Ronald Searle was
a British artist who is most famous for creating the St Trinians School with
Geoffrey Willans. He studied for 2 years at Cambridge college of arts and
technology, whoever in 1939 he had to give up his dream of being an artist as
it was obvious that war was about to take place and Ronald Searle enlisted in
the royal engineers. In 1942 he was taken a prisoner of war and was forced to work
of the death railway. Even though he was now a prisoner of war this never
stopped him drawing and documenting what he saw, many of these drawings appear
in his book Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945 in which he talks about what it was like to
be a prisoner of war. He continued to work of the St Trinians books as well as
his book on cats before moving to Paris where he started designing for the
cinema and worked on films such as Monte Carlo or bust.
I like how the drawings are mostly in black and white it gives a child like feel to them, I love the drawings of cats he has created as they have so much character and humor to them which appeals to me as I’m sure it does to many other people. And even though I don’t want to go do the illustration path I still would use his work for inspiration.
I like how the drawings are mostly in black and white it gives a child like feel to them, I love the drawings of cats he has created as they have so much character and humor to them which appeals to me as I’m sure it does to many other people. And even though I don’t want to go do the illustration path I still would use his work for inspiration.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/january/ronald-searle
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