The paper considers the role of academic and creative work on illustration as an integrative component of learning and teaching activity (vocational training) in the process of vocational training of a future teacher of art (painter-teacher). The relevance of the study is caused by insufficient information about the potential of teaching illustration as a part of the vocational training of future teachers. The author considers the integration of learning and vocational activity in several aspects, which allows defining the essence and highlighting the significant elements of this process. In each aspect of integration, the author emphasizes the functional components of the teacher’s activity aimed at the formation of general professional and vocational competencies or their parts. In this respect, the paper considers the academic and creative work on illustration as an overall process where all elements are interdependent. The characteristic of the suggested approach to teaching illustration as an integrative component of vocational training of future teachers is the systemizing and improvement in the practice of the complex of knowledge, skills, and experience of activity obtained in the process of learning disciplines of vocational and general professional training throughout the training period. The academic and creative work on illustration expands the instruments of a student necessary for a future practical experience both for the development of artistic and creative skills and aesthetic education of students. An intending teacher being keen on illustration as an academic discipline in the future can implement this field of study in independent creative activity, which can be an example of professional self-fulfillment. The author based the research on the learning of the results of academic and creative work in artistic graphics of the fourth-year students of Art and Graphics Faculty of Kuban State University and further survey organized during teaching training.