John Charlesworth

John Charlesworth is an illustrator and graphic designer, whose influences derive from a fascination of concept and character sketches of animated films, and that of the “Blue Note” jazz album cover artwork of the mid fifties & sixties. By working in the medium of digitally enhanced artwork, He appl…

Hachette Children's Books, Kensington Publishing, Kingfisher Publishing, Creative Bone, RSA Films Ltd., Sony Computer Entertainment (Europe), Ink Publications, Future Publications Ltd., Oxford University Press, Ruffle Brothers Ltd., Julia Deham Designs, VCB Studios Inc., Comercial del Sur de Papeler…

“I have always maintained a strange ambivalence towards the artwork of Walt Disney. Although on one hand I am absorbed by the appearance and professionalism of their animation, on the other, I am slightly nauseated by its self-righteous undertone. Therefore it has long been my ambition to replicate…