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- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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- Nov 07, 2020
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.
- Forbidding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020