Drawn by a Liverpool-based designer Sean Ryan, these minimalist drawings are called by their creator “Badly Drawn Authors”.
Besides quite a doze of self-irony in the name, the images can be a nice little gift for any book lover. These awesome pictures are not only something you can share on social media. Sean Ryan has started an Etsy shop in February, Badly Drawn Authors, where you can buy the drawings as greeting cards.
Each card measures 5 by 7 inches, and is blank inside, so that you can write your own message. For $3.45, it comes with a plain white envelope and is encased in a protective cellophane sleeve.
There are already over 60 authors in the collection, and counting. Some faces are more recognizable than others, and that’s actually the biggest fun about it.
Besides the portraits listed below (our favorites), on Badly Drawn Authors Etsy shop you can find pictures of Anaïs Nin, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, Frank Herbert, or James Joyce, among others.
There is also a greeting card that is… blank – and features “elusive-to-the-point-of-anonymity / non-existent face of Thomas Pynchon.”
Let’s hope the portraits will be available as posters, some day. I’m personally willing to “marry” J.K. Rowling with Oscar Wilde on a wall in our living room.
Awesomely Drawn Authors will surely join our list of the best literary gifts for a modern-day reader.
Badly Drawn Authors – pictures by Sean Ryan
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Badly Drawn Authors: Charles Dickens.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Edgar Allan Poe.
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Badly Drawn Authors: George R.R. Martin.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Haruki Murakami.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Jane Austen.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Kurt Vonnegut.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Margaret Atwood.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Oscar Wilde.
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Badly Drawn Authors: Virginia Woolf.
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Badly Drawn Authors: William Shakespeare.
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