News from a messy desk

News from a messy desk

About the Substack

Insights into my illustration from a messy desk to your inbox: sketchbooks, process, inspiration and picture books.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Quarterly public posts

Paid Subcription Benefits

• Monthly Messy Desk Dispatch newsletter and full archive
• Access to my sketchbooks: new sketchbook tour each month of the good, the bad and the abandoned sketches
• Early notification of pop up shop opening

Paid Subscription Plans

• £4 a month
• £40 a year

About Charlotte Durance

Hello there. I'm an illustrator based in the UK and I love sketching from life. I'm currently studying for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. I share sketchbook practice, tours and process in my newsletter.