Ian Smith

Illustrator

Ian was born and raised in a little village in the West Midlands. While growing up, he spent much of his time playing in the mud with his plastic dinosaurs, reading about dinosaurs or chasing his little sisters while pretending to be a dinosaur. But even more than dinosaurs, he loved to draw. With a box of crayons, he could be happy for hours – in fact, some of his best work has been in crayon on his mum’s walls! He always knew he wanted to be an artist (or a dinosaur!). When he got a bit older and the house had run out of walls for him to scribble on, he moved to Bristol
to study for a BA in illustration at the University of the West of England. Since then, he’s continued to draw and write funny stories, creating characters like the ones that had fired his imagination as a child, and before he knew it, he’d turned into an illustrator (and not a dinosaur after all). Ian can be contacted on Instagram: @ian_smith_illustration