Illustration is about making stories. Stories that live inside your little head, or were a part of somebody's life. For me, to be an illustrator means to have two things; Good memory, and imagination from heart. The bad thing is that I have the memory of a golden fish.
You have to imagine these stories like they existed, like you lived every minute of the character's life. Maybe he gets anxious, but happy. Then he gets angry. He cries. You have to know how he/she reacts when everything is going wrong. If you created a character, you have to know him.
Everyone can tell a story and if you tell it good maybe something can happen. Depends on the story. The sure is you must have something to say behind the story, otherwise it has no value.
Some illustrators with really good hand and a weird mind like..
.. James Jean
James Jean is a Taiwanese american artist. He is known in the American comics industry as a cover artist for various books published by DC Comics.
Here is some of his work.
