting to draw cartoons.

Sergio Aragones - MAD mag illustrator, such witty drawings and brilliant ink technique.

Uderzo - The illustration excellence and comic appeal of Asterix is pretty much artistic perfection (IMO)

Quentin Blake - It was always so easy to spot a Roald Dahl in the library and Blake's artwork made the stories even more real. So sensitive with linework.

[smceccarelli]

Too many to count. At the present time point, my favorites are

Jonny Duddle:

the marvelous Peter de Seve:

William Joyce:

On the graphical side, Jeff Turley:

and Meomi

But really, this is nearly endless...!!

[bluesky71]

Love that gnome! With his feet hanging out of the bath

[evilrobot]

To be honest my favorite children's book artist is Will Terry I was following and buying his painting videos off his website before he started doing all this.
And my second favorite is Dani Jones. Her work

I think with both of them it was the way they use color and texture. Love their stuff. I use to try to mimic both of their styles when I was first learning how to paint.

[Dulcie]

Glad to see this thread revived, it's interesting to see everyone's favourite artists as it reveals something about what we love and where we might want to go with our work.... @evilrobot especially it makes sense to see your choices, your work is different of course but there is a certain synergy of styles, with the texture and the pencil...

[MOO]

@Brad I also think Bill Watterson is fantstic

[MOO]

I also really like Lee White's style

[natiwata]

So many good illustrators!!!

I'll add one of my all time favorites, Stephen Gilpin:

[Leontine]

@smceccarelli Jonny Duddle is so great! love his work!