Illustrator Quentin Blake on how he draws

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20684202

Fiction Project

Neat! One of my spreads from The Fiction Project 2010 is featured on their tmblr site.

Here's a link to the full book in their digital library. http://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/5045

There is still time to enter the Fiction Project 2013. Sign up by September 30, 2013.

The Fiction Project

The Fiction Project, orchestrated by The Art House Co-op, invites everyone to tell illustrated stories. I signed up online to receive a blank moleskin, filled it with my story, mailed it back, and now it’s going on tour to Seattle (June 10-12), San Francisco, Chicago, and Winter Park. After travelling across the country it will enter the Brooklyn Art Library’s narractive collection.

There are now 1,000 sketchbooks in the Digital Library!

I’m waiting for my story book to be uploaded. It’s about Selina, a curious fish marine biologist who sets out to find a mysterious creature. But when she’s invited to an underwater fashion show, she finds more than expected.  

Cover Design

Madeline in London - Tonal Exercise

In this exercise I chose a colour double spread from the picture book Madeline in London by Ludwig Bemelmans where I really liked the page layout and composition. Then I painted it in black and white to do this tonal study. 

Little Red Riding Hood - Brothers Grimm

The wolf thought to himself: 'What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.'

So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he said: 'See, Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here - why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.'

Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: 'Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time.'