Drawing for illustration. Martin Salisbury
In English. Hardcover, 240 pages, 226 x 284 x 34 mm. Thames and Hudson, August 2022.
An instructional book that examines the practice of drawing for illustration through case studies and sketchbooks, written by one of the world's leading experts and teachers on the subject. This essential manual explores the topic of drawing for illustration in depth, placing the emphasis on drawing as a fundamental skill and language that every illustrator must master. The goal is to encourage students through examples and case studies, showing the often invisible world of drawing art that underpins the final graphics.
From book illustration to comic strips, from caricatures to commercial design, it draws on contemporary sketchbooks, projects and historical examples to establish the connection between the practice of observational drawing and imagination drawing. Martin Salisbury begins by explaining the fundamentals of this discipline, before outlining the basics of line, tone, composition, and color through inspiring examples. Different approaches to drawing, including anecdotal, sequential and reportage, are examined to enable students to acquire their own personal visual language.
Interviews with illustrators also provide valuable insight into the creative process, as they describe their challenges and motivations, and what drawing means personally to them. Filled with visual inspiration, this book features a detailed analysis of the works of leading illustrators past and present, including George Cruikshank, Egon Schiele, Ronald Searle, and Sheila Robinson, to Laura Carlin, Alexis Deacon, and Isabelle Arsenault, looking at the different roles drawing plays in their specific languages and how styles have changed over time.
