Illustrators' Sketchbooks

Martin Salisbury

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Thames & Hudson
19 October 2023

Illustration & commercial art; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

A treasure trove of visual delights: examples of the sketchbooks of sixty international illustrators offer new insights 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, Edward Ardizzone and Tove Jansson, and established names such as Beatrice Alemagna, Oliver Jeffers and Shaun Tan. Others are up-and-coming, for example Charlotte Ager 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 discover, sketchbooks are often a fascinating and surprising window into the mind of the illustrator.

By: Martin Salisbury
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 270mm,
Weight: 1.380kg
ISBN: 9780500023303
ISBN 10: 0500023301
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Charlotte Ager Beatrice Alemagna Takako Aoki Edward Ardizzone Edward Bawden Thomas Bewick Quentin Blake Percy Drake Brookshaw Calef Brown Cai Gao Emma Carlisle Chloë Cheese Sunkyung Cho Alan E. Cober Christopher Corr Kenyon Cox Robert Crumb John Cuneo Jean de Brunhoff Henrik Drescher Susan Einzig Mark Entwisle Isidro Ferrer Edward Gorey Chris Harper Jon Harris Hergé Katsushika Hokusai Ya-Ling Huang Tove Jansson Oliver Jeffers Charles Keeping John Lawrence Shih-yu Lin Sara Lundberg Manuel Marsol Mick Marston Bernd Mölck-Tassel Ed Merlin Murray Fabian Negrin Beatrix Potter Eric Ravilious Sheila Robinson Martin Salisbury Ronald Searle Beatriz Lostalé Seijo Ana Sender Charles Shearer Pam Smy Katrin Stangl Helen Stephens Shaun Tan Victoria Tentler-Krylov Charles Tunnicliffe Tomi Ungerer Valerio Vidali Brian Wildsmith Peng Wu Doris Meng Yan Leah Yang

Martin Salisbury is a professor of illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, where he designed and teaches on the renowned MA Children's Book Illustration programme. He has previously chaired the jury for the Ragazzi Award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and has served on juries for numerous other international illustration awards. His many books include The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970 (2017), Drawing for Illustration (2022) and Miroslav Sasek (The Illustrators series, 2021), all published by Thames & Hudson.