Ron Tiner

Ron Tiner is an artist, illustrator, author and educator. He was born in the village of Borden, near Sittingbourne in Kent. His varied career began with an apprenticeship as telephone engineer and at the age of 22 he gained an appointment as an assistant lecturer in telecommunications at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Several years as a teacher of art in comprehensive schools followed, before he launched himself into a freelance career in book and magazine illustration, producing illustrations for many classics of English literature along with specialist illustrations for a wide range of educational books. His work has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times and Punch Magazine.
In the mid-1990s he was invited to construct a course in narrative and sequential illustration for Swindon College of Art, where he taught for seven years. In 2006 he gained a Masters’ degree from Falmouth University, specialising in graphic narrative theory and narratology.
He is the author of Figure Drawing without a Model (1992), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques (written in collaboration with John Grant) (1996), Mass: The Art of John Harris (2000) and Drawing from your Imagination (2008). All of these books have been published in several different languages.

Author's Books

Investigating Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes holds a singular place in the canon of English popular fiction. From inauspicious beginnings in an obscure 19th-century catchpenny magazine, Arthur Conan Doyle’s remarkable character has developed into a universally familiar figure with a global following. It seems everyone has hea...

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