FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR: SOPHIE GILMORE

Quick fire questions​

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When is your most productive time to work? 

Morning.
Drawing item you can’t live without? 

Soft pencil with eraser – that’s how I start every drawing.
What music puts you in your groove? 

Classical music, Radio 3.
Age of child you most love to draw?  

Preschool.
If you were an animal, what would you be? 

A song bird.
Favourite, yes only one, children’s book of all time? 

The first book I can remember my mother reading to my twin sister and me - I think it was a story about kittens and I remember her reading: “She tucked up their paws, and she tucked up their toes, and she pulled the blue blanket way up to their nose.” .
Illustrator, author from any time you most admire? 

Ben Shahn.