What makes a cartoon a cartoon and not a illustration?
My personal opinion but I would probably define them as this. Illustration – An attempt to recreate a lifelike copy of the subject or suggest a lifelike copy. Caricature – A picture that picks out and exaggerates certain areas to make the individual subject recognisable even though there is no attempt made to make the overall drawing lifelike. Cartoon – A picture where realism is not important and the picture is only lifelike enough to suggest a species and not an individual as in a caricature. For example, Bugs Bunny has big ears and big teeth suggesting that he’s a rabbit even though in reality a rabbit looks nothing like that.
