Artist vs. Illustrator

Artistnoun

A person who creates art.

Artistnoun

A person who creates art as an occupation.

Artistnoun

A person who is skilled at some activity.

Artistnoun

A recording artist.

Artistadjective

(archaic) Artistic.

Artistnoun

One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.

Artistnoun

One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

Artistnoun

One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.

Artistnoun

An artful person; a schemer.

Artistnoun

a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only.

Illustratornoun

a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)

Illustratornoun

One who illustrates.

Illustratornoun

an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.)

Illustrator

An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, which is the reason illustrations are often found in children's books.Illustration is the art of making images that work with something and add to it without needing direct attention and without distracting from what they illustrate.