Your favorite Illustrator/s?

Sulamith Wulfing
Kinuko Craft
Walter Crane
Kay Nielsen
Dulac

Adrienne Segur who illustrated: The Golden Book of Fairy Tales And more: Adrienne Segur on Amazon, and Adrienne Segur Illustrations

Edward Gorey
Eric Carle
Maurice Sendak
Mary GrandPré

My favourite illustrators are

Arthur Rackham
Willy Pogany
Edmund Dulac
Harry Clarke
Kay Nielsen
Aubrey Beardsley
William Russell Flint
Max Beerbohm

I did not put them in order of preference, although my favourite IS Rackham.

Some of my favoriites are

Feodor Rojandovsky
Maud and Miska Petersham
Hilda van Stockum
P. Yershov
John Burningham
Nancy Elkholm Burkert
Jean de Brunhoff

Burkert's Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs which is NOT the one which popped up in the touchstones(!!) is the first book I bought, new, as a teenager, simply because the illustrations were so beautiful. I loved the Babar books as a child, and the handwritten text which went with the pictures. I still love Babar.

Ooops, I meant

Feodor Rojankovsky

and

Nancy Ekholm Burkert

I spelled them wrong, and so they didn't pop up in the touchstones at first.

Lovely! I hadn't remembered her until I scrolled down and saw the Cotonnet books. Thanks for the link!

I'm also a big Gorey fan.

Perronelle

I also enjoy the illustrators Dulac, Clarke, Rackham and Nielsen (found out about him yesterday and was floored!).

More recent illustrator favorites include Gennadii Spirin and Nancy Elkholm Burkert and, dare I include him, Yoshitaka Amano.

Now, although Amano has worked on anime, I have to protest that he is indeed a highly skilled illustrator whose works would be very hard to define as "anime". They are not cell-shaded sparkly pictures, but actually rather graceful, bold and extremely delicate. They are of course, stylized, but no more (and probably less) stylized than Kay Nielsen's work. Amano illustrated Neil Gaiman's "Sandman: The Dream Hunters". If you would like to be able to "search inside" a book of his artwork, "Fairies" is available on Amazon. I suggest using the side arrows and the "Surprise me!" link to explore in the book.

A couple children's illustrators that come to mind are Robin James (for the Serendipity books by Stephen Cosgrove )--her pics are so bright and beautiful--and Stephen Gammell (for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series by Alvin Schwartz )--his are just the opposite of Robin's: they're mostly creepy and black-and-white.

I'll vote right down the line with Aluvalibri - but Pogany first (at least for overall book design,) then Rackham and Flint. OK, I'd change Roy Krenkel for Beerbohm and add J.C. Coll and Franklin Booth and . . . it seems there's no end of wonderful illustrators - and a lot of new talent doing beautiful work.

Seppy
I agree Amano is interesting and skilled - go look at Jim Vadeboncouer's bpib.com site if you want a capsule view of lots of great illustrators (and check his IMAGES volumes while you're there (simply gorgeous!)

Maxfield Parish
N.C. Wyeth
Kinuko Craft
Alex Ross

I also like the Pre-Raphaelite painters.

Alex Ross might not fit in as an illustrator, but his realist watercolor paintings bring comic book superheroes to life.

John Tenniel
Rudyard Kipling
Honoré Daumier

Oh boy.....my list would be HUGE. Here are the major ones off the top of my head, and I'm sure to be leaving a bunch out.

Michael Wm. Kaluta
Charles Vess
Mark Schultz
Gary Gianni
William Stout
P. Craig Russell
Mike Mignola
Roy G. Krenkel
Frank Frazetta
Willy Pogany
Franklin Booth
Joseph Clement Coll
Bernie Wrightson
Virgil Finlay
James Gurney
Wayne D. Barlowe
Moebius
N.C. Wyeth
Howard Pyle
Gustave Dore
Ivan Bilibin
Francois Schuiten
Al Williamson
Hal Foster
Alex Raymond
Arthur Rackham
Kay Neilsen
William Heath Robinson

and so many others....

I agree Edward Gorey. I also love Shaun Tan and Chris Van Allsburg. Alessandro Gottardo and Lisbeth Zwerger are wonderful.

I really enjoyed reading everyone's favorites. I looked up many of them and the illustrations are truly beautiful.