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# Showcases diverse artist media Inspires creative drawing daily Boosts artistic motivation instantly An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers

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## Summary

> 🎨 Ignite your inner artist with every page turn!

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- **What is this?** An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
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## Key Features

- • **Instant Artistic Boost:** Feel the surge of motivation to draw, paint, and create with every glance.
- • **Diverse Artistic Voices:** First-person insights from illustrators reveal unique creative processes.
- • **Premium Visual Experience:** Richly designed with vibrant scans and layouts that captivate every page.
- • **Unlock Your Creative Flow:** Dive into private sketchbooks that spark your own artistic journey.
- • **Perfect Gift for Creatives:** Inspires both beginners and seasoned artists to pick up their tools again.

## Overview

An Illustrated Life is a visually stunning collection of private sketchbooks from artists and illustrators, featuring first-person narratives and diverse media insights. Highly rated and ranked in top illustration and graphic design categories, this book is a must-have for anyone looking to reignite their creative spark or find fresh inspiration.

## Description

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Review: An amazing gift to yourself... - Many of us consider ourselves "creative people." For many of us, that creativity is expressed through drawing. In order to find the time to draw, paint, scribble, cartoon...whatever turns us on, we carry sketchbooks and hope for that moment when WE MUST DRAW; where we can sneak a few extra minutes to express a feeling or to record a visual memory. That's where AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE comes in. This is a book of sketchbooks. Looking through the book stimulates the need to draw like a lightning bolt to our hands, our brains suddenly filled with creative energy and multiple thoughts. It's an incredible collection of images, because it's also a lot of fun to look through, as you see the energy in the work of others, in what stimulates Danny and the other illustrators, and the whole thing just washes over you like a force of artistic excitement. Heck, I had that experience just looking at a few images on Danny's website. So you like to draw? You want to paint? You wish to pick up a pencil, pen, crayon, brush, stick or whatever connects you to that paper? Then start your engines folks. This is THE book for you. P.S. Please do another one soon, Danny.
Review: Inspiring and Fascinating Visual/Textual Book - This is the best book I've bought in a long time, and I buy a lot of books. Plus, I found it accidentally, while looking for another illustrator's book on desertcart. The author (Danny Gregory) appears to have collected a bunch of his friends, who happen to draw in sketchbooks. It feels like they all got together and showed their books to each other. What each artist has to say about his or her work (in their own words, first person) is as inspiring as what they have drawn. I am not a visual artist of any kind, but while reading this book on a bus in Europe, I started drawing the people around me. They were amateurish sketches, but people would lean in and say, "Wow, did you draw that?" That was in March, and I have been drawing in my dream book and on sheets of paper since then. I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before I buy a Moleskin of my own and a nice Rapidiograph pen and some watercolors, or maybe some watercolor pencils. Speaking of which, each of the artists talk about their media. I love reading about what materials they like to use; everyone works so differently (although Moleskins do seem to be the predominant book of choice). I've already bought "An Illustrated Life" as a gift, too, for my son, who stopped drawing a few years ago but who has so much talent I wanted to inspire him to start again. Also, I keep marveling at the price. So much color, great design and layout, and tons of scans must have gone into the making of this book, not to mention all writing in such different voices. It's even edited well, and that's a little bit surprising, considering I always find tons of errors in everything I read! I want the price to stay the same so I can keep buying it as a gift for others, but I also think it's worth twice as much.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #525,944 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #416 in Illustration and Graphic Design #689 in Graphic Design Techniques #2,037 in Design & Decorative Arts |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (573) |
| Dimensions  | 10 x 0.6 x 8 inches |
| Edition  | 13563rd |
| ISBN-10  | 1600610862 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1600610868 |
| Item Weight  | 2.05 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 272 pages |
| Publication date  | December 1, 2008 |
| Publisher  | HOW Books |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An amazing gift to yourself...
*by J***N on December 7, 2008*

Many of us consider ourselves "creative people." For many of us, that creativity is expressed through drawing. In order to find the time to draw, paint, scribble, cartoon...whatever turns us on, we carry sketchbooks and hope for that moment when WE MUST DRAW; where we can sneak a few extra minutes to express a feeling or to record a visual memory. That's where AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE comes in. This is a book of sketchbooks. Looking through the book stimulates the need to draw like a lightning bolt to our hands, our brains suddenly filled with creative energy and multiple thoughts. It's an incredible collection of images, because it's also a lot of fun to look through, as you see the energy in the work of others, in what stimulates Danny and the other illustrators, and the whole thing just washes over you like a force of artistic excitement. Heck, I had that experience just looking at a few images on Danny's website. So you like to draw? You want to paint? You wish to pick up a pencil, pen, crayon, brush, stick or whatever connects you to that paper? Then start your engines folks. This is THE book for you. P.S. Please do another one soon, Danny.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Inspiring and Fascinating Visual/Textual Book
*by F***S on April 29, 2010*

This is the best book I've bought in a long time, and I buy a lot of books. Plus, I found it accidentally, while looking for another illustrator's book on Amazon. The author (Danny Gregory) appears to have collected a bunch of his friends, who happen to draw in sketchbooks. It feels like they all got together and showed their books to each other. What each artist has to say about his or her work (in their own words, first person) is as inspiring as what they have drawn. I am not a visual artist of any kind, but while reading this book on a bus in Europe, I started drawing the people around me. They were amateurish sketches, but people would lean in and say, "Wow, did you draw that?" That was in March, and I have been drawing in my dream book and on sheets of paper since then. I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before I buy a Moleskin of my own and a nice Rapidiograph pen and some watercolors, or maybe some watercolor pencils. Speaking of which, each of the artists talk about their media. I love reading about what materials they like to use; everyone works so differently (although Moleskins do seem to be the predominant book of choice). I've already bought "An Illustrated Life" as a gift, too, for my son, who stopped drawing a few years ago but who has so much talent I wanted to inspire him to start again. Also, I keep marveling at the price. So much color, great design and layout, and tons of scans must have gone into the making of this book, not to mention all writing in such different voices. It's even edited well, and that's a little bit surprising, considering I always find tons of errors in everything I read! I want the price to stay the same so I can keep buying it as a gift for others, but I also think it's worth twice as much.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful collection of artists personal drawings
*by A***R on September 7, 2009*

I think this book has a nice collection of quite a few artists I am familiar with and a few I'm not. Sketchbooks shows the creative process of artists and it's inspirational to see how others think and what they draw. The only thing I didn't care for was the cover design of this book I am reviewing. I almost didn't buy this book because of the cover design (did not care for the handed lettering of the title), it looks like a how-to-do drawing book, not a collection of other artist's sketchbooks. I would have love to see more pages on Everett Peck, Mark Fisher, and James Jean. Other than that, I enjoyed the content and find this book to be inspirational. There are a couple of other books similar to this that I like to recommend, "Drawing From Life; The Journal as Art", by Jennifer New and "Drawing is Thinking", by Milton Glaser. The latter is a wonderful collection of just one artist's works.

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