Johanna Basford

Using social media, talent and hard work to push her career forward, illustrator, Johanna Basford, gets some well deserved attention with her latest coloring book release, Lost Ocean. This marks the third title in her adult coloring book series which will add to her already whopping record sales of seven million.

Johanna Basford

Johanna Basford | photo Hayley Fraser

Her inky hand drawn illustrations take hours to complete giving viewers plenty to visually explore. Starting off as pencil sketches, the drawings slowly come to life in black and white while spanning several sheets of paper. Read more about Johanna’s humble beginnings here or view more of her work here.

– Jessie Whipple Vickery

Johanna Basford