Childrens Illustration and webcomics research.

Illustration by. E.H. Shepard.

 (My research was very loose and I thought I should just write what I found interesting and now take pride in knowing.)

E.H. Shepard is an childrens book illustrator I absolutely adore. His drawings have a very lifelike and characteristic, but fragile feeling that relates to the stories he illustrated for like "Winnie the Pooh" and "wind of the willows" But his illustrations and sketches for the Winnie the pooh series will always be special to me and were the most fitting, iconic or moving in any book I have read. I would love to be able to achieve the same effect.

I also love the story of how the characters and designs came to be of "Winnie the Pooh"- as I believe E.H. Shepard designed the characters based on his children's toys. but they were named after A. A. Milne children's toys which looked much different.
E.H Shepard illustrated mostly after he served in the war, but he worked on a vary of things including comics, just like how Beatrix Potter first was recognised for her Christmas card designs. This means that if I were to pursue a career in Illustration I won't end up following the same type of illustration all the time.

Illustration by Tracy J.Butler

Tracy  J. Butler is the author of Lackadaisy which is a on going web comic now turned published series.
You can find her website for the comic here http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/ From what I can remember it would seem that making this series is only part-time, like most web comics, as it doesn't provide a great income. So I think her main job is being a assistant teacher for some type of  illustration (forgive me if I'm wrong)