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.
