John Shelley - Illustrator
@studionib.bsky.social
Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
Sketching people on trains again? Yeah well, it's a habit. www.johnshelley.com/post/inside-... #sketchbook #スカッチブック
Inside the Window
In the last post I shared some train sketches of passing landscapes out the window, but you'll know I'm just as likely to be drawing what's going on inside the train carriage - i.e. the other passenge...
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A petition to call upon the Senedd to reject any badger cull in Wales urgently needs signatures. After a debate in the Senedd last week, A Reform UK motion was passed to consider a badger cull, but it's not binding yet - action is needed, please sign! petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Petition: We call upon the Senedd to reject any badger cull in Wales.
England has slaughtered ¼ million badgers but STILL has a higher incidence of cattle TB breakdowns than Wales. Both countries have achieved reductions on all key metrics, but in Wales without any badg...
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'Hamlet'. Poster for a production by GMBH Yellow Helmets Theatre company, touring in Japan this month. イエローヘルメッツ劇団『ハムレット』のポスターです。今月上演されてます。AD市川きよあきさん。 #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Illustration #イラスト #poster #ポスター
Ever since Adolf Hitler was turned down by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, fascism has been a refuge and consolation for the talentless. AI is their revenge on human creativity.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoElon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
A new blog post on sketching through train-windows... www.johnshelley.com/post/likely-... 英語のみですみません！#sketching #landscape #drawing #kidlitART #kidlitUK
Likely landscapes
I've been out and about over the last few weeks, here's some recent sketches through train windows. Often, I've been in carriages either too crowded to easily manoeuvre myself to draw other passengers...
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Dear friends, It's another scorching summer in these parts. Wherever you are, stay cool and have a splashing time! いよいよ本格的な夏の到来ですね！ 身を守って、涼しくして、水しぶき時間をたのしんでください！ #暑中お見舞い
I should say this with a whisper... I don't like footie. It's not the game per se, it's the emotion of the big matches, e.g. WC. I don't want to engage with the tribal tension, the raw emotion it generates. The very thing that inspires fans, puts me off. Just tell me the result when it's over ;)
I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!
'Spiral Town', #ThrowbackThursday to an old exhibition drawing. Feels somewhat appropriate in this heatwave! #illustration #KidlitART #KidlitUK
Artist! Quote with your blue art! A spread from 'Magic for Sale' (words by Carrie Clickard, Holiday House Books for Children) #illustration #kidlitart #kidlitUK
Erica Lee 🧸@ericalee.cc · 2mo agoArtist! Quote with your blue art! 🩵 #illustration #kidlitart
The best thing we can do as grown ups is to read kids’ books ourselves, share our own joys, chat with kids about the books we and they love, actively demonstrate the power that reading can give them, and create space for them to discover their own relationship with reading. 4/4
Happy 85th Birthday Bob Dylan. You probably don't remember when we briefly met in Joan Rhodes' cafe in London's Crouch End in the mid '80's, but here's an old blog post about the happy occasion. johnshelley.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-... #crouchend #bobdylan #davestewart
The Day I met Bob Dylan
The news is so full of unbelievable and depressing stories lately, it's a relief when something comes up that warms the heart. Bob Dylan rec...
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Hello again, and thanks for reading. If, by some miracle, this is appearing in your timeline for the first time, give me a try, give me feedback. This is THE daily Ukraine thread for Thursday, the last day of April, the 50th whole month of war inflicted by Russia.
It is evening, as a woman with young children shops in the brightly-lit vegetable market at Koyasuchō in Kanagawa Prefecture, in this woodblock print by Ishiwata Kōitsu (1931)
Lucy Munro@lucycmunro.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)
Fictitious imprints deserve their moment. I’ll go first: 'Printed in the printing office of orthodox doctrine, by the heirs of Pope Juth, residing in Bricked‑Up Street in Rome, right next to the place where the excess good works of the Roman saints are sold for money, in the pissed‑out Purgatory'
For #ThrowbackThursday here's a spread from my first trade picture book, 'The Secret in the Matchbox' (words by Val Willis, Andre Deutsch / Farrar Straus & Giroux 1988). #picturebook #kidlitart #kidlitUK
I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.
#Financialisation "The opposite of democracy. It concentrates power among a small group of exceptionally wealthy dealmakers who reap the benefits of society’s failure to hold them accountable" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien
These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...
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