Illustrator
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About this archive
Visual work that is not sequential comics falls under this credit: cover art, character designs, promotional keys, insert illustrations for novels, and the artwork used across merchandise and physical releases. In a field where much source material is published first as prose, the illustrator is often the person who established what the characters look like, and that design frequently carries through to an animation, a stage production or the marketing of a live action adaptation.
The role sits close to but apart from the comic artist’s. An illustrator supplies images rather than narrative, usually working to a brief from a publisher, an author or a production, and is commissioned per project rather than serialised. Some also handle character design for animation, where the job becomes defining a model sheet that other artists then draw to.
Tracing this credit is worth doing because illustration work is easy to lose. It appears on covers and inside volumes, on audio drama packaging and on event goods, none of which show up in a cast list or a set of screen credits, yet it is frequently the first version of a character an audience ever sees.
ILLUSTRATOR ACROSS THE SITE
There are 3 profiles filed under Illustrator.
3 of them are credited on at least one title record on this site, and 2 on more than one, 11 credits in total.
People filed under Illustrator are also filed under Manga Artist (Mangaka) (2), Author and Manhwa Artist most often, so the two jobs regularly sit with the same person.
Between them they are recorded under 2 nationalities, most often Japanese (2) and South Korean.
The records that draw on them most are Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (Anime), Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! and Cherry Magic.
Every figure above is counted from this site’s own records and changes as records are added.
