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Cartoon vs Illustration - What's the difference?

cartoon | illustration |

As nouns the difference between cartoon and illustration

is that cartoon is a humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings while illustration is the act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

As a verb cartoon

is to draw a cartoon.

cartoon

English

(wikipedia cartoon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
  • (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
  • (arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
  • (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon , lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • A diagram in a scientific concept.

    • Synonyms

    * (humorous drawing or strip) comic strip, strip cartoon * (satire of public figures) caricature, political cartoon

    Related terms

    * cartoonist * comic book * funnies * funny papers * funny pages * strip cartoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (arts, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon.

    • Anagrams

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    illustration

    English

    (wikipedia illustration)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
  • That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}
  • A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
  • A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org

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