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How Claire created Creating Picture Books and how to get started making your own. Picture Book Characters © Claire Alexander

From being inspired by the funny comics to teaching from observation and imagination. Alun Wyn Jones © Sion Ap Tomos

Check out some of the impressive student work from the last course. Faces © Katy Gilmore

Take a look at the charming illustrations created by our last cohort of Picture Book students. © Elle Lever

On painting plant portraits and teaching students how to illustrate the world's favourite flower. Roses © Elaine Searle

The cartoonist on the cathartic process of finding the tools to tell your story visually. Edith, The Pasty Papers © Rachael Ball

Have a look at the work created by our last group of students. Character © David Peter Hawkins

Hear two experts discuss the queer icon's homoerotic comics. Physique Pictorial, Volume 17 Number 1 © Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection

Revisiting our 2015 exhibition on Winnie the Pooh Day. Punch 1915

Introducing our new home for Heritage Treasures Day. New River Head © Justin Piperger 4

As a new animated version of Clown comes to Channel 4, our Artistic Director takes a look at the original designs. Clown 3

A personalised postal poem for a much-loved care home resident. Detail of illustration for 100th Birthday Poem for Phyllis © Eve Lloyd Knight 2

Christmas cards designed with and for isolated older people in Islington. Christmas Card © Montana Forbes 3

A selection of our favourite drawings from our online fundraising auction, now open for bidding until 16 December. Bibliothèque Quentin Blake Alternative Logo #1 © Quentin Blake

An X-ray gaze on the work of a medical illustrator. Form in the body © Merlin Strangeway

We chatted to the fashion illustration tutor ahead of her online masterclass. (c) Montana Forbes

Enjoy the Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation exhibition catalogue, extracted from the official biography of the gay icon. Tom of Finland book

Celebrating the launch of the online exhibition with some lessons learnt from the extraordinary educator and designer. Too Small to See, 1956 © Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection, University of Reading

A recorded presentation by one of the co-curators of Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation. Untitled, 1979 © Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection

Take a sneak peek at what our Illustrator in Residence has been up to during her residency. Coal Drops Yard 3 © Peony Gent