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Michael Foreman

In big battle scenes, like ‘King Arthur’, you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they’re not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you’ll find some poor little sod, who didn’t want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

I’ve done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up – I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn’t yet learned to draw.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

I don’t think about ‘age groups.’

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics… No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense – capturing the essence of the situation.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

– Michael Foreman

Michael Foreman

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

– Michael Foreman

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