An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
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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, mistake
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IlluStory Book Kit
- Make your own book kit – children to write and illustrate their own story
- Receive a full-color, case-wrapped, professionally typeset published book
- Children design a cover and write “About the Author” feature
- Mail back materials in prepaid envelope, or create book entirely online
Write and Illustrate Your Own Book Kit – Make your child a published author! Write and illustrate a story using the materials provided in the kit and mail in for publishing with the pre-paid envelope included; or make it entirely online using Creation by You online, book-making tool which is specially designed for kids! Instructions provided to help plan your story. Receive back a real professionally typeset, hardbound book that includes a title, dedication, and an authors biography page! IlluSt
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A treasure trove of surprises and sketchbook goodness,
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When I was searching for information about the book, I found a lot of positive reviews. And I really mean A LOT. It’s one thing that a book is well liked. It’s another when it’s so well liked people are actually talking about it.
An Illustrated Life is a compilation of sketchbook pages from 50 illustrators all over the world. Each journal is packed with sketches, captions and a narrative as the artist talks about his sketchbook. At 266 pages, some of the scans are a little small if you want to read the writings. One reader I found bought a magnifying glass just to make sure every detail isn’t missed.
Every page is a surprise, every page is a discovery, a glimpse of what the artists is thinking, seeing and feeling. It’s the perfect book to go to when you’re looking inspiration and motivation.
Most artists have their websites listed. It’s another avenue for exploration. Jjust to name some, they are R. Crumb, Christoph Niemann, James Jean, Peter Ankle, Cathy Johnson, James Kochalka, Brody Neuenschwander, Chris Ware, Stefan Sagmeister etc.
Danny Gregory has published a truly wonderful book. I really love it. It’s well worth every single cent.
(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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|A BIG book of luscious art & addictive text. A Book That Many of Us Have Wanted to Find For Years!,
Danny Gregory has done it again. He’s nurturing and encouraging people from around the world to draw the little treasures of their lives. This book is a celebration of that special part of us that needs to draw, record, interpret, and play! When I got my copy, I was drawn like a magnet into the pages. This is a book that can be read and savored for a long, long time. There is so much, and it is all so rich. I carry it around with me throughout my day. Just looking at the beautiful cover makes me smile in anticipation.
The 50 artists have very different styles and approaches, which I found broadening. It is so much fun to read about their approaches, supplies, and ideas.
I have taken a magnifying glass to some of the images already, so I can marvel at the smallest of details.
I have found myself hoping that Danny Gregory will create a sequel – or – hopefully, a series of these books.
An engrossing read. Buy it…you will love it. While you’re at it, buy a moleskin or other journal because you won’t be able to stop drawing!
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|stupedous,
I have known Mr. Gregory for over ten years now and am convinced that there must be clones of him out there working to create all the wonderful books, ad campaigns, personal pieces of art and fascinating correspondence that go out with the signature D. Gregory atttached. This, his latest work of genius, is simply yet another example of what can be accomplished when there are several creative minds working on one project. I think it’s time Dan came clean with his fans. Just how many Dan Gregorys are there? Seriously, this needs to be an annual affair so that we can all be inspired in book form by the endless wonderful pool of drawing talent out in the world. I, like many journalers and sketchers, receive copious amounts of inspiration to continue our work when we see others doing similar things in our field of endeavor. So talk to your publisher Dan. Get them to talk you into doing one of these every year or so. The world will be a better place because of it.
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|We love them!,
Our son has written 2 books with Illustory already! He loves seeing the words that he writes typed onto the pages (by the company) and the drawings he does come out beautifully printed on the book. He is so excited and proud of himself when he shows his friends, family and teacher his publications! The book even comes with an About-the-Author page just like real published books! Everything that you need to write and draw is provided in the kit and the instructions are very easy to follow. In just a few weeks you get back a real hardcover book! The experience was so terrific, we plan on having him write a book each year so he can see how much his writing changes year after year. And just as soon as his new baby sister is old enough, we’ll start her writing books with Illustory too. The books are a great family keepsake. We love them
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|Move over Harry Potter!,
Thank you for carrying this terrific product. My kids love to read and one day my son told me he wanted to write his own book someday. I saw this kit and thought I would give it to him to try. The process was simple. He wrote his story, added pictures and we dropped it in the mail in the postage paid envelope (which was great-by the way) that was included in the kit. My son actually forgot all about it and about 2 weeks later our mail carrier knocked at our front door with a package addressed to my son. I can’t even describe the look on his face when he took out his book. He looked at every detail and couldn’t wait to show everyone his masterpiece. He has written several books now and I enjoy seeing his progress unfold. I highly recommend this kit to any parent that has a child even remotely interested in reading or writing. What a value!
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|Watch out — only limited text is allowed!,
Beware! — this kit only allows 20 words per page and only contains 12 pages. I returned it because I wanted something where my 10-yr-old neice could write a short story.
(I think this is why it’s recommended for ages 5-9.)
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