An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
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Travel + Sketching = Inspiration
When we travel, we don’t want to follow the same itinerary as everyone who’s come before us. We want to feel like explorers, adventurers in undiscovered territory. And that’s exactly what sketching can bring to the travel experience.
An Illustrated Journey captures the world through the eyes of 40 talented artists, illustrators and designers. You’ll experience the wonder of seeing familiar sights through a fresh lens but, more important, you’ll be inspired to set pen to paper and capture your own vistas.
The really wonderful thing about a sketchbook is that it can be totally private. You don’t have to have an ounce of talent to enjoy learning how to really see what’s in front of you. But lucky for us, the sketchbooks captured here are lovely, creative, intimate windows into each artist’s mind.
So, whether you’re just returning to the art of drawing, abandoned by most of us after childhood, or you’re looking for inspiration to take your illustration work in a new direction, An Illustrated Journey will take you on a wonderful trip of the imagination. All you need to pack are a pencil and a piece of paper.
Publisher : HOW Books; Illustrated edition (February 28, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 144032025X
ISBN-13 : 978-1440320255
Item Weight : 2.1 pounds
Dimensions : 10 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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Customers find the book inspiring, enlightening, and fun to read. They appreciate the awesome illustrations and good balance between artwork and stories. Readers also like the variety of different artists and their individual stories. They describe the writing quality as interesting and longer with more depth.
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Tina K. –
A rich treasury of travel sketches and personal profiles
Danny Gregory’s eagerly awaited book, An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration from the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers, came out a few weeks ago, and after all the anticipation, it does not disappoint. The book is a rich treasury of travel sketches and personal profiles of many inspiring artists.Very similar in format to Gregory’s 2008 book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers, his latest book profiles 43 travel journal keepers from many countries. Each artist has written a first-person account of his or her background in art and travel, how travel sketching is inspired, and techniques and tools used. Photos of some artists are included, showing them sketching on location. It is particularly illuminating to see the common threads among nearly all the artists – that drawing what they see while traveling enriches their travel experiences, bridges gaps in understanding about other cultures, and evokes memories like no photographs can. It’s clear that sketching and traveling have become integrated creative processes for these artists: Seeing new places motivates drawing, and drawing motivates observing more carefully the new places they experience.The meat of the book is a beautiful collection of large, full-color reproductions of art from the artists’ travel sketchbooks. These unique, spontaneous views of the world make me want to hop on a plane right now to fill my own sketchbook with the places I visit.Most of the artists included – Miguel “Freekhand” Herranz, Nina Johansson, Cathy Johnson, Tommy Kane, Lapin, Veronica Lawlor and Liz Steel, to name a few – are well-known in the blogosphere of the urban sketching/on-location drawing community. A few are less-known discoveries with fresh, surprising perspectives.In fact, if I have any complaints about this beautiful book, it is a tiny one: I wish it had included more travelers who are not professional artists, illustrators or designers, and who are perhaps less well-known. Almost every participant either has an art degree or makes a living using their artistic skills. I have seen online the amazing on-location sketches of so many people who work at “regular” jobs and do not have any kind of art background. I would have loved to see more of them included. Better yet, a whole volume devoted to the on-location work of non-professional artists would be equally inspiring as this one. How about it, Danny?
S. Warfield –
Such a visual treat
I’ve had this book for about a week now, and I’ve been going over and over the drawings of the 40 artists/contributors in the book. Rather than just take delight and inspiration in the sketches, the text is of great value and interest, too. It can be read like any other book and the art consumed for hours.The contributors, including Danny Gregory, have traveled all over the world and have seen it with new eyes as they’ve gone from place to place and have drawn and painted people, buildings, foods, whatever they’ve seen that interested them as a subject. It’s a feast for the eyes.Styles are as diverse as the artists are in number. I enjoyed seeing the difference in how people see the world and also their differences in the supplies they use. One man said he uses only the cheapest sketch books and the same two ballpoint pens to sketch with, and they’re the cheap kind that are found in hotel rooms. Others use more expensive materials but the results are the same. Beautiful drawings no matter what they’re done with.It is enjoyable to read what is written near or on some of the sketches in the journal pages and some of them are quite funny. Some are done as sketches in preparation for paintings, and others are to remind the artist of the time and feelings of that particular place. Danny Gregory’s An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers is as good as this one, An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers and is just as interesting to read and to dive headfirst into the artwork.Both of these books are very inspirational for anyone who reads them. If you haven’t picked up a sketchbook and pencil for a while, after you see this book, it’s likely you will. Highly recommended.
Marsbarsreview –
A handy source guide to different styles and techniques.
Helen –
Some awe-inspiring beautifully presented pictures. What a wonderful way of keeping a journal. If this book doesn’t inspire you, nothing will.
Amazon Customer –
An inspiring collection of artists from various places going to other places. I love reading about their approach (so many brilliant insights into the whole process of art and creativity and journaling). I especially loved the details of their respective kits. And of course seeing the different artwork. I wish the other book in the series was also on Kindle!
Glamourlife –
Beautiful book
Apurva –
Was a gift for a friend. They absolutely loved it!