Garry Parsons – The Tooth Fairy’s Royal Visit

Garry Parsons has teamed up with the wonderful Peter Bently once again for ‘The Tooth Fairy's Royal Visit'. Published by Hachette Children’s Books, this hilarious sequel to the ‘Tooth Fairy’s Christmas’ is jam packed with Garry’s wonderful artworks, which are brimming with humour. Listed as one of the 20 best selling illustrators of 2016, this year promises to be another great success for Garry.

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Glamour Beauty Festival at the Saatchi Gallery

"Wow wow wow! What incredible feeling to walk into the Saatchi Gallery and see your work blown up all over the walls for the Glamour Beauty Festival. Just a liiiitle bit of a 'pinch me' moment 😉 And better still, I was lucky enough to explore the festival itself-so much beauty in one place!"

- Sarah Smart 

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Steve May: SuperDad’s Day Off

Steve May’s full colour illustrations just leap off the page in SuperDad’s Day Off by Phil Earle, published this month by Barrington Stoke.
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King Coo by Adam Stower

We’re very proud to announce the publication of King Coo,  Adam Stower’s first novel for children, published by David Fickling Books on 4th May.

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Chris Skinner – Ghost In The Shell / Variety Magazine

Chris Skinner collaborated with Variety Magazine to create an editorial piece of art to accompany their Ghost In The Shell film review.

The concept is based around the construction of life housed within an artificial body and Chris shows the human form created from mechanical parts with the face being one of the last elements to be added.

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Guilio Iurissevich – Accounting and Business Magazine

Guilio Iurissevich has done a cracking image for the cover of Accounting and Business Magazine this month.

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NB Illustration have a new illustrator on board by the name of Lon Chan

Brighton based illustrator Lon Chan creates detailed digital artworks drawn by hand from his sunny studio next to the Royal Pavilion. His work is a unique combination of bold lines in a contemporary style whilst retaining a hand-crafted quality.

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varoom 35 – the storytelling issue

varoom 35 – the storytelling issue

Winter 2017 

Cover image by Jack Sachs

Purchase here

Packed with rich imagery and insightful comment, Varoom the illustration magazine re-launches in February 2017 with a fresh new design in magazine format from award winning new designers James Lunn and Joe Hales. John O’Reilly’s considered editorship ensures the same great content appealing to illustrators and designers. This February’s edition explores Storytelling. 

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Join House of Illustration for Sketchmeet on 5 April 7 – 9.30pm

 

Join House of Illustration for Sketchmeet on 5 April 7 - 9.30pm Booking is now open for House of Illustration's spring Sketchmeet. The illustrator, designer and typographer Rian Hughes will be setting the themes, so grab a drink, join a table and draw your way round the room. (more…)

Rocking Around The Book With Author, Illustrator (+ Musician) Tom Knight!

(Early cover art concept for Jimmy Finnigan by Tom Knight, published by Templar)

Tom Knight is one of life’s true creatives, both artistically and musically — when he’s not drawing he will be playing an instrument of some sort. His background is in graphic design, which gave him a great understanding of form and layout — something that is much harder than it looks.
Tom’s new book, Jimmy Finnigan’s Wild Wood Band, published by Templar is quite simply brilliant: small time village, lots of rules, no fun at all… until Jimmy finds a motley crew (Not thatMotley Crew) But a group of unlikely looking musicians who are about to help him shake things up!

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