Illustrators Sketchbooks

A treasure trove of visual delights: examples of sketchbooks by nearly sixty international illustrators offer new insight into their artistic practice. Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means something different to each illustrator. It might be a beautiful object, a work of art in its own right, where every line is painstakingly considered. It might be a pictorial playground, where mistakes can make art. The boundaries between sketchbooks, notebooks and visual journals are often blurred, lending to the creativity that fills their pages. It is likely that you will recognize many of the illustrators featured, including classic childhood favourites Beatrix Potter, Jean de Brunhoff, Tomi Ungerer and Tove Jansson, and established names such as Beatrice Alemagna, Oliver Jeffers and Shaun Tan. Others are up-and-coming, for example Charlotte Agar and Leah Yang. Martin Salisbury draws on decades of experience as an illustrator and educator to shed light on the lives and work of each artist. He even reveals pages from his own sketchbooks, exposing the rawness of his ideas and the narratives that surround them. As the reader will find out, sketchbooks are often a fascinating and surprising window into the mind of the illustrator.

Product details

• Authors: MARTIN SALISBURY, Martin Sailsbury, Martin Salisbury, Salisbury Martin
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780500023303
• ISBN: 978-0-500-02330-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 280 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1400 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Illustration & commercial art, Illustration and commercial art