Illustration Styles Progress Tracker

Target: 100 total illustration styles

Existing in examples/ (20):

1. Moebius / Jean Giraud
2. Frank Frazetta
3. H.R. Giger
4. Luis Royo
5. Milo Manara
6. Philippe Druillet
7. Richard Corben
8. Simon Bisley
9. Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell
10. Enki Bilal
11. Arthur Rackham
12. Bernie Wrightson
13. Bill Sienkiewicz
14. Dave McKean
15. Frank Miller
16. Jack Kirby
17. Mike Mignola
18. Norman Rockwell
19. Syd Mead
20. Yoshitaka Amano

To create in illustration-styles/ (80):

Batch 1 — Comics & Sequential Art Masters

21. Will Eisner (The Spirit, graphic novel pioneer)
22. Robert Crumb (underground comix, counterculture)
23. Art Spiegelman (Maus, graphic literature)
24. Chris Ware (Building Stories, diagrammatic comics)
25. Hugo Pratt (Corto Maltese, adventure ink wash)
26. Osamu Tezuka (manga founding father)
27. Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, hyper-detailed manga)
28. Junji Ito (horror manga, spiral dread)
29. Jim Steranko (psychedelic pop art comics)
30. Jean-Claude Mézières (Valérian, European sci-fi)

Batch 2 — Fantasy & Sci-Fi Illustration

31. Michael Whelan (sci-fi/fantasy book covers)
32. John Howe (Tolkien, medieval fantasy)
33. Alan Lee (Tolkien, watercolor landscape)
34. Brom (dark fantasy, gothic horror)
35. Wayne Barlowe (alien biology, Inferno)
36. James Gurney (Dinotopia, plein air realism)
37. Donato Giancola (Renaissance sci-fi/fantasy)
38. Roger Dean (Yes album art, organic architecture)
39. Rodney Matthews (psychedelic fantasy, prog rock)
40. Larry Elmore (D&D, Dragonlance, tabletop RPG)

Batch 3 — Golden Age & Classic Illustration

41. N.C. Wyeth (adventure illustration, Brandywine School)
42. J.C. Leyendecker (Saturday Evening Post, Arrow Collar)
43. Howard Pyle (pirate illustration, Brandywine founder)
44. Edmund Dulac (fairy tale, Art Nouveau)
45. Kay Nielsen (Scandinavian fairy tale)
46. Gustave Doré (literary/biblical engraving)
47. Alphonse Mucha (Art Nouveau, decorative)
48. Maxfield Parrish (luminous color, landscapes)
49. Aubrey Beardsley (line art, Art Nouveau grotesque)
50. Heinrich Kley (pen and ink, fantastical animals)

Batch 4 — Concept Art & Entertainment Design

51. Ralph McQuarrie (Star Wars, sci-fi concept art)
52. Craig Mullins (digital painting pioneer)
53. Feng Zhu (entertainment design, vehicles/environments)
54. Iain McCaig (Star Wars character design)
55. Doug Chiang (Star Wars, retro-futuristic)
56. Neville Page (creature design, Avatar)
57. Sparth / Nicolas Bouvier (Halo, sci-fi architecture)
58. Scott Robertson (vehicle/industrial design)
59. Karla Ortiz (classical-digital hybrid)
60. Ashley Wood (mixed media, 3A, Metal Gear)

Batch 5 — Contemporary Illustration & Digital

61. James Jean (fine art/illustration crossover)
62. Sachin Teng (geometric, vibrant digital)
63. Victo Ngai (decorative, narrative editorial)
64. Tomer Hanuka (Israeli-American, comic/editorial)
65. Sam Spratt (photorealistic digital painting)
66. Kim Jung Gi (live drawing, no pencils, detail)
67. Loish / Lois van Baarle (digital character art)
68. Katsuya Terada (Japanese illustration, loose energy)
69. Takeshi Obata (Death Note, manga realism)
70. Greg Rutkowski (fantasy landscape, digital painting)

Batch 6 — Satirical, Editorial & Children's Illustration

71. Ralph Steadman (Fear and Loathing, ink splatter)
72. Gerald Scarfe (Pink Floyd The Wall, caricature)
73. Edward Gorey (macabre pen and ink, Victorian)
74. Saul Steinberg (New Yorker, conceptual drawing)
75. Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)
76. Quentin Blake (Roald Dahl, scratchy pen)
77. Tove Jansson (Moomin, Scandinavian warmth)
78. Shaun Tan (The Arrival, surreal immigrant narratives)
79. Rebecca Dautremer (French children's illustration)
80. Beatrix Potter (naturalist children's illustration)

Batch 7 — Comics Continued & Graphic Novels

81. Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, British comics)
82. Alex Ross (painted superhero realism)
83. Fiona Staples (Saga, modern comics)
84. Jillian Tamaki (This One Summer, literary comics)
85. Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, alternative comics)
86. Charles Burns (Black Hole, high-contrast horror)
87. Tsutomu Nihei (Blame!, architectural manga)
88. Naoki Urasawa (Monster, 20th Century Boys)
89. Kentaro Miura (Berserk, dark fantasy manga)
90. Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond, ink wash manga)

Batch 8 — Final Group

91. Virgil Finlay (pulp sci-fi, stipple technique)
92. Franklin Booth (pen and ink, engraving-like)
93. Harry Clarke (stained glass, art deco illustration)
94. Ivan Bilibin (Russian fairy tale illustration)
95. Eyvind Earle (Sleeping Beauty backgrounds, modernist)
96. Mary Blair (Disney concept art, color/shape)
97. Claire Wendling (French, organic figure drawing)
98. Travis Charest (hyper-detailed comics/illustration)
99. Yoji Shinkawa (Metal Gear Solid, sumi-e mech design)
100. Sergio Toppi (Italian, ink hatching, decorative composition)

Status: COMPLETE — 100/100

Next phases:

• Screenwriter styles (100)
• Storyboard styles (100)
• Concept art styles (100)