Illustration serves a specific purpose beyond itself—to clarify, illuminate, or accompany text—which paradoxically frees illustrators to develop distinct visual languages precisely because they're not trying to be self-contained. The discipline teaches how image and language can amplify each other, and how constraint of purpose often generates more memorable work.
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