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Emi Ueoka

An illustrator whose use of clean lines captures emotions and feelings ever so gently and reflects her design process and thinking.

http://www.emiueoka.com

“Edith explains with great animation that she likes to get to know what she is drawing, and that it very much becomes a personal thing to her. ‘It is far easier to draw a flower that talks to you. I like to study the specimen visually and also investigate its name and place of birth. The Latin nomenclature of plants is a magical world! I am just discovering plant by plant as they find their way into my sketchbooks,’ she explains. Describing her room as ‘The Bush Museum’, Edith likes to surround herself with a giant storyboard of drawings, specimens and ideas.”

“I am a big pre-planner, I draw a lot in my sketchbook, I make little watercolours and write a lot. However, when it comes to putting these ideas onto the canvas I usually take a more intuitive approach. By the time it comes to paint, it’s like all of the ideas and sketches have distilled, and they come out in fresh forms on the canvas. I then block in colour and slowly build up depth and layering. I work on a few at a time and often in pairs (I think this could be a printmaker thing!). If a painting isn’t working from the get go, I usually paint over it and start again. I think my best work is when it comes organically and isn’t forced.”

“I draw a lot, and make sketches which inform my ceramic faces, but it is rare that a drawn design is replicated directly onto the clay, as I tend to work instinctively, making decisions as I go.”

Anne-Marie Jones

The sketchbooks of illustrator Anne Marie Jones seems to show the process in which the illustrator goes through when creating and also shows how within a sketchbook there are no mistakes and it is a place for the unselfconscious, with the preliminary first gestures developing on each page.

http://annemariejones.co.uk

Mia Christopher

“The one thing that has remained consistent in her work is her dedication to working in a sketchbook–an online archive of her thirty-plus books is regularly updated on her website." - Alyssa Block

http://www.miachristopher.com

It must be nice to have a really great sketch book. I've always had big plans for one but, no matter how great my intentions, they always end up as unfinished, coffee-stained disasters; shoved to the back of my shelf sulking in the plain embarrassment that comes with being quite so awful.

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Yann Kebbi

An illustrator whose collection of sketchbook work stands out just as beautifully as more refined, finished pieces and could be said to be more emotive as the raw edges and lines are clear to see.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/yann-kebbi

"One view of things is insufficient," says Jorinde Voigt, and this philosophy informs her elaborate drawings that consider objects from multiple angles. Voigt's work is a web-like nebulous of image and information, often interweaving written notation, line vectors and musical scores to convey the hidden dimensions of everyday subjects. Hers are the kind of heady artistic concepts that on paper are a frustrating blend of the plausible and the improbable, and yet as visuals they work beautifully, tackling lofty concepts about perception while retaining the charm of a sketchbook. Looking at her canvas' you might be boggled, but not disappointed.

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We shouldn't need to convince you how enamoured we are by the creative process – in fact if you didn't know that about us then I think we should see other people. But even by our own insatiable standards, a new lovely book by Laura Heit has ticked all sorts of boxes. _Animation Sketchbooks_ does exactly what it says on the tin (cover), opening up the notebooks and skecthpads of more than 50 top animators working across a host of styles. Featuring the likes of David Shrigley, Isabel Herguera, Jeff Scher and Koji Yamamura, it's a beautiful and insightful peek into the way these leading lights work on paper. From really minimalist markings to full colour treatments via lists and storyboards, it's a good reminder of how everyone has their own way of doing things.

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Julianna Brion is an editorial illustrator whose diverse portfolio houses projects for a bunch of fortunate clients. Like most creatives who make commissioned work though, when she’s not drawing to a brief she’s filling sketchbook after sketchbook with scrapbook-like doodles which are as beautiful, if not more so, than her finished images. Reclining figures, pastel dogs, picture-perfect houses and foliage all feature, rendered in a rainbow of acrylic paints and sketchy pencil. For me, looking at the sketchbook of a successful illustrator is kind of like peeping into the messy bedroom of an impossibly well-coiffed, super dapper gent. And who doesn’t like to be nosy?

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It’s so reassuring to hear that a job at a top ad agency can be secured from an interview on no sleep, feeling “a bit spaced out.” While it’s possibly not the best career advice, that’s exactly how Andrew Rae landed a role at BBH, he told us in his talk at Offset festival. We’re huge fans of Andrew’s work, which over the years has included creating characters for the "_Mighty Book of Boosh_":http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/1294-andrew-rae, beautiful "botanical illustrations":http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/andrew-rae-botany and the wonderful, heartwarming and psychedelic graphic novel "_Moonhead and the Music Machine_":http://www.andrewrae.org.uk/Moonhead-and-the-Music-Machine.

“David Macaulay could be called the Mr. Wizard of architectural history. In 23 books over three decades, his arresting pen-and-ink illustrations have explored everything from the construction of ancient pyramids to the subterranean systems that support a modern metropolis.” — Jeremy Kahn, New York Times

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