A collection of illustrators and designers drawing how they did as children, talking about what they liked to draw then and how it feeds into their practice now
Drawing in the way children draw
Focus on character, narrative, movement, spontaneity
Using fewer marks and leaving stu to the viewer’s imagination
Quentin Blake
Oliver Jeffers
Laura Hughes
After a while I started feeling hypocritical/fake when I was just drawing happy, cutesy children’s illustrations all the time - I felt like I wanted to make something edgier and dark/cynical/weird/funny
Ruby Etc
Miranda Tacchia