Here’s Quentin Blake demonstrating, step by step, how he makes the illustrations for his books.
It’s from this great page on his website, How I Draw, in which he describes the process a little more:
In the attempt to combine planning with an air of spontaneity I’ve employed various techniques of which the one I have found most successful, and have used for the last thirty years, makes use of a light box.
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What happens next is not tracing; in fact it’s important that I can’t see the rough drawing underneath too clearly, because when I draw I try to draw as if for the first time.
Rockets Red Glare
2007
Rockets Red Glare
2007
Dust to Dust
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Gorgeous
photo by gregory colbert (thanks stupidfancy)
Young Couple, by the the Seeberger Brothers, c.1931
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Bill Traylor - American Artist. Via Martin Klasch
“William ‘Bill’ Traylor (April 1, 1854 (?) –October 23, 1949) was a self-taught artist born into slavery on a plantation near Benton, in Lowndes County, Alabama. By 1939, he had moved to Montgomery, where he slept in the back room of a funeral home and in a shoemaker’s shop. During the day, he sat on the sidewalk and drew images of the people he saw on the street and remembered scenes from life on the farm, hanging his works on the fence behind him. That year, he met Charles Shannon, a painter, who, with his friends from the New South, brought Traylor art supplies and bought his drawings for nominal sums.” More from Wikipedia here.
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