Draw Off 

3:15am-4:00pm

Join in the fun as our celebrated children's book illustrators Steven Lenton, Sophy Henn, Diane Ewen, and Ramsay Hassan sketch crazy drawing challenges set by you, the audience! Decide who the winner is with the clapometer and maybe take home one of the sketches created live at the event. 

This is a perfect family event for all ages.

Hosted By - Steven Lenton (he/him) 

Steven Lenton is a multi-award-winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire now based in Brighton. He has illustrated many children’s books by a multitude of authors, including two World Book Day titles. Steven is also an author, an animation director, and has a Draw-along YouTube channel where he teaches step-by-step drawing of characters. 

Photo via Hatchette

Diane Ewen 

Diane Ewen is a multi-award-winning author and illustrator with a B.A. Honours Degree in Illustration from the University of Wolverhampton. She was the winner of the Jericho Prize and the Queen’s Knicker’s Award in 2021, and winner of The Anna Dewdney Award and a Nibbie in 2022. She is the illustrator of Dame Floella Benjamin’s critically acclaimed ‘Coming to England’. 

Ramzee 

Ramzee (Ramsey Hassan) is an award-winning London-based author and comic creator and creator of ‘The Cheat Day’ series. He has written comic books for Marvel and 2000AD. Ramzee runs his own comic and illustration workshops. In 2017, he won the Second Prize in the Faber Children’s FAB Prize, was nominated for a British Comics Award in 2016, and was recently chosen for the BBC’s London Voices Writer’s Room Programme. 

Photo via Hatchette 

Sophy Henn 

Sophy Henn is an award-winning picturebook author and illustrator of the Pom Pom, Happy Hills, and Pizazz series. Her debut picturebook ‘Where Bear?’ was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. She was the World Book Day Illustrator in 2015 and 2016. 

Photo via Simon & Schuster