; a few of my illos in honour of national illustration day! 🖍️🎨
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Avante-garde girl in high boots, short mini dress with billowy sleeves, braiding, background filled with stars, stripes, and polka dots with a circus-y feel
One more illo for the road...
for #NationalIllustrationDay
see my previous 3 posts for more illos
I found this drawing stuck in my old French textbook...
it has a 'circus' feeling -- apropos since I'm working on book 2 of my Paris WW2 'under the big top' The Stolen Children of War series
number 3 of my old illos I did back in the day for #NationalIllustrationDay
Had fascinating experiences that inspired billionaire rom com novel
waiting to hear back on submission while I write my next Paris WW2 circus novel
I love designing the costumes in my story for my circus queen heroines
country girl festival costume -- big pink sleeves, white skirt with ruffles, green wide brim hat -- pink and green give the feeling of a 'fantasy' costume
Here's a 2nd sample of my work before I got my first writing job for #NationalIllustrationDay
love those pink sleeves!
my experiences in design inspired a rom com billionaire novel I wrote... submitted m/s... keep you posted!
Before I got my first writing job for travel publication in Beverly Hills I studied design... worked on costumes.
Here's a sample of my work for #NationalIllustrationDay
I'll post more later
my experiences in design inspired a rom com billionaire story I wrote... submitted m/s... keep you posted!
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#nationalillustrationday2025 #nationalillustrationday #illustration #illustrator #sirquentinblake #quentinblake #tianguis #moles #lifeinmexico
I spent #NationalIllustrationDay with illustrator Helen Oxenbury at the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire, where the glorious exhibition of her work continues until 4 January.
A tiled compilation of Solaris book covers designed by freelancers!
As #NationalIllustrationDay draws to a close, time for one last post...
We know they say not to judge by its cover, but we all do.
The art a book is wrapped in is often as important as the words inside to the reader, thank you to all the freelance designers who help shape our books' identity!
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It’s National Illustration Day today - here’s a farting hyena that I’ve drawn from the new picture book I’ve got coming out next year.
#nationalillustrationday
Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Aesop’s The Tortoise and the Hare. Features a group of animals in waistcoats and other formal attire. Animals include a tortoise, hare, mouse, fox, mole, and two birds.
Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Aesop’s The Bear and the Fox. A large bear stands on two legs, towering over a tiny fox who is looking up at him. To their left is a tree with a carrion bird.
Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Aesop’s The Fox and the Crow. The crow is perched on a tree branch with a piece of cheese in its beak. The fox is sitting at the base of the tree beneath the crow.
Sketch by Arthur Rackham entitled The Parrot and the Cat. Created for “Good-Night (Buenas Noches)” by Eleanor Gates.
Today is #nationalillustrationday, so shout out to illustrators everywhere.
Like these whimsical sketches from Arthur Rackham, known for how he envisioned many of our folktales.
Comment below with your favorite illustrator or folktale.
#folklore #folktales #illustration #artcommunity #booksky
And yet more Blake-inspired artwork on his birthday (and #nationalillustrationday as it happens). I made these all for VALA, the journal of @blakesociety.bsky.social blakesociety.org/vala/ #williamblake #BlakeFriday
it's #nationalillustrationday
where better to see #illustration today than
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To celebrate #nationalillustrationday lets have some #fridayfun.
Time to meet some Solaris authors who are also artists!
Head down thread to learn more about the books and art of @mkhardywrites.com @artofelaineho.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social & @ Zoé Duhaime!
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🚨GIVEAWAY time!🚨
To celebrate #nationalillustrationday @caspargeon.bsky.social / @tomtoner.bsky.social has 1 author-illustrated copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN to giveaway.
Open to entrants anywhere in the world. Like, repost, follow & drop a 🌠 in the comments to enter. Ends 23:59 GMT 1st Dec 25.
It would help if I spelled the hashtag correctly #NationalIllustrationDay
Botanical illustration of a Strelitzia or 'Bird of Paradise' sensitively painted to show the horizontal green and pink bract from which emerge flowers of striking orange and blue. The plant is chopped at the stem and a dissection of part of the flower is shown in the lower right.
For #NationalIllustrationDay, we're spoilt for choice by the illustrations we could post!
We've settled on this hand-coloured lithograph of Strelitzia reginae by Francis Bauer who was employed as first resident botanical at Kew in 1790 with the grand title of ‘Botanick Painter to His Majesty’.
A compilation of Solaris covers designed by Gem Sheldrake and Sam Gretton.
This #NationalIllustrationDay, we'd particularly like to thank our in-house designers Sam Gretton and @petitecreme.bsky.social / Gem Sheldrake.
Without them you wouldn't have Gem's striking designs across @aptshadow.bsky.social 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas or a whole range of 'Sam Specials'!
When I say “I write children’s stories”…the first question is always: ‘Do you illustrate them too?’
Nope. With my skills I’d probably draw a straight line trying to illustrate a circle 🫣
In total awe of illustrators…
#kidlit is all the brighter because of you! 🥳🤗🥳
#NationalIllustrationDay”
A poster which has a yellow background and black silhouettes of a detective and a young girl in the 1920s. There is a sihouette of Kings College Cambridge in the background, lots of smoke and giant grey tentacles coming out of the college.
An artboard in Adobe Illustrator with various pictures of people and smoke and paintbrushes.
Today is National Illustration Day, so what better day than to show this, which is the poster image for our next show (January 14-17, Corpus Playroom, Cambridge).
#NationalIllustrationDay #Improv #Process
Boggart illustration by Stephen G Rae
#NationalIllustrationDay
Boggart: the goblin-like creature inhabiting woodland, marshland or residing under bridges
more: "Boggarts, Brownies,Hobs and their Goblin Kin"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#folklore #booksky
Green Man Winter illustration by Stephen G Rae
#NationalIllustrationDay
"Green Man – Winter"
in his winter gown
guardian of the wild wood
is frozen in time
bardofcumberland.com/poetry/
#greenman #haiku #poetry
It's #nationalillustrationday - perfect excuse to show us your fab work, people!
For #NationalIllustrationDay: one from my distant past (52 years and counting) Goodbye yellow Brick Road watercolour and pencil on CS2 illustration board 1973
Painting of a tree with a grey trunk and leaves of green, red, purple and orange. Next to the tree is a poem: 'Pheasants feathers of amethyst, Magenta, crimson, burnt sienna & brown, Leaf the maple's branches with a mauve mantle, As it stands sentinel to the undying Fall.' Ronald Duncan's signature and the date '9 Sept - 77' are noted in the bottom right hand corner.
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the trees, for this is their special week! 🌲
One of our favourite trees in the collections is this vibrant illustration (and poem!) by the writer and poet, Ronald Duncan.
📷 EUL MS 397/2/2/2
#NationalTreeWeek #NationalIllustrationDay #Archives
It feels fitting to choose a comic for this, as it's also #NationalIllustrationDay! Wow, a bunch of lower case l's and an upper case I look WEIRD when you put them together. Nationalllllllll ustration! Like menstruation but on a national scale?
