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Find Insight and Inspiration for Your Creative Life
An artist's journal is packed with sketches and captions; some rough, some polished. The margins sometimes spill over with hurriedly scrawled shopping lists and phone numbers. The cover may be travel-worn and the pages warped from watercolors. Open the book, and raw creativity seeps from each color and line. The intimacy and freedom on its pages are almost like being inside the artist's mind: You get a direct window into risks, lessons, mistakes, and dreams.
The private worlds of these visual journals are exactly what you'll find inside An Illustrated Life. This book offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of 50 top illustrators, designers and artists. Included are sketchbook pages from R. Crumb, Chris Ware, James Jean, James Kochalka, and many others. In addition, author Danny Gregory has interviewed each artist and shares their thoughts on living the artistic life through journaling.
Watch artists - through words and images - record the world they see and craft the world as they want it to be. The pages of An Illustrated Life are sometimes startling, sometimes endearing, but always inspiring. Whether you're an illustrator, designer, or simply someone searching for inspiration, these pages will open a whole new world to you.
About the Author
Danny Gregory has lived all over the world from Australia to Pakistan. He is currently Executive Creative Director of ad agency McGarry Bowen. His visual journaling Yahoo group has more than 2,300 members and his Everyday Matters blog receives thousands of visitors a month.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A treasure trove of surprises and sketchbook goodness,
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This review is from: An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers (Paperback)
When I was searching for information about the book, I found a lot of positive reviews. And I really mean A LOT. It's one thing that a book is well liked. It's another when it's so well liked people are actually talking about it. An Illustrated Life is a compilation of sketchbook pages from 50 illustrators all over the world. Each journal is packed with sketches, captions and a narrative as the artist talks about his sketchbook. At 266 pages, some of the scans are a little small if you want to read the writings. One reader I found bought a magnifying glass just to make sure every detail isn't missed. Every page is a surprise, every page is a discovery, a glimpse of what the artists is thinking, seeing and feeling. It's the perfect book to go to when you're looking inspiration and motivation. Most artists have their websites listed. It's another avenue for exploration. Jjust to name some, they are R. Crumb, Christoph Niemann, James Jean, Peter Ankle, Cathy Johnson, James Kochalka, Brody Neuenschwander, Chris Ware, Stefan Sagmeister etc. Danny Gregory has published a truly wonderful book. I really love it. It's well worth every single cent. There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great inspiration!,
By heliodor (Alberta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers (Paperback)
I'm so happy I bought this book. When I received it I was really surprised at how large it was and to find that it's full colour throughout - a steal for the price. The artists Gregory selected are quite varied in style and prominence which I found to be very inspirational. There is a lot to look at here and I enjoyed reading about how other artists work and think when they create. I think I'll turn to this book for a little creative pick-me-up again and again. Love it!
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Drawing Inspiration From Life! AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE: DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM PRIVATE SKETCHBOOKS: A Critical Review.,
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This review is from: An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers (Paperback)
I've never seen a book like this before! These are a collection of private entries from the diary/journals of artists from around the world. Included are some well-known ("R. Crumb") to the obscure. Teachers and professors, retired and entrepreneurs, housewives and the very affluent, they're all here side by side. Apart from the illustrations the artists' kept, the most compelling thing are the notes. You get the real sense that if art weren't a part of their lives, in some active way, then they would cease to function as human beings. These are some very raw emotions revealed. "The true purpose of my sketchbooks is to help me celebrate and truly experience my life...If I don't have my journals with me, I invariably miss them." -- Cathy Johnson, painter & illustrator "I draw with fountain pens. A Montblanc `Meisterstuck #149" and a Mamiki `Falcon.' I use ink from Noodler's and watercolors. When I restarted my sketching, I chose Moleskin sketchbooks" -- Mattias Adolfsson "Doodling in my books can also be therapeutic. I've genuinely had nasty or upsetting experience that I've been able to get through much more easily by documenting them." -- Peter Arkle "My sketchbook is an extension of my art studio. My sketchbook is a place where anything goes." -- Rich Beerhorst "A book means a sequences of pages. A sequence means a story and I like to tell stories, even if sometimes it's with no words...I often encourage my children, their friends and students to keep a sketchbook. It is...to consider drawing as a language, like writing." -- Simonetta Capecchi "I've gone through many in-out periods of drawing--especially in more recent times. I just don't have as strong a compulsion to draw all the time as I used to. Sometimes, you just have to give it a rest or Life, itself, just overwhelms you and forces you to lay it aside for a time." -- Robert `R" Crumb "At about twelve, I stopped drawing all together. My mind was too chaotic to draw or even think in a deep way. I went along like this through high school, college and five years into a job in publishing. At twenty-eight, I found myself in the countryside of France studying skills I realized I longed for all my life." -- Peter Cusack This book is a rich testimony of what it means to want to be AND need to be an artist. 5 stars.
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