Craig Smith

Workshop - Drawing a Story, by Craig Smith and Erica Wagner

In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a short narrative sequence of images, using characters created in the workshop. Craig and Erica will supply story prompts and offer examples of book-making processes to guide participants in bringing their characters and stories to life.

About Craig

Craig has illustrated more than 400 books over 40 years – picture books, chapter books and lots of educational readers – working with many of Australia’s most experienced writers and editors. Writers include Paul Jennings, Doug MacLeod, Libby Gleeson, Sally Morgan, Duncan Ball, Emily Rodda, Gary Crew, and of course Diane Jackson-Hill.  

The books include Billy the Punk, Where’s Mum?, The Windy Farm, Bob the Builder & the Elves, Emily Eyefinger (series), I Hate Fridays (series), Cabbage Patch Fib (series), Toocool (series), Going Bush With Grandpa (series), I Was Only Nineteen and - with Diane Jackson Hill- Chooks In Dinner Suits (winner of the 2017 Wilderness Society Picture Book Award), Windcatcher, and my most recent picture book Saving Seal–The Plastic Predicament.