Introduction- Why am here? What do I want to learn?

We were asked to spend some time writing about what we thought Illustration meant, below is what I came up with.
What is Illustration? What does it mean to me?
- Designing something for a reason/purpose
- To accompany or make clearer
- To adorn or enhance visually
- To make images with technical merit

Types of Illustration
- Editorial
- Fashion
- Gig Posters (Such as Drew Millward)
- Children's Illustration
- Narrative/Sequential

Illustrators
Yoko Furusho
Drew Millward
Liz Clements
Bryn Perrott
Kristyna Baczynski
Tyler Stout

We were then put into groups to collate our answers which were:
What is Illustration? What does it mean?
- It's a business
- A way of communicating
-To adorn something
-A limbo between Graphic Design and Fine Art
-Process, research, idea, drawing > Illustration
-Freelance, Commission, Studio, Clients, Collectives
-Visual communication through drawing and image making.

Illustrators
- Maike Plenzke
- Ashley Mackenzie
- Brodsky and Utkin
- Brett Ryder
- Alphonse Mucha
- Richey Beckett

We were asked to narrow these down to five:
Visual Communication
Fun/ Playful
Responding to Issues
Solving Problems
Profession

I think this is a good summary of what it means to be an Illustrator as it includes all the aspects from being a profession to having fun with it, developing your work through play.