Industry expert reveals what the future holds for illustration

"If there is an underlying direction in illustration, it's that the practice is getting more physical, more craft-like and more 3D, while also becoming more immaterial in exploring the creative opportunities of movement in digital channels on the internet and on tablets."
http://www.creativebloq.com/illustration/industry-expert-reveals-what-s-next-illustration-21514274

"Divergence Culture" an extension of Henry Jenkins' idea:http://henryjenkins.org/2006/06/welcome_to_convergence_culture.html

"As Handsome Frank co-founder Jon Cockley notes, social media followers don't want to see re-hashed content, they want bespoke content that's purposely made for a smaller screen. The past 12 months, for example, have seen some cracking work where traditional illustration has got subtly mobile."

One of Andrew Davidson's incredible series of hand-crafted wood engravings for the covers of adult editions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels

"It looked like something found in an old shoebox, stored away in someone's loft from the 1950s. Its visual language – the engraving, the sculpted visual information of the subject matter – was so unfamiliar and so not-at-home in the second decade of the 20th Century."